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by Tostino 2y ago
Realistically, not unless the military fractured and there was a coherent alternative government that some of them aligned with. There is absolutely no standing up to our military if it is actually deployed against you as a regular citizen
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by Tostino 2y ago
Pretty much, other than they just came up with their own incompatible API rather than implementing the OpenAI endpoints.
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by Tostino 2y ago
My last startup was remote only since 2014, through two acquisitions until I left last year (still is afaik). I would never go back to an office position at this point. Now working on my next startup, I can't imagine ever requiring an
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by Tostino 2y ago
I developed a couple open source projects that my startup used and got some small adoption. I was essentially unable to maintain them using company resources after we were acquired last. Telus had no open source strategy for giving back at
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by Tostino 2y ago
That's because we are so weak as a nation we can't come together and say "fuck that" to companies owning any bit of data they can collect about us without permission. Could be solved by laws, but we are far too divided f
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by Tostino 2y ago
I liked Princess Mononoke a lot as a kid because of the ambiguity in most of the characters. No one was truly evil, or truly good in their actions. I definitely noticed it was different than most media at the time because of that.
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by Tostino 2y ago
Line goes up, right?
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by Tostino 2y ago
As others have echoed, yes. Enterprise software gets quite complex, has a ton of dependencies that need to be understood together, etc. Just the data model can take up hundreds of thousands of tokens describing the tables and relationships
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by Tostino 2y ago
I had to ask Claude because I've never worked with Mongo, but apparently the equivalent query for MongoDB is: db.api.find( { "tags": "qui" }, { "guid": 1, "name&quo
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by Tostino 2y ago
The phrase "If the product is free, then you are the product" doesn't preclude a company from selling you something and also making you the product. They are capable of screwing you over twice.
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by Tostino 2y ago
Yeah, understood. I'm excited for the reduction in parameter count that will come when this is taken up in major models. I meant it rhetorically in reference to interpretability. I don't see a real difference between training a mo
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by Tostino 2y ago
At least they commented it XD. Selectivity is pretty hard to get right though so I can see why they stubbed it out and will deal with an actual implementation later.
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by Tostino 2y ago
Why is it any different to do 4 recurrent passes than having a model that is 4x deeper?
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by Tostino 2y ago
This exact issue was settled after Nixon tried blocking environmental funds. The Supreme Court ruled in Train v. City of New York (1975) that the executive branch cannot refuse to spend appropriated money. Congress then passed the Impoundme
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by Tostino 2y ago
The power of the purse was deliberately placed with Congress in Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." This isn't about liking or disliki
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by Tostino 2y ago
To become a dictator? This isn't in the presidential powers. Congress needs to pass a bill if they want to do this.
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by Tostino 2y ago
Yeah, planning on doing that today.
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by Tostino 2y ago
It would still be a similar form of coup (IMO) if Trump was doing it himself. We have three co-equal branches of government for a reason, and the power of the purse lies with Congress. The president not faithfully executing the will of cong
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by Tostino 2y ago
You would have not said a word about Harris appointing George Soros to a similar position to make unilateral decision over things to which the president isn't supposed to control?
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by Tostino 2y ago
We have a separation of powers for a reason. This is throwing out the main power entrusted to our Congress. Why would any future administration care about what Congress has to say after this precedent is set? He also doesn't have a man
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by Tostino 2y ago
Thanks, fixed.
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by Tostino 2y ago
It looks like this post is unflagged finally. I left this comment on another version that was also flagged, so I figured i'll repost it here: I took the time to write an email to both of my senators, and congress person (i'm in FL
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Of Course It's a Coup(snyder.substack.com)
8 points by Tostino 2y ago|2 comments
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by Tostino 2y ago
This has now been flagged three different times, none of the discussion was over the line by my metrics. Every single comment was in agreement with the sentiments expressed in the article. I'm using a different link to see if this stay
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by Tostino 2y ago
I took the time to write an email to both of my senators, and congress person (i'm in FL, they are all R's). Absolutely unconscionable for them to abdicate their responsibilities and oath to the constitution. I don't expect i
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by Tostino 2y ago
Bunch of sycophants who are willing to sell out our democracy for some twitter likes. Edit: The post is flagged. Glad we have nothing to worry about. No discussion necessary.
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by Tostino 2y ago
I wish we had a local model for semantic chunking. I've been wanting one for ages, but haven't had the time to make a dataset and finetune that task =/.
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by Tostino 2y ago
Don't disagree there. I asked my self the same question the first few times I had to use it. Silently truncating the data is about the worst way to deal with it from a security standpoint. No idea why that decision was made back in the
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by Tostino 2y ago
That is such a rookie mistake. It's not some hidden information that bcrypt has a 72 char limit. Pretty widely documented in multiple implementations and languages. How does a company whose only job is security screw that up so badly?
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by Tostino 2y ago
In the last decade, private practice rates for doctors has dropped from ~60% to ~45%. By me in FL, it's hard to find a doctor that actually has a private practice now. Most are corporate owned clinics where doctors are just employees.

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