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by bigfudge 3y ago
The comment you’re replying to also has many characteristics of trolling. It’s ignorant of what actually happens inEU countries, as well as the motivation behind the regulations that seem to have become a between noir for a certain libertar
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Yes, context window is a limiting factor, but that's true however you identify the content to augment generation.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Although RAG is often implemented via vector databases to find 'relevant' content, I'm not sure that's a necessary component. I've been doing what I call RAG by finding 'relevant' content for the current p
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Their marketing is very much like this. It’s completely misleading. They are definitively not selling “keep it up at all costs, money no object”
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by bigfudge 3y ago
There is such a thing as an unfair contract. Moreover, there are business practices that can become a local maxima in an industry and squeeze out competition which would actually be a net benefit to most consumers. Mobile roaming was the
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by bigfudge 3y ago
ChatGPT had a good stab at it out of the box. It often only takes minor editing (just ask it to return mermaid)
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I suspect it will be no worse than enterprisey code. It might even look quite similar, although the comments and docs will be more thorough and less likely to be actively wrong.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I think the point is that - rather than deliberately wishing misery on others - our society is set up such that success often or always implies creating misery for others.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Yeah, but then you’re into utility weighting functions. It’s simpler to just reify wellbeing/happiness because the others are all essentially subsidiary. I think there is probably a Pareto optimum for wellbeing which is not a simple fu
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Ireland has a similar approach. It’s one of the few reasons why leaving the EU could have made sense.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I can’t tell if this is satire or a genuine point being made. It’s a long way from reality if anyone was in any doubt!
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This comment states the obvious, but it isn't adding anything. Must has expensive lawyers for this kind of stuff, but in the worst case (there is no legal route to stop Russia using starlink in this way) I would want to make it very cl
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Is that really true? I’ve tried a number of laptops with Linux and the sleep and power management always still seemed terrible. What do you have? I borrowed a Lenovo x something, and a Dell. Does it matter which brand because of drivers an
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I think it’s worth distinguishing the text and subtext of these instructions. The text might ask for a uniform distribution in order to override a bias. If OpenAi find (plausibly) that the bias is strong then you might need a strong prompt
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by bigfudge 3y ago
That was in a time when expectations were low and all the banks were pretty equally crap. There are better choices now, and even my mum would be pissed off of her bank website didn’t work in her current browser.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This is a tragedy of the commons, rather than simple laziness. Choice of messaging apps is the same. I may know that the world would be a better place if everyone ditched WhatsApp and used signal, but I want to schedule tennis matches today
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by bigfudge 3y ago
It could improve performance, but let’s not kid ourselves that there are many companies that care about the minutiae of battery life as much as Apple. I mean, have you used a windows laptop recently. It’s -so- much worse than a MacBook that
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by bigfudge 3y ago
But the knowledge and systems for producing wind tech are well distributed. A blockade of Finland would be only a small bump in the road. Not like setting the Middle East on fire is for gas.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
The idea of a nuclear company listing a bond p front is laughable. It’s already the most expensive source by a margin. What would that do to prices
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by bigfudge 3y ago
You are wrong. Paris literally this week voted to tax SUVs from the city, in part because of pollution. It also speaks to a wider concern here not to allow commerce to dominate other public goods.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This is so wonderfully naive to the realities of contract negotiations between large corporates and governments. There is an asymmetry here which works agains the public good. Corporations tend to only have to corrupt an offici or capture a
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I think you are right in substance, but from memory the radius of the corners of the copy phones did form part of the court case.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
We just dug a pit. it needs to be deeper than you think though (or well drained) or you get wet feet in the winter!
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by bigfudge 3y ago
It would be an easy way to implement sparkline type charts inline. That is, you could easily mix text and sparklines without having to deal with block elements in html. I can imagine that would make it easier to have the text flow/refl
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by bigfudge 3y ago
In English. I think other languages would have different word orderings. German for one, and I think maybe Russian too.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I don’t know the details, but one of the few benefits of having companies as rich as Apple is that they can conceivably push back on stupidly broad patents. That they have lost this case doesn’t mean the parent is in any way sensible. Most
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I'm not implying it's regulatory capture in the sense of a conspiracy of Big Toaster. It was more an observation that, generally, increasing complexity in regulation does have down sides in that it gives advantages to scale. Small
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I'm not accusing you personally of hypocrisy, but I do find it amusing the patents are almost never ok on HN except when they're being violated by Apple.
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Any gals?
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by bigfudge 3y ago
But the issue isn’t that they couldn’t clear that bar, necessarily. It’s that they may not have the capital to prove it. We have created an uneven playing field against OLLLOO devices, and against large home grown corps which can indirectl

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