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by chongli 9mo ago
It's funny, because the inverter microwave is actually cheaper to build nowadays. It uses a small switching power supply to generate the needed voltage to run the magnetron at different power levels. The older style duty cycle microwav
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by chongli 9mo ago
Rental cars and houses do exist, but you could still have fully owned cars and houses whose doors lock without paying a subscription. For cars maybe, but not for houses. Property law for land is very old and very well established. If some
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by chongli 9mo ago
We definitely need more focus on creating a true single market. It’s going to be difficult to achieve this without the establishment of a single official language. That’s where the US gets most of its advantage: a large population of Engl
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by chongli 9mo ago
There are arrangements where you continue to pay for cars and houses without owning them. They're called leases and rental agreements. They typically cost a lot less for the consumer than outright purchases and at the conclusion of the
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by chongli 9mo ago
The devil is in the details. How much of the code running on my machine is confined to the sandbox vs how much is used in the boostrap phase? I haven't looked but I would hope it can survive some security audits.
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by chongli 9mo ago
That's obviously not true. You can do anything you want with a sandbox. Open a socket to the OpenAI servers and then pass that off to the sandbox and let the sandboxed process communicate over that socket. Now it can talk to OpenAI&#x2
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by chongli 9mo ago
There still needs to be a harness running on your local machine to spawn the processes in their sandboxes. I consider that "part of the LLM" even if it isn't doing any inference.
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by chongli 9mo ago
That still doesn't seem ideal. Run the LLM itself in a kernel-enforced sandbox, lest it find ways to exploit vulnerabilities in its own code.
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by chongli 9mo ago
Hence the article’s security theatre remark. I’m not sure why everyone seems to have forgotten about Unix permissions, proper sandboxing, jails, VMs etc when building agents. Even just running the agent as a different user with minimal perm
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by chongli 9mo ago
I do like games with air control, I just also like the old school non-air-control games. Modern platformer devs seem to be very much heavily biased to the air control side, where characters can maneuver in both directions at high speed to a
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by chongli 9mo ago
I have heard of Celeste and I have played through VVVVVV. I will check out the others. Celeste is kind of an example of what I was talking about though. The game gives you a ton of movement options and "floaty" air control with a
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by chongli 9mo ago
I’m familiar with all of those games. They’re few enough in number that I see the same small set brought up every time I make this point. I think they’re the exception that proves the rule. There are fewer of them (noteworthy ones anyway, I
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by chongli 9mo ago
Of course it's extremely hard but you can't do it at all on modern games with unresponsive displays. The point is that when you press the button in SMB, the action happens on the screen an order of magnitude faster than a modern g
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by chongli 9mo ago
I haven't. I'm a huge fan of Derek Yu though, so I need to!
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by chongli 9mo ago
Those may be difficult games but they don't have the twitchiness of a game like Super Mario Bros. They're on the order of 1/4s to 1/2s maneuvering (with great anticipation) whereas SMB is loaded with 1 frame tricks (1&#x
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by chongli 9mo ago
If you're struggling with keeping your attention, you ought to try making a list of games you never finished (or never played) and commit yourself to playing through them in order. I have been doing that with NES games and really enjoy
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by chongli 9mo ago
Those may be some amazing games you listed but none of them scratch the itch that some folks have for twitchy NES games. For some reason, modern indie developers never try to emulate the tight, twitchy, highly responsive controls of NES gam
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by chongli 9mo ago
Because the "daily" billing model is prorated IIUC. Seems a bit unfair not to be given access to something you've paid for. It’s a physical club. You can’t get access to the building without physically going there. If someo
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by chongli 9mo ago
The AAA game industry as a whole has encouraged this mentality in gamers. They make games which are basically movies that you have to put a bit of work into to watch. The concept of virtuous struggle and overcoming challenge -- which used t
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by chongli 9mo ago
Why do you have to do merch fulfillment on a daily basis? Just inform people before signup that you only send out membership cards on the first of the month and if they sign up at any other time they'll have to wait until the first of
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by chongli 9mo ago
My neck is screaming in empathetic pain for your future neck!
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by chongli 9mo ago
The spinning wheel was in use in Europe in the 14th century [1]. That's a lot earlier than "slightly before" the 1800s. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/An_amoro...
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by chongli 9mo ago
Women may have done half the labour but they didn't spend all their time weaving cloth and making clothing. You're forgetting about all the food preparation and preservation that women did. Women cooked meals, baked bread, preserv
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by chongli 9mo ago
I can understand it for casual users who just want something simple that works for basic tasks, but what does macOS offer a power user that Linux doesn't, and which makes it worth sacrificing the ability to run your machine the way yo
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by chongli 9mo ago
I like the design of Discord but I don't like that it's owned by one company. At any point they could decide to pursue a full enshittification strategy and start selling everyone's data to train AIs. They could sell the right
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by chongli 9mo ago
I prefer a Dark Forest theory [1] of the internet. Rather than being completely dead and saturated with bots, the internet has little pockets of human activity like bits of flotsam in a stream of slop. And that's how it is going to be
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by chongli 9mo ago
I can't remember the last time I was on the Reddit front page and I use the site pretty much daily. I only look at specific subreddit pages (barely a fraction of what I'm subscribed to). These are some pretty niche communities wit
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by chongli 9mo ago
You can find those things on eBay now. Yes, they’re expensive, but that’s because the exhausting work of combing flea markets and estate sales has been done for you, so that value has been priced in. What people are really complaining about
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by chongli 9mo ago
The best icon is the original MacWrite icon by Susan Kare [1]. No superfluous details, simple, and communicates the act of writing perfectly. Susan’s suite of original icons for the Macintosh set a high watermark for legibility, usability,
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by chongli 9mo ago
It's not just the efficiency of the heat pump that is at issue, it's the insulation of the house. As the outside temperature plunges, the house begins cooling off much more rapidly. This means the reduced efficiency of the heat pu

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