Quarrel

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by Quarrel 4mo ago
I have quite an early memory of being on the somewhat remote property in Australia that my mother grew up on (Central NSW, near Condobolin). My Uncle, who then ran the property, walked over to a rock, whacks it with a hammer or similar, sho
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
and in the meantime, just a sweep of the committed code (or the to-be-committed code for lots of us) and the code it interacts with, is increasingly catching lots of problems.
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
It's just such an old old business school idea. Metrics matter. The classic example is the Second Fleet of convicts that were sent to Australia - they were paid per convict that boarded the ships. 40% of them died. Unsurprisingly perha
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
> Stop payment resulted in the US pulling from the pre payment for the F35s... Which Switzerland then reluctantly agreed was allowed under the terms. As you say, totally being taken to the cleaners, and it is unclear how they escape in t
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
They really don't. If your goal is to say, write science fiction, their reversion to classic LLM-isms, is really distracting and is what makes people say from a glance that it was written by an LLM. You basically can't use them at
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
If nothing else, rosmine's DFT [1], which is what they were working on with this setup, seems like a worthwhile investigation. While I'm skeptical that there is much of a moat, at least for the large players, it should at least ho
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
These are reasons why it might not be the largest provider of funds per capita, not why it would be by orders of magnitude the biggest recipient. I have been to Luxembourg and to Hungary, Bulgaria & Greece - the otherwise obvious conten
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
WTF is up with Luxembourg on that graph? It is a tax haven, with one of the highest GDP / person in the world, why is it, by magnitudes, the biggest recipient of EU largesse / person??!
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
They're chimps that are on the other side of the Congo river (and both types of genus Pan can't swim). They're super close to chimps (and definitely much closer than us), rather than "a very different species".
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
Right? There are lots of reasons this stuff happens, but one of them is definitely that some kids aren't acting out for school reasons but for attention from their parents.
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
Way back whenever I first read Dune, this seemed like such weird niche ban. I don't think I had a lot of respect for it. Now, like all good SciFi, it seems fairly prescient ....
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
Agree with your take, very similar to what I heard. However, we were strongly told that for early stage startups, some (CA) VCs would only bother looking at CA or DE companies.
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
> LLMs aren't perfect rule following machines is the fundamental problem here I kind of get what you're saying, but let us not pretend that SW engineers are perfect rule followers either. Having a framework to work within, whet
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
I essentially do this. Super simple. (although I use rewrites at my dns layer for the whole local lan, but whatever) It also solves issues my password manager has with multiple services on the one host but with different ports, but putting
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
FWIW, zerodium shut down in 2025. Or at least went dark ..
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by Quarrel 5mo ago
So this was my first thought on reading the article. I don't know if it is just that it is an Australian thing, but certainly my friend group would all just say "petrichor" for this scent. The Australian's who coined the
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by Quarrel 6mo ago
Most of the good major models are already very capable of changing their writing style. Just give them the right writing prompt. "You are a writer for the Economist, you need to write in the house style, following the house style rules
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by Quarrel 6mo ago
trying to get github to nuke the repo? at a guess. certainly nothing friendly.
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by Quarrel 6mo ago
Great project. For others wondering, while most of the Franco-era laws were nuked in 1978, this does include lots of old laws (ie pre-20th C). However, the source material starts with a sqashed commit in 1960 :) So no changelog before that.
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by Quarrel 6mo ago
To be less abstract, it was written by David Mazieres, who was been writing software and papers about user level filesystems since at least 2000. He now runs the Stanford Secure Computer Systems group. David has done some great work and som
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by Quarrel 7mo ago
Damnit. There goes another bit of my writing style that will get mistaken for an LLM.
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by Quarrel 7mo ago
I do not think this is true for Sweden. The key difference, is that the US is many jurisdictions (Federal + 50 states + a lot of others, from counties to cities to territories to MANY others), and the variance amongst those is high. The key
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by Quarrel 7mo ago
You operate a little cleaner than I do- there are invariably things that end up in /usr/local/bin.. Still, thanks for the process you use. My wsl is pretty long lived now, through quite a few ubuntu upgrades and installations
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by Quarrel 7mo ago
Why? It seems like there are two options: a) The "founder" of the code disappears in to the ether, and it is the equivalent of "version X only"; b) The "founder" stays involved, and if GPL 3 is updated, they ca
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by Quarrel 7mo ago
I really like this as a suggestion, but getting opensource code that isn't in the LLMs training data is a challenge. Then, with each model having a different training epoch, you end up with no useful comparison, to decide if new models
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by Quarrel 7mo ago
Thanks for this insight. FWIW, for Thailand (where I have been), I'd have a similar recommendation. Thailand has some great beaches, but as someone from great-beaches-land, I would recommend the mountains and ancient cities.
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by Quarrel 7mo ago
I remember it when RMS was shouting it from the rooftops. I'm not sure that ART/Linux is any more catchy than GNU/Linux, but just as GNU wasn't the OS, neither is ART. Don't get me wrong, these are all very silly pe
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by Quarrel 7mo ago
Android systems use Linux as their operating system, and the law applies to operating systems. Android has associated app stores, therefore Linux must follow this at account setup .. (I'm mostly hoping I'm just jesting here, that
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by Quarrel 7mo ago
I know it is a serious topic, but before I clicked on it, I assumed this was going to be about Prime numbers... Maybe it can get reused after this stuff is over.
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by Quarrel 7mo ago
sadly, they don't open for breakfast. I wonder if this is why I've missed them? I've lived within a few hundred metres of their Soho place for the best part of the last decade.

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