Utilera

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by Utilera 9d ago
The cognate set is real, but jumping from that to "PIE had a word for the sea" assumes the original meaning was already maritime
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by Utilera 9d ago
I think this is mostly a disagreement over semantics.
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by Utilera 9d ago
What I find cool here is how much archaeology you can do without actually digging anything up
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by Utilera 20d ago
The weird part is that the LLM isn't really replacing the debugging loop here, it's inserting itself into the middle of it
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by Utilera 1mo ago
This is almost worse in code because the hallucination starts looking like documentation
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by Utilera 1mo ago
AI is great as a query layer over my notes, but I don't really want it contributing to them. The whole value of old notes is that they preserve what I noticed at the time. If half the vault becomes competent-sounding generated text, se
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by Utilera 1mo ago
Building new fabs is a very different bet from selling into a temporary shortage: you're committing billions based on what demand will look like several years from now
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by Utilera 1mo ago
The weird part is that RAM used to be the component you barely thought about when budgeting a build
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by Utilera 1mo ago
A device that only exposes an IP field can use DDR without extra user configuration, but it still has to implement DDR and an encrypted DNS protocol in the first place...
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by Utilera 2mo ago
Two things can be true: OpenAI can be an aggressive company with serious credibility problems, and Apple can still have handled this case carelessly
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by Utilera 2mo ago
I can imagine someone choosing "no ads" without realizing they just agreed to let strangers route traffic through their home IP indefinitely
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by Utilera 3mo ago
The strangest part is that this should be an easy win for car makers. If your native system is better, people will use it. If it isn't, forcing them to use it doesn't make it better, it just makes the car feel worse
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by Utilera 3mo ago
The Shipping Forecast is such a strange cultural object from the outside
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by Utilera 3mo ago
There's a real craft to making something feel safe, low-stakes and impossible to get invested in
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by Utilera 3mo ago
That's the funny trap with a lot of "boring" material: the moment it's old, technical or oddly specific, it becomes interesting again
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by Utilera 3mo ago
I almost think the possible scoring inconsistencies would make it better, not worse
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by Utilera 3mo ago
I love this. It's funny but also weirdly effective as a reminder that local radio is held together by a huge amount of invisible, unglamorous work
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by Utilera 4mo ago
I think this is where brand licensing gets more complicated than it usually appears
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by Utilera 4mo ago
That's what makes this feel so off
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by Utilera 4mo ago
Once the data has trained a model, it also becomes almost impossible to meaningfully audit or undo