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by aomix 2y ago
I’m more bearish about LLMs but even in the extreme optimist case this is why I’m not that concerned. Every project I’m on is triaged as the one that needs the most help right now. A world when dozen projects don’t need to be left on the cu
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by aomix 2y ago
They use other models to judge correct-ness and when possible just ask the model output something that can be directly verified. Like math equations that can be checked 1:1 against the correct answer.
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by aomix 2y ago
Olympians being "people with really intense hobbies" is still weird to me. I haven't reconciled in my mind that the life of AA baseball players getting paid a little more than minimum wage plus a meal stipend is a dream for 9
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by aomix 2y ago
Even the post is in terms if "Dear god why? But if you must..."
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by aomix 2y ago
No comment on the article it's just always interesting to get hit with intense jargon from a field I know very little about. I understood the statements of all five questions. I could do the third one relatively quickly (I had seen th
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by aomix 2y ago
This is just a highly visible problem. Bots make getting reservations at popular restaurants impossible for normal people. So they aren't necessarily being priced out they're being excluded by not being in the know. Which is frust
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by aomix 2y ago
I could see that value being chosen so people have no incentive to game the cert expiry. For whatever peace of mind it gives them to rotate certs only at low traffic times of the week.
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by aomix 2y ago
Tip awkwardness has played a surprisingly big role in me eating healthier. No I don't want to tip you for handing me a prepackaged muffin. But you're paid like shit with an eye on making up the difference in tips. So I guess the c
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by aomix 2y ago
For nonfiction I think about Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon (and Ed Burns for The Corner) a lot. They are very funny and very sad and really changed ho
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by aomix 2y ago
I think about this comparison sometimes https://x.com/Merman_Melville/status/1088527693757349888?lan... "Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollar
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by aomix 2y ago
The ideas and conclusions remind me of OpenBSD’s pledge too. They privilege separate a lot of their in house software so the a bit that talks to the internet is separated as much as possible from the bit that does parsing, for example. But
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by aomix 2y ago
I like the approach of “all randomness on a system should come from a csprng unless you opt out”. It’s the stronger of two options where you lose a small amount of perf for a much stronger guarantee that you won’t use the wrong rng and caus
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by aomix 2y ago
I wonder what the Venn Diagram looks like for how Workday and Jira and Confluence exist in a hell zone where they are allowed to suck ass and make everybody miserable and have market dominance.
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by aomix 2y ago
Maybe this will be the return of an OpenBSD home router for me. I ran one for years because it was a fun project but when gigabit became available in my area I learned a low power, passively cooled cpu struggled with gigabit traffic on Open
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by aomix 3y ago
If people didn’t take notes on criminal conspiracies how would anti trust laws ever be effective.
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by aomix 3y ago
I know this comparison has been made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel That Michigan PhD student dump was by an unauthorized third party and was shut down. But was the pricing reasonable? Are admins of
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by aomix 3y ago
I really need to try Kagi out this weekend. Whenever I try to change search engines I hit the same wall in that ~20 years of Google has trained me to think in terms of their search algorithm when searching.
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by aomix 3y ago
Not really lined up like a specific role in mind. But I've worked at large companies that partner with local universities for MBA programs. And after going through that program you are first in line for roles that put the degree to use
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by aomix 3y ago
I wonder if Turso https://turso.tech/ supports that use case. They support 10k databases in the step above free pricing tier.
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by aomix 3y ago
The DX layer is interesting. Dxvk ranges from slightly slower to much, much faster. Older games are an unambiguous win and modern games seem to be a toss up. There’s a large user base for it on windows to get all the performance you can out
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by aomix 3y ago
This topic reminds me of how dota does it. Which may be common but was the first time I had read about it. When you see “X% chance to happen” the true chance is much lower but increases with each miss. So on a shorter time frames where you’
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by aomix 3y ago
Is there a decent guess at how much training data for ChatGPT is copyrighted work and subject to being removed depending on a few court cases? GPT4 is supposed to be an order of magnitude larger than the open source models that use essentia
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by aomix 3y ago
The book You Have the Right to Remain Innocent talks about this for a good portion of it. There are nuances to simply shutting up, invoking the right to remain silent (implied by the 5th) and not speaking, invoking the 5th to not answer a q
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by aomix 3y ago
It depends. But poisoned images fed into a vulnerable training setup will scramble the output and make the model pretty useless.
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by aomix 3y ago
Running on many many architectures is an another way of testing code robustness. Code that runs on X could crash on Y because it always had a bug that the quirks of X hid. The weirder the architecture the better, kind of. Or somebody may ju
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by aomix 3y ago
Holy moley what a screw up. I can’t believe what I’m reading.
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by aomix 3y ago
I had to check release dates and sure enough I can’t discount the possibility the post is making a Red Dead Redemption (1) joke.
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by aomix 3y ago
I remember spending an afternoon figuring out why Docker images stopped building with legitimate errors because it ran out of disk space. It never even occurred to me to check and I found the virtual disk was full by accident.
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by aomix 3y ago
Very fixable but something about reading strategies for proper use of the phone makes me really angry. It’s on me to be on guard and suspicious at all times instead of using the phone to make calls and not thinking about it besides that. Ev
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by aomix 3y ago
Since the NTP client is usually just drifting towards the server time with clock skew maybe this would only manifest as doing this process a little slower. If latency was even a problem in the first place.

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