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by a-dub 5mo ago
back in the days when i was doing windows desktop apps, this was the way. installshield was such a piece of hot enterprise garbage that felt like it was designed by management consultants. overengineered, way too complicated, way too many s
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by a-dub 5mo ago
i'm curious about how effective path tracking can be in comparison with computer vision based inverse kinematics of the body itself. do all forms of bad form have detectable imu signatures? i wonder if it would make sense to consider i
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by a-dub 5mo ago
so i'm guessing something like this would be caught by (open\|little)snitch. the raw c2 post coming from the python process would definitely be a red herring, but i wonder how obvious the git/github activity would be. it would see
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by a-dub 5mo ago
i've found that multiple queries with the same prompt that requests a short answer is an excellent way to gain a confidence style measure that actually works.
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by a-dub 5mo ago
welcome new systems programmers: unix is broken and you must write ugly non-pedagogical workarounds and do empirical testing. this is what reliable software and good software engineering actually is... surprise!@#%
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by a-dub 6mo ago
hm. ml people love static evals and such, but have you considered approaches that typically appear in saas? (slow-rollouts, org/user constrained testing pools with staged rollouts, real-world feedback from actual usage data (where pri
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by a-dub 6mo ago
i once did a contract for a company that built a product around connectors for legacy lan e-mail products and an x.400 mta. it was a gigantic steaming pile of shit and made me appreciate the simple internet protocols so much more than i alr
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by a-dub 6mo ago
i find the best way to remember it is "it's not the epsilon you think it is." epsilons are fine in the case that you actually want to put a static error bound on an equality comparison. numpy's relative errors are better
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by a-dub 6mo ago
this perez model thing completely misses the communications revolutions of the telegraph, radio and television not to mention demonopolization of bell. > Then came AI, revealing new dynamics. ChatGPT’s breakthrough didn’t come from a gar
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by a-dub 6mo ago
maybe a better approach to start with computers that already have ergonomic chassis (they exist) and then spend energy for modifying tools on what happens inside of them?
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by a-dub 6mo ago
hmm. hoping that all the weird business requirements get confined to a specific distro with careful gating prior to upstreaming. it would be bad if they were allowed to pollute the ecosystem more generally (which one could argue is why wind
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by a-dub 6mo ago
kde linux may make it happen. that and command line agents that help people fix their systems.
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by a-dub 6mo ago
i have been pretty happy with opensnitch. ui improvements are always welcome although what might be really interesting would be some sort of plug-in system that allows for an agent to watch my interactions activity and the outbound connecti
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by a-dub 6mo ago
the experimental report pdf is a fun read. it would be cool if they added each individual bell of the duobell and the combination to tables 4 and 5. (the topline result is in the infographic, but it would be cool to see the effects of the i
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by a-dub 6mo ago
ar(k) stuff, sure. that's old news. i would expect the newfangled stuff to be good at 0-shot learning of pre-event signatures spread across multiple series, at a minimum.
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by a-dub 6mo ago
is local llm inference on modern macbook pros comfortable yet? when i played with it a year or so ago, it worked fairly ok but definitely produced uncomfortable levels of heat. (regarding mlx, there were toolkits built on mlx that supporte
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by a-dub 7mo ago
maybe it's the quasi-photorealistic nature of the car image that bothers me. it's not a photo, it's not a schematic, it's not a diagram. it's too artificial to look like a photo, yet too realistic to look like a sch
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by a-dub 7mo ago
does preempt_rt actually confer a ui responsiveness benefit on multicore systems?
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by a-dub 7mo ago
i think a lot of people do. i don't know what it is, there's maybe just something about the car graphic that doesn't sit right with me. the front/side view when parked just seems cheesy for some reason. maybe because it&
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by a-dub 7mo ago
i wish the ui on those things was more visually appealing. between the cheap looking gloss finish on the display itself and the unextraordinary ui, it's just kinda blah. one can have a debate about to screen or not to screen or whether
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by a-dub 7mo ago
json in git for reference data actually isn't terrible. having it with the code isn't great, and the repo is massively bloated in other ways, but for change tracking a source of truth, not bad except for maybe it should be canonic
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by a-dub 7mo ago
no. you can pay verisign or google or the government of estonia or whatever for a digital id and they can issue you a zkp that is signed by them that attests whatever without giving up your identity.
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by a-dub 7mo ago
doesn't the side by side view in github diff solve this? conflict free merging sounds cool, but doesn't that just mean that that a human review step is replaced by "changes become intervals rather than collections of lines&qu
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by a-dub 7mo ago
> then if i want i can jump through some hoops and pay some money or something to get a digital id that lets me attach a zkp
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by a-dub 7mo ago
i'm only half joking. adding zkps to http requests is probably the correct privacy preserving technical solution that could be built into something sensible. the bigger issue is that lawmakers are thinking in terms of smartphones, tabl
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by a-dub 7mo ago
how about if i do nothing the internet assumes i'm a child and therefore does not track me, show me ads or permit doom scroll feeds. then if i want i can jump through some hoops and pay some money or something to get a digital id that
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by a-dub 7mo ago
i'd be curious about a head to head comparison of how much the c2 actually buys over a static aot compilation with something serious like llvm. if it is valuable, i'd be surprised you can't freeze/resume the state and us
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by a-dub 7mo ago
no, apparently there was both. i was familiar with video cd which was mpeg-1 on a cd-rom (with some weird partitioning scheme). cd video is apparently a very obscure hybrid format with an analog video section and a digital audio section. h
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by a-dub 7mo ago
yeah i remember learning this as a kid and being surprised. i originally thought laserdiscs were modern high tech, but then they turned out to actually be from the late 70s/early 80s with the primitive analog video encoding where red b
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by a-dub 7mo ago
in that case you probably flag a bunch of prs for release and it linearizes their order and rebases and tests each one a step ahead of your review (responding to any changes you make as you go).

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