a-dub

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by a-dub 7d ago
i like to write and then workshop with the ai. i find that i have to push back on tendencies it (has less of these days) has to rewrite my work in massive ways. it also can help with writers block sometimes, or parts of a paragraph i'm
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by a-dub 7d ago
> There’s a wonderful book, How to Prove It by Daniel Velleman the name sounds familiar but i don't think i have read that one, i did enjoy "introduction to mathematical reasoning" by eccles. personally my relationship wit
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by a-dub 20d ago
i bet if you mmap'd a big file and then dirtied a ton of pages and then exited and watched the file on disk, you'd see writes occurring after the process exits as well.
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by a-dub 20d ago
yeah in that case, use a binary for "did you do it that day?" and a measure for "how much of it did you do that day?". loop habit tracker supports both, i bet this one does too. a built-in stopwatch to make time trackin
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by a-dub 20d ago
i don't think that computer vision gates or even an ai agent trying to enforce accountability are going to help all that much in that case. maybe try a therapist or a real-life accountability partner.
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by a-dub 20d ago
i would say, be generous with yourself in terms of tracking showing up at all since that alone is huge (and most important for sustaining the behavior). if you notice that you're slipping and showing up late too often, maybe create ano
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by a-dub 20d ago
writing well still works. it also still can be quite hard depending on the circumstance.
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by a-dub 24d ago
> You watch input to output delay on a scope and look for outliers. better to acquire these or use timestamped gpio and compute real statistics- but for the sake of illustrative metaphor, sure.
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by a-dub 26d ago
this is exactly what these weird operating system age tracking laws are codifying which is terrible. it forces consumer operating systems to become trusted computing bases that don't work for the consumer. upgrading to adult content wh
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by a-dub 27d ago
i wonder what they're all up to. i imagine some are scraping datasets for pre-training, others are probably real-time scrapers looking for security bugs, even more still are agents working on coding tasks and looking at the kernel. als
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by a-dub 27d ago
i still think this should be solved at the protocol level. if you want to access the adult stuff, you have to staple a non-identifying zk-proof-of-age to your http/spdy/etc requests, otherwise it all just operates as usual.
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by a-dub 28d ago
san francisco had that cool, edgy, gonzo art scene happening in the 90s. also survival research laboratories and their famous pitching machine, the omnicircus, chicken john, laughing squid, critical mass/commute clot, santarchy/s
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by a-dub 28d ago
the internet is home to plenty of predatory cesspits, but the real stuff is still there too. it's not as convenient or addicting as content that doubles as a funnel for the ad machines, but the real spaces and media that aren't do
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by a-dub 29d ago
last time i built a crud app (oh maybe about 24 years ago) i made it a point to do this. i remember watching the payroll people fly through their terminal mode vax vms applications with such speed and dexterity that it would make any unix a
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by a-dub 1mo ago
i think ai is going to turn cybsersecurity into a real-time affair that looks a lot more like high frequency trading.
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by a-dub 1mo ago
ahh. kde has all that built directly into the screenshot utility. highlighting, text, cropping, etc.
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by a-dub 1mo ago
it is kind of interesting when you think about it. what utility does something like paint actually have? did it ever have any real utility? (icon editing?) it always kinda felt like a demo that came with early versions of windows that didn&
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by a-dub 1mo ago
hanlon's razor comes to mind. which trees are these? weird device trees that have complicated third party licensing nonsense attached? i remember jumping through crazy hoops to interact with a google open source project years ago. i wo
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by a-dub 1mo ago
cast it to an integer and check for equality? requiring bit identical goes beyond what floats promise though.
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by a-dub 1mo ago
> What is interesting about it? did western society engineer a junkfood-industrial-complex so addicting and so en-sickening that it ultimately required a sort of junk food methadone to wean itself off?
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by a-dub 1mo ago
that is the interesting question. also the effects of weight loss vs. the effects of disengagement with the engineered to be addictive "food products" side of the western diet.
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by a-dub 2mo ago
ahh. thanks! i read localization, thought of 5g beam forming and thought "oh this must be wifi sensing 5g beam forming edition." i stand corrected, thank you!
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by a-dub 2mo ago
uwb is pretty neat. in the last few months i started getting 3/4ths of a gigabit of downstream bandwidth on a lot of nyc streets on my ordinary verizon plan.
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by a-dub 2mo ago
existence or absence of drama around getting the right equipment is usually a very strong indicator of technical leadership quality.
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by a-dub 2mo ago
ahh yes, the early 90s. computer shopper, datanet, pc magazine, a $59 seller's permit from the state of california that came with a magic number that would make distributors sell to you at cost for both computer and bike parts, automat
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by a-dub 2mo ago
i'm curious what this gains in practice and usability over standard chatbot slack integration.
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by a-dub 2mo ago
it is definitely the claudiest. it's weird, it's like there's a spot developing in my head next to all the other spots where i park mental models for how people write, but instead of being for a person, it's for the ters
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by a-dub 2mo ago
it's just like a phone. don't buy a crappy one with firmware of unknown provenance. make sure the one you do buy has an active and effective effort that you trust that ships timely security fixes.
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by a-dub 2mo ago
hm. in linux you have MAP_POPULATE which forces a prefetch where macos relies on page faults and lazy loading. if MADV_WILLNEED doesn't help, maybe readv to vector read directly or mmap+writev (write to a dummy fd, with an iovec for ea
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by a-dub 2mo ago
that's basically the argument, thank you! the other person i was debating with was correct to push back on the scope of the generalization! but, in cases where the choice is actually meaningful towards a push to max performance, (not t

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