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by derefr 2y ago
> Today’s AI Still Has a PB&J Problem If this is how you're modelling the problem, then I don't think you learned the right lesson from the PB&J "parable." Here's a timeless bit of wisdom, several decades
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by derefr 2y ago
You're not buying "a year's worth." Adobe can't roll a truck up with all your future project rendering hours on it and dump them on your lawn, such that they would have a valid legal argument of "you can't
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by derefr 2y ago
Signing a contract where, even if you stop using the company's service or having anything to do with the company, you still have to keep paying them nevertheless... sounds like one of those types of deals† that we invented the concept
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by derefr 2y ago
In a limited sense, yes. But in spirit, you would probably only describe it as truly "working" (in the sense of accomplishing its claimed purpose) if as soon as it ran out of things to suggest cancelling, it suggested cancelling i
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by derefr 2y ago
As the page points out (top-right corner), this thing is the physical accessory to an existing phone app: https://busy.app/ Though, mind you, said app doesn't perform exactly the same function as the bar itself; "
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by derefr 2y ago
> which is such an obvious nice product just like BigQuery I always assumed (from outside Google) that the problem was that Colossus had to make a "no malicious actors" assumption in its design in order to make the performance&
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by derefr 2y ago
In Google Cloud parlance, "regional" usually means "transparently master-master replicated across the availability zones within a region", while "zonal" means "not replicated, it just is where it is."
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by derefr 2y ago
Huh. Why raisins, but not other raisin-sized foods (e.g. sunflower seeds, Tic Tacs, etc)?
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by derefr 2y ago
Kind of funny to me that they have to go so "thin client" with this. You'd think there'd be some kind of "mipmap gateway" component to network-aware video editors, that incrementally re-renders scrub-quality
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by derefr 2y ago
I don't normally get annoyed by particular noises... but I've had several middle-ear infections in my life, and I've noticed that every time I get one, I temporarily develop a strong misophonia. Sometimes, in such infections,
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by derefr 2y ago
How odd. I don't think I'm thinking any less hard when making use of LLM-based tools. But then, maybe I'm using LLMs differently? I don't build or rely on pre-prompted agents to automate specific problems or workflows. R
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by derefr 2y ago
Yeah, the ultimate Bluetooth audio protocol would probably be a meta-protocol, combining the two ideas I mentioned with a MIDI-like timecoded sequencing protocol. You'd pre-buffer one or more notification sound effects onto the receive
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by derefr 2y ago
It's so strange (and frustrating) to me that "Bluetooth audio" means "you pass the Bluetooth hardware PCM samples, and it encodes them itself in hardware; or the Bluetooth driver decodes packets in hardware to PCM sample
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by derefr 2y ago
I guess that does address my concrete question as given. But I think I was less imagining a countersuit that literally just "seeks damages for wasted time and effort"... and more imagining a countersuit that can somehow "ro
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by derefr 2y ago
Is there any way to file a (real) countersuit against someone, just to punish them for having wasted your time and energy with a threat of legal action that never materialized?
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by derefr 2y ago
On a tangent re: memory safety in operating systems — We hear a lot these days from the (very much in-the-open) debate over how much (if any) of the Linux kernel should be rewritten in Rust for memory safety. But does anyone know if a simil
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by derefr 2y ago
> Meanwhile the web is trying to make you do the opposite, drawing you in and wasting your time. What a bizarre thing to say. It's true, in some sense, but it's still bizarre. Maybe I'm committing a No True Scotsman fallac
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by derefr 2y ago
I was just thinking yesterday that I'd appreciate a more modern alternative to find(1). Not a simplified one, though! The original problem that led me to thinking about this, was that I wanted to do a search that would include all file
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by derefr 2y ago
Except that the whole problem of WHOIS, that RDAP is solving, is that a WHOIS response an unstructured plaintext response, that's entirely arbitrarily formatted according to the whims of the TLD manager. Ever tried to parse WHOIS dat
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by derefr 2y ago
> Sure there exists a theoretical pm tool that is a superset of a project tracker that could be made to work by not using features but linear is certainly not that. Well, to clarify, then, I think that's exactly what the GP was aski
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by derefr 2y ago
This sounds like someone saying that C++ can't replace C on a given project because it has too many features and nobody can agree on which ones should be used. You do realize that any given organization using the tool can just... write
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by derefr 2y ago
I send them messages written in Khmer asking if they need help. (Most of the victims are not themselves Cambodian and cannot read this. But the messages are not for them; they're to spook their captors.)
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by derefr 2y ago
You get scores for the outputs of the last layer ; so in theory, you could notice when those scores form a particularly flat distribution, and fault. What you can't currently get, from a (linear) Transformer, is a way to induce a simi
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by derefr 2y ago
I'm not sure there's a market in LLM "middleware" per se. Look at the market segments: • B2C: wants vertically-integrated tools that provide "middleware" plus interface. Doesn't want to dick around. Often
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by derefr 2y ago
> Perhaps the process of cryptanalysis is of limited interest to the reader of a novel because the process of Sigint – interception, analysis, cryptanalysis – is analogous (though less interesting) to having somebody physically steal a c
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by derefr 2y ago
> If someone gets their hands on one of your Tailscale nodes, they can access every service on your tailnet, which are likely running with reduced security since that's a huge part of the appeal. This is exactly the situation Beyond
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by derefr 2y ago
> DeepResearch is a cosmetic enhancement that wraps the results in a "report" No, that's not what Xiao said here. Here's the relevant quote > It often begins by creating a table of contents, then systematically app
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by derefr 2y ago
True, but these "Ultra" chips do target the same niche as (some) high-TDP chips. Workstations (like the Mac Studio) have traditionally been a space where "enthusiast"-grade consumer parts (think Threadripper) and actual
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by derefr 2y ago
"Wanting to please" is just fine-tuned implicit prompt stuff, though. You can tell the LLM that it's roleplaying as a senior engineer, and should consider you, the human to be a junior engineer it works with, who is asking
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by derefr 2y ago
In denotation, "dropped" can be used equivalently to "released", yes; but in connotation, using "dropped" instead of "released" implies either that: 1. the particular release was sudden, unexpected, a

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