cogman10

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by cogman10 1mo ago
That data centers need a lot of power and some cases a lot of water isn't some sort of conspiracy theory. When you have data centers like the box elder county DC that is planed to consume more power than the entire state of Utah and i
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Vote strategically. Democrats aren't by default better on this issue vs republicans so you need to be more involved than just voting in the general. If you are in a D leaning district, then register as a D and vote in the D primary. M
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by cogman10 1mo ago
What's worked really well for us is not having the DBAs as gate keepers, but rather having them as guardians and experts for devs to rely on. Our DBAs are the first line of defense when a DB starts to struggle. They crack the database
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Those are only a fraction of what oil becomes (around 10% total) everything else is burned.
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Leyden has been relying pretty heavily on training runs which I get, but man is that a pretty hard burden to setup. The tooling for doing these sorts of training runs doesn't really exist, you end up needing to do something more bespok
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by cogman10 1mo ago
woof, yeah, Just did the test myself (because I was curious) and it spat out the answer pretty quick.
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by cogman10 1mo ago
The full quote > Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and m
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> Both pregnant women and pregnant people are acceptable phrases. Literally the first sentence in the guidelines that talk about birthing person. The entire paragraph says "it's fine if you want to" and isn't prescrip
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Technically your refrigerator heats up your kitchen in the same fashion adding extra work for your AC to compensate. Unless you live in the artic where it's freezing year round, these things make sense. During the summer they reduce y
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> significantly slower than a resistive or gas-powered water heater This was TC being a weirdo. He bought a 120V hot water heater. Had he done a regular 240V water heater the recovery time would be comparable to pure resistive water he
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by cogman10 1mo ago
I generally actually agree with you. The real issue with these cameras is the network effect that allows them to stalk anyone anywhere. Were I to draft legislation, the first thing I'd do is ban any sort of surveillance network from g
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> Democrats should drop "birthing persons" I've never heard 1 democrat politician say "birthing person". This was never something "democrats" said and always something that rightwing media says that Dem
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Really bad example by Maher. There are much better examples where the 2 parties are frustratingly aligned to a large extent. For example, datacenters, ICE, and foreign policy. You can find a good number of democrats who are mad about Iran
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Unfortunately, no. Common law requires famously very little consideration for a contract to be valid [1]. I can sign a contract where I give $100 and am given a penny back and that'd be valid consideration. [1] https://en.
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Perhaps it's just a bias? You are already negatively biased against LLM writing so you disregard stuff you read when you suspect it's an LLM. This could also be a selection bias. It may be that you generally struggled to retain
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Yes, LLMs make it a lot easier to produce a lot more garbage. That's not an exception to my point. If something is well written then it doesn't waste the reader's time.
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by cogman10 1mo ago
A lot of cops already have cameras on their chest (which they can freely turn off and mute). Meta glasses buy them very little.
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by cogman10 1mo ago
IMO, whether or not an LLM was used in the writing process doesn't really matter and I think it's a bit annoying that articles are being dismissed out of hand because of that. The line is "Is this an interesting and accurate
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Look, I just don't think your view of cops matches the reality of cops. There's a lot of stats on this, cops are just as likely to die in a car accident as they are to die from being shot (not very). It is a dangerous job, but no
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Probably worried about things like spectrum wifi. I don't know if others do it, but spectrum will sell access to a private WiFi network using their customers Internet as a backend. LG could be using that sort of network.
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> Ever been mugged? Mugged, no. But I've certainly had someone try and pickpocket me. > you are clearly someone who already doesn't have to deal with crime Not in my day to day. In fact, most people don't. I've
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> You are not separating the vast majority of policing every day which is good and attempts to stop evil people. That's really not what policing is about even in the most charitable view. It's certainly what policing has been
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> Why don't you see how the lawsuit plays out? Because these lawsuits all play out the same. The city pays out, the cop is maybe fired and they go get a job in the next city over as a cop. > What do you think it should be? At a
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Because the cops that did this won't face any real consequences. Will they be fired? Maybe. But will they stop being cops? Almost certainly not. Will they face criminal or civil penalties? Almost certainly not. Will they keep all b
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> or they're negligent in budgeting for RCE discovery at all, or they assign zero value to the security of the Chromium platform underpinning Edge, Electron, et al I generally agree, but a 3rd explanation is they figure that too gen
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by cogman10 1mo ago
I have no qualms with ZGC being the default. The low latency that it offers at near G1 speeds is a very good trade off (IMO). I just have a problem with G1 because in my experience, the best place for it is fairly large heaps. Get somethi
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Security is the big reason to want 17 over 16, though I believe 16 is getting a lot of those features backported still. Otherwise, I preferred 16. The UX, AI, and all the other garbage I really could do without. I don't love it. My
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Honestly, I don't really understand why G1 is being pushed so hard. The parallel collector is a perfectly fine collector, particularly for smaller heaps. Even the serial collector isn't bad for things like a containerized environ
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Other models of this size have done well in the past. Qwen2.5 coder, for example, can correctly answer the question at 7B. Deepseek R1 was also capable of giving a correct response. It's obviously a doable. Such a model locally is use
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Bingo. I know that people that work on LLMs read sites like HN. Already my question is losing it's usefulness as most models pass it now a days, but not every model does. The "car wash" question is a good example of this h

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