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571.
by bandrami 8mo ago
An interesting game, Dr. Falken
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by bandrami 8mo ago
Yeah I vaguely remember learning about those in grad school because Minsky deigned to cross the Charles and guest lecture for that one. It always seemed like you had to embed so many expectations in the reinforcement discriminators that you
573.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Also I still put my swap partition at the end of the drive out of habit because you used to want to do that for performance reasons when it was stored on a spinning magnet.
574.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I've had arguments with people about this for 20 years now and the most compelling case I heard involved the price of storage vs the price of RAM in the mid to late 1990s, and that this 2x represented an optimal use of money in desig
575.
by bandrami 8mo ago
> Why would a registrar take it upon itself to Because keeping Google happy or at least not bothered is an existential priority for registrars
576.
by bandrami 8mo ago
You could put the transport protocol on the blockchain, I suppose
577.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Yes, that's a significantly less efficient way to manage persistent sessions
578.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Visit Washington DC some time and ride the metro. Red Hat puts out ads about all their public sector offerings.
579.
by bandrami 8mo ago
We've re-invented GNU screen in the most inefficient way imaginable
580.
by bandrami 8mo ago
It wasn't "inevitable", it took Red Hat and some other key players addressing the concerns the businesses and governments had, which took the better part of a decade. If LLMs as an ecosystem don't implode in the next yea
581.
by bandrami 8mo ago
At what point does it become computationally cheaper to just generate random elf binaries, test them against constraints, and iterate until they work as specified?
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by bandrami 8mo ago
> a living tool that isn't the same as anyone else's copy Yes, which is why this model of development is basically dead-in-the-water in terms of institutional adoption. No large firm or government is going to allow that.
583.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Household income is not normally distributed. In fact nothing with a hard zero can be normally distributed.
584.
by bandrami 8mo ago
What if 30% lack the ability to fill out forms and surveys?
585.
by bandrami 8mo ago
There used to be some really good web-based SPICE interpreters but I can't find them now. This was before javascript ate everything, so you would enter the netlist, click a button, and get a GIF or the current at a specified terminal o
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by bandrami 8mo ago
OK the smoke was really funny
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by bandrami 8mo ago
That's better than my assumption, which was that it was running off the Visual Foxpro instance on somebody's desktop and that guy had to be logged in for it to work.
588.
by bandrami 8mo ago
At least in India all your banking is done by phone (I don't even know if the banks here even offer web portals) so it's less of a concern because all your identity is tied to your SIM card. The cafes I've seen just have stan
589.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I once was looking for a write-up of running NetBSD with a specific GPU and found a write-up of running NetBSD on that GPU
590.
by bandrami 8mo ago
If it has no access to your filesystem or network services that's better, but you're still giving input from an unknown party to an interpreter, with the extra bonus of that interpreter being non-deterministic by design. But then
591.
by bandrami 8mo ago
It's symbolics capabilities are still really good, though in my totally subjective opinion not as good as Maxima's.
592.
by bandrami 8mo ago
"Hey Claude, summarize, this document I downloaded from the Internet" being a use-case people actually talk about is still mind boggling to me.
593.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Architecturally it makes a kind of sense given the way firmware operates (a lot of your peripherals are mini-computers inside your computer)
594.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Your LICENSE file reminds me that the copyright status of LLM-generated code remains absolutely uncharted waters and it's not clear that you can in fact legally license this under ISC
595.
by bandrami 8mo ago
The US Social Security Administration website is available from 6am to 8pm, Monday to Friday (or at least it was that way a few years ago)
596.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Saying it's about poor people is the polite version, unfortunately
597.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Internet Cafes are still a thing in Asia outside of the big cities. People have feature/sub-smart phones that they can do chat and banking with but use the cafes for anything else.
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by bandrami 8mo ago
I used to worry that the problem was that LLMs allowed you to be stupid, but I recently realized the actual problem is that they reward you for being stupid.
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by bandrami 8mo ago
Oh I see what you're saying; right, if elisp launches a process it's just a normal process (unless the elisp itself containerizes it when it launches it)
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by bandrami 8mo ago
Nerfing the Han minister unit makes me sad

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