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by bityard 5d ago
Correct. Encryption (or more specifically, obscuring the meaning of a message) is generally not allowed for amateur radio stations except in very narrow circumstances. So any hams using this would have to turn the encryption off. However, i
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by bityard 5d ago
Okay, I stand corrected that _some_ models may include self-identifying metadata in their training. Although I believe I accounted for that in my comment. Historically, many do not and there are lots of counter-examples proving this. They m
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by bityard 5d ago
No, it does not.
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by bityard 5d ago
That is not how models work. Unless specifically told in a system prompt, the pile of weights has absolutely no knowledge of itself. You could hypothetically train it to answer such questions, but nobody bothers to do this, and ALL "kn
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by bityard 6d ago
You can keep coming up with flawed analogies all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that a good RPG video game is a LOT more than a story. Is is possible to enjoy the characters, gameplay, strategy, battle system, graphics, and m
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by bityard 8d ago
Bandwidth costs money and streaming video costs several orders of magnitude more than just your random web/dev apps. Asking CF to foot the bill for entertainment streaming is really quite a lot.
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by bityard 8d ago
I recently put Debian on an old 13" Asus Chromebook. It was surprisingly easy! I don't remember doing much other than removing a screw and installing a UEFI firmware on it. Everything worked out of the box. It works pretty well to
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by bityard 8d ago
I'd watch the movie for sure
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by bityard 8d ago
The bodies are better, but I can assure you, the frames and suspension parts are not. They still rust out here in the salt belt after 10-15 years, depending on the brand and how often you drive them. If Michigan instituted mandatory annual
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by bityard 8d ago
Yes. In the same way that dishwashers are an order of magnitude more water-efficient than washing by hand. (But consume a kilowatt of electricity heating the water and running the pump, which is the part that everyone always leaves out.)
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by bityard 9d ago
> your product is completely undifferentiated and can never be differentiated since it’s a browser. I disagree with this. Yes, we have Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. And a few spin-offs of those. However, functionally, they are all pretty
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by bityard 10d ago
robots.txt applies (or should, in my opinion) to anything that automatically follows a link. Basically any software that is not a human-controlled web browser or single-shot curl command. Everything else: robot.
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by bityard 12d ago
That doesn't sound like poaching to me? I mean, if it's a public endpoint, the person who finds it could be an independent contractor hired to work on the site, or a random person on the Internet probing the site for fun. What you
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by bityard 13d ago
The modern web seems to know nothing about it at this point, but back when CGI scripts were a new curiosity, there was a Shakespearean Insult Generator which was popular and quite a lot of fun.
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by bityard 14d ago
I guess I hadn't been paying attention. Is this just the Windows SPICE client that Red Hat has abandoned, or are they moving toward dropping SPICE altogether? Does Red Hat no longer have a VDI product? (I'm sure they did at one po
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by bityard 14d ago
I have the same complaint about oh-my-pi's readme. The tone is obnoxious. It's somehow jaded and matter-of-fact at the same time. Like it was written by that one guy at work who never misses a chance to brag about how clever he is
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by bityard 15d ago
It totally does. Every approach briefing includes instructions on what they will do in the event of a missed or unstable approach. The procedure is generally full throttle, nose up, gear up, retract flaps, head in the direction briefed, and
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by bityard 16d ago
You're not wrong, but many times I've gone looking for a specific adapter (because I already had a similar cable) and found out that the adapters _usually_ cost as much or more than just buying the cable.
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by bityard 16d ago
Yeah, this is pretty much what I was going to write. I group my cables into boxes for USB, power, network, audio/video, and power supplies. The boxes are a finite size, and when no more cables will fit into the box, I go through and do
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by bityard 17d ago
I feel like most tech-oriented folks are just simply all about solving problems. I've always enjoyed doing stuff in the physical realm MUCH more than doing pure systems and software stuff. There's something about everything about
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by bityard 17d ago
Maybe, maybe not. Floppies were always on the verge of dying all the time, even in the 80s and 90s. It's why anyone who cared about their data always had at least one backup copy of any important disk or data. (Most software explicitly
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by bityard 17d ago
I wonder if it would be possible for researchers and scientists to submit their papers to an organization which would then collect them, submit them for peer review by other experts in the field, and then release them in periodical form ONL
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by bityard 17d ago
I don't see why that should be a problem, as we already know the answer is 42 in any case.
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by bityard 18d ago
Ha. Not knowing any better, I took a class in high school that turned out to be actually reading the daily newspaper and writing a one-page report _every single day_ about international issues that literally never impacted our day-to-day li
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by bityard 18d ago
HN drew me in years ago because it had a higher signal-to-noise ratio, and deeper conversations than you'd find in other places popular with tech nerds. There was an overall culture of technical optimism, which I like to sum up as: Lea
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by bityard 18d ago
Heh. Nothing else says, "I have so much money that I literally don't have to care about anything ever again," than spending millions on a big-ass boat to go partying on and snort everclear or whatever it is that the ultra-ric
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by bityard 18d ago
Consider yourself lucky. I routinely run into tarpit Google reCAPTCHAs and I don't even use a VPN. I think it's because I run Linux and the site admins treat anything besides Windows, Mac, iOS, or Android Chrome as suspicious enou
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by bityard 18d ago
The README makes mention of The Adult ADHD Tool Kit by J. Russell Ramsay and Anthony L. Rostain which looks like a pretty good resource.
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by bityard 18d ago
It turns out that most of the things that ADHD people use as coping strategies just to be functional, are actually things that most (non-ADHD) people can use to be more effective and productive in their lives and work. So, no, not everyone
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by bityard 18d ago
> I am not a cryptography expert > How do I verify such claim? Step 1: Become a cryptography expert. ;)

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