VLM

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by VLM 7mo ago
The purpose of a LLM ban is to encourage use of LLMs to submit PRs, not discourage. The longer term effect is to eliminate FOSS competency from the hiring process. It takes some human effort to set up a slop generator. Have the slop gener
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by VLM 7mo ago
"AN/AAR-57" Yes the small yellow subwoofer looking things that people speculate endlessly about. Supposedly BAE systems marketing released a picture of the whole system LOL, who needs spies if you have a marketing dept, als
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by VLM 7mo ago
DCS World to the rescue? There's open source intel on google that Iran has SU-27s. Under combat conditions you have an instant to tell them apart. Clearly, its possible to misidentify them at least one time historically as the F-15s
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by VLM 7mo ago
400 yen for a ten pack is more like $2.50 than $5 Typical markup in the USA is 100% from wholesaler to retail. Running brick and mortar is very expensive. So if Walgreens were selling this, the wholesale price would be $1.25. I think it
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by VLM 7mo ago
There's been a lot of historical work done in the past and I used NIST FIPS181 to implement this. Note: FIPS181 was intended for passwords and I was using them as handy short human-readable record IDs as per your post. You probably sh
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by VLM 7mo ago
Its a small tech bit but a big architecture / management decision. Basically, who runs golang? The perfectionists are correct, UUIDs are awful and if there's a pile of standards that all have small problems the best thing you can
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by VLM 7mo ago
Cheap, nearly free voice phone calls killed old fashioned phone service. Once the incoming spam exceeded 95% I shut off the ringer and no longer use voice phone calls. Once the cost of generating push media drops low enough (close enough t
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by VLM 7mo ago
"The law" There is no "The law" there are multiple levels of government implementing multiple solutions all different and somewhat incompatible. Honestly, probably by intention. Its sort of a SLAPP attack on the entire
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by VLM 7mo ago
Two meta observations about the comments: 1) The issue doesn't matter much. Corporate takeover of the internet caused severe damage, but overrunning social media with LLM generated content is a mortal wound. Roughly the same number o
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by VLM 7mo ago
A better analogy would be regulation of addictive activities like gambling and regulation of addictive substances like painkillers. Given that the platforms being regulated were intentionally engineered to maximize addictive potential, thi
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by VLM 7mo ago
I would assume its fake and an attempt at identify theft at some level of the system. Is their PC infected at the OS level or just a fraudulent browser extension or something more like a popup ad masquerading as a system dialogue? A less
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by VLM 7mo ago
They would have needed 20 participants, which is too many. Soon we will have more participants in the HN comments for the study, than were studied in the study.
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by VLM 7mo ago
"If you have a congested city" I would agree with and extend your remarks that we also have problems where traffic patterns and geography don't match political boundaries and transit is traditionally locally run and locally b
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by VLM 7mo ago
You're making suspicions about suspicions without numerical data. According to my cities 2022 annual report (where are 2023-2025?) they provided precisely 464344 unlinked pax trips (UPT) so someone stepped aboard a bus and threw money
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by VLM 7mo ago
In 2022 according to the transit system annual report, the suburban quarter million person city I live in has ten routes and operates about 12 hours per day and per the annual report average weekday service consumed is 1556 UPT, so 1556 peo
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by VLM 7mo ago
Its a statement of religious belief, so other opinions are no less relevant that some "authority" As a religious belief it would be inappropriate for me to report stats from my local cities bus service. First of all they didn&#x2
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by VLM 8mo ago
A lot of effort has gone to comment without reading the stats. I'll read the survey for you all: https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/docume... Yes it includes audiobooks in "books". physica
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by VLM 8mo ago
Idiocracy was at least funny. It'll probably look a lot more like Haiti IRL.
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by VLM 8mo ago
The article shows how performance has always increased at a somewhat continually increasing level of inconvenience. Weird connectors, SUPER demanding power requirements, new case designs every generation, new cooling required every generat
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by VLM 8mo ago
"across a nice poured concrete driveway" I've worked with DB people and running lines under driveways for telco and cableco is BIG business and they will not find your request to bury fiber or cat5 to be even remotely unusual
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by VLM 8mo ago
I pulled several thousand lines as a kid starting out in Gen-X era and you are completely correct with one scalability and labor cost issue: Real cat5 and ethernet connectors just work and phone cable and phone plugs just work, but if you m
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by VLM 8mo ago
Two related issues not mentioned yet: Its really slow. Too slow to use 2FA or in some cases, verify email addresses or recover passwords. Most people can't handle a notification on their watch every minute, or several spam every five
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by VLM 8mo ago
Social issues make gitlab better although there are also social downsides. The people who submit fake/AI issues and PRs for resume purposes seem to exclusively use github and this is a substantial expense for the real users (see the re
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by VLM 8mo ago
The key business mistake is trying to have too large of a company or having the wrong organization structure. Consider how a SCM like git or bitkeeper is more complicated than a wrapper for LXC. For some odd reason Docker has almost 100x a
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by VLM 9mo ago
The exact text is "The Software shall not be used in any kind of system which includes amongst its functions the ability to purposefully do harm to human beings." This is an example of the HN "Jump to Conclusions Mat" wh
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by VLM 9mo ago
The implication is economic decline. Healthy economies "should" have a reward for specialization where both supplier and purchaser win. There is no reward anymore for economic specialization in the context of ice cream; its cheap
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by VLM 9mo ago
"hell hath no fury like taking away nerds' Mountain Dew and Flamin' Hot Cheetos" Its an addiction. Try taking away an alcoholic's alcohol and sit back and enjoy the infinite rationalizations about how its heart hea
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by VLM 9mo ago
Also by no longer providing service to non-business class customers they save a lot of money on personnel, services, logistics. Of course the disadvantage, is no more air service for non-business class customers (that being most of us).
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by VLM 9mo ago
The car has to be scrapped when the UI hardware fails. You can live a LONG time without a working ... radio tuning knob, if the other 99.9% of the controls work. Or if the right passenger door lock button fails, really who cares. But when
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by VLM 9mo ago
Its a social class thing. Homeless people sit alone, especially the crazy ones. No brand new iphone or new macbook means poverty which is usually not cool. It blows peoples minds if you read a book. Not a college textbook but something fo

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