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by dsr_ 8mo ago
How does it defend against corruption by the folks operating it? I'm especially thinking of biased seed statements, source bias, and burial of important items in irrelevant gublish.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
“Don’t be silly, Bob,” said Mo. “Everybody knows vampires don’t exist.” -- first line of The Rhesus Chart, by cstross
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
I can buy a 104 key mechanical keyboard for under $75 retail. That's 104 switches, 104 labelled button caps, a circuit board, controller and USB interface, with reliability likely much better than any other moving part found on an auto
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-additives/no-art... is an article that doesn't just quote the press release and actually discusses the previous policy as well as critiquing the change.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
It's not a programming language if you can't read someone else's code, figure out what it does, figure out what they meant, and debug the difference between those things. "I prompted it like this" "I gave it th
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
"an identity claimed by people who are taking direct action against what they perceive as fascism"
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
__an identity claimed by people who are taking direct action against what they perceive as fascism, but currently more often the term is applied as an unthinking boogeyman by right wing authoritarians__
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Competent management says: "Look how clever we were to hire this person and put them in the right place at the right time! We are now ahead of schedule and are reallocating teams." There's remarkably little competent manageme
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Everybody wants a death ray.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Cryptocurrency recapitulates the history of the modern banking system, and illustrates the necessity of regulation on a daily basis.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
I hate to tell you this, but people were doing CAD and CNC work on PCs back when a 33MHz 80386 with 8MB of RAM was an expensive computer. And they did video editing on Amigas with an add-on peripheral called a Video Toaster.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
An AI agent did it. Obviously I can't be expected to watch over all the things it does.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Elon doesn't think this. Elon says whatever bullshit thing comes into his head without regard for technical, economic or physical plausibility. As long as it raises the stock price! The market has had almost a hundred years of being we
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
So the tracking pixels say almost everyone with a GMail address opened your email!
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
The emergency location is for 911 dispatch. The theory goes that in the time of wired phones, a call from 212 555 1212 was definitely from the phone on the 11th floor of 60 Hudson Street, so the correct police/fire/ambulance would
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
You'll understand if I don't think the tradeoffs were necessary, or worthwhile.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
Werner Von Braun only built the rockets; he didn't aim them, nor did he care where they landed. (London. On some of my relatives.)
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
If only someone could come up with a way to make a significant profit with LLMs by doing something useful with them, OpenAI would be saved! Instead, it's advertising and speculation.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
Time to update https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
So... the only job that LLM can replace in the chain here is CEO.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
A: the control board is different B: the glass in front is different C: the backlight is different D: the naming is different Any combo of the above.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
> Sure, it's possible for a big crash in Nvidia just due to volatility. But in that case, the market as a whole would likely be affected. Other way around: if NVidia sinks, it likely takes a bunch of dependent companies with it, bec
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Vibe coding has a 12x cost(webmatrices.com)
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
Then it was a big win for Putin and his agent in the White House.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
Counter example: Kagi.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
DevOps is the practice of using modern software methods to automate the tasks of operations work. That includes using version control, templating languages and various forms of role-based configuration automation. Anyone who thinks they can
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
So the money from LLMs is in selling them to people who aren't selling enough?
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
Play and production need to be separate domains. Otherwise, you don't have production, you only have play.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
Why aren't you using the tools we already have: ansible, salt, chef, puppet, bcfg2, cfengine... every one of which was designed to do systems administration at scale.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
Ask more widely. People want reasonable services from their government, and tighter regulation of markets, with elimination of profit-taking middlemen. They want democratic socialism. Meanwhile, the right wing has been telling them that pub

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