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by a-dub 3mo ago
cool to see rustdesk. low level memory bugs were long mysterious and i think often received most of the attention for this reason, but always fun to see reminders that "nope, good ol' fashioned logic bugs in high level languages h
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by a-dub 4mo ago
i wonder if it's about protecting it from extraction/distillation or if it's about not having to answer for surface that hasn't been properly vetted for public consumption. (ie, is someone going to sue them or complain o
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by a-dub 4mo ago
i agree with the author. i argue a preference for loose coupling over centralized abstractions. sure it's pleasing to compress the code, but if the use cases actually are sufficiently divergent (as well as bugs and externally driven ch
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by a-dub 4mo ago
my first reaction: this pivot makes no sense at all to me. my second reaction: maybe it does? did they hire up an army of physicists to make better diffusion models or something and they actually have people on staff who can do this?
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by a-dub 4mo ago
that's how i understand it. it's a portfolio with front matter, back matter, the papers that got published with some connective tissue between them and maybe some discussion of the things that didn't work out and why.
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by a-dub 4mo ago
symbolic music features are interesting! they should add chroma!
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by a-dub 4mo ago
yeah, i think you're right. i originally read a bit of snarky blow-off, like "eh?" ... but you know, now that i think of it, it's actually does have more of a friendly canadian style vibe.
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by a-dub 4mo ago
the '90s version of finding the hiring manager or boss on linkedin to try and get a job was connecting to the company's public smtp server with telnet, using their name to probe different email address patterns with "rcpt to:
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by a-dub 4mo ago
because in those days there was no curl, or wget. and then when there was, there was no guarantee they'd be installed. telnet was always there though. it also worked for speaking all the other plaintext internet protocols. (imap, pop,
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by a-dub 4mo ago
it's not that insane. i've been manually typing http requests in since before http/1.1 and the mandatory host header. it is insane to use it for anything serious (also the opposite, implementing webservers in bash), but for q
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by a-dub 4mo ago
blindly trusting upstream is not really a reasonable posture. that is pretty much the source of all software supply chain attacks. there is work involved in figuring out how to get the complete diff of the code and dependencies that are inc
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by a-dub 4mo ago
pretty much all of them. the diffs only really show that it's coming from the same source, the changed hash and maybe some urls for some patches. actually looking at what is in that changed hash is a much more complicated story. this g
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by a-dub 4mo ago
i read all the pkgbuild diffs, still doesn't give me a good sense. sure, i can verify that it's coming from the official repo but even then there's no guarantee that there isn't junk in there or that the git ref is actua
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by a-dub 4mo ago
two scenarios i could think of where there's additional risk for bio/nuclear weapons 1) basement lab leaks and 2) improving quality of execution for shops that are already resourced enough to hire experts but maybe they're no
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by a-dub 4mo ago
i built a turbofan https://app.confbuild.com/p/z459 now I want to build a complete Airbus as detailed as possible with give budget
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by a-dub 4mo ago
the claimed inference cost is 2x. if that is true, it is massive and remarkable that they're able to do anything like this at all.
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by a-dub 4mo ago
i thought this was all fixed with special modes of clone that are optimized and don't actually copy anything (ie, it creates a new deficient process that can pretty much only exec)?
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by a-dub 4mo ago
yeah this is the actual key. an actually useful title and a stable link to the discussion around the change. conventional commits are pleasing, but questionable actual utility. the code speaks for itself. the actually useful information is
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by a-dub 4mo ago
here's an idea for an "experienced" technical interview structure. "we care about x, y and z. you have forty five minutes to convince us that you will meaningful help us achieve our goals. we then will take 30 minutes to
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by a-dub 4mo ago
if anything, compilers and interpreters are probably the most suited for ai codegen as they have some of the most comprehensive test suites around and are relatively easy to verify. that said, it's a fun debate. sure, the rust compiler
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by a-dub 4mo ago
cool to see the eu pushing on the zkp approach. that was my first instinct when i read about this. add a zkp header to http with optional upgrading to "adult" content and it's done.
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by a-dub 4mo ago
that sounds like the way. also keeps runtime costs down. seems like the trick there would be to build (a|on top of) durable rpa librar(y|ies) that the agents and humans work in so that the automation recipes and their automated updates can
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by a-dub 5mo ago
i'm curious: how does the steady state error rate of a stochastic automated system like this compare with the downtime and errors that come from a (brittle) deterministic bridge that can fail with upgrades? what does the observability
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by a-dub 5mo ago
this is interesting. would be cool to explore something like integrating a vlm to add a "semantic" term to the loss function. looking through the comparisons, some of the baseline codecs create meaningfully different details (as c
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by a-dub 5mo ago
watermarking only really works when the scheme is secret. putting cyphertext in high frequency noise is old news. in generative land would be far more interesting to use the generative flexibility to encode in macrostructure.
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by a-dub 5mo ago
it was embedded/client land for embedded systems that were connected to tvs (had one of those on my desk too). i had a primary windows dev box for wrs tornado and e-mail and then a linux box for ci dev and build/release infra. the
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by a-dub 5mo ago
back in the '00s i used a hardware kvm that could be controlled by the keyboard with some weird key combo (~ ~ (1|2)? maybe?). these days i strongly prefer deskflow (oss version of synergy) for this sort of thing or just ordinary remot
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by a-dub 5mo ago
no placebo arm. result could be due to unisolated factors present in clinical trial fixturing.
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by a-dub 5mo ago
hm. surprised there aren't idioms like copy_(to|from)_user for these kinds of kernel to userspace mappings for custom device nodes that ensure bounds are supplied...
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by a-dub 5mo ago
> Strong Federal privacy laws would make posts like this unnecessary, that’s the world I’d rather live in. yes. there ought to be a right to reasonable expectation of behavioral privacy where if it's not obvious and intrinsic to fun

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