avidiax

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by avidiax 7mo ago
Should be titled "Put the Zipcode and country first". Would be simple enough to have someone type the zip or postal code first, then move the countries that are known to have that zip code to the top of the drop down (still in alp
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by avidiax 8mo ago
I feel that everyone could learn and apply the idea of having clear, concise language without jargon. I've hear this notion called "international English". English spoken in a way that non-native speakers find relatively easy
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by avidiax 8mo ago
It's not his company that will train using his prompts. It's the personal account, unless it is fully paid and he's opted out of training on his prompts.
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by avidiax 8mo ago
> We better get a liberal democratic Iran government out of this. > We better remove and halt nuclear powers for the rest of my life. Neither of those things is a guaranteed outcome of this. Depending on who you ask, it's not eve
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by avidiax 8mo ago
> Actual security is bound to the number of minutes until people with big guns arrive Ask the people of Uvalde, TX about that security model.
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by avidiax 8mo ago
This actually exposes how this type of system is just security theater usually. A shooter can get a badge. Most partitions aren't bulletproof (and probably don't have security film), and a shooter doesn't fear getting a cut o
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by avidiax 8mo ago
Looking at the English keyboard and the English digraphs, it doesn't seem like the coverage is that well optimized. We are currently capturing 8.65% of the digraph weight, but just getting the top-5 would account for 5% by itself. I al
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by avidiax 8mo ago
You need to fill in some example text in the text box above, and it will then compare.
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by avidiax 8mo ago
It requires real work to create good documentation and review it. I've never worked in a place that requires that every commit update some documentation, but if you want to rebuild software based on the documentation, that's what
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by avidiax 8mo ago
We already have effectively write-only code. It's all the assembly language and eventually machine code that we produce from other languages. The problem with "write-only code" as it relates to LLMs is that we don't have
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by avidiax 8mo ago
I think there's some truth to this. Toyota desperately needs the future to play to their strengths, something more complicated than EVs, which I think is behind their obsession with hybrids. Not sure that a fuel cell vehicle isn't
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by avidiax 8mo ago
Goldtouch Elite is the gateway drug. It offers both a hinged split and tenting if you want it, while having the classic keyboard layout. Microsoft natural also requires very little learning curve, assuming that you don't use the wrong
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by avidiax 8mo ago
The problem domain is that you want to separately encrypt/decrypt various 32-bit serial numbers. CTR mode turns this into just an XOR operation. That provides very little security. Anyone observing sequential sequence numbers (particul
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by avidiax 8mo ago
If you want to encrypt a serial number, you don't want the output to be 256 bits.
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by avidiax 8mo ago
Ultimately the way we will get out of this is inflation, except that so many pensions have COLA. Years spent in retirement have roughly doubled, while the pyramid has shrunken from 16:1 workers to retirees in 1950 to 3:1 today. Means testin
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by avidiax 8mo ago
Depositors are lending their money to the bank at low interest. They may seek risk in terms of increased yield on their savings account, but FDIC insured banks will have trouble meeting their requirements while offering high yields on their
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by avidiax 8mo ago
> Bluetooth desperately needs mac randomization. Bluetooth already has a well developed MAC randomization scheme. Lookup "resolvable private address". The short of it is, your phone can find your headphones or vice-versa, despi
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by avidiax 8mo ago
You can get something very similar in your home today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBd7_uxrq6c
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by avidiax 8mo ago
It would be in Google's ultimate interest to label AI-generated websites and potentially rank them lower in search results. AI needs to be kept up to date with training data. But that same training data is now poisoned with AI hallucin
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by avidiax 8mo ago
Why is the toggle allowed at all? Presumably, sometimes we don't want apps to know where we are and record/share that to the highest bidder. International travellers will know that some apps will alter behavior or refuse to work b
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by avidiax 8mo ago
Comcast is late to the party, then. AT&T has been selling your information for decades. And your mobile provider can track you anyplace that there's a cell-signal, potentially even outside the country.
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by avidiax 8mo ago
Modern phones connect with a randomized MAC address. So yes, you can track a person around, but you will need another system (like the WiFi login page) to match MAC to identity.
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by avidiax 8mo ago
I don't feel that this article is a fair summary of the paper. And the title is just clickbait. The paper says, in a somewhat contrived scenario, with dozens of labelled walkthroughs per person, they can identify that person from their
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by avidiax 8mo ago
While I don't think it would prevent our troops from having foreign-produced trucks in theater, we can't affordably procure such trucks thanks to the Chicken Tax. I would also guess that giving a DoD contract to Toyota for a truck
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by avidiax 8mo ago
What percentage of drivers actually put their phone down when they start moving, would you say? Anybody will slowly normalize the behavior. It's just stopped traffic. It's a traffic jam, we're only moving 5mph. I'll put
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by avidiax 8mo ago
You can just get some ball mounts and an action camera or two. The new cameras have such good stabilization that a handlebar mount is very acceptable now. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPMBL924 + a ball for the handlebar
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by avidiax 8mo ago
> Is the end result just a couple of minutes later in a 30 minute commute? More like a few seconds. Every car that merges in front of you only costs you their following distance. If the average following distance is 1 second, then you ar
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by avidiax 8mo ago
I assume you are referring to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEpHyMtDcPY > building a distance buffer", that is the proxy the insurance companies want to use for risk assessment. The cam car did not nee
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by avidiax 8mo ago
Some amount of that is inevitable, but there is another level of defensive driving where you anticipate poor behavior and arrange that it won't cause an accident. Have a look at a few dash cam accident videos [1]. There are many malada
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by avidiax 8mo ago
> Early clock - keeps time anywhere between 0 and 10 minutes fast. For those who like to set their watch ahead to avoid being late. This clock keeps you from trying to "compensate," because you never know how early it is at the

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