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by Spivak 1y ago
I think it a distinction without a difference. To make it more obvious imagine it was one of those AI assistant devices that records your conversations so you can recall them later. Plainly obvious that accessing this data for any purpose o
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by Spivak 1y ago
I do like that we're in the stage where the universal function approximatior is pretty okay at mimicking a human but not so advanced as to have a full set of the walls and heuristics we've developed—reminds me a bit of Data from T
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by Spivak 1y ago
Specifically simultaneous distribution of precompiled binaries for many different OS and hardware configurations and built-on-demand source distribution of non-Python software to be used as dependencies with as little (ideally none) host se
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by Spivak 1y ago
I'm no NFS stan but lordy the comparison table is a hit piece. NFS isn't that bad to administer, there are managed NFS services on every major cloud provider, and for on-prem every RHCE ought to know how to set up and deploy a man
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by Spivak 1y ago
I don't even know why anyone wouldn't use the DNS challenge unless they had no other option. I've found it to be annoying and brittle, maybe less so now with native web server support. And you can't get wildcards.
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by Spivak 1y ago
It's a retcon? How else would the holdeck possibly work, there's only one (albeit highly modular) computer system on the ship.
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by Spivak 1y ago
I'm in your camp, recursive code is hard for the next reader, which might be you, to understand. It's a bit too magic looking for my taste. If you're looping it should look like a loop, if you're pushing onto a stack yo
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by Spivak 1y ago
Look, I'm not agreeing with this admin's policy direction, and I certainly don't want the world they envision that this policy will drive us toward—there's plenty of reasonable skepticism that it won't even have the
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by Spivak 1y ago
The orange figurehead, probably not, but the people actually pulling the strings and writing all those executive orders absolutely do. The folks in power might be misguided but they are acting purposely creating more protectionist policies.
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by Spivak 1y ago
No idea why you're being downvoted. I can right now today call AT&T and get 300Mb cellular internet for my house. It's $65/mo.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yep, it's like 5 json schemas in a trench coat. Not not useful but also not some revolution. The biggest win seems to be just convincing rando 3rd parties to go along with it.
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by Spivak 1y ago
You have to be careful when applying moral hazard, because it's just authoritarian behavior with a more polite coating. There are times when it's appropriate and necessary to tell people what they can and can't do but I think
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by Spivak 1y ago
A hamburger is at McDonalds is $1.89 in my area, a McDouble is $3.29. The double cheeseburger is $3.99. What they call the "daily double" which is a silly name for a hamburger with the works is also $3.99. I don't think using
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by Spivak 1y ago
You have made a good case for a close reading of the study. Are they wrong? Is the methodology bad?
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by Spivak 1y ago
Wish granted, you now 1000 spots in your freshman class and 5000 applicants with identical scores and 4.0 GPAs. And there's another 8000 applicants whose scores are within the individual variance of the test. You wouldn't drop the
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by Spivak 1y ago
You're implying that food delivery is antithetical to seeing your friends in person. We have people over and then order food all the time.
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by Spivak 1y ago
> This process gets dramatically slower for … modules on distributed file systems, modules with slow side-effects Oh no. Look I'm not saying you're holding it wrong, it's perfectly valid to host your modules on what is pre
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by Spivak 1y ago
I find it odd that lots of people talk about the OSI being corporate captured but I don't defer to them as to what 'counts'. I couldn't care less what the OSI does or approves of. Any software that grants users the four
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by Spivak 1y ago
Guarantee, of course not. Evidence of, absolutely. Your confidence that you got, essentially, the right prompt increases when parts of it aren't the kind of thing the AI would write—hard topic switches, very specific information, gramm
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by Spivak 1y ago
There is clearly a tension here where a bunch of people want to call their software open source without actually believing in what open source actually means. And this is absurd because it is betraying the fact that it's a marketing te
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean you can see it with your own experience, folks will post a 50 line snippet of ordinary C code in an blog post which looks like you're reading a long dead ancient language littered with macros and then be like "this is a lot
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yes but then you can use the pelican test in all your marketing where you say that this is the < apple slide deck voice > most capable model. ever. And then ignore the new test except as a footnote in some long dry boring evaluation.
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by Spivak 1y ago
It's not ideal for everyone's situation but it's damn cheap. One of my neighbors has solar panels, no battery or storage of any kind, we don't have net metering here, and their electric bill is single digits.
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by Spivak 1y ago
I just used that as an example because it's free, high quality, a good reference, and goes beyond what you would expect out of a style guide and is closer to a textbook on technical writing. So just replace it with your preferred techn
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I disagree strongly with this, it's like saying you must understand the subtleties of calligraphy or typography in order to be proficient at writing in your notebook with a pencil. I have no doubt you will be more purposeful and deft w
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by Spivak 1y ago
I'll be more than happy to buy the equipment at the liquidation sale. Won't let it go to waste, the homelab must grow.
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by Spivak 1y ago
The calculator tricked them into studying. Same trick as the "one note card, front back" but in this case accidental.
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by Spivak 1y ago
You also can't argue over whether the machine made the right call over a pint of beer. Or yell at the Robo-Ref from the stands. It not only makes the game more sterile and less following the "rule of cool" but it also diminis
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by Spivak 1y ago
It is inevitable, not because of some technological predestination but because if these services get hard-blocked and unable to perform their duties they will ship the agent as a web browser or browser add-on just like all the VSCode forks
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by Spivak 1y ago
You don't middle click a bunch of links when doing research? Of all the things to point to I wouldn't have thought "opens a bunch of tabs" to be one of the differentiating behaviors between browsing with Firefox and brow

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