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by bjourne 1y ago
If are like most users you have secrets stored in read-protected files in ~/.ssh. There's nothing wrong with that.
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by bjourne 1y ago
We're almost rid of dotfiles in $HOME. Can we please also get rid of the abuse of environment variables for configuration? There is no reason your program needs to muck up the environment table of every process by defining MY_PROGRAM_A
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by bjourne 1y ago
The goal of the Free Software movement is to build a usable computing environment for which all software (i.e., "code") is free. If you include things like cell phones, tablets, web services, firmware, or basically anything other
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by bjourne 1y ago
no
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by bjourne 1y ago
Society puts a lot of pressure on the people at the bottom. The chronically ill and the unemployed. That pressure in combination with an option to permanently relive yourself of that pressure is to many functionally equivalent to a recommen
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by bjourne 1y ago
Eh, you are rationalizing. The phrase "traumatically over-X" is extremely rare. Any problem is easy after you've seen the solution. :) The solution "traumatically over-trained LLM" to the problem "What descript
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by bjourne 1y ago
This is stunning English: "Perfect setup for satire. Here’s a Python function that fully commits to the bit — a traumatically over-trained LLM trying to divide numbers while avoiding any conceivable danger:" "Traumatically ov
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by bjourne 1y ago
Can't run PyTorch on PyPy.
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by bjourne 1y ago
But maximizing long term returns means consistently maximizing short term returns. In fact, the larger the capital the larger risk you can take since you can survive longer streaks of bad luck as long as your bets have positive expected val
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by bjourne 1y ago
Is this related to the withdrawn IPO filing?
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by bjourne 1y ago
Right, but email is really not all that great, neither on a practical nor technical level. 99.99% of all users doesn't run their own mail server so in practice it is not decentralized. I would guesstimate that 50% or more of all mail t
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by bjourne 1y ago
"in the US" Cause the US is the whole world? Cops may be less of a threat to Democracy in a third-world country, such as the US, precisely because rampant crime means they have less time to spend curtailing the freedoms of mostly
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by bjourne 1y ago
I think bored cops are a much bigger threat to Democracy than most crime. It's ironic that the less crime and the more efficient policing the less free we become.
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by bjourne 1y ago
Damned if you do - damned if you don't. It's the dilemma all counter-culturists struggle with. Greta Thunberg famously sail to climate conferences: "She is an ideological purist! She don't convince everyday people!"
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by bjourne 1y ago
If you really think literally the whole world is laughing at Germany you are living in a fully isolated echo chamber.
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by bjourne 1y ago
> They didn't. SOAP is still widely used. COM and CORBA and similar IPC were mostly replaced by HTTP-based protocols (which would have seemed as a wasteful overkill for a few decades ago, now nobody bats an eye) like REST or GraphQL
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by bjourne 1y ago
Employees must also use the toilet brush and not leave shit stains on the toilet bowl.
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by bjourne 1y ago
It was a few years ago since I last played with Googles hw, but iirc TPUs were inflexible and very fast. Worked well for linear and convolutional layers but could not accelerate certain LSTM configurations. For such networks GPUs were faste
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by bjourne 1y ago
I think you have no idea.
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by bjourne 1y ago
But the most successful brands are those that infest your life and which it is almost impossible to detach from. How much money and for how many years have you paid interest to "your" bank, for example? Could you switch to another
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by bjourne 1y ago
Of course there is no direct causation between loneliness and death. You don't directly die from lack of social interaction, but you do directly die from lack of food. However, there is a clear causal link between loneliness and habits
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by bjourne 1y ago
Omniman strikes again! https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/1k3mqvs/the...
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by bjourne 1y ago
To detect collisions you'd need write-protected memory. Afaik, most computers from the era you are thinking of did not have write-protected memory.
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by bjourne 1y ago
If high-quality typography is so important why are web pages so prevalent?
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by bjourne 1y ago
Yeah, but then there is no performance benefit over plain old sgd.
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by bjourne 1y ago
Yes
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by bjourne 1y ago
For now, yes, but soon CloudFlare and ever more annoying captchas may make that option practically impossible.
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by bjourne 1y ago
1. Students are allergic to useless knowledge. Prof. could ask them whether they prefer a "better" programming language they will never use OR one 99% of them will use every day at work. 2. Good luck finding TAs and support staff
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by bjourne 1y ago
Such ridiculous Hasbara. There was never an Israeli public consensus. That Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist tells you as much. Moreover, the Hebron mosque massacre preceded Hamas's suicide bombings. Jewish terrori
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by bjourne 1y ago
That proves nothing. 100 times as many Palestinians have been killed in Fatah-Hamas skirmishes. Yet you still think the PA supports terrorism.

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