dTal

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by dTal 3mo ago
Conversely, declaring a space "politics-free" tramples a hell of a lot more than curiosity. Incidentally, the comment immediately below this one begins with the words "I'm curious". So I think we're good.
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by dTal 3mo ago
The point of the comment you are replying to is that it's also not worth the time and effort to use LLMs to find vulnerabilities, if "time and effort" can be measured with "money". If you factor in all the money s
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by dTal 3mo ago
It does more types of charts, including Gantt charts. Very useful.
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by dTal 3mo ago
if you have a 2 dollar budget to make a viewfinder work, just throw in a ten cent plastic lens and be done with it.
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by dTal 3mo ago
>LLMs use a neural network to interpolate "interpolate" in what vector space, pray tell? What does "interpolate" even mean, when I prompt it "write me a story about a sentient banana in the style of Hemingway and
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by dTal 3mo ago
Rats are a weird choice for that comparison. They're some of the smartest animals on the planet, some say smarter than dogs.
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by dTal 3mo ago
Are you sure? It's popular to call them "ineffective" because it's a safe way of saying they annoy you while virtue signalling that you do in fact care about climate change and do think that something should be done. B
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by dTal 3mo ago
They do not "stitch together" anything. Neither on a technical level, nor a philosophical one. It "scales better than you expected" because your mental model is wrong . And, not to insult you, but it's quite obvio
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by dTal 3mo ago
I was idly browsing F-Droid yesterday and found a Claude coded B-REP CAD program built on OpenCASCADE, all touch friendly and everything. Definitely something happening.
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by dTal 3mo ago
No thanks. >We don't need kernel level anti cheats. More than that, they'd be illegal by your own standard, if applied fairly. You can't steal control of someone's computer just because they bought a game from you. Th
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by dTal 3mo ago
This already exists more or less exactly as you describe. Family mobile phone plans offer the ability to designate a number as having parental restrictions, and the phone company will intercept DNS requests and substitute a version of Googl
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by dTal 3mo ago
Mobile phones rather famously tend not to be plugged into landlines.
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by dTal 3mo ago
So quite a lot then?
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by dTal 3mo ago
They're resigning because Google is complicit in killing people. How is that "identity politics"? Do you just throw the word "identity" in there for no reason?
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by dTal 3mo ago
Uh huh. And why is it crazy?
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by dTal 3mo ago
>If you think nuclear facilities are complicate I would suggest to look into facilities used to manufacture polycrystalline silicon for solar panels, or facilities for manufacturing gas turbines used in gas power plants. That's an u
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by dTal 3mo ago
If your language is indeed the first to be born in a mobile phone, after all this time, that would rather suggest that there is a difference. Ergonomic differences and artificial restrictions are still differences and restrictions.
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by dTal 3mo ago
that you know of
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by dTal 3mo ago
Bits is bits - so sorry you couldn't figure out the right bits to make the hardware do what you want, but those bits do exist and they are findable in principle - it's still all software! Your lack of knowledge of the signing ke
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by dTal 3mo ago
Bad take. Some things are feasible and some things are not, "anything is possible" is a useless framework. Example: go convert two smartphones to communicate p2p over their 4g radios - it's all software! LLM "awareness&q
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by dTal 4mo ago
I dunno, Chez Scheme is from 1985 and remains today one of the most magically optimizing compilers for a dynamic language in existence... kind of makes you wonder how we went so far wrong with Python.
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by dTal 4mo ago
ollama is just a wrapper around llama.cpp, and a pretty janky one at that. You're much better off using it directly.
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by dTal 4mo ago
Because the local LLMs available today are already fantastic, and the difference between no LLM and an open weights LLM is much smaller than the gap between an open LLM and a so-called "frontier" model. It's important that pe
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by dTal 4mo ago
Link? You have to tell us if you want to break through the noise!
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by dTal 4mo ago
We aren't? Are you sure? Where is your email inbox? Where are your backups? Where are your music files? For most people the answer to all those is "someone else's computer".
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by dTal 4mo ago
Anyone with an M-series Apple computer can run something very competently. Mac Pro users can run 30B class models which is good enough for the vast majority of practical everyday purposes, far better than the original ChatGPT was. Anyone wi
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by dTal 4mo ago
It does not, but it might encourage more people to care. Worrying about training is a luxury when you are starting from a baseline of "OpenAI spies upon me and controls my access". Let's focus on getting every Tom, Dick and H
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by dTal 4mo ago
It's good that there is a movement for open LLMs, but it's not where the battleground is right now . The battleground is local vs service LLMs, and we are losing that battle badly despite all the software being here now and via
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by dTal 4mo ago
Ah, I think it's safe to say you wouldn't. Nothing against you, but the personality required to acquire a trillion (!!!) dollars is incompatible with the kind of philanthropic thinking you clearly possess.
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by dTal 4mo ago
Take this as a sign that you're out of the loop and your bubble is smaller than you thought. niri is the current hot tiling compositor, and I've switched my laptop over to it recently - away from Plasma - because it's so incr

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