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by derefr 1y ago
IIRC you can actually get the same kind of hollow praise from much dumber, locally-runnable (~8B parameters) models.
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by derefr 1y ago
Some hardcore Greenpeace types might argue that this is a special case where such a person is literally using their system "wrong" — as in unethically . In the sense that they are deliberately wasting [i.e. "turning into
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by derefr 1y ago
For use with vintage computers that use CRTs? If not, what kind of oddball display / use-case do you have, where it would be better to play a screensaver than to follow the usual modern flow of display dim -> display black -> dis
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by derefr 1y ago
> Reminders is not the job of a todo app, it is the job of a calendar app. Ehh. The thing with a calendar "reminder" is that calendar apps assume that any such reminder is irrelevant once the time you set for the reminder goes
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by derefr 1y ago
> (make and complete) finish making or "oh shit he really ended up making that" (the MORE common meaning in this case) I would note that we have that one in [vernacular] English, too, but only in the past tense: "done [X]e
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by derefr 1y ago
Possibly-interesting comparison: in Japanese, the way to talk about trying to do some verb-phrase X, is "Xて見る" — which is usually literally translated as "we'll try [X]ing", but which breaks down into "[verb-ph
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by derefr 1y ago
Question: would it be possible to invert the problem? I.e., rather than decreasing the size of the RAG — use the RAG to compress everything other than the RAG index itself. E.g., design a filesystem so that the RAG index is part of /
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by derefr 1y ago
The mid-spec 2025 iPhone can run “useful local LLMs” yet has 256GB of total storage. (Sure, this is a spec distortion due to Apple’s market-segmentation tactics, but due to the sheer install-base, it’s still a configuration you might want t
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by derefr 1y ago
> It'd be nice if something like protobuf was easier to write and read in a schemeless fashion. If you just want a generic, binary, hierarchical type-length-value encoding, have you considered https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by derefr 1y ago
Claude.ai, ChatGPT, etc. are finished B2C products. They're black boxes, encapsulated experiences. Consumers don't want to pick a model, or know what model they're using; they just want to "talk to AI", and for the
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by derefr 1y ago
Speaking of "alternatives to e-ink for a zero-power-use-when-not-updating dot-matrix display"... Has there ever been designed a "display" that is just a thermal printer hidden in one end of a box, and a take-up spool + t
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by derefr 1y ago
> And because people forget, it is not too far off to say that would be like trying to deliver the internet of 2020 on machines with specs comparable to a Nintendo Wii. I mean, we could totally have done that. There's nothing stoppi
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by derefr 1y ago
I mean, they could at least fly some drones over to the beach for some B-roll.
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by derefr 1y ago
> we fell outside of their "risk appetite." If you take that statement at face value (not sure if you should), it's fascinating to think that your business was able to operate for two decades with what I assume are the sta
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by derefr 1y ago
Careful with your wording, as I think you're slipping the goalposts a bit: the thing this "Open Source Maintenance Fee" is pushing back against here wasn't specifically bug reports. It was issues — a more general cat
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by derefr 1y ago
> or if you open issues I feel like there should be an exception carved out to this policy, if the submitter of an issue is offering to create (or, as a corporation, dedicate their own engineers' time to creating) a PR to resolve th
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by derefr 1y ago
> We're still a few generations of hardware away I'm guessing. I don't know; I think we could be running models "as good as" Claude Opus 4, a few years down the line, with a lot less hardware — perhaps even goi
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by derefr 1y ago
I mean, in my case, I don't think what I want could be implemented via query hints. The types of things I would want to communicate to the server, are pragmas entirely divorced from the semantics of SQL: pragmas that only make sense if
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by derefr 1y ago
> especially with "63" or "FF" appearing in every Infinite Lives cheat code Except that those numbers did not commonly appear in Game Genie codes, because Game Genie codes are [trivially] enciphered. See e.g. htt
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by derefr 1y ago
It's funny; as someone who is exactly pg_search's market, I actually often want the opposite: ACID, MVCC transactions, automatic table and index management... but no query language. At the data scale + level of complexity our OLAP
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by derefr 1y ago
That'd be a bit like expecting Five Guys to cook you something vegetarian. Google are an AI company at this point. If you don't want AI touching your "food", use a search engine not run by an AI company.
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by derefr 1y ago
I don't see anything that appeals to me or anyone I know (and I know some very geeky people!) in the concept. You can certainly add the CPU/GPU module — it's just a NUC with a battery strapped to it, essentially — but if doin
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by derefr 1y ago
To be clear, I meant that, when running your average (i.e. mostly-idle, not-very-graphically-intense, yet smoothly-animated) interactive-UI application, with the CPU+GPU module needing to stream vaguely-realtime updates wirelessly over to t
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by derefr 1y ago
As I said, it's a two finger double-tap. But also, under further investigation — and unlike with pinch-to-zoom — desktop support for the two-finger double-tap gesture seems to be specific to macOS. (Which is weird, because Chrome has
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by derefr 1y ago
FYI: the pinch-to-zoom gesture from mobile browsers (from before websites were mobile-responsive) has also long been implemented for all modern desktop browsers. It's viewport zoom, which is far better than the font-scaling zoom you ge
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by derefr 1y ago
Why not a pocket computer with wifi + a softphone app + a virtual PBX service (e.g. voip.ms) for that softphone app to connect to? As a bonus, your phone number wouldn't be bound to that device, but instead would exist everywhere you c
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by derefr 1y ago
Except that the screen and the radio are 80% of power usage, so this doesn't help anything. For what most people do with their laptop/tablet/phone, the little bursts of CPU are effectively "free" — increasingly chea
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by derefr 1y ago
Eh. To me, a bot is something users don't know they're running, and would shut off if they knew it was there. Proxyware is more like a crypto miner — the original kind, from back when crypto-mining was something a regular computer
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by derefr 1y ago
> It seems quite likely that this is being done via a botnet - illegally abusing thousands of people's devices. Sigh. Just because traffic is coming from thousands of devices on residential IPs, doesn't mean it's a botnet
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by derefr 1y ago
> At what point do the new words become the actual words? Presumably, for this use-case, that would come at exactly the point where using “unalive” as a keyword in an image-generation prompt generates an image that Apple wouldn’t appreci

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