dale_glass

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by dale_glass 14d ago
> A model is not derived work of its training data. This seems to me insane, but a lot of the world seems to hold this view Why insane? Models don't take the content as-is, they take measurements. I don't owe you royalties just
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by dale_glass 20d ago
How about bmaptool? It can work on sparse images. In general, I don't see the point in manually specifying block sizes most of the time. What I want nearly always the maximum performance, and that should be possible to derive from the
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by dale_glass 20d ago
Why are we still using dd? Seriously, it's a weird obtuse command. Weird syntax that doesn't match anything else, and the block size shouldn't be needed 99% of the time. A modern tool should figure out a good value on its own
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by dale_glass 23d ago
Eventually data centers will get sated for one reason or another, or production capacity will increase, or manufacturing will shift toward higher capacities. Or some combination of those.
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by dale_glass 2mo ago
The my_random_bytes implementation doesn't look good at all at first glance. Let's see: 1. I believe it errors out if the HWRNG returns the same value twice. That's actually a thing that can legitimately happen. "0"
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by dale_glass 2mo ago
It appears to be real: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1pvqd6c5... Zero transactions so far.
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by dale_glass 4mo ago
In some ways, sure. The LACK ( https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/lack-side-table-white-30449908/ ) is probably one of the most optimized pieces of furniture you can buy. There's no hand crafted desk that c
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by dale_glass 4mo ago
I meant CD quality audio, as in 44.1 KHz/16 bit digital files, not specifically the CD physical medium. It's an old invention and still fulfills every playback need possible, let alone for old audiophiles who long stopped being ab
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by dale_glass 4mo ago
It is bad by modern standards. Low capacity, high noise, imperfect stereo separation, pretty bad frequency response. CD quality audio solves every problem perfectly and it's old and dirt cheap at this point. To even approach that with
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by dale_glass 4mo ago
You need to carve the master to have something to press from.
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by dale_glass 4mo ago
How does it buffer audio? One thing I didn't realize for a long time is that it turns out that a lot of these machines have a digital stage. To cut a disk you need to pack the grooves as close as possible. But the spiral isn't fix
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by dale_glass 4mo ago
Apparently it's sort of sensible, but weird. msoTriStateMixed applies to aggregates. Eg, text.isBold() can be true, false, or a mix. Partly bold, partly not bold. msoTriStateToggle isn't a real value but only used as a sort of fla
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
I'm generally friends with good, sane, smart people. If they're all jumping from the bridge, there's almost certainly something to jump from, so yes I would. https://xkcd.com/1170/
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
I'm referring to actual people I argued with in the past. People convinced that AI in a self-driving car would involve the car calculating whether to kill a pedestrian or the driver, rather than trying to figure out whether this thing
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
The critics didn't do themselves any favors. Part think the Terminator has something useful to say on the subject, part invent contrived scenarios like self-driving cars having to resolve trolley problems. Reality turned out to be much
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
That's not shutting anything down, that's just being selective with what you accept, and everyone did that already to some extent. Even pre-AI it was obvious that contributions have to be vetted for a bunch of reasons.
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
> The solution is exactly what the linked article says: shut it down. At this point it's impossible, so I concur with the parent: forget about the shutting it down and think of something actually realistic.
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
My most blood boiling error message (long time ago, maybe they fixed it): "No headset audio" -- displayed by the Oculus desktop app, in regards to not having audio on the headset. There's a "learn more" link, which
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
I'd fall somewhere in the middle. I like coding, I just don't particularly enjoy figuring out the framework du jour. The task at hand is interesting, but the part where I need to figure out what are the incantations to have a Qt l
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
So get yourself a solder fume extractor? There's plenty cheap ones to pick from.
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
Buy a Framework Desktop with 128 GB instead. It's half the price, and though I bought it for even less before RAM prices went crazy.
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
I wonder why this is not more common. LVM is easy to set up, and it's already common to allocate volumes for things like disk images for VMs, so why not databases?
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
> This take is always bizarre to me. You're not talking about the internet, you're talking about the websites you choose to use. There are alternatives for every single website/service that you don't like. Yeah, the p
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
I believe transactions are quite optional though? A miner could choose to mine empty blocks if they truly wanted, which transactions to include if any is up to them.
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
A transaction fee of what? To take a fee from a transaction there has to be a transaction to take a fee from, which needs some sort of "coin" that came from somewhere. Somebody has to create a money supply and distribute it someho
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
True, but that's the theory, and there's the practical reality that is messy. Where things like almost the entire team being on vacation for Christmas happens. Or where Bob, coming back from vacation 2 days into a new sprint would
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
When I was doing the scrum master role I just did sprints flexibly. It's not a law of the universe that there's got to be a sprint every 2 weeks. For instance I'd schedule them around holidays and vacations. Try to make sure
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
I don't know, it seems popular to complain about Scrum on here, but I've never had that many problems with it. I've both been in the team, and acted as the manager. I think most of the failures come down to that all those rit
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
That's a different failure mode. Before Micro USB there was Mini USB, which was the same concept but I believe the fault was that the springy parts were inside the device. When that wore out, you were screwed because the cable would ju
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by dale_glass 5mo ago
IMO, Perl's downfall was mostly Perl 6, not the language. Plenty people wrote plenty of Perl long ago. Yeah, the whole $ business is maybe a bit unintuitive, but it's the least of the problem really. It's easy to get past it

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