Solvency

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1081.
by Solvency 3y ago
Maybe a dumb question but let's say they all pulled this stunt at once. All of the insurers. What happens? And what stops the insurers from dropping current CA homeowner policies?
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by Solvency 3y ago
Is LLVM sufficiently "simpler" to learn and wield than assembly, or does it just make it easier to compile to different systems?
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by Solvency 3y ago
In 2023, does anyone who writes a compiler inherently have to know assembly? Or even less recently...whoever wrote the first Rust, Zig, or insert <new compiled language> here? Because don't you ultimately have to know how to make
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by Solvency 3y ago
It's true. I've selectively accounted for replacing them every 2 years in my budgeting, for now. I also use a cast iron for some things, sometimes.
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by Solvency 3y ago
This reminds me of the story from Darknet Diaries about Xbox underground, and that one guy who, despite investing a ton of time hacking and infiltrating Microsoft and various other companies....still purchased retail copies of his favorite
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by Solvency 3y ago
What sort of "AI" model drives bots like this? Is it really AI? Or is it more like automated scrapers that run some basic deterministic functions (like spellchecks)? Or are people actually deploying LLMs to inspect code and produc
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by Solvency 3y ago
Green Pan.
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by Solvency 3y ago
BPA free means nothing. There are many BPA alternatives which are just as harmful. That's the funny thing. These companies love the "BPA free" badge because consumers don't know this.
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by Solvency 3y ago
I know nothing about compiler design or compiler parsing. How broadly applicable are the chapters on parsing? Will it make the average programmer instantly more equipped to, say, write a robust JSON parser?
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by Solvency 3y ago
Given how vastly multipurpose GPUs are now for all manner of parallel processing, why is everyone still beholden to the paradigm of shaders? It seems weird to shove so much specialized computation (like ML) into this weird graphics programm
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by Solvency 3y ago
I think the article could easily be rewritten from the perspective of "dumping your excess thoughts / stream of consciousness into note files for later examination or future discarding is good because..." Because as mentioned
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by Solvency 3y ago
Aside from how SF stacks up in the "great cities" list, many people like myself have a lifelong attraction to the bay area for entirely geographical reasons. It's absolutely gorgeous. The land, the water, the mountains, every
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by Solvency 3y ago
Prints "<eye witness description of suspect> in <${art style}>" Driven by a little knob selector. Featuring 3 art styles: 1. Police sketch classic 2. Realistic photo 3. Manga character
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by Solvency 3y ago
Idea: AI police sketch artist. 3D printed case. Resting on a table. Witness describes the suspect. 10 seconds later it prints out an AI generated ink sketch. I mean why not? Sell it through to every police station in your state. You can eve
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by Solvency 3y ago
I asked because the original question was around centralization (a tracker website) being the weak link in the chain. I suppose you could build a very simple decentralized voting system / index of sorts... but it wouldn't be a cen
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by Solvency 3y ago
Why hasn't the community created a distributed Folding@home style GPT4/LLM software, where anyone can ask a question, and all participants machine's are contributing to the computation of the answer? It seems like the ideal w
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by Solvency 3y ago
That's what I realized when I was debating whether to attempt yet another Doom port to some exotic device. Maybe 10, 20, or 200 tops will ever actually see it. Fewer would attempt to play it. It would by all accounts be a private and p
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by Solvency 3y ago
This makes sense but...I'm being fully serious and earnest here and revealing my own naïveté: Couldn't some form of blockchain work here? Like couldn't some form of distributed/democratized community curation and moderat
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by Solvency 3y ago
Why has the term grokking been formalized like this? Honest question. Why can't we stick with normal words like "learning" or "understanding"? It just seems like a slow creep of needless semantic complexity in an al
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by Solvency 3y ago
Is there a rule of thumb for when to use Halton sequence, versus Poisson distributions, versus Sobol sequences, versus <insert 10,000 other random sequence algorithms) for Monte Carlo scenarios... or even general "I need to generate