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by curtis3389 2y ago
I recently looked into using Git in a decentralized way. It's actually pretty easy! When you would usually create a PR, you use `git format-patch` to create a patch file and send that to whoever is going to merge it. They create a bran
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Civil asset forfeiture is wild shit. John Oliver had a great episode on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks They make criminal accusations against your property and not against you, and because of that, you have
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by curtis3389 2y ago
https://archive.is/ka3nH
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by curtis3389 2y ago
This is quite horrifying, but not particularly surprising. Most Americans have dehumanized homeless people, because if we truly saw them as equal humans, we would have to acknowledge that we all exist in a system where our humanity is conti
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by curtis3389 2y ago
It drives me nuts how OpenAI has misleadingly marketed their products, and the tech community at large has failed to clarify what their products really are. This article is so unsurprising to the point of being boring. Of course an LLM gene
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by curtis3389 2y ago
To those reading: 3-2-1 backups: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ Also, Amazon Glacier is a pretty cool service, and it's incredibly cheap.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
> At the heart of the move, say the two companies, is a six-year-old pay rule in New York that, among other things, requires firms like Uber and Lyft to pay drivers for the idle time they rack up between rides. Remember, Uber and Lyft we
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Nah, but they'll study the systems and their incentives that led to such actions. Or they'll be more focused on finding food and shelter.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
When speaking about LLMs, confabulation and hallucination refer to the same thing. The term "confabulation" is just the most accurate description of what's happening, whereas the term "hallucination" refers to somet
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by curtis3389 2y ago
For comparison: Windows Server has 5-10 years of support, and MacOS has 3-5.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Repairing an obvious injustice. The War on Drugs is a war on personal freedom, and the power the state has been given to enact it goes way beyond what any person should see as reasonable.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
This is great first step, but they should be automatically expunging the records as well instead of requiring 175,000 people to pay a lawyer to request it.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Some of China's new reactors are pebble-bed reactors, which I just think are super-cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor
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by curtis3389 2y ago
The US Supreme Court has been illegitimate in my mind since Citizens United. They're nothing more than unelected politicians working for moneyed interests.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
If this is fracking water, it's truly horrifying.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
This seems like a no-brainer for the console makers. The consoles are already sold, and they're making back any losses from that through games sales and subscriptions. Then X comes along and asks for half a mil a year. I'm sure th
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by curtis3389 2y ago
This comment section reveals that you live in a dystopia.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
If only Apple was big enough to fight the patent trolls...
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by curtis3389 2y ago
I suppose this shows the purpose of the robot: to demonstrate the electronics. There is nothing interesting about solving a cube (although this robot is incapable of rotating the center), and a 3x3 cube can be solved quite quickly by humans
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by curtis3389 2y ago
School Principal: Hey, you beat up that kid, so I'm going to suspend you. The kid started it, so he's getting in trouble as well. Israel: If you punish me, I'm going to hit him again.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
> We’re joining forces with News Corp to support the highest journalistic standards and enrich our products with its premium journalism. > OpenAI has permission to display content from News Corp ... with the ultimate objective of prov
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by curtis3389 2y ago
This article was a great read. Much better than the featured article.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Abandoned houses. They're all over the US, slowly decaying and collapsing, but at one time they were new. Someone assembled the materials and put in days of hard work, sweat, and blood building the house. They looked upon the completed
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by curtis3389 2y ago
I believe you misunderstood what I wrote. The difference between the OSI and GNU/FSF are well stated here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html
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by curtis3389 2y ago
This is your reminder that OSI shills for corporations and is opposed to the GNU project and digital freedoms. OSI has always existed to shift the conversation from talking about freedoms and rights in the digital era to about software qual
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by curtis3389 3y ago
This reminds me of Orson Welles' excellent film: F for Fake. It explores art forgery, art experts, and the author of a book about art forgery committing a massive forgery.
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by curtis3389 3y ago
TFA states that the yakuza boss was acting as a middleman between an insurgent group in Myanmar and what he thought was an associate of an Iranian general. The group wanted to sell weapons-grade nuclear material and buy conventional militar
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by curtis3389 3y ago
Assuming the US legislature hasn't been almost completely broken since 2010, there are really just 3 solutions to the country's ballooning debt: 1. Increase taxes (a no-go for Republicans) 2. Default (a no-go for everyone) 3. Redu
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by curtis3389 3y ago
I suppose you would need to weld two hemispheres of plutonium together to make the hollow pit[1] for an implosion device. Or it could be safer to work on smaller pieces and then weld them together. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by curtis3389 3y ago
TestGen-LLM is such a strange creation. I can see how it could be used as a first step in a refactoring or rewrite, but the emphasis on code coverage in the paper seems totally brain-broke. I suppose it'd be great if your org is alread

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