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by derefr 7mo ago
In fact, as long as the malware is just doing deletes, you can just merge the two "timelines" by restoring the snapshot and then replaying all the edits but ignoring the deletes. Lost deletes really aren't much of a problem!
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by derefr 8mo ago
I think these aren't meant to be representative of arbitrary userland-workload LLM inferences, but rather the kinds of tasks macOS might spin up a background LLM inference for. Like the Apple Intelligence stuff, or Photos auto-tagging,
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by derefr 8mo ago
Em-dashes — always coming in pairs, like this — exist to clarify the shade of meaning of the thing that comes directly before the first em-dash of the pair in the sentence. They function as a special-purpose kind of parenthetical sub-clause
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by derefr 8mo ago
> In the meantime popular and widely sold gaming screens with matte blur filters and mediocre ppi give me headache and eye fatigue after a few hours of use. I presume you also mean "when used for text heavy work" here, yes? Or
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by derefr 8mo ago
I believe the GP was talking about trying to do “real work” on a phone, which is something many people try to do — but which many others find a repugnant idea, as they currently use the excuse of the impracticality of doing work on a phone
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by derefr 8mo ago
That sounds like you just don’t like the climate + ecology of the place you happen to live / the places people around you enjoy visiting. Ain’t no mosquitoes or cold or rain in Arizona.
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by derefr 8mo ago
I dunno; I think Tradcoding would go beyond regular modern coding, and rather imply some kind of regressive Nara Smith "first grind and sift the flour in your kitchen"-style programming. No Internet connection, no cache of ecosy
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by derefr 8mo ago
"Chat" models have been heavily fine-tuned with a training dataset that exclusively uses a formal turn-taking conversation syntax / document structure. For example, ChatGPT was trained with documents using OpenAI's own C
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by derefr 8mo ago
I think there was a period from Windows 3.1 to somewhere during Windows 98 (maybe right up until the release of Office 97?) where both first-party and third-party Windows apps were all expected to be built entirely in terms of the single bu
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by derefr 8mo ago
> I think most of the complaints from the tech circles are completely unfounded in reality. Many non-tech people and younger ones actually prefer using Ribbon. Well, yes, but that observation doesn't prove the point you think it doe
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by derefr 8mo ago
That would imply a slightly different semantics than what the extension currently provides, though. If you truly want certain users to be "ignored", then you probably want any of their comments (and the subtree of descendant comme
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by derefr 8mo ago
> along the ubiquitous "please verify your account" emails with NO OPTION to click "that's NOT me, somebody misused my email" What would you expect clicking that "wasn't me" link to do? In 99% of c
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by derefr 8mo ago
If you think about it, Wordpad was always just the free "lite" edition of Word for people who didn't buy Office to use. Like Outlook Express was to Outlook. But in the world we seem to be heading toward, where you can only lo
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by derefr 8mo ago
> One thing I think you are missing is that in person groups are usually far smaller. Yes, but — an online group with 1000 members isn't really equivalent to an in-person group with 1000 members. It's actually more equivalent
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by derefr 8mo ago
> This has led me to a theory that humans just can't behave nicely beyond some threshold group size. I think you're generalizing far too broadly. The problem you're describing is more-or-less exclusively a problem with onl
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by derefr 8mo ago
Interesting. So the presumption, then, would be that Facebook only turns on the slop-content hose to "fill the void" on many people's dashboards from a lack of organic content from people they follow? I.e. that if you were pe
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by derefr 8mo ago
That's fascinating. I'd love to see a shasum tree of both OS installs to know if this was due to some path-dependent upgrade sequence one of the machines went through; or whether this is down to some sub-model-number hardware-comp
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by derefr 8mo ago
> I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically - giving my private data/keys to 400K lines of vibe coded monster that is being actively attacked at scale is not very appealing at all. So... why do that, then? To
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by derefr 8mo ago
> Parameter count was used as a measure for how great the proprietary models were until GPT3, then it suddenly stopped. AFAICT that's mostly because what you're getting when you select a "model" from most of these clo
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by derefr 8mo ago
...capital flight from totalitarian regimes?
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by derefr 8mo ago
> so even if there are the most tremendous gains in medical sciences I'm almost certainly not going to have one in 100+ years Never say never. People of today are building "90s entertainment center" setups for nostalgia, c
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by derefr 8mo ago
You presume the things I want to save aren't individually TiBs in size. Anyone who has even an amateur interest in, say, making movies, probably has at least a few projects worth of 4K RAW footage they would hope outlives them. (And
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by derefr 8mo ago
I was directly answering the GP poster's posed question. Let me rearrange that question for readability: > Why do people "worry" about Zig potentially never becoming mainstream? There are people who want to learn Zig becau
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by derefr 8mo ago
A mainstream language has predictable library-ecosystem support for most use-cases.
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by derefr 8mo ago
I wonder if these publishers would be more amenable to a private archiver that only serves registered academic / journalistic research projects (the way most physical private archives do), with a specific provision to never provide dat
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by derefr 8mo ago
Notepad stuck around in Windows for so long, despite Wordpad also being built-in, because Notepad was supposed to be for e.g. editing C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT or C:\Windows\System32\hosts.txt in Safe Mode. It was basically supposed to be the /b
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by derefr 8mo ago
But it doesn't matter that Azure is garbage, because the people they market it to are big enterprise CTOs, not the actual engineers who'll have to use it. Azure has quite a few of the S&P500 using it.
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by derefr 8mo ago
It is odd, yeah. I'm guessing both humans and LLMs would tend to get the "vibe" from the pelican task, that they're essentially being asked to create something like a child's crayon drawing. And that "vibe&quot
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by derefr 8mo ago
AFAICT, the steady-state Liquid Glass effects (think: the address bar in Safari, staying static itself while you scroll the page under it) cost nothing. That's what I meant above. Animating the Liquid Glass widgets (i.e. changing t
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by derefr 8mo ago
At a certain point the problem stops being the roof, and starts being subsidence of the ground under the increasingly-heavy building.

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