SirHumphrey

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by SirHumphrey 11mo ago
Working a bit with some old programming languages that are very natural language like (FORTRAN’s .and. and .or. or COBOL’s IS GREATER THAN) I don’t think the readability increases that much, maybe the benefit is more approachability. In a m
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Nuclear ship propulsion is not a new technology so I have no doubt they will succeed. But where this will and all previous attempts have (see: N.S. Savannah) failed is that ports do not want to accept such ships, because of environmental an
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
At least in my experience poorly. As a reference I speak one of the smaller European languages and what is interesting that newer models tend to do worse, but what all of them struggle with and is very hard to control using prompting is ton
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Well, you could already do, sort of. Even the best stocked library in the world has it's limits and even the largest printed encyclopedia cannot reach anywhere near the breath of information on Wikipedia and no technical library has as
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
This seems depressingly common in universities. I know of a case where someone discovered anyone with a university account (so students, etc.) can edit DNS, and the IT tried to file charges until the head of CS department intervened.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
It annoys me immensely that all provided grid storage statistics are in MW, not MWh. The only statistics that speak about capacity brag that California- one of the leaders in grid storage deployment- can store nearly a third of solar genera
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
I used to use tiling window managers on macOS and in the end it got a bit tiring that after every update something broke. It seems like all of them are fighting the system in some very brittle ways. In the end I just learned some shortcuts
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
And a lot of dev boards you will use as a hobbyist even include level shifters on the board, so you will have a 5V pin.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Sure, but we are talking about a Toyota so there is (at least in my experience) not that much maintenance to begin with.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
I prefer to also hear other people’s opinion about an article as a sort of a peer review.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
A bit ironic though because the CEO of Boing during their best years was William McPherson Allen, a lawyer.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
But then choking is not the only health emergency when having people around is a plus. Even active people sometimes suffer from heart attacks and having someone being there doing chest compressions or at least calling for help leads to quit
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
I wounder how long would they last if they would have to do browser engine development themselves. Until Ladybird is ready (which may take years) for all the Mozilla’s scandals there is not a lot better around.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Because that is literally happening. I did a bit of work developing some radiological models and sample size for healthy vs malignant is usually 4 to 1. Then you modify the error function so that it makes malignants more significant (you ar
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Sure, I wouldn’t want the Linux foundation or other pieces of critical FOSS infrastructure to be routed via Cloudflair. But if I am setting up a web shop for somebody they usually care much more about someone at least pretending to be doing
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
From the part of the Europe where I am from power lines are rarely buried, however fiber is universally buried so I haven’t even considered it could not be.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
They aren’t buried? Or do the roots tear the fibre?
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
As for why graphene uses graphene uses pixels - their FAQ does a good job explaining. As for why google keeps the bootloader opened and maintains (until recently) good enough device-tree support- I would guess mostly historical reasons? Bef
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
It's an overtly American perspective - perspective of a nation perpetually terrified of repeating the downfall of the Roman Republic. In reality long periods of political instability make people quite happy to trade freedoms for peace.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
One should not forget the reason for this growth though - the issues with privacy and users' control of devices on windows go back at least a decade, but most of this time nobody cared. It was only when Microsoft locked a lot of old co
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
In some sense of the word “manufacturing” china has several thousand years of experience in silk production. It also has - and had for much of it’s history - a stable government overseeing a high order society. The situation makes a lot mor
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
They do sell risc development boards- i hope that either that becomes mature or a more efficient arm soc becomes an option.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
What does it matter if they have understanding of the underlying language or not? Heck, do humans even have the "understanding of the underlying language". What does that even mean? It's a model. It either predicts usefully o
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Most of the value I got from google was just becoming aware that something exists. LLM-s do far better in this regard. Once I know something exists it's usually easy enough to use traditional search to find official documentation or a
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Kinematics is deceptively hard and at least evolutionary took a lot longer to develop than language. Low wage physical labor seems easy only because humans are naturally very good at it, and this took millions of years to develop. The numbe
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
But Apple ARM chips currently represent most of the laptop and desktop computer market share for ARM processors. Sure, Linux in embedded and semi-embedded capacity works perfectly well with almost all ARM (and even RISC-V) processors, but I
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
I played with ebook generation a bunch and find that (at least for English text) around 1B is needed to get something usable emotionally (Chatterbox is 0.5B, Orpheus is 3B).
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Reading works of early computer scientists (mathematicians?) like Ada Lovelace or Alan Turing it seems to me that they would be a lot less surprised than some current observers. The idea of artificial mind comes up a lot and they weren&#x27
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
All these jobs are more who you know not what you know. The social network of these people is often an integral part of the work, so they are in a sense much safer than programmers, accountants and artists.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Because this is something to do and solving real problems is way more annoying. If you work on a smaller cluster in a research institution where in silico work represents only a small portion of the research output the management of the clu

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