Tostino

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by Tostino 8mo ago
I have mixed feelings about it. On my first startup, I used ansible to automate all of the manual workflows and server setup that we had done. Everything was just completely manual and in people's heads before, and translating it to an
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by Tostino 8mo ago
Just wondering, who is it you think is contributing most to the normalization of political violence in the discourse? Your answer to that can color how I read your post by quite a bit.
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by Tostino 8mo ago
Plenty of adults don't catch it either. You don't need to be blatant. Dress it up in neutral business language, keep the arguments one step removed from the conclusion, and anchor it in assumptions people already hold about market
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by Tostino 9mo ago
The ways that i've seen proposed for the 3d printer to determine if the thing you are printed is "gun related" was to force them to be internet connected, and to send your print files to some 3rd party (or government) server
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by Tostino 9mo ago
Uh, I'd say that something has in fact been lost in that every single printer sold watermarks every document printed regardless of if you are attempting to print a $50 bill or not. There are plenty of people who change their behavior b
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by Tostino 9mo ago
I'm not saying for you personally it is financially viable. I am saying that these companies have zero excuse to say that providing that service to every single American isn't financially viable. They were already paid to do that,
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by Tostino 9mo ago
Exactly. Points out how "will never be financially viable to provide" is a completely BS argument in this context.
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by Tostino 9mo ago
These companies were already paid to wire up the US with fiber using taxpayer dollars.
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by Tostino 9mo ago
Yup, even with 2x 24gb GPUs, it's impossible to get anywhere close to the big models in terms of quality and speed, for a fraction of the cost.
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by Tostino 9mo ago
Where is that type of a % raise for the people who actually did the work to enable revenue to rise by those billions?
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by Tostino 9mo ago
And Germany would have been a much larger country economically if Hitler was executed after his first coup attempt. The Weimar government didn't choose that path though, and went for civility. The brain drain was massive, both before t
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by Tostino 9mo ago
They were saying "the same" in context of how often you have to replace the tires. Now, EV tires are often a slightly different compound (and more expensive) to deal with the higher weight and torque. I don't know how that pl
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by Tostino 9mo ago
The SQL Server query planner is head and shoulders above what Postgres offers in the types of optimizations it will apply to your queries. It also properly caches query plans. It offers heap tables, as well as index organized tables dependi
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by Tostino 9mo ago
It really is a good database. Give it lots of room. If you can distribute your workload on multiple machines though, you can't beat Postgres' licencing terms vs SQL Server.
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by Tostino 9mo ago
Clustered indexes aren't just about write amplification. They also reduce the reads needed to get the data. Sometimes by quite a bit.
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by Tostino 9mo ago
I absolutely reject your premise here. I feel like Bush Jr. is very responsible for the state of the world we're in right now. You can track back a whole lot of policies and erosion of democratic norms in our system directly to his adm
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by Tostino 9mo ago
I read another post this morning that there was already an update last night with a bunch of tracking code added, and additional permissions required (that didn't trigger anything for the user to know of those additional permissions).
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by Tostino 9mo ago
Well, it seemed to work well enough on you. Maybe try and think harder about your information sources. They seem to be lying to you, and you don't seem to be able to tell.
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by Tostino 9mo ago
Currently going on? You mean the ones which were prosecuted a few years ago? Or are you talking about that "journalist"'s YouTube video that was hyped by the government to cause misinformed rage?
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by Tostino 9mo ago
Pretty accurate descriptor after all this time. She was proven right by their actions.
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by Tostino 9mo ago
That is exactly what these troops are. A tripwire force which hopefully doesn't get used for their intended purpose.
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by Tostino 9mo ago
English is my native language, and I still have this problem all the time with voice models.
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by Tostino 9mo ago
I get way better results from Gemini fwiw.
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by Tostino 9mo ago
That generally still takes the person taking some sort of action in furtherance of that plan, not just thinking it.
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by Tostino 10mo ago
I didn't exactly have the highest hopes for Noam, but holy shit was I disappointed in his character over the past few years. Seems like he's actually a pedophile from his reactions to Epstein related leaks. My interaction prior to
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by Tostino 10mo ago
Right, you don't just "good person" yourself into billions of dollars. There will always be a trail of people screwed over, or taken advantage of along the way. Or you can go the more modern way and externalize all the negati
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by Tostino 10mo ago
I did mean one of many signals I use to evaluate if something is LLM generated. But point taken that I should weight it accordingly.
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by Tostino 10mo ago
I take it as a signal that a human was editing it rather than an LLM.
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by Tostino 10mo ago
You can do a rough distill through the APIs. You don't need the weights. It was much easier when companies had models on the /completion style APIs, because you could actually get the logits for each generation step, and use that
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by Tostino 10mo ago
We will need some sort of truth and reconciliation process after this is all over if we are ever going to move on. That means accountability for the people participating in this state sanctioned violence.

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