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by derefr 2y ago
Language package managers don't need copy-on-write, because there's no "write" — the files that make up dependencies are immutable from the perspective of the projects that they get installed into. There's no advant
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by derefr 2y ago
Didn't realize that! That's one snippet I can maybe eliminate now. (As to why I didn't know: the first thing in the RDoc for Kernel#system is still "see the docs for Kernel#spawn for options" — and then Kernel#spa
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by derefr 2y ago
While Program Optimization, in this case mostly meaning dead-code elimination for any runtime code not called by the Ruby code.
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by derefr 2y ago
This complaint comes up enough that I'm surprised nobody's created the Ruby equivalent of GraalVM, to compile a Ruby script, all its deps, and a WPOed subset of the Ruby runtime, into a native executable.
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by derefr 2y ago
I love using Ruby for shell scripting, but there are also a ton of little nits I have to fix whenever I'm doing it. For example: Ruby has no built-in for "call a subprocess and convert a nonzero exit status into an exception"
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by derefr 2y ago
The type of marketer or program manager who comes up with an “unlimited” offering usually has a very limited imagination for exactly how much of something a customer could really use. These types usually have no sense for what limits their
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by derefr 2y ago
You don't need everything you describe in 2 to still be advancing the state of the art from how ignorant of "confidence" today's models can be. After all, what I'm describing is something that even a classical Bayes
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by derefr 2y ago
Try using any of that 25-year-old software with accessibility devices, or at any DPI scaling other than 96x96, or split between two monitors with different refresh rates (or worse yet, two monitors connected to two different GPUs), or with
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by derefr 2y ago
> But perhaps the simplest explanation is that an LLM doesn't recognize what constitutes a correct answer but is compelled to provide one Why is it compelled to provide one, anyway? Which is to say, why is the output of each model
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by derefr 2y ago
ML scientists will tell you it can do X and some Y but not much Z. But the public doesn’t listen to ML scientists. Most of what the public hears about AI comes from businessmen trying to market a vision to investors — a vision, specifically
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by derefr 2y ago
I think you misunderstood what I said above, because I wasn't talking about what you as "a person who wants to run scripts" needs; I was rather talking about what the team managing the infrastructure for these people needs.
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by derefr 2y ago
Or ... it requires you to use the parental controls built into the phone OS (which it loudly insists you set up if you're setting up a phone for a child) to whitelist what apps the child can even be accessing, to only be ones you ha
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by derefr 2y ago
Who said anything about a technical problem? Being an “admin on their phone” just means knowing their PIN code and passwords and grabbing their phone whenever you want. No technical know-how required. Also, I object to this: > They'
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by derefr 2y ago
Why does scanning of children's communications need to involve non-E2E-encrypted communication? The parents can just be the admins of their children's devices and tell those devices to capture and report communications before th
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by derefr 2y ago
Maybe we write very different kinds of scripts. For my startup, such a "script" might be: 1. An hourly itemized invoicing batch job for incremental usage-based billing, that pulls billable users from an ERP DB, grabs their usage w
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by derefr 2y ago
> I don't think any such thing needs to bother with being sneaky. From a rogue AGI's perspective, there's a nonzero probability of a random human with a grudge finding the hardware it lives on and just unplugging it. (And
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by derefr 2y ago
You're thinking about the (rather few) advantages distribution confers for single-tenant scaling. But the distribution here is mainly for other reasons: • operational fault-tolerance: arbitrary servers in the cluster hosting the func
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by derefr 2y ago
All you need is Internet access, deepfake video synthesis, and some cryptocurrency (which can in turn be used to buy credit cards and full identities off the dark web), and you have everything you need to lie, manipulate, and bribe an endle
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by derefr 2y ago
Lambda is also distributed , though — while CGI scripts just live on the webserver itself. So if you're old like me and want a crisper mental model, the actual '90s equivalent of Lambda would be: • a cluster of "diskless&quo
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by derefr 2y ago
See my sibling reply for a clarification; I'm asking on a tangent about whether oxygenation would be helpful in room-temperature oil extractions generally; not whether it'd be helpful in room-temperature oil extractions for culina
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by derefr 2y ago
Because you might be trying to extract something that would spoil/lyse/denature under heat or low pH. Doesn't apply in this case, but I can think of lots of cases where it would. I would bet that there are many Volatile Organ
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by derefr 2y ago
Now I'm curious whether there's any way to do oil infusion where the oil doesn't create an anaerobic environment. Can you bubble oxygen through oil in a way that would keep aerobic bacterial reactions going, without making th
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by derefr 2y ago
I feel like you're underestimating the average large state actor's ability to employ subtlety when they really care about a long-term foreign intelligence operation. For example, it doesn't have to be the case that DJI has ev
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by derefr 2y ago
Yes, management consultancies are not hired because anyone expects them to know what they're doing. But they are hired for a certain specific kind of "expertise" they uniquely possess — that being the internal knowledge abo
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by derefr 2y ago
It's still not most companies . But it's maybe the top N public companies — the ones that are all "headless" in corporate-vision terms, and so hire the same few management consultancies to tell them what to do. Ignoring
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by derefr 2y ago
Which of the two would say nothing in the public meeting to let you save face, but then would pull you aside for a "quick chat" afterward, and tell you your idea is bad then?
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by derefr 2y ago
Okay, but if a person has already decided that they "want" a particular product (probably due to the other effects you describe), to the point that they have gone to an e-commerce website and added the product to their shopping ca
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by derefr 2y ago
The climate change gave them fewer places to hide from the humans with clubs.
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by derefr 2y ago
It does one thing BitTorrent doesn't — you can compose a new CAR file by combining a few new chunks with a bunch of existing chunks. So you don't get the problem where releasing a new version of an archive means nobody's seed
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by derefr 2y ago
How about favorable places given an anonymous virtual credit card that you bought on a spamming-services forum? (As in, if you don't have to worry about being identified, and it's just a question of wanting the seedbox itself to b

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