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by benterix 2y ago
> it takes a focused effort, from talented individuals You see, that's exactly why I don't have high hopes about OpenAI. They came up with a state of the art GPT-4 that was slow and expensive to maintain, so they came up with t
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by benterix 2y ago
No, it's no longer practical for any purpose. I mostly use openssl instead, e.g. for testing if my SMTP server is up and has a valid cert: openssl s_client -connect myhost.com:25 -starttls smtp Telnet stopped being useful a long time a
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by benterix 2y ago
> The web requires Javascript to render, full stop. A small correction: some parts of the new web require JavaScript to render. That's why on many websites teh experience is better without JS. To be more specific, several payw
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by benterix 2y ago
> ASI by definition will be all-powerful or close to it. That's a huge assumption. AI in SF: all-powerful all-controlling abstract entity. AI in reality: LLMs on thousands of servers with GPUs, operated and controlled by engineers,
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by benterix 2y ago
> Somebody even created a website to facilitate conversion but unfortunately the TLS certificate has expired and Cloudflare now blocks access. This is one of the main arguments I was using in discussions with people advocating unconditio
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by benterix 2y ago
> If you don't trust ASI, your only option is to prevent it from existing to begin with. I don't understand this sentence. I don't trust Generative AI because it often spits out false, inaccurate or made up answers, but I
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by benterix 2y ago
There are so many things wrong in this statement (starting with "immediately"). Let's assume they built a system they claim is AGI. Let's assume its energy consumption is smaller than that of a small country. Let's
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by benterix 2y ago
I agree, and fzf is a good example - on my local box it speeds up my reverse search, whereas when I'm on a remote server I use the same Ctrl+R I used for decades, and the final result is similar so no additional cognitive load.
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by benterix 2y ago
Well, if done quickly, it only takes 2 minutes or so, so it's worth trying I guess. And even if it doesn't work as intended, I guess it helps to control faeces better when we get older.
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by benterix 2y ago
> Might I ask where this is? A large UK-based company, tech department. And it wasn't just lip service - we had meetings with people sharing their personal experiences, including CTO and others. So I assumed it is (becoming) a norm.
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by benterix 2y ago
Yeah, I mean most of the time I don't really need any other service. What are these guys supposed to do - dance on the table? I just want to have the food and don't need anything else. I don't get the tipping culture, it&#x27
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by benterix 2y ago
Yeah Bush seemed surprised nobody wants to join his war. "You forgot Poland!"
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by benterix 2y ago
> From there, more countries will see the chaos as an advantage to settle their border disputes. I doubt it. Look at what a "border dispute" did to Russia - they became a global pariah. And modern countries cannot really functi
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by benterix 2y ago
It's hard to understand what you're arguing about - Russian troops and chain of command showed utter incompetence at the beginning of the war, with a giant convoy being stuck and gradually destroyed at will by Ukrainians. More pre
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by benterix 2y ago
They already showed they are the single nation of the XXI century that is going to war with its neighbors and is sending nuclear threats everywhere. Once their mask fell off, who in their right mind would want to do anything to make them
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by benterix 2y ago
Tim is very short on the topic of actual accusations but someone else does a good job discussing them one by one: https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestr... And this one struck me: > > &q
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by benterix 2y ago
It's a bit like asking what the Netherlands did after Russia shot down their civilian plane. Well, at that time they couldn't do much, but a few years later they are doing more than enough.
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by benterix 2y ago
NATO is a military organization, BRICS is not. There is zero reason why India (or Brazil for that matter), not to mention South Africa would want to engage in any war with the USA or Europe. These countries have their own problems. The only
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by benterix 2y ago
It's not a leak, Putin traditionally wants to indicate that it is he who ordered to kill him while officially saying he has nothing to do with this. It is a kind of game - it was the same with Prigozhin, Litvinenko and others.
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by benterix 2y ago
> not really caring that much about the cost that much because so far this month because ... > I'm half a pint into authoring this blog post ...and it shows!
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by benterix 2y ago
> they picked it is that it is smaller and less commercial than others (such as Debain or Ubuntu) I agree with you, just nitpicking: it is smaller than some (like Debian) and less commercial than others (like Ubuntu).
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by benterix 2y ago
There is a reason for that. People who inquired into the actual functioning of the world used to be called philosophers. That's why so many foundations of mathematics actually come from philosophers. The split happened around the 17th
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by benterix 2y ago
I'm happy to see a truly open source model. Actually, AMD has excellent reasons to make this kind of development and I hope they continue.
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by benterix 2y ago
Frankly, I never understood why you'd ever want to connect your TV to any network rather than use an external device. Any convenience (?) you might get will be quickly offset by problems becoming inherent to your TV which doesn't
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by benterix 2y ago
> Related: actual Nazism is on the rise in Germany, with the neonazi party recently winning control of two state governments. I actually blame previous governments for this, especially their "invite all possible immigrants, give the
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by benterix 2y ago
Have you tried disabling JS? It works for me on most sites, including this one.
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by benterix 2y ago
Everybody's different. For me, an inverse correlation happens: libgen etc. act as a bookshop where I can freely browse and evaluate stuff before I buy. So I want to make sure I'm not cheated. Sometimes the brand is enough, i.e. I
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by benterix 2y ago
I believe yes, it's that easy. Zuck is breaking your feed posting ads and low quality retention content, you see only the most vocal discussions, people who post less often are not shown at all, and one day you realize your old FB whic
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by benterix 2y ago
Nothing, really. I was tracking the tag #contemporaryart. Some of this was obvious shit, spam, low quality work and so on. But sometimes I could spot real pearls, extremely interesting pieces of work with 1 or 2 likes and no way to get to &
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by benterix 2y ago
> "evil" countries like Hungary Governments, not countries. Hungary is a country like any other, it got a crazy power-hungry leader and just like all authoritarians he is right-leaning and Putin-friendly. But the whole country

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