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by crote 10mo ago
VW was also bound by emission standards, yet Dieselgate still happened. I would be very surprised if it didn't have some kind of "heavily-restricted debugging interface, only available to select VW engineers, which provides a li
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by crote 10mo ago
Enough addresses for proper P2P connectivity, which is kinda useful for newfangled things like video chat?
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by crote 10mo ago
Now compare that to the various books people mentioned at [0]. It isn't even remotely close. You spoonfed ChatGPT, and it returned a bunch of semi-relevant formulas and code snippets. But a tutorial? Absolutely not. For starters, it
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by crote 10mo ago
> "The work that we're doing now is allowing us to create semiconductors up to 4,000 times purer in space than we can currently make here today," says Josh Western, CEO of Space Forge. > "This sort of semiconductor
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by crote 10mo ago
> It could be in a locked basement, it could be in a sealed off cage in a data center, it could be a private research area at a university. We don't know. Yes, and that is exactly the problem. They didn't write "a large
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by crote 10mo ago
> Why buy this book when ChatGPT can generate the same style of tutorial for ANY project that is customized to you? Isn't it obvious? Because the ChatGPT output wouldn't be reviewed! You buy books like these exactly because
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by crote 10mo ago
Yes, and Europe will start confiscating European assets of American companies. Your point being? > The military is irrelevant as long as usd is the reserve currency most countries use. The USD is rapidly losing this status, though. The c
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by crote 10mo ago
Defend against what? France has nukes, so those aren't a plausible threat. Any kind of land invasion is doomed to fail - the US didn't even manage to beat a bunch of goat herders in one of the poorest countries of the world. A n
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by crote 10mo ago
> Besides that, 39% of online purchases in Germany are made through PayPal or MC/Visa. This is currently being solved with Wero, which is intended to be an EU-wide online payment platform which can replace PayPal/MC/Visa,
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by crote 10mo ago
But how are you ever going to find a halfway-competent personal assistant for the occasional bounded task like that? I need someone to spend a few days every couple of years to plan a holiday, not someone who is available several hours a da
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by crote 10mo ago
> We're at ~2.5 years since the release of GPT-4 (the first model that could really attempt to code on any serious level) and LLM usage is >40% of the entire US population. Sure, if you count "Google forced an AI-generated o
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by crote 10mo ago
In case you are interested in improving the drag-and-drop usage: There are a lot of connections which look like they should work, but don't - such as patch panel to patch panel. On the other hand, it is possible to connect a single LC
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by crote 10mo ago
If I'm not mistaken, apt repositories have very similar failure modes - just using PGP certs instead of SSL certs. The repository signing key can still expire or get revoked, and you'll have an even harder time getting every cli
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by crote 10mo ago
I don't think this makes a meaningful difference. The installation is a `curl | sh`, which downloads a tarball, which gets extracted to some directory in $PATH. It currently includes two executables, but having it contain two executabl
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by crote 10mo ago
So basically, it avoids the whole chicken-and-egg problem. With UV you've simply always got "UV -> project Python 1.23 -> project". UV is your dependency manager, and your Python is just another dependency . With oth
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by crote 10mo ago
> You wouldn't complain as much if it were merely poorly written by a human. Obviously. > It gets the information across. If it is poorly written by a human? Sure! > The novelty of complaining about a new style of bad writing
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by crote 10mo ago
> However, there will be cases where lacking the LLM output, there isn't any output at all. Why would there be? You're using something to prompt the LLM, aren't you - what's stopping you from sharing the input? The sa
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by crote 10mo ago
Just one slight problem: people need to eat, and food costs money. Your startup won't succeed when its founder starves to death. It's why the founder will usually get a bunch of cash during investment rounds [0]: they can't f
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by crote 10mo ago
Nobody expects to get rich off working for a startup. The risks are massive, and very few exit with billion-dollar deals. This is taken into account by the people who work there and accept those stock options: 99.xx% chance of being worth
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by crote 10mo ago
> I prefer reading the LLM output for accessibility reasons. And that's completely fine! If you prefer to read CVEs that way, nobody is going to stop you from piping all CVE descriptions you're interested in through a LLM. Howe
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by crote 10mo ago
I would rather read succinct English written by a non-native speaker filled with broken grammar than overly verbose but well-spelled AI slop. Heck, just share the prompt itself! If you can't be bothered to have a human write literally
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by crote 10mo ago
Most of his actions are, to the majority of the population, merely transient actions. A few letters on an arts center are trivial to remove, a cancelled wind turbine farm easy to forget. The CECOT stuff deeply impacts only a small part of t
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by crote 10mo ago
Startups often pay a shitty salary in exchange for a decent chunk of stock options, with the implicit promise that you'll make bank if you work hard and make the company successful. Getting screwed out of your payout by such a totally-
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by crote 11mo ago
Just a guess, but I reckon it doesn't account for things like kernel memory usage, such as caches and buffers. Assigning 100% of physical RAM to applications is probably going to have a Really Bad Outcome.
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by crote 11mo ago
Isn't that the entire point of write-ahead logs, journaling file systems, and fsync in general? A roll-back or roll-forward due to a power loss causing a partial write is completely expected, but surely consumer SSDs wouldn't ju
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by crote 11mo ago
You're screwed. An individual is completely powerless against the combined might of the entire country they live in. Nothing you touch and nobody you talk to can be trusted. But realistically, they'll just bring out the wrench[0].
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by crote 11mo ago
Oh, they know. The industry has been lobbying quite badly for exactly this to happen. Why spend a fortune on innovation when a few bucks of lobbying can get the government to ban your competition because "China bad"? As the comm
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by crote 11mo ago
Oh, for sure! The problem is that the definition of "things that are inappropriate for kids" brought up by book-banners is almost always heavily inspired by religion. A book containing graphical violence and sex, like the Bible? T
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by crote 11mo ago
I've been seeing "we had to take the forum/website offline to deal with scrapers" message on quite a few niche websites now. They are an absolute pest.
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by crote 11mo ago
That's still 518.400 requests per day . For static content. And it's a niche forum, so it's not exactly going to have millions of pages. Either there are indeed hundreds or thousands of AI bots DDoSing the entire internet, o

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