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I've been running GPT5.x fully unconstrained with effective local admin shell for over $500 worth of API tokens. Not once has it done something I'd consider "naughty". It has left my project in a complete mess, but never
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The neat thing about bitcoin is that the incentive to break it is so high that it would almost certainly be the first place you would learn that SHA2 had been broken. Not on a website like this. I can verify its integrity by opening robinho
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ACME+LE is definitely the future. I've built some custom AspNetCore middleware that completely owns the entire thing. I tried win-acme and other clients but they aren't in the same room of convenience. All I need to provide is the
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I am still rocking that 5700XT 50th anniversary edition. I see no reason it won't make it to 2030 at this point. There was a moment where I thought it was dying, but it was a combination of dust and a shader bug in BF6 that caused the
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They also tend to imply symbolic recursion which seems to be the biggest deal out of everything by a wide margin. When you can nest 10+ agents deep and guarantee you will get back home without losing any data in any of the stack frames, t
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Have you considered using techniques like conditional PUT to enable multiple writers? https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-s3... https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3&
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My solution to this problem has been to stop using TVs. The last TV I actually enjoyed more than a PC/Mac display was a monster Panasonic plasma that had some serious practicality issues. I'd use it maybe 2-3 hours per week. None
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This is a fairly shocking improvement in performance. There is probably a market for some custom parts here.
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> No turbocharger is used, but a small Roots-type supercharger expands the compression ignition window by adding more air to the engine to allow leaner fuel mixes – especially at higher speeds where avoiding knock is more problematic. Th
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You may feel this one deeply if you ever play around with something like a brainfuck interpreter in a program search context. Even for relatively long programs with high cycle counts, linearly scanning for matching jump instructions tends t
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> a bit like Google maps indicating delays due to traffic build up, Traffic on google maps might actually be a good canary for airport issues.
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> Who owns it? The MonoBehaviour? The caller? The thing it captured three yields ago? The monobehavior that invoked the routine owns it and is capable of cancelling it at typical lifecycle boundaries. This is not a hill I would die on. T
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AC/DC hybrid transmission infrastructure defeats important fault handling and inertia characteristics you get for free out of a fully connected AC grid. HVDC converter stations cannot handle remotely the same amount of fault current th
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> Check if a video chunk contains mostly still frames. Extracts 3 evenly-spaced frames as JPEG and compares file sizes. I believe you could use a combination of select and scene parameters in ffmpeg to do this automatically when a chunk
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https://shop.netgate.com
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> ECC algorithms with smaller key sizes would be more vulnerable to a quantum attack, as it would require a currently theoretical quantum computer with fewer qubits than would be required for an RSA key with the same cryptographic streng
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The steady state would look like a sinusoidal signal. This is more of a cycle than a hill climbing thing.
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I don't mind Microsoft attempting to fuse off experimental features in builds of windows. That makes perfect sense. I don't want to accidentally fuck all my data either. What sends me into an unmitigated schizo frenzy is the part
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I use a blend of Windows, MacOS, iOS and Linux. Each is good at its own thing. I don't understand the game of picking exactly one hill to die on. I spend about 60% of my time on Apple operating systems, and 40% elsewhere. Windows reall
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Maintaining something like this is probably a little bit stressful. We all know some of us take our language and framework choices as seriously as religion. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lawsuit involved.
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> The attacker compromised Resolv’s cloud infrastructure to gain access to Resolv’s AWS Key Management Service (KMS) environment where the protocol’s privileged signing key was stored. Ok, but how was the AWS infrastructure compromised?
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> Maybe Amex being a closed-loop network helps with latency? Yes, this is a huge deal. VisaNet and friends have to wait on the actual bank cores in order to perform online authorization. Amex can guarantee end to end latency.
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MSSQL uses a special message over an existing connection: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
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I think there are still strong advantages to the centralized locking style of collaboration. The challenge is that it seems to work best in a setting where everyone is in the same physical location while they are working. You can break a lo
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> do you mean they have branching early on to shortcut certain prompts? Putting a classifier in front of a fleet of different models is a great way to provide higher quality results and spend less energy. Classification is significantly
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I miss the box art more than the actual GPUs. https://lockbooks.net/pages/overclocked-launch
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I don't think it's abandoned and it looks like there is a lot of activity around the high DPI concern. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20sta...
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Title for the back of the class: "Prompts sometimes return null" I would be very cautious to attribute any of this to black box LLM weight matrices. Models like GPT and Opus are more than just a single model. These products rake y
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Can you point me to an example of a FIPS level 3+ certified device having its private keys compromised due to a defeat of the tamper resistant boundary?
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The laser diode would probably be the first thing to fail in the player, and it likely wouldn't take 25 years if it was being used regularly.
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