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by berkes 2y ago
Not all Meta products are alike. WA has E2E encryption, has had it for a long time. It's the same protocol as Signal: in fact, it was built for/in WA by Moxie/signal a while ago. That doesn't make the metadata private. M
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by berkes 2y ago
I would expect that PS/2 to USB could be handled on the computer. I have little experience, but from debugging some early 3D printers on Linux, I've learned that the U in USB really stands for universal: that it'll just pass
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by berkes 2y ago
What OS are you talking about? If Linux, you'll have to be more specific, because users don't use Linux. They use Android, Ubuntu, Gnome, pop!os, redhat etc.
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by berkes 2y ago
How does naming the ethnicity of a group of criminals help in solving or preventing the crimes the commit? If there's a clear, proven answer to that, one that works obviously better than other methods to solve or prevent it, then by al
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by berkes 2y ago
You could , and should, make the point about criminals and drug dealing affecting "normal citizens" without using imprecise and often wrong terms like immigrants. Yes. Many people feel unsafe, are affected by crime, or feel they a
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by berkes 2y ago
Indeed. In many quarterly reports of large tech companies, the revenue from the whole of Europe combined is sometimes bigger than that from the US. European revenue is often a close second. It's truly significant if this revenue dissap
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by berkes 2y ago
> I can imagine that we will eventually have major services that are EU centric I work in a research project in a EU country that looks at how educational certificates (diploma's, degrees, credentials) will be done in the future. A
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by berkes 2y ago
I didn't use an LLM back then. But would totally do that today (copilot). Especially since the parser(s) I wrote were rather straightforward finite state machines with stream handling in front, parallel/async tooling around it, an
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by berkes 2y ago
> very much one of the most reproducible apps ever. It isn't. The proof is simple: there aren't many reproductions that *tick all the boxes*. And no, "a directory of markdown files" isn't even close, it ticks two
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by berkes 2y ago
In order to make the point that > energy usage for parsing isn't why You'll need to provide actual figures and benchmark these against an actual parser. I've written parsers for larger-scale server stuff. And while I too d
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by berkes 2y ago
That need for a national ID hasn't been in place for a long time, AFAIK. I have a .es (my nickname berkes, domain berk.es) for almost 16 years now, and live in the EU, but not in Spain. In the beginning I used a small company that offe
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by berkes 2y ago
This sounds embittered. But if it isn't that, what problem with rust do you see?
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by berkes 2y ago
Some of the examples are still wrong. Nuanced, but a Dutch native will still frown at it. But more importantly is that you limited the context a lot. As in: the scope, the prompt, is very narrow. In our case, we were generating emails. Line
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by berkes 2y ago
It could be quite accidental and not pre-concieved though. Where some metric, "time spent in chats" drives certain features or parameters. Could be fully automated (i.e. continuous A/B tests) or through layers of "Excel
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by berkes 2y ago
I am Dutch, have lived in many countries in several continents. I do see myself as rude. But, being Dutch, I don't give a ** ;).
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by berkes 2y ago
My simple RAG setup has a steps that will return "We don't have this information" if e.g. our vector DB returns entries with far too low relevancy scores or if the response from the LLM fails to add certain attributes in its
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by berkes 2y ago
There's a distinction between "a model" and the chain of tools and models you employ when asking something on chatgpt.com or any of the consumer facing alternatives. The latter is a chain of models, some specialized in questi
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by berkes 2y ago
> Remember, LLMs are just statistical sentence completion machines. So telling it what to respond with will increase the likelihood of that happening, even if there are other options that are viable. Obviously. When I say "tuned&quo
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by berkes 2y ago
That hardly works. Though from my limited experiments, claude's models are better at this than OpenAIs. OpenAI will, quite often, come with suggestions that are literal translations of "anglicist" phrases. Such as "Ik ho
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by berkes 2y ago
I've had some luck instructing AI to "Don't make up anything. If there's no answer, say I don't know". Which made me think that AI would be far more useful (for me?) if it was tuned to "Dutchness" rat
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by berkes 2y ago
Way before I consistently used step debuggers and would just "print-debug" println("why are you here?") or "raise-debug" raise new Error("huh?"), I tinkered with a step debugger, but found it too comp
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by berkes 2y ago
> The real leaky abstraction for HTML is string templating With actual XML and JSON (or csv etc) I would agree: for that you need a serializer, not a string templating env. But for HTML, especially when used to build GUIs, string templat
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by berkes 2y ago
Another -often overlooked- benefit of buying used appliances, is that they have proven to be sturdy, and/or repairable. Cheap temu-junk doesn't end up in thrift stores. Or, if it does, is easily filtered out. If I see a toaster th
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by berkes 2y ago
Resilient to pests, environmental changes, etc? Biodiversity is a very good mechanism for resilience. Even on a tiny scale: if this year one of my tomato varieties doesn't produce due to heat/cold/damp, some of the others wil
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by berkes 2y ago
> implies you're solving a problem for yourself, not the world. But I don't have to solve the problem of feeding the entire world sustainably¹. I just have to make sure that my contribution to a more sustainable world is net
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by berkes 2y ago
> That's fine in and of itself, as a hobby. Is it? All my "hobby" needs, is to feed me and my household and some friends and they me. My "hobby" doesn't need to feed the entire world population. All I want i
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by berkes 2y ago
Worse even. Many of that "efficiency" is achieved by externalizing costs. The farm can (must?) produce cheaper (or have bigger margins), by polluting both its environment and the very resources it needs to run on in the long term.
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by berkes 2y ago
> Nice write up, however personally I'd take ERB over Phlex a million times. Agreed. This has been tried so many times, and non of them really "stuck". HAML, slim, liquid and now phlex. All "DSLs" to some extent
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by berkes 2y ago
Why must everything always "scale" in order to be good? That's a very limited view, IMO. I've come to love working in my garden, producing fruit, vegetables, eggs, honey. None of it has to scale. Our 8 chickens provide o
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by berkes 2y ago
Amongst all the things I have learned last decades is Beekeeping. Yes, I watched online video. Read books, blogs etc. But the true learning was done as apprentice with a few experienced beekeepers. Beekeeping is only a part theory. There&#x

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