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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Presumably they mean the fundamental failure mode of LLMs that if you fill their context with stuff that stretches the bounds of their "safety training", suddenly deciding that "no, this goes too far" becomes a very low-
572.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
(To make it clear, straight line on a log scale. Exponential on a linear scale.)
573.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
A switch from the exponential regime to something immensely slower was a qualitative change. The difference is so vast that it's completely reasonable to say that clock speeds haven't changed a single bit since 2006 or so (and eve
574.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Many tasks perhaps, but running Quake was not one of them.
575.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
The only "performance" that anyone actually cares about is the "P" in "KPIs". Isn’t it funny, btw, how "performance" can also meant "acting out a fictional narrative"? Just a thought…
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
As I said, I doubt most people think about this at all. But if they do, I find it an entirely reasonable assumption that, as I said, if cows could make milk without making calves, in modern industrial farming the calves would be made by ind
577.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Yes, you're misinterpreting me. Breeding involves making calves, obviously. But once you get the hypothetical continuously-milk-producing cows, they don't have to make calves. Making more cows can be delegated to cows specializ
578.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
In English particularly, people associate "thou" with the King James Bible and similar Christian texts ("Our Father, thou art in Heaven…") and might reasonably assume that if "thou" was used to address the lite
579.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Well, it's certainly not going to get better given that most of new Web code is by now probably written by LLMs. Which definitely aren't trained to write performance-oriented JS/TS.
580.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
A cow must have been pregnant to produce milk. So it's artificially inseminated and the calf separated (so as not to steal valuable milk) which is arguably traumatic to both the mother and the calf. Most modern people, if they'v
581.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Very slow on Firefox (both wrt frame rate and actual game speed) and gets down to single digits FPS after a while. But the slow speed and weak acceleration (did you forget that v = v + a*dt and not just v = v + a? :)) feels actually nice an
582.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Problem is that this kind of code often is brittle, full of bugs and unhandled edge cases, and evolution and maintenance is horror. But if it’s all you know you might never question it.
583.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
More nuanced than what? It’s just impossible to read the article as claiming "LLMs are idiots". Its whole point is that LLMs are simultaneously astonishingly smart and utterly stupid, and critically the boundary between those is
584.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
To be clear, image generation models are not in general LLMs although most now use an LLM as a text encoder.
585.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Crop variety was decreased by the original farming revolution, about 10k years before the industrial revolution. Rather than eating whatever was available, the large majority of the caloric input of an agricultural society comes from a fe
586.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Animal cruelty, what an awesome hobby. Biohack yourself all you want, but playing mad scientist on test subjects that cannot give informed consent is evil.
587.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Many may find it unintuitive, but one of the best things you can do for the actual security of a neighborhood is to design it for pedestrian and "loitering" friendliness.
588.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Something something Red Queen's race
589.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
I think it’s called "sunk cost fallacy".
590.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Semantic shift happens over time. A 2026 article is supposed to communicate to 2026, not 1996, readers.
591.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
This week's "unintentional irony" and "lack of self-awareness" awards go to...
592.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Not having an hour of uninterrupted leisure time per day, never mind per week (most Finns don’t go to sauna every day) still sounds pretty unfathomable, except maybe in some specific circumstances like being a fresh single parent or similar
593.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
I just cannot fathom comments like this. I’m preeetty sure that the vast majority of people spend half an hour a day doing nothing, in front of a screen of some type. How many people do you think there are there who don’t have thirty minute
594.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
I know. Apparently this was shot at ISO 51,200.
595.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
The classic Sopwith clone from the golden days of the Finnish shareware game scene, Triplane Turmoil, turns thirty this year. It was open sourced in 2009 and community-ported to more modern platforms via SDL. Was a lot of fun back in the da
596.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Now that St. Helena has an airport and all, it’s good to know that even more remote alternatives exist.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Problem is that like vector fonts without hinting, naive automatic "pixelation" of images does a poor job. You have to work with the limitations of the medium, and sometimes it entails drawing something in a very different shape t
598.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Scattering doesn’t really make the sun to appear yellow except when it’s low, behind a lot of air. When it’s above 30° or so it just looks blinding, neutral white (or non-blinding neutral white if there’s suitable cloud cover or other filte
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
No color, I’m pretty sure.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
There’s this thing about trade secrets that like all secrets, they stop being secret the instant they’re leaked. You can’t DMCA third parties for distributing your trade secrets. The only one you can sue is the party that was contractually

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