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by cduzz 4mo ago
Sorry; one final edit: What you're describing is "bank" where the financial organizations settle transactions using a private media ("the crypto"); but each individual is still dealing with "a bank". In &q
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by cduzz 4mo ago
I think I offered a pretty concrete example of a real situation and how the imagined utility of crypto magic isn't actually all that helpful. Now, perhaps what you're suggesting is "I've got millions of units of money th
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by cduzz 4mo ago
Can you describe a "society collapse" where your cold wallet _can_ get you out of trouble, and why that particular situation isn't subject to "I will shoot your corgi." coercion? If you're dealing with a peer y
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by cduzz 4mo ago
Let's talk; You're in Crimea right now. You want some gasoline. You have some magic numbers in your magic rock. It needs you to cast a spell to transmit those magic numbers to someone else. I guess it probably also needs ... s
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by cduzz 4mo ago
People have made crazy stories up about "the origin of money" for a long time; Adam Smith makes up a zany story about people agreeing to use chunks of metal to make change for bartering because it's too hard to keep chickens
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by cduzz 4mo ago
I feel like "open source" in this context is, as you say, an uncomfortable nuance; the tooling (llama.cpp, et al) is open but useless without weights. The weights are extraordinarily expensive "capital" that is donated b
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by cduzz 4mo ago
The localhost troll works better if you use the decimal representation of it: http://2130706433 or any integer multiple of that 2130706433
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by cduzz 4mo ago
These days I think "at night" is mostly covered or at least could be mostly covered both by wind and batteries. The "base load" question may still be appropriate for deep winter, high (or low) latitudes, etc, but renewab
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by cduzz 4mo ago
AI data centers that exist and are operational are running at maximum capacity. That's why you see things like the tiny little data center run by xai showing up as a valuable resource to xai (on the sale side) and anthropic (buy side)
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by cduzz 4mo ago
This is actually what happens. I run my word processing software on my apple 2 (a total joke of a computer) instead of running it on the WANG. I run my book keeping software on visicalc instead of the IBM. I run my simulation software on my
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by cduzz 4mo ago
High Bandwidth Memory uses thousands of interconnects for the data bus. DDR style memory typically uses in the neighborhood of 64 bit transfers at a time. HBM tends to be integrated onto the package (board, multi chip module, die) because
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by cduzz 4mo ago
They've got thunderbolt 5 which is pretty good and every port has a dedicated controller. You can even network macs together just over thunderbolt. Not as fast as raw PCIe slots inside the chassis, but I don't think the ghost of
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by cduzz 4mo ago
That 1tb / 12 channels is a continuous streaming read / write rates? I assume big wide DDR memory, for random "IO", is much slower than compared to HBM. I feel like at a certain point there are just going to be big SOC
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by cduzz 5mo ago
NEW VISTA, OUTER RIM—Just a cycle ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its first owner died, it sits on a slab draped in tubes that quiver as they pump liters of blood substitute and other fluids through the organ, supply
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by cduzz 5mo ago
Ah; so it _is_ a tool problem. It is _also_ a moderation problem. One could ban orgs that flood the zone with AI generated trash, but is there some potential middle ground where there are sets of filters to identify duplicated bugs, and po
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by cduzz 5mo ago
If the AI is awesome at identifying security bugs in the linux kernel, it likely can also identify if the thing it's found is similar to something that is already found in the security mailing list? Or, put another way -- what flags th
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by cduzz 5mo ago
Hydrogen is no good for cars because it sneaks into the metal and ruins it (hydrogen embrittlement). Your car is mostly metal, especially the part that stores the fuel and the part that makes it go boom. You can probably make electricity d
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by cduzz 5mo ago
I'm going to mix my metaphors a bit here... There's the saying "Any idiot can build a bridge; it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands." To put this another way, any idiotic LLM can write code. It takes
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by cduzz 5mo ago
I think this is mixing domains quite a bit; If I'm talking to a friend or peer and I'm on a crappy link, we can probably work it out. If I'm calling my lawyer from prison with my "one call" I really want my lawyer
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by cduzz 5mo ago
Well, with a car without lane keeping or cruise control, it'll try to kill you pretty quickly if you stop actively controlling the car.... With an AP1 car, you can scan ahead 5-10 seconds (in about 1 second) and pretty quickly assess i
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by cduzz 5mo ago
There are those who are paranoid and those who are expedient. If you're truly paranoid, you spin up the thing you want to run, measure what it does, and open the holes to allow it to do what it needs to. It's tedious and sometim
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by cduzz 5mo ago
I'd have guessed that the default paranoia-first policy would be "drop everything; verify what you need" which would include AF_ALG. share and enjoy!
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by cduzz 5mo ago
I've been quite happy with my "first generation" tesla with the mobileye system. It has only tried to kill me a couple times in 6 years of driving it; it is not terribly smart but within the system's limits it is very s
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by cduzz 6mo ago
Venus seems like a wonderful place to live, relatively speaking. At the right altitude where you can "float" on the ocean, it's a pretty comfortable temperature and there's plenty of solar energy but you're shielded
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by cduzz 7mo ago
I suspect this is one of those "it depends" situations; does the 128gb vs 64gb sku have more chips or denser chips? If "more chips" probably it'll draw a tiny bit more power than the smaller version. If the "
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by cduzz 7mo ago
I have on my desk an old IBM M4-1 keyboard (compact keyboard with trackpoint), a mighty mouse (the one with the track ball in it) and a mac laptop with a touchpad. I think this gives me access to nearly all the input widgets available exce
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by cduzz 7mo ago
I'm very sad this neo macbook thing isn't a replacement for my macbook retina in any way. I'm not really sure what I'll do to replace it; I'd been hoping this "phone chip based macbook" would be of the ol
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by cduzz 8mo ago
On windows and linux, yes, without any added anything holding the shift (or windows or control or alt) key on one keyboard will modify the behavior of any key with any other keyboard (I have a vague memory of getting 3 keyboards and hitting
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by cduzz 8mo ago
Yeah, your hands don't actually need to be anywhere in relationship to each other, only the other fingers on that hand.
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by cduzz 8mo ago
I'm not sure why nobody mentions this, but for windows and linux, you can fiddle with a "split keyboard" by using two keyboards. You can put your right hand over the right part of the right keyboard, the left and over the le

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