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by derefr 2y ago
I would love an AI coding assistant that doesn't respond until it's gone out and tested its answer in a sandbox to confirm it actually compiles.
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by derefr 2y ago
I'm not a kernel developer! The Linux kernel is just a much closer analogy than your average piece of software would be, because the Linux kernel actually has this distinct step that generates a standalone build config file that late
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by derefr 2y ago
I think you may have misunderstood my statement. Yes, you can cushion people from the effect of trauma as it's happening , by providing resources at or soon after the point of trauma. But your epigenome is a record (almost exclusi
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by derefr 2y ago
The way most epigenetic changes have been observed to work, is that information is collected by various "setup programs" (genes that activate on a timeline, and then silence themselves after "running.") These "setup
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by derefr 2y ago
> Hard to argue with that, but do we now use a handful of epigenetic markers generated using a cheek swab sample to decide who gets “healthcare access, special lodging, sanitation, and nutrition”? No, never. I don't think the activi
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by derefr 2y ago
It doesn't matter when lay people misuse professional jargon. It matters when professionals speaking to lay people misuse professional jargon. (As was what was being pointed out as wrong about the OP article — it is professional
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by derefr 2y ago
Personally, I think of DNA as being like the Linux kernel codebase. There's a lot of raw "code" there — but not all of it ends up in every running kernel! DNA methyl-groups, acetylated histones, etc — these are the config fil
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by derefr 2y ago
The terms were essentially redefined more strictly as our understanding of genetics grew more refined. (I.e. per my sibling post, there were jargon terms with these names that had one particular definition under an early, black-box mental m
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by derefr 2y ago
> See, this is a non-starter. Sure it's coherent, but you've simply failed on step one to identify how humans communicate. No. There are two distinct ways in which humans communicate. • Humans create and use words , whose us
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by derefr 2y ago
First, a point of clarification: coding and encoding are two different things. "Encoding" is a CS term that doesn't come up much in biology. (You could say that DNA is an encoding of a base-4 number sequence.) "Cod
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by derefr 2y ago
I work as an editor sometimes. I've worked in technical writing, though not specifically science journalism. My guess for why this keeps happening, is that it's a two-step process, fueled by a failure of communication: 1. The scie
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by derefr 2y ago
Well, yes, but — again, from the perspective of a politician — if foreign agent provocateurs are forced to rely on locals to spread their messages, then you can just arrest those locals . Unlike the foreigners, the locals are under your ju
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by derefr 2y ago
The obvious use-case (to me) is to create an agent that relies on an interpreter with a bunch of pre-loaded state that's already been set up exactly a certain way — where that state would require a lot of initial CPU time (resulting in
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by derefr 2y ago
> The only way this works is to have a list of banned talking points from a government agency. How so? The "obvious" solution to me, from the perspective of a politician, would be to 1. require online identity verification for
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by derefr 2y ago
The part of macOS I miss when using a Linux desktop isn't how macOS looks , it's how you interact with it. • I miss the keyboard shortcuts. Not only what they are, but also the strict conformity macOS apps have to using the sam
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by derefr 2y ago
> The issue with "mining" the rom for shaders is they're not defined in a consistent way across the games. I don't want to be snippy, but — I don't think you understood the rest of the paragraph you're attem
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by derefr 2y ago
So how about: 1. A global, networked shader cache — where when any instance of the emulator encounters a new shader, it compiles it, and then pushes the KV-pair (ROM hash, target platform, console shader object-code hash)=(target-platform
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by derefr 2y ago
Network analysis of financial transactions to detect "layering" (onion-routed money laundering) paths, probably.
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by derefr 2y ago
I'm very curious now whether speaking to an LLM multi-language base model in German , results in it generating German-language responses that are more ego-stroking than German speakers would tend to be (presumably because it learned &
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by derefr 2y ago
That's just how people talk — at least, when they're trying to keep conversation productive. There's a reason the "shit sandwich" is part of professional communication etiquette. If you don't know how insecure
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by derefr 2y ago
> For a little more money than 4 RPi 5's, you can find on eBay a 1U Dell server with a 32 core Epyc CPU and 64 GB memory. This gives you at least an order of magnitude more performance. You could also get one or two Ryzen mini PCs w
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by derefr 2y ago
Not apt-get per se, but most of the infra components underlying the "AI stuff" can be `conda install`-ed.
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by derefr 2y ago
Given that it's a house phone, have you tried enabling Wi-Fi Calling (VoWiFi) in the carrier settings (if you have that option), and then putting the phone in Airplane Mode with wi-fi enabled? AFAIK that should be fairly less impactful
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by derefr 2y ago
Speaking of 40k, I'm curious if anyone has created a FOSS 40k-alike game, where every unit has a standard 3D-printable model that is itself a FOSS asset. Not that that'd be too interesting on its own; but it'd almost certai
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by derefr 2y ago
My understanding is that the inherent rarity of some cards is actually part of the game's balancing. If everyone can have every card (or worse, multiples of every card), then some vaguely game-breaking cards, or combinations of cards
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by derefr 2y ago
Maybe in terms of being a word processor (i.e. supporting all the layout and editing/proofing features that Word has.) But if, as the GP says, you want a program to “just let you write” (with some "writing-phase" accoutrement
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by derefr 2y ago
But if you demake a game hard enough (i.e. really clamp down on the asset details, by using intentionally-stylized art rather than lower-quality realistic art, etc) then it doesn't need to take so much time and money to create the port
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by derefr 2y ago
I find it interesting that we don’t see more “officially-licensed demakes” of AAA games being released for devices (the Switch; phones; old PCs) that can’t play the AAA version. It used to be very common (with e.g. SNES games getting simult
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by derefr 2y ago
What you described is likely usage-based, in the sense that the (presumably cloud) vendor usually has to reserve a certain amount of resources per user, “just in case”, because they don’t know / can’t predict your activity pattern.
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by derefr 2y ago
Cloudflare doesn't have hidden limits. Their limits are not written down , and they're somewhat moving targets (which is probably why they're not written down); but they're very obvious (in an economic sense), and t

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