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by crote 3mo ago
Sure, but end users as a group still have a significant amount of RAM. Even on a low-specced machine you can afford to have the currently-active website tab consume a few hundreds of megabytes of RAM. It was mostly sitting idle anyways,
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by crote 3mo ago
The success of the ongoing Anubis rollout proves the opposite. People are used to slowly-loading websites - the rise of garbage SPAs has seen to that. Staring at a spinner for a second every once in a while is not an issue for genuine users
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by crote 3mo ago
The most annoying part is that a lot of GPS gear automatically "corrects" to UTC without giving clear indication of it. Things would'be been fine if the standard was to explicitly sent out TAI timestamps, with a leap seco
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by crote 3mo ago
> that applies the world over It does not. Plenty of countries have functioning labor laws preventing you from being fired for your religious or political opinions.
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by crote 3mo ago
The physical structure is completely different. Just compare DRAM ([0]) with compute ([1]). As a result, the production process is completely different. If you want to know more, the Asianometry youtube channel has some fairly good deep d
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by crote 3mo ago
That's the thing: according to the post he offered it, but the offer wasn't accepted. They stayed on Github, and it was the Github repos which were compromised. They did entertain his desire to let him host a read-only mirror
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by crote 3mo ago
I have been part of the HN community for a while as well. I don't have admin access to its servers. That's the unclear part. How does it go from "offering to host it, which is refused" and "read-only mirror"
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by crote 3mo ago
Don't most (all?) modern CPUs have an embedded TPM? Plug-in TPMs were indeed a thing early on, but I thought that was a thing of the past by now. You can't exactly get in between the CPU and another part of the same CPU. Also, isn
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by crote 3mo ago
Bay Area salaries are well-known to be extremely inflated. Have European engineers do it for $100k or Asian engineers do it for $50k and the math is already looking a lot sketchier.
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by crote 3mo ago
Because the author isn't employed by a transpiler company. The entire point is to get people to spend money on LLMs. Writing a transpiler - even a LLM-coded one - pretty much defeats the purpose.
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by crote 3mo ago
"Make more money" in this case could also be "do high-profile rewrite for marketing reasons, silently abandon a year later".
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by crote 3mo ago
500k lines in 11 days? With 8-hour working days that's 100 lines per minute. There's no way you're comprehensively reviewing code that quickly. The code was generated by a LLM, and the output wasn't even read by its us
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by crote 3mo ago
2b. You have to publish the retired private keys, or else a recipient will retain undeniable proof of message authenticity. Depending on your perspective, this can be either a feature or a bug.
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by crote 3mo ago
I am quite confused about the mercury contamination being mentioned, to be honest. There's a huge amount of mercury contamination at Y-12. The DoE wants to clean it up. The DoE asks for proposals for building an on-site plant capable o
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by crote 3mo ago
How did it go from "He even performed a backup/mirror of several dozen of our repositories." to "He deleted part of our repository from GitHub. (..) [He published] an empty package in the cooker repository, which obsolet
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by crote 3mo ago
In practice most of the purposes you'd encounter in the wild are directly linked to user activity, so account deletion means most of the reasons to keep it disappear. You still need to keep it if there's a law saying that you need
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by crote 3mo ago
To save everyone a click: > Personal data shall be: kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed. (..) Note that this does not s
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by crote 3mo ago
Best of all: there's no hardware rat race. The N64 is never going to get any faster, and emulators can run on just about any potato these days. People have realistic expectations of what the platform can do, so there's no need to
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by crote 3mo ago
No, you do want the network effects. Nobody wants to install yet another special snowflake chat client for a single community. Unless they are being forced to (like in a work environment) or are getting significant benefits out of joini
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by crote 3mo ago
The big question is: how do we tell the difference? If 99.9% of LLM-smelling projects is vibecoded garbage, why should anyone assume that your LLM-smelling project is the 0.1%? If I spend all day digging through dogshit to find the one di
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by crote 3mo ago
So, an open-source Discord clone? I mean, people have been asking for alternatives lately, so it's not like there isn't a market for it. There are even entire communities[0] for discovering them. But considering there are alread
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by crote 4mo ago
It's their $80B+ investment in building AI infrastructure. If Microsoft can't meaningfully integrate AI into their own products and make profit off of selling it to end users, why should anyone assume that third parties can? B
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by crote 4mo ago
Why not? If Ford puts a button in their car which blows it up when you press it, removing the button fixes the issue. If your LLM implementation is fundamentally insecure, you'll have a giant gaping security hole until you remove your
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by crote 4mo ago
How does that guarantee anything? I could definitely see it being better, but that doesn't make violating it impossible does it? Just... statistically less likely.
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by crote 4mo ago
> What if you mark the untrusted user input explicitly in the prompt, cap the length, and instruct the model to err on the side of caution? What if we put a sternly-but-politely worded "pretty please don't allow prompt injectio
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by crote 4mo ago
Files aren't magically stored forever. They could have the sampling machine write to an SD card and mail that back, or store it with a one-time-use link like pwpush.com, or have it expire & self-delete after N days like WeTransfer.
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by crote 4mo ago
She had a hip replacement at age 37. That's not due to age.
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by crote 4mo ago
There's very little left to discuss, unfortunately. The 0.19 release included some extremely controversial changes. The core Elm team responded by killing all discussion of it and (to the outside world) abandoning the project, the El
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by crote 4mo ago
The Switch 2 has a 5-hour battery life, and the controllers can charge through the console. Put the controllers on the device when you're not using it (which seems like the obvious place to keep them), and they'll never run out.
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by crote 4mo ago
> I don't think this is really about Elm at all, but the preparation for Arcadia. Considering Elm's history, why should anyone trust that Arcadia won't work out the same? No matter how good his ideas are, if Arcadia doesn&

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