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by bandrami 9mo ago
Banks don't write software for the same reason that software companies don't store their own money
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by bandrami 9mo ago
Can somebody give me a TLDR on what the "copilot button" does? I've never had one of those laptops and have never understood that. Does it just start the AI front-end? Does it power up the NPU?
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by bandrami 9mo ago
In the Bad Old Days before Github (before Sourceforge even) building and package sucked because of the hundred source tarballs you had to fetch, on any given day 3 would be down (this is why Debian does the "_orig" tarballs the wa
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by bandrami 9mo ago
The problem is not shading them from the Sun. And the starlink satellites run at about 1 kW
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by bandrami 9mo ago
A gimmick, in a highly-financialized field? Surely not!
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by bandrami 9mo ago
Well, no, the worry is that xAI's bondholders, who are also Twitter's bondholders, will be indemnified from any loss on those bonds at public expense because they are now also SpaceX bondholders and SpaceX is a national security i
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Adobe Animate is shutting down next month(theverge.com)
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by bandrami 9mo ago
Literally none. Space is the worst possible place to put something that overheats already on earth. There's probably some synergy in the other direction (AI piloting of satellites or whatever) but that's marginal at best.
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by bandrami 9mo ago
And TARP destroyed 4 of the 5 largest investment banks in the US, but it still left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths
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by bandrami 9mo ago
And specifically that if the music is about to stop SpaceX has an implicit government backstop
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by bandrami 9mo ago
Yeah, the financial well-being of those investors is not what people are worried about here
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by bandrami 9mo ago
I think the argument is that it's messed up that a large debt swap from xAI kept Musk's margin on Twitter from being called by his investors, and now that debt is being absorbed by SpaceX.
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by bandrami 9mo ago
Counterpoint: in a lot of companies, especially larger companies, roles are designed to fit existing staff, rather than staff being selected for roles.
764.
by bandrami 9mo ago
"Amani" is an East African name
765.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Central Asia, not East Asia
766.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I'm sorry but the idea of giving an AI agent a non-restricted shell is insane . If you don't want it to perform certain commands those commands should not be in its environment at all.
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by bandrami 9mo ago
It's an opaque way to hold a GUID or an IP6 address
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by bandrami 9mo ago
Probably because homeless women are more likely than homeless men to access social services, which means they're where the program directors can find them?
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by bandrami 9mo ago
I'm really losing patience with AI fluff pieces mostly because I'm a sysadmin and the guys in dev cannot stop talking about how much they're producing with their agents or MCPs or whatever they're called this week and ye
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by bandrami 9mo ago
I still think that's missing the point of LLMs; they're sources of plausible text continuations. Their strength is using them in places where the actual semantics of their output isn't important.
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by bandrami 9mo ago
> I use it for routine coding tasks like generating scaffolding or writing tests IDK this sounds a whole lot like paying for snippets
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by bandrami 9mo ago
James Burke's old TV show Connections was all about this, how many little things that surround us in day to day life and on which we absolutely depend for our survival are complete black boxes to most of us most of the time. Part of
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by bandrami 9mo ago
Whatever reward-center path is short-circuiting in 0.0001% of the population and leading to LLM psychosis will become a nuclear bomb for them if we get the sex drive involved too.
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by bandrami 9mo ago
I remember in late 1999 I was contacted by a headhunter who told me that dotcom.com was looking for a sysadmin. This is giving that energy.
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by bandrami 9mo ago
I mean, LLMs are Markov models so their output is a Markov chain?
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by bandrami 9mo ago
At least in my grad program we called them either "textural models" or "language models" (I suppose "large" was appended a couple of generations later to distinguish them from what we were doing). We were still
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by bandrami 9mo ago
The idea of a reverse Turing Test ("prove to me you are a machine") has been rattling around for a while but AFAIK nobody's really come up with a good one
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by bandrami 9mo ago
Blackbox oracles make bad workflows, and tend to produce a whole lot of cargo culting. It's this kind of opacity (why does the markdown outperform agents? there's no real way to find out, even with a fully open or house model beca
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by bandrami 9mo ago
> I swear this government is headed by appointed nephews of appointed nephews. No joke, the previous head of the State Department task force tasked with fighting corruption and nepotism in international contracting was named Rich Nephew.
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by bandrami 9mo ago
I'm curious about this world people seem to have lived in where inetd didn't exist.

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