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by bjackman 6mo ago
The other side of the coin is also funny: I've used Linux for 15 years. There's always been a little voice in the back of my head that says "ah, but one day you'll be forced to admit that these hobby OSs just can't
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by bjackman 7mo ago
Exactly. I suspect part of the issue here is that people without some exposure to this type of probabilistic thinking are SO BAD at reasoning about market actors and uncertainty. "A ceasefire looks very unlikely, why they hell would an
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by bjackman 7mo ago
Breakdown of the presented points: > Eight accounts, all newly created around 21 March, bet a total of nearly $70,000 (£52,000) on there being a ceasefire. Is that anomalous? Are these numbers large in context? > They stand to make ne
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by bjackman 7mo ago
What signs? This article is absolute slop (not AI, but slop). I do not have any reason to doubt that people are doing insider trading. The US admin is obviously corrupt and the Iran attacks are the most abject symptom of its corruption so f
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by bjackman 7mo ago
That is very disappointing coz I've been wanting to try an alternative to Gemini CLI for exactly these reasons. The AI is great but the actual software is a buggy, slow, bloated blob of TypeScript (on a custom Node runtime IIUC!) that
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by bjackman 7mo ago
One of my FAANG security projects incidentally helped with some compliance efforts (I made very sure it was incidental, constantly said things like "I am thrilled that I can help you guys achieve your goals but I wanna be clear that I
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by bjackman 7mo ago
Style and structure is not the goal here, the reason people are interested in it is to find bugs. Having said that, if it can save maintainers time it could be useful. It's worth slowing contribution down if it lets maintainers get mor
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by bjackman 7mo ago
I think it does that too.
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by bjackman 7mo ago
In my case it's been a strong no. Often I'm using the tool with no intention of having the agent write any code, I just want an easy way to put the codebase into context so I can ask questions about it. So my initial prompt will b
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by bjackman 7mo ago
I have also seen the agent hallucinate a positive answer and immediately proceed with implementation. I.e. it just says this in its output: > Shall I go ahead with the implementation? > Yes, go ahead > Great, I'll get started.
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by bjackman 7mo ago
Contrived examples are fun but have nothing to do with the actual reasons people demand "correct" writing. These confusions do not happen in real life. The reason people actually care is only ever to do with in-group signalling or
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by bjackman 7mo ago
I see this at my $megagorp job. The top brass don't do that much written communication, but when they do they are absolutely shooting from the hip. It's not as bad as Epstein but it's a strong "I've already started
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by bjackman 7mo ago
> I don't have any downtime except when I need to restart services So... you have downtime then. (Also, you should be rebooting regularly to get kernel security fixes). > not sure why you'd need Kubernetes at all here To get
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by bjackman 7mo ago
You are always gonna have some downtime in a homelab setup I think. Unless you go all in with k8s I think the best you can do is "system reboots at 4AM, hopefully all the users are asleep". (Probably a lot of the services I run do
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by bjackman 7mo ago
I don't think RPi is the gold standard nor is Chinese production that strongly correlated with poor SW support? Raspberry Pi usually requires customisation from the distro. This is mitigated by the fact that many distros have done that
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by bjackman 7mo ago
If your benchmarks are fast enough to run in pre-commit you might not need a time series analysis. Maybe you can just run an intensive A/B test between HEAD and HEAD^. You can't just set a threshold coz your environment will drift
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by bjackman 7mo ago
If you've had the problem it solves you don't really need an explanation beyond "Change Detection for Continuous Performance Engineering" I think. Basically if I'm reading it correctly the problem is you want to aut
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by bjackman 7mo ago
Does a cache help with inference workloads anyway? I don't know much about it but my mental model is that for transformers you need random access to billions of parameters.
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by bjackman 7mo ago
But IIUC there are entire fields where basically the whole US ecosystem is funded by federal grants. So if this policy gets enacted those journals are no longer prominent. (Maybe you'd need an exception for fields where the centre of m
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by bjackman 7mo ago
Maybe I am underestimating the gap in status between the "influential figures" I imagine and the people I actually know. I see: my friend has 10-15 years of experience in their field, they have enjoyed success and basically got th
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by bjackman 7mo ago
I think that's also a good proposal, and I don't think it conflicts with the "prestigious departments stop publishing in $journal" idea at all. Probably we want both. Only difference is that the author is writing for a w
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by bjackman 7mo ago
I have had so many "why don't you just" conversations with academics about this. I know the "why don't you just" guy is such an annoying person to talk to, but I still don't really understand why they don&
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by bjackman 7mo ago
How do you imagine a secret designation would work..?
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by bjackman 7mo ago
> there are at least a dozen companies that provide non-Anthropic/non-OpenAI models in the cloud, many of which are dirt cheap because of how fast and good open weights are now. Oh yeah, seems obvious now you said it, but this is a
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by bjackman 7mo ago
Nobody is saying it makes "financial sense", it's about control. I have always taken plenty of care to try and avoid becoming dependent on big tech for my lifestyle. Succeeded in some areas failed in others. But now AI is a p
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by bjackman 7mo ago
I think revealed preferences are more useful than a poll would be. "Do you think forced labour in Malaysia is OK" - nobody answers yes to this. "Are you willing to make sacrifices, such as imposing liability on local business
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by bjackman 7mo ago
No, it's bizarre that this isn't normal. The law is an expression of our desire that our industry doesn't exploit forced labour. The fact that this mostly only counts when the forced labour takes place in our own country is a
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by bjackman 7mo ago
I'm aware this sounds like a "no true Scotsman" argument, but I said "would a football fan watch" and the people who would watch that are not football fans. I don't mean to denigrate it though, what I'm sa
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by bjackman 7mo ago
> The narrative/life of the artist becomes a lot more important. Less the narrative of the art's production and more the message that it's conveying. I don't mean (necessarily) a political message or a message that ca
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by bjackman 8mo ago
IIUC to reliably use 3P tools you need to use API billing, right? Based on my limited experimentation this is an order of magnitude more expensive than consumer subscriptions like Claude Pro, do I have that right? ("Limited experimenta

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