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by criddell 4mo ago
I appreciate the response and am glad to hear that my less-is-more preference isn't dismissed. It's been a while so I went through my plugins settings. About half of the core plugins are enabled and I've never enabled communi
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by criddell 4mo ago
Like Evernote, they keep adding more and more features and functionality to the core product. The original idea of it being a great notes application over a directory of markdown files (and attachments) was simple and brilliant. I think the
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by criddell 5mo ago
Is there something like this on Linux? For example, if I’m an application developer can I assume GNU Core AI (or whatever it is or would be called) will be there if the kernel is >= some particular version?
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by criddell 5mo ago
I really liked Evernote but they raised the price too much for me. I used it mostly as an archive for long term storage where I could find things easily and it was pleasant to use. When it was $36 / year it made sense for me. I probabl
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by criddell 5mo ago
Does the contract contain a section on breaking the agreement?
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by criddell 5mo ago
I bought a car earlier this year and it took about a week before I started getting car warranty junk mail for the new car.
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by criddell 5mo ago
> Space-based datacenters simply won't work. Everybody knows. Musk is a snake oil salesman (that’s been clear since the self-driving car promises) but he also has made a lot of people a lot of money and that’s all anybody really car
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by criddell 5mo ago
I tend to think of the web and the internet as distinct things. For the language of the web I'd probably nominate HTML. For the language of the internet it's a lot less clear to me.
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by criddell 5mo ago
Sometimes there are ways of getting runtime bounds checking. For example, both of these return the 3rd element of a std::vector: auto val1 = vec[3]; // no bounds checking auto val2 = vec.at(3); // bounds c
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by criddell 5mo ago
There's often little discussion around incentives. Students cheat because grades are used as a major selection factor in university admissions. Maybe that should change. Set a reasonable bar for grades or SAT scores and then use other
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by criddell 5mo ago
I often use reader mode.
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by criddell 5mo ago
I spent years reading a little in bed before falling asleep and I wish I had never started doing that. I've conditioned myself that reading leads to sleep and now it's very difficult for me to read for long because a few pages in
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by criddell 5mo ago
You may have set up a false dichotomy. Qualia and determinism aren't necessarily at odds with each other.
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by criddell 5mo ago
Today's frontier models will be tomorrows low-end option. I think whatever model you are using today will be less expensive to use a year or two from now.
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by criddell 5mo ago
> That's like saying all fine art would be photography Or is it like saying most portraits will be photographs rather than paintings? There are still a lot of portraits painted (maybe even as many as the pre-camera days), but by raw
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by criddell 5mo ago
AppleTV is like that too. It's nice being able to use the password manager on my phone rather than have try to enter some long complicated password a letter at a time.
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by criddell 5mo ago
Doesn't Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash have a similar idea? IIRC, a computer infects human brains via language and sound. In the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series, the explanation for why the Galactica was the only ship that survived
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by criddell 5mo ago
Laser printers are great for documents, but not very good for photos. I have an ink jet printer that I like. I don't print very often (average a couple pages per week) but when I do it's a mix of documents and photos. The ink isn&
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by criddell 5mo ago
I kind of find it hard to believe they would use the name prism... When I read it, the first thing I thought of is the NSA program named PRISM. Anyway, I was curious so I googled for differences between the Apple and Microsoft programs and
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by criddell 5mo ago
> the software I might want to use doesn’t support arm Doesn't Windows come with something like Apple's Rosetta to do on the fly translation? I expect it wouldn't work with games, but most other kinds of software should wo
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by criddell 5mo ago
Clearly not a HNer. The name goes against RFC1178 in a couple of different ways.
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by criddell 5mo ago
I think this is the core argument: > [...] LLMs rely on internal universes derived yet decoupled from reality. Religions that deify their interpretation of their scriptures instinctively know this model and how to use it.
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by criddell 5mo ago
> It has to add up to a couple trillion dollars to break even It doesn't have to and I'm pretty sure it won't.
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by criddell 5mo ago
> I have yet to see an end user product that in itself isnt a wrapper around LLMs that is impressive created by LLM assistance. I don’t disagree that AI is overhyped. But I think you are probably looking in the wrong place. I think most
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by criddell 5mo ago
I don’t think performance matters much to a lot of people. Look at how well the Neo is selling and it’s running what is essentially a phone SOC. Forget about raw FLOPs and focus on performance per watt. Computers have been fast enough for m
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by criddell 5mo ago
Now they need to work on a fanless option. It would be nice to have at least one SKU be a silent machine with no moving parts.
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by criddell 5mo ago
> the only way up is seniority That’s not true at all. Look at professional athletes. The starting pitchers in a baseball game are the best pitchers. Or consider WGA screenwriters in Hollywood. Their ability to make money doesn’t depend
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by criddell 5mo ago
This is exactly right. Writing each practice exam only takes a few hours and this course last months. The reset of the time is filled with all the things you talked about. Plus, for some kids writing a practice exam at home isn’t the same t
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by criddell 5mo ago
My kids were able to take some SAT test prep course through their school (partially funded by the PTA) and it helped a lot. They wrote a bunch of practice exams and each time their scores went up. Also, test taking itself is a skill and the
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by criddell 5mo ago
You can make an email rule to filter those messages to trash. I have my phone set to only ring for people in my address book. It’s probably time to do something similar for email. Not in my address book? Straight to trash.

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