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by dgacmu 8mo ago
It's not nonsense, it's satire. I was laughing most of the way through both of these articles. The Rockefeller one literally points out that the guy did all this weird stuff and then his son, who didn't, outlived him.
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
> His reports have led to at least 2,721 penalty points, £168,568 in fines and, as he proudly displays in his X (Twitter) bio, “36 drivers DISQUALIFIED”. I would like to borrow this guy for the road in front of my children's school.
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
(1) The pattern "It's not just a X---It's a Y" is super common in LLM-generated text for some reason. Complete with em dash. (I like em dashes and I wish LLMs weren't ruining them for the rest of us) "Upgrading
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
I think the Oxide computer LLM guidelines are wise on this front: > Finally, LLM-generated prose undermines a social contract of sorts: absent LLMs, it is presumed that of the reader and the writer, it is the writer that has undertaken t
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
'multifarious uses' -> the implication would be having not just many but also a wide diversity of uses M-W gives an example use of "Today’s Thermomix has become a beast of multifarious functionality. — Matthew Korfhage, Wi
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
Really? "What's a word that means admitting a large number of uses?" That seems hard to find in a thesaurus without either versatile or multifarious as a starting point (but those are the end points).
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
It is! But you can then verify it via a correct, conventional forward dictionary. The scary applications are the ones where it's not so easy to check correctness...
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
They do and I think a lot of that is LLM'd these days, though that's just what I hear third-hand. I do agree that this: > What’s gone is the tearing, exhausting manual labour of typing every single line of code. seems more than
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
Some code is fun and some sucks? There's a joke that's not entirely a joke that the job of a Google SWE is converting from one protobuf to another. That's generally not very fun code, IMO (which may differ from your opinion a
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by dgacmu 8mo ago
Some of the hardest parts of the compiler are optimization and clear error handling/reporting. If you forego those - because you're testing against a codebase that is already free of things that break compilation and have no parti
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
And networking - we've almost always used standard SI prefixes for, e.g., bandwidth. 1 gigabit per second == 1 * 10^9. Which makes it really @# ing annoying when you have things like "I want to transmit 8 gigabytes (meaning gibiby
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
It really is eradicated - it's the only human disease we've truly eradicated. There are literally no more cases of smallpox in the wild, period. The problem is that there are samples of viable virus in the labs of the US and Russi
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
It gets studied. EVs are often heavier, which is worse for tire wear, but use regenerative braking, which is better for brake dust. Overall, EVs are likely a net win on the combination of these two things, and a big win on exhaust emissions
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
The thing that gets me is the assumption that we're not complex creatures who might each value different things at different times and in different contexts. As for me, sometimes I code because I want something to do a specific thing,
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
This is an interesting discussion to me - I have a cordless vacuum that works well and a roborock combo vac/mop that works well. Actually, I'm lying, I have two cordless vacuums because the GGP's observation rings true to me
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
It is but we're not there yet. You can use a refinement style system like Verus in which your spec is a very high level statement of system behavior, like "this system provides the properties that paxos is supposed to guarantee&qu
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
We do the same in Pennsylvania - I have about 10 kwh of battery. I can't put solar on my roof, so I only have a very small 800w array on top of my garden. I run it as an off grid system that can recharge from shore power, so I have to
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
There is (was?) one called riecoin that searched for dense clusters of primes. I wrote a little about developing a miner for it in 2014: https://da-data.blogspot.com/2014/03/fast-prime-cluster-sear... There's
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
I agree - but maybe if there were easy ways to opt-in to "hey I want to actually get paid for this thing and in return I'm going to spend more time on it" it might be a good thing. I'm not sure the model in this post is
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
I think it was the DRAM on mine, oddly. It already uses an nvme ssd. Could have been the CPU, of course - the error was manifesting as memory corruption but that could well have been happening during read or write.
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
Oh, that part of the installation is easy, it's literally just physically getting a large, heavy rectangular cuboid navigated through my basement to the laundry room. The last time I brought one in I put a hole in the door (by accident
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
I agree with you, but I do think we have a bit of a problem in which an open source creator makes something and then suddenly finds themselves accidentally having created a load-bearing component that is not only used by a lot of people and
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
I've killed a bunch of stuff lately mixing some wool socks in with towels. Oops. The towels stay wet long enough that the wool got overheated, and then my 8 year old spent the next week yelling at me for ruining his socks. :)
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
Do you have pointers to good sources you've found about that? I've been wondering about exactly this from an optimization-of-the-laundry perspective. (I've been tempted to just yolo buy one to try it out but installing it in
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
I have a little fanless mini PC that runs various stuff around my house, including homeassistant. The case is basically a big heat sink. It started crashing during backups. The solution was to stick a fan on it. :( This is literally a box _
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
The title snippet here is potentially misleading. From the paper: > Households with at least one GLP-1 user reduce grocery spending by 5.3% within six months of adoption, The reduction is only within those households using GLP-1 drugs, N
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
Hi Robert - I have no comments on the human mind, but wanted to say that I enjoyed your work on Warp and I'm glad to hear you're finding a path that's working for you. I've had two relatives with schizophrenia and the di
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
We do semi-automated analysis of imagery of things like utility right-of-ways and it's pretty scalable. We triage the vast majority of images automatically and then surface a small subset to human experts to review, but it's much,
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
ESC (electronic stability control) didn't become common until about 2010 to 2015. It makes a really big difference for safety -- EU estimates are that it's saved more than 15,000 lives. Let's backport that one too. :)

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