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by dmm 3y ago
An interesting slashdot comment[0] about running directly on the Crusoe: > The article makes it pretty clear why Linux can't run directly on the Crusoe: Linux expects the hardware to have a virtual memory manager, which the Crusoe d
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by dmm 3y ago
It's interesting how these companies seem to optimize for retention by making it hard to unsubscribe but that's probably not optimal for acquiring customers. I would probably subscribe to the nytimes but I've been discouraged
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by dmm 3y ago
Issue to add support for these models to llama.cpp: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/1063
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by dmm 3y ago
> Make daycare, child health services and great schools universally available and cheap/free. That is probably a good idea but there are places where daycare is free and there's no evidence it makes a difference.
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by dmm 3y ago
> Don't kids ask those things when you teach them to read with phonics? Pronunciation rules are taught along with the words that follow them and then you learn the many exceptions. Just in Chemistry class you learn the ideal gas law
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by dmm 4y ago
I wish! Android's refusal to implement stateful DHCPv6 is a noble position that Fuchsia cowardly surrendered. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085
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by dmm 4y ago
You use "an" when the word starts with a vowel _sound_, regardless of spelling, and pronunciation has to be memorized in English. "The class lasts an hour and he's getting an MBA" is the correct usage even though th
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by dmm 4y ago
> where non-free is defined by the GNU project, i.e. the GPL compatible license. The CDDL is GPL incompatible yet the FSF considers it a free software license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CDDL
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Next Wave of Remote Work Is About Outsourcing Jobs Overseas(wsj.com)
4 points by dmm 4y ago|7 comments
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by dmm 4y ago
From the changelog/news file: > Emacs now supports being built with pure GTK. ... the resulting Emacs binary will work on any underlying window system supported by GDK, such as Wayland and Broadway. This is really cool. Wayland su
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by dmm 4y ago
> a shrinking human population will be good for the planet as a whole. The main problem is not a shrinking population but an aging one. As long as TFR is below replacement the proportion of elderly increase forever. In the US right now t
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Nvidia drivers are detecting and reporting LLaMa/LLM users(imgur.com)
80 points by dmm 4y ago|34 comments
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by dmm 4y ago
Multiple users are reporting that Nvidia is uploading telemetry when they load LLM weights.
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It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT(old.reddit.com)
259 points by dmm 4y ago|320 comments
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by dmm 4y ago
I use a yubikey everywhere I can. As a backup, when I add my yubikey as a second factor I also add a TOTP and print out the enrollment code.
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by dmm 4y ago
emacs supports async io concurrency and some form of threading. Modes have to be designed in a way that takes advantage of them though.
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by dmm 4y ago
emacs 28 includes native compilation of elisp. If performance was keeping you from using emacs, it's worth another try. Performance with large files is also much better. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manu
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by dmm 4y ago
Firefox can block audio/video autoplay. You can set a default and have per-site exemptions: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay
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by dmm 4y ago
Is there a name for this fallacy? Where differing views within a diverse community are interpreted as individual hypocrisy?
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by dmm 4y ago
> rewriting the definition of AGI by the luddites. The Luddites were a group of working class people whose livelihoods were destroyed by the invention of the Jacquard loom. They were eventually suppressed with government violence. If you
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Llama-dl creator submitting DCMA counterclaim, has 200k for defense(twitter.com)
7 points by dmm 4y ago|0 comments
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Pre-Notification Dilemmas(daniel.haxx.se)
14 points by dmm 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmm 4y ago
In her book "The Old Way", Elizabeth Marshall Thomas describes the Kalahari San who she lived with in the 1950s. Despite having bows and arrows some members of that group would persistence hunt. Dmitriy Lykov(1940-1981) of the Lyk
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by dmm 4y ago
> the Gen X retirement bailout is probably already unavoidable and will be in the trillions State governments are going to get huge bailouts too. Most state pension funds are way underfunded. The my state's DOT pension is <60% fu
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by dmm 4y ago
That will work great until the LLM equivalent of SEO develops.
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Facebook issuing DMCA takdowns on LLaMa repos(twitter.com)
8 points by dmm 4y ago|2 comments
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by dmm 4y ago
https://archive.is/cd9v1
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by dmm 4y ago
> so ease of maintainability/reading is more important than ease of writing. That may be the case now but in a theoretical future where software systems are generated by AI why would I bother modifying the old system? Why not gener
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by dmm 4y ago
> Just as farmers had to learn industrial jobs and then miners and autoworkers had to "learn to code" The transition from agrarian to industrial societies was extremely painful and arguably it was centuries before the people a
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by dmm 4y ago
> You will lose far far more if the public loses faith in banks Maybe so. But I think we should be honest about what this is: a bailout of the banking industry.

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