Rastonbury

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by Rastonbury 11mo ago
Not saying this is definitely not a fabrication but there are multiple parties involved who can verify (the targets) and this coincides with Anthropic ban of Chinese entities
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by Rastonbury 11mo ago
No I have a machine, you can take multiple readings even 15-30s apart and they will be very similar
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by Rastonbury 11mo ago
This is it isn't it? For any technology, I don't think anyone should have the expectation of privacy from lawyers if the company who has your data is brought to court
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by Rastonbury 11mo ago
The Mag 7 minus Nvidia are not the only employers, the cloud providers while big are a microcosm of tech which one industry. 99% of other companies aren't investing in data centers.
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
It appears that this is just testing data retrieval from somewhere in the table? Do the results translate to something where data analysis is performed? From something as simple as summing across rows or averages to generating graphs. I onc
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
It probably uses canvas to draw, but canvas also can be used to fingerprint you
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
If one can offset your electricity bill by more the cost of the install and come out financially ahead then that is compelling to the individual, I doubt many people are knowingly eating a loss and stumping thousands upfront solely because
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
In college I interviewed at a commodity trader and they made us play a group trading game, I bombed because I wanted to make sure every trade I made was profitable/certain, people who made it to the next round moved quick even if they
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
For the work they are doing porting and building off a spec there is already good context in the existing code and spec, compared with net new features in a greenfield project.
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
I wonder how bad does Mozilla have to be that you have to continue using Chrome without ublock?
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
If you have no issues like sensitivity or cavities, imo I don't think there's a need to spend time optimizing the type of toothpaste. Went down that rabbit hole once reading research papers of tested and optimum fluoride concentra
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
Once kids get familiarity with odds and probability they will soon realise that casino games they have no edge and the house always wins. Also you cannot bluff a casino dealer which is half the fun
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
They don't even have to be "cooked", people generally are pretty similar which is why common scams works so well at a large scale. All AI has to be is mildly but not overly sycophantic and as a supporter/cheerleader to s
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
I've asked LLMs to suggest fonts/similar fonts for me from screenshots and seems like they are close enough to my untrained eye
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
I think that's a bit uncharitable, the top companies have hired top talent who's explicit job is safety, which is obviously a hard problem ever since Microsoft's Tay. Anthropic publishes pretty extensive safety reviews of the
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
The outward pressure is about 5-6x greater than the force of air resistance at cruising altitude
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
God knows the number of times I confused my num lock key for my caps lock key, they are both keys after all!
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
I'd say 2/3 of the time I find what I'm looking for on first page of search using Confluence, 2nd page is totally irrelevant. So I'd say it's not that it's broken, it's just that it isn't there and th
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
In those games its more difficult to create a private hangout space or "GTA for kids". Haven't heard of the weird romance thing, but seen my nephew playing a roblox game where the goal is kill as many people wheelchairs as yo
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
The standard for science a much higher ie. publishing a effect when it arose by chance as an academic When you A/B test generally mistakes are reversible and will not make your company bankrupt or lose your job. Something being a 1 in
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
Couple of point to that, mainly why should one have to follow darwinian evolution just because we are a product of that. It's similar to the natural law argument against homosexuality, that unnatural sex is wrong. The argument against
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
If OAI/Sama believes they are taking-off in that AI is building the next model we should see a step change the next model. As they accelerate the gap will grow, we'll see next model whether this is PR/Marketing or if they rea
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
Assuming no big red flags (stuff like toxic boss, work culture, misrepresenting the JD), I'm with you on the 6 months thing, in most decently paid jobs there's a lot of complexity, give yourself 6 months to not just learn but gain
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
And it wasn't just that single AI product either, they announced a bunch including an MCP server and cursor extension https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/dash-2025-new-feature-roundup...
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
Did you hook up any search tools?
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
Another similar look at their prompting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154962
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
There was some academic work that says if you and the bookie have similarly accurate models with random noise, the bettor will come out ahead because the bookie has to make the market and accept all bets, whilst the bettor can chose when to
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
Did they factor in the risk that a site upwind of them could be auctioned later basically turning their project unprofitable? If you bid higher ignoring this risk and later lose money, maybe they should have bid a little less
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
If wakes losses have been known for years as asserted by the piece, I'd argue it's the fault of the operator and investors building a farm downwind (or potentially) of another. The only thing I can think of is if regulatory or zon
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by Rastonbury 1y ago
That's interesting I took r-ALA before, cannot recall dosage but felt nothing of that sort or subjective/psychoactive at all. Several people I know report acute changes too when taking lion's mane but I don't

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