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by derefr 2y ago
In a very specific technical sense, it could be argued that it doesn't — the data for GitHub forks (i.e. their branches and the commits of such) is actually stored within the base repo forked from . In other words, by forking somethin
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by derefr 2y ago
Well, it's at least slightly more open than e.g. Microsoft's source-available repositories, let alone leaked proprietary source; as you do have the freedom to e.g. read the Winamp source code and then ground-up reimplement a Wi
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by derefr 2y ago
Dunno about mitochondria as a cell feature specifically. But there exists a similar constraint on the total size of the DNA in the cell nucleus (and therefore the ability of a species to survive polyploid mutations that double-or-more the a
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by derefr 2y ago
BB&N was and remains a private company, and isn't primarily a government contractor. It was a one-time government grant — and for much less than the full CapEx required to build the thing. DARPA essentially said "you want to b
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by derefr 2y ago
I've always felt like the best interactive educational model for forming a good intuition on how to maximize throughput and minimize worst-case latency in a pipelined parallel dataflow system (e.g. DSPs, FPGAs, GPUs, or even distribute
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by derefr 2y ago
To put a fine point on it: what DARPA did, was to sponsor a company called BB&N to develop a piece of hardware called the Interface Message Processor (or IMP). And that's pretty much it. The IMP was the first gateway doing what you
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by derefr 2y ago
> Any diagnostic and recovery tools available at boot time are going to be designed to be non-privileged, so there are a number of things (such as validating the integrity of the encrypted user data partition) that just aren't going
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by derefr 2y ago
Neat! I'd never heard of xdelta or BPS. Which is weird; you'd think that any large host in the ecosystem (ROMHacking.net, SMWCentral, etc) would force all posters to switch over to these formats, just to ensure that no copyrighte
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by derefr 2y ago
These patch files are supposed to be diffs between the final version of the ROM after your modifications, against the original upstream ROM you started with. Ideally, they're only supposed to contain the code and assets you upserte
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by derefr 2y ago
I would argue the opposite: AirPods are a pure "client" device — they need to be connected to by something, they don't connect to something; and they have no display, input method, or other means to initiate/change B
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by derefr 2y ago
Processed fish products are a bit different from a large chunk of a single fish, in terms of the promises that can be made. The problem with large, wild-caught fish, is that different fish are going to be living in slightly-different region
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by derefr 2y ago
I think there's a practical distinction between the kind of term "omega-3" is vs the kind of term "marijuana" is. You mostly only find THC/CBD/etc in marijuana; and we mostly only consume marijuana to ge
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by derefr 2y ago
There are two costs associated with using a hosted inference platform: the OpEx of API calls, and the CapEx of setting up an account in the first place. This second cost is usually trivial, as it just requires things any regular person alre
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by derefr 2y ago
Or you could ignore the self-signed aspect altogether, and instead give the OS VPN framework (where all network introspection stuff lives on iOS) a hook into the forced-choice HTTPS client — a hook that allows the active system VPN to say e
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by derefr 2y ago
You know what's easier than waiting around to get really lucky? Using those same network-health dashboards as DDoS target lists, to temporarily degrade/shut down the whole network except for your own nodes. Also, big nodes route m
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by derefr 2y ago
> those YouTube channels which post a new "product review" every 10 minutes, with an AI generated thumbnail and AI voice reading an AI script that was never graced by human eyes before being shat out onto the internet The probl
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by derefr 2y ago
1. People don't generally use the (big, whole-web-corpus-trained) general-purpose LLM base-models to generate bot slop for the web. Paying per API call to generate that kind of stuff would be far too expensive; it'd be like paying
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by derefr 2y ago
What do you qualify as a "modern mainstream Android device"? I think the median Android device out there in the world today — just by sheer volume of them produced — is probably a "Welcome" phone with a MediaTek 6580 c
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by derefr 2y ago
The article wasn't necessarily made visible on its attributed publication date.
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by derefr 2y ago
Cross-target toolchain support for shipping for all platforms from any platform? (Not sure that's in there, but if it were, it'd be large.)
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by derefr 2y ago
As a sci-fi writer who likes a spot of silly world-building myself, this line doesn't seem particularly absurd to me, but it does paint me a mental image of something the author very likely didn't intend to communicate: Pictur
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by derefr 2y ago
The target you're thinking of with outdated OS webviews is probably Android. Tauri doesn't even support Android; it's a desktop framework. On both Windows and macOS, the "OS webview" is just a framework binding to t
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by derefr 2y ago
> 11. This is all low-level pedantry. I can think of TCP like a two-way Unix pipe that goes over the network, and completely ignore how it is implemented. I mean, that's true, insofar as pipes have incredibly weak guarantees too — a
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by derefr 2y ago
> I’m always a bit puzzled why people stress the importance of these “needle in a haystack” tests where the model has to find one specific thing in a huge document. That seems far less relevant to me in terms of usefulness in the real wo
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by derefr 2y ago
Yes; but in the case of a "common misconception" like this, there's always also a nontrivial minority who do know the "right answer"[1] — and so enough examples of that occur in the training data to enable the mod
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by derefr 2y ago
What you get from the self-supervised training of a base model is more like "language fluency plus a web of crystallized-knowledge relationships." But also, ML model training is a bit like the stock market: the noise/stupidit
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by derefr 2y ago
To sort through the "dialect of jargon" that a piece of educational CS/SWEng writing is using, it helps to put it in the context of its publication. Consider both when it was published, and what kind of work the author of
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by derefr 2y ago
Ownership of private property (abstract or concrete) is a formal, legally-defined concept — and "do you have essentially sovereign authority over the disposition of the asset" is always at the core of it. No, you don't own
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by derefr 2y ago
The argument is against the project name: “fighting” flash fraud suggests this project could somehow disincentivize flash fraud. Like how “fighting scammers” means things like taking down scam call centers.
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by derefr 2y ago
The problem with that is that if you truly own something, you have the right to sell that thing, and nobody can say who you can sell it to . Give it six months and it wouldn’t be “creator-owned” any more, due to cash-strapped creators

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