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by bandrami 4mo ago
I also kind of assume any Chinese model has a deeply embedded behavior to flag data the MSS might find interesting and do some kind of innocuous exfil of that if it is allowed any Internet access.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
A few years ago I noticed a junior dev was creating a lot of one-file, two-branch git repositories and I asked him why. He said he wanted to run a diff on two versions of a file that wasn't in version control, so he would make a branch
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Maybe I'm missing something but does this idea need a "theory"? There's zero sideband here; everything is just context. "Injection" is just kind of baked in to the design.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure I specifically remember I had two disks in my dorm room, and had to buy a pack of 16 from Radio Shack or somewhere.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
So there's this amazing thing called a symlink
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Tom Sawyer at one point was painting a fence and trying to get people to help him and nobody would. Until he started saying "Oh I don't know, I'm not sure if I can let you help out".
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by bandrami 4mo ago
If data security is an actual concern I don't think there's a solution other than biting the bullet and self-hosting.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
This is straining my geriatric memory, but I'm pretty sure my first install of Slackware in 1994 involved 18 floppy disks
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by bandrami 4mo ago
That's particularly egregious because there's a time-honored way to do this legally, namely have you shave yaks for 80 hours a week towards the end of the fiscal year (lot of USG contractors are skipping their vacations this summe
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by bandrami 4mo ago
At the risk of injecting recent US politics into this, the shipyard I used to work at had five employees laid off under DOGE and replaced by the exact same individuals (there aren't actually that many naval architects in the US), now w
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by bandrami 4mo ago
It's really not. When we switched from CVS to SVN I had to show ROI and when I we switched from SVN to git I had to show ROI and when we switched from Ada to Java I had to show ROI. When we switched from Xen to KVM I had to show ROI an
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I think this goes beyond "vibes" to cargo-culting. It's why nobody's ever able to actually show ROI from LLMs
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Everything's ultimately based on a rolling distro; Debian is frozen from Sid and Fedora (and ultimately RHEL) are frozen from Rawhide.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
When you maintain systems long enough you realize that's a feature rather than a bug
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Generative algorithms have been studied for decades now and while they have led to some interesting results they're a bad fit for LLMs because there's no such thing as a "plausible" binary: a small perturbation yields an
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by bandrami 4mo ago
If this can image a fetus in utero they're already cutting themselves off from India as a market
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I mean, Michael Jordan did play for the White Sox for a hot second
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by bandrami 4mo ago
This is the part of LLMs I may just be too old to "get" because I can't imagine what people are doing that looking up command line switches is some kind of time suck they worry enough about to find a way to automate
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Georgism FTW
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Humans are not Pareto efficient. If my wife and I are at the airport, and the gate agent offers me (and only me) an upgrade on the flight, your logic says I should take it since that's strictly better than both of us flying economy.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
This reminds me of an old piece I really love about Fred Rogers, who faced many of the same pressures with exactly the same integrity: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27134/can-you-say-...
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Compute is both rivalrous and excludable so it can't be a public good in an economic sense
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by bandrami 4mo ago
We did that exact setup in college! We ran serial cables out our windows and along the outer wall to the other two rooms. It was triumphant.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
This was true a decade ago; unfortunately Google has become more or less useless for most purposes at this point
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by bandrami 4mo ago
> Why on earth would I be calling it by hand? So that it's done correctly instead of wrongly
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by bandrami 4mo ago
And that would be a much better source for a phone number than Googling. Similarly, the docs that ship with software are a better source for command line switches for that software than a search engine or LLM.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
It was supposed to primarily be a link target as well as possibly a source. Berners-Lee guessed the ratio of in to out wrong there.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Those NSA MITM attacks aren't free or fast
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by bandrami 4mo ago
> You're gonna be googling the CLI switches for at least 10 minutes So there's this really amazing program called "man"
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Yes and people have been eagerly awaiting the broader adoption of this allegedly inevitable technology for a decade now, which is exactly my point

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