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by bityard 8mo ago
It's not hard to come up with questions designed to fool or puzzle the listener. We call them riddles. The fact that it fools some percentage of LLMs (and people) should not be surprising. What is surprising (to me) is how this continu
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by bityard 8mo ago
TIL that the lowest common denominator for engagement on the Internet is boobs. Ha! Anyway, I know exactly what you mean. I have certainly seen YouTube pigeonhole me into a demographic that I'm not even remotely part of. One day I watc
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by bityard 8mo ago
It depends on who you ask. There is a "dialect" called General American English, which is essentially how national news anchors and some actors are trained, so that they don't sound like they are too obviously from anywhere i
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by bityard 8mo ago
It's easy to pass judgement on a decision like that when so far removed from the context where/when it took place. It's likely that answering yes to that question meant an instant rejection for the clearance AND summer job. T
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by bityard 8mo ago
A firwall also makes a good firewall, once ignited.
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by bityard 8mo ago
Can confirm. For as long as I've been on facebook (way over a decade now), I've only used it to share pics of my kids/pets to family/friends. I unfollow people who post political and other garbage content. And yet, my fe
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by bityard 8mo ago
The whole point of TFA, if you read it, is that they SAID they would do that, but there has since been ZERO evidence that they actually will. This feature is not present in anything they have released since that statement.
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by bityard 8mo ago
What kind of parts do you sell? Do you print them yourself?
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by bityard 8mo ago
To be fair, and to offer context to non-hams: the morse requirement dated back to a time when morse code was _mostly_ the only way to communicate over radio. The problem is that it was held over as a requirement well after voice modes becam
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by bityard 8mo ago
Their business model is essentially the same as GitHub. Host lots of stuff for free and build a community around it, sell the upscaled/private version to businesses. They are already profitable.
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by bityard 8mo ago
For what it's worth, I am only a mid-tier nerd and after reading this issue, I feel like I am your target audience. Nothing deep or overly-detailed, just lots of jumping-off points for me to learn more. Thanks!
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by bityard 8mo ago
Oh my goodness, they're still doing the radio shows as well. I was an avid follower of 2600, phrack, etc from the mid 90's up through the mid 2010s and it seemed to me that the 2600 community always sort of stuck to itself, never
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by bityard 8mo ago
Right? Or run FreeDOS in a VM, or one of the many DOS emulators in a browser, etc. Can't see what an LLM has to do with any is this.
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by bityard 8mo ago
I wonder if someone might indulge me by answering a question or two about Tailscale. I have a self-managed wireguard network which works, but probably isn't very smart or elegant. From what I can gather, Tailscale does a lot of "m
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by bityard 8mo ago
This is a secure mesh network, but it appears to be for embedding into applications, not a "private VPN" like Tailscale, or do I misunderstand?
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by bityard 8mo ago
UPnP allows literally any random piece of software inside your network to open and forward arbitrary ports on your firewall. Bad idea!
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by bityard 8mo ago
Man pages were always intended to be concise reference material, not tutorials or full docs. More akin to commented header files or a program's --help output, before the latter became common. (GNU info tried to be a more comprehensive
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by bityard 8mo ago
It's possible for both things to be true: this project is written by a developer well-known within India, AND this thread has a lot of bot (bought?) comments of praise in it.
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by bityard 8mo ago
I'm 100% convinced that these 'show fewer' options are there for dark-pattern reasons. They are sprinkled throughout Facebook and LinkedIn as well. My hypothesis is that companies put them there to give consumers the idea tha
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by bityard 8mo ago
> Even OpenAI had to pivot away from its original non-profit, open principles to survive and scale. Uh, no, OpenAI didn't pivot from being open in order to survive. They survived for 7 years before ChatGPT was released. When it was,
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by bityard 8mo ago
I'm of the persuasion that if people need help, it's better to get them that help instead of nerfing the tools for everyone.
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by bityard 8mo ago
> Working for free is not fun. Why were you doing it then?
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by bityard 8mo ago
> too many people globally who use open source without being willing to pay for it. That's an odd take... open source is a software licensing model, not a business model. Unless you have some knowledge that I don't, MinIO never
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by bityard 8mo ago
Where do you write down your ideas for programs, lists of useful libraries/software, approaches to solving different problems, articles to read later? Once in a while I hear a programmer say they don't keep notes of any kind and I
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by bityard 8mo ago
Testing whether a Chinese deep learning model is censored is like testing if water is wet.
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by bityard 8mo ago
Borderline off-topic but I'm miffed about all the products in grocery stores lately that loudly proclaim "Zero Sugar" yet their first ingredient is high fructose corn syrup. Okay, it may be technically true, but practically s
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by bityard 8mo ago
Our family's Packard Bell in 1996 came with a full-motion video game called Silent Steel. Coming from a 486, FMV video games sure felt like the future. It was pretty much Choose Your Own Adventure, but with video. You had to know the e
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by bityard 8mo ago
I like this in principle. More managers should be in tune with how their people are doing because happy people lead to better work. I'm skeptical about the accuracy of wellbeing metrics when they are self-reported, though. And also whe
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by bityard 8mo ago
Wow, yes. I actually like the puzzle of figuring out the optimal cutsheet for my personal projects, but I imagine contractors or cabinet builders would get a ton of use out of this.
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by bityard 8mo ago
Hey, this is neat. It's pretty much Turtle for circuits. You could have called it CircuitTurtle! I don't do a lot of circuit design, but I'm more of a visual person so I feel like I would be more likely to draw this in someth

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