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by dsr_ 11mo ago
Historical precedent. They assigned a grad student to write up the notes; he wasn't sure he had got everything, so he titled it an RFC. At this point, as we close in on 10,000 final-stage documents, it's better to pretend that &qu
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
There are two kinds of reliability: Machine reliability does the same thing the same way every time. If there's an error on some input, it will always make that error on that input, and somebody can investigate it and fix it, and then
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
Jellyfin and a domain name with a dynamic DNS update will do that for you, no problem. In the house: NFS read-only for desktops and laptops; Owntone to send music to Wiim Mini or stereo receivers (Yamaha, Denon, Marantz, Onkyo -- all of the
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
I'm okay with condemning all of them. Bad behavior on one part doesn't excuse the bad behavior of the other.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
If LLM use were as valuable as the adherents claim it is, this news would be on par with AWS US East 1 being down. LLMs neither have the mechanical reliability we expect from computers (does it the same way every time) nor the flexible reli
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by dsr_ 1y ago
That has been their method since the beginning; why would they change from a tactic which works for them? The central problem with systemd is that they don't want to let you go about your business, they want you to conform to their rul
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by dsr_ 1y ago
You've just named most of the interesting stuff.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Hydraulic brakes are great. I have them on two bikes and would certainly buy them again. The bike cost nowhere near $4500 and certainly doesn't have any "smart" integration other than a holder for my phone, which I added myse
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by dsr_ 1y ago
It is a database for when you read a lot and don't write too often; when a write might be pretty big but not frequent; when you don't want to write a database engine yourself (I.e. figure out what to write and when). And, especial
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by dsr_ 1y ago
You are much more optimistic than I am about the attention the present regime pays to anyone who wants money from them, versus those who are promising them planes and donations and outright cash bribes. Bluntly: nobody in the Trump administ
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by dsr_ 1y ago
The 40% historical recovery rate comes from a long line of companies that actually built things and produced products, often in factories with equipment in them... and a warehouse full of product that didn't sell at full price. If Open
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Meanwhile, that person learned the valuable skills of programming loops, recording, playing, and making drums, and goat farming; I suspect they may be happier doing some of those things than making music from other people's loops, whic
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by dsr_ 1y ago
They could put a failover site in Colorado or Seattle or Atlanta, handling just their infrastructure. It's not like the NSA wouldn't be able to backhaul from those places.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
I've been using laptops for 30 years, and I have had three keyboards need to be replaced for 1-3 keys having mechanical problems, plus an HP which got its keyboard replaced four times before being dustbinned. I've also seen a larg
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by dsr_ 1y ago
"the rise of far-right politics is insulting to the reader's intelligence. He seems to think it is reducible to the energy economy rather than the actual behavior of leftists and liberals" This appears to be you saying "
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by dsr_ 1y ago
... almost as though the further future is harder to predict than the near future.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Every country enacts social policy and subsidy through the tax code; the US is not special that way. The US is special because the process of writing the tax code is corrupt. (Not uniquely corrupt, but certainly near an extreme among major
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by dsr_ 1y ago
That's not Star Trek, that's marketing. Marketing grabbed a name (AI) for a concept that's been around in our legends for centuries and firmly welded it to something else. You should not be surprised that people who use the t
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by dsr_ 1y ago
You want me to trust you to supply a file, a hash of the file, and a prompt? No. That's not how this works.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Most modern democracies -- that's correct. Only the USA is organized this way. One might consider that later democracies learned from some of our mistakes.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
That's... not how people familiar with BlueSky would describe it. I would say it's where the people who realized that Twitter wasn't going to recover fled in search of as similar an experience as possible, and mostly got it,
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by dsr_ 1y ago
There must be a pony around here somewhere! (This is the punchline to a joke.)
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by dsr_ 1y ago
No, because they mostly got military funding, not private equity. ARPA would throw relatively large sums of money at you, but demand progress reports and a testable goal. Very little got rolled out based on hype. (Let's not talk about
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by dsr_ 1y ago
There's only one problem with a race to superintelligence, and that's that nobody has evidence that mere intelligence is coming, much less superintelligence. (There are a thousand more problems, but none of them matter until that
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Ask.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
When asked about why Framework was giving laptops to and re-tweeting various rightwingers, Framework managed to set their user forum on fire.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Then you could provide sources, please?
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Humans always and only generate their own purpose. The awfulness is entirely on the side of having to work hard to sustain yourself.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Lucent agrees: even used, the product will retain 90% of list price because the market has an infinite number of VC-backed buyers.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Many styles of architectural handwriting use descenders in the lower case. (Many other styles forbid or disdain the lower case.)

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