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by atdt 7d ago
I understand this is a confusing time, and we all feel vulnerable to being duped. But please be a bit more circumspect with these confident accusations, because they can be genuinely hurtful. You are factually wrong here: I don't use L
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by atdt 7d ago
This advice is too coarse. I believe LLMs have made me a better writer of technical reports. I have a keen ear for language, and I can usually tell when a sentence or a paragraph is orbiting around a point rather than landing on it firmly.
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by atdt 12d ago
Uploaded here: https://github.com/atdt/amt-tools
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by atdt 13d ago
If you have an Intel CPU, there is a good chance you have a KVM built-in (whether you wanted one or not): Intel AMT. Its reputation was tarnished by Intel's dissimulation and opacity about the technology, and a streak of critical vulne
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by atdt 2mo ago
We don't know exactly what Google's leadership was thinking, nor how the AI race will shape up in the coming months and years. Calling it a "failure" seems presumptuous and premature. But supposing your read is correct:
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by atdt 3mo ago
The money contributed to the Rust Foundation by large corporate members supports initiatives[0] that benefit all users of Rust, and I am happy for it. The slow and deliberative approach the Foundation took to crafting the AI policy, and eve
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by atdt 3mo ago
You're incorrect. The letter ו (vav) is pronounced /v/ in modern Hebrew but /w/ in Biblical Hebrew and other ancient Semitic languages, which is why the letter is referred to as Waw and transliterated as 'W&#x2
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by atdt 4mo ago
Excellent write-up!
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by atdt 4mo ago
Is the magic a property of the broader language-family (and could be experienced with Janet, Racket, whatever), or Common Lisp specifically? When people praise the core execution environment they're typically praising Common Lisp speci
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by atdt 5mo ago
What exactly would you have done differently? Cargo made its debut in 2014, a year before the infamous left-pad incident, and three years before the first large-scale malicious typosquatting attacks hit PyPI and NPM. The risks were not as w
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by atdt 8mo ago
Please share this with someone who doesn't know the story yet. Ingenuity alone can't save our species. We also need the will to do good. We are living through a moment of deep cynicism about our ability to solve existential proble
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by atdt 8mo ago
Having worked with both kinds, I have generally preferred three-dimensional human beings to cut-outs from a compliance training manual. Being fundamentally kind and collaborative is prerequisite, of course. But so is having a modicum of spi
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by atdt 9mo ago
Flame graphs have an official web site, maintained by Brendan Gregg, who invented them: https://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html . It's a useful starting point.
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by atdt 9mo ago
My hunch is that the same is true of Wikipedia's choice of Lua for template scripting, made back in 2012. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists...
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by atdt 11mo ago
> you might not understand what the problem is for working and middle class people quickly finding themselves surrounded by a sea of people with dramatically different cultures, values, and religions Of course. That is why Trump received
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by atdt 1y ago
I am interested in this topic, but this textbook is too daunting for me. What I'd love is a crash course on Bayesian methods for the working systems performance engineer. If you, dear reader, happen to be familiar with both domains: wh
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by atdt 1y ago
It has access to the current page, so you can ask Gemini questions about its content.
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by atdt 1y ago
Your content is great, and the participation of non-native English speakers in this community makes it better and richer.
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by atdt 1y ago
The level of intellectual engagement with Chomsky's ideas in the comments here is shockingly low. Surely, we are capable of holding these two thoughts: one, that the facility of LLMs is fantastic and useful, and two, that the major bre
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by atdt 1y ago
OK, I will be the useful idiot. I don't fully understand your anecdote. Could you explain what is exactly it that you perceived and that the other engineer failed to see?
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by atdt 2y ago
For someone new to time series analysis, how did you choose these particular algorithms? Are they standard in the field, or more of a personal selection?
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by atdt 2y ago
What is it about Zed that you find superior to VS Code?
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Brazil's Farmers Are Plowing over an Ancient Amazon Civilization(bloomberg.com)
28 points by atdt 2y ago|5 comments
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by atdt 2y ago
I am starting to understand why these luminaries warn us about a future that is dominated by a solitary superintelligence, self-obsessed and uninterested in humanity.
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by atdt 2y ago
POCSAG is an ideal for broadcasting low-sensitivity push notifications, like "report to your local commanding officer by 15:00 today". These messages don't need encryption, just a reliable way to reach militants without revea
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by atdt 2y ago
Armin advocates for 'uv' to dominate the space, but acknowledges it could be rug-pulled due to its VC backing. His solution to this potential issue is that it's "very forkable." But doesn't forking inherently l
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by atdt 2y ago
This brings to mind Chernoff faces[1], a type of visualization where facial features are mapped to data points. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
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by atdt 2y ago
When using Jpegli as a drop-in replacement for for libjpeg-turbo (i.e., with the same input bit-map and quality setting), will the output produced by Jpegli be smaller, more beautiful, or both? Are the space savings the result of the Jpegli
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by atdt 3y ago
Wonderful piece. Dennett knows how to write. And he captures the pleasure and privilege of Hacker News with this felicitous phrase: > Distributed understanding is a real phenomenon, but you have to get yourself into a community of commun
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by atdt 3y ago
Could someone explain how re-directing from a subdomain (chess.com.foo.bar) somehow got past some same-origin check?

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