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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Money was a big part of the problem. Yep. There are a ton of incidents described in the report which all stink of penny-pinching. Probably one of the most obvious is reusing the titanium end cap components from the first submarine; thi
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by duskwuff 1y ago
F-Droid goes way off the deep end on other issues, though. For instance, most RSS readers get the "non-free network services" warning because you can use them to follow RSS feeds on any web site, including ones whose software isn&
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Consider that, with your proposal: 1) If you had a single Finder window open, then closed it, focus would get stolen by whatever other application happened to have a window open. 2) There would be no way to use the keyboard to interact with
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Fair point, I oversimplified a bit. Either way, what matter is that it's dynamic.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It's not just the system prompt that's responsible; RLHF training based on user feedback can end up overly reinforcing "agreeable" behavior independently of the prompt. That's a big part of what got blamed for ChatG
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> It's a pretty fantastic Rosetta stone of sorts with lots of documents translated professionally into multiple languages. UN and EU documents have, unironically, been a significant resource in the development of translation softwa
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by duskwuff 1y ago
No. The problems involved are fundamental: 1) Load/store latency is unpredictable - whenever you get a cache miss (which is unpredictable*), you have to wait for the value to come back from main memory (which is getting longer and long
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by duskwuff 1y ago
You may be thinking of butterfly keyboard switches , which aren't what is being discussed here. The Thinkpad "butterfly keyboard" was a design which moved pieces of the keyboard around to make a keyboard wider than the lapto
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That is not at all what the article is about.
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> That doesn't prove he'd never use AI, but it does mean it's not some random blogger trying to sell their reputation for cheap karma before anyone notices. It wouldn't be the first time I've seen a formerly repu
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I'd be worried that doing that would invite bad followups - e.g. requiring web browsers to block tagged content by default (or always), defining LGBT or other politically sensitive content as pornographic and mandating that it be tagge
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Mind that the original article has some videos which aren't archived.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It's an expression of concern - is this article actually an expression of someone's thoughts about a topic of concern, or did someone just ask ChatGPT to write them an article about Flatpak security?
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Any announcement of a mass layoff is going to be a one-way conversation regardless of how it's conveyed. (A 150+ person conference call with the participants unmuted would inevitably be a fiasco.) Making it available to employees as a
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Pinboard isn't a URL shortener.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
That's a distinction without a difference. Just as with LAION, anyone using this data set is going to be downloading the images and training on them, and the potential harms to the affected users are the same.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Right. And, just to be clear, "authority figures" means people who are in a personally relevant position of authority, like a teacher, police officer, or priest - not more distant authorities like a politician or wealthy person.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Stop clicking on clickbait slop and it will stop showing that to you. Unfortunately, this simply isn't true. YouTube doesn't recognize "clickbait slop" as a topic of its own; it's a type of content which can be
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> I've tried reading a few "yellow papers" for crypto projects and they are so abstract and full of jargon that I never come away knowing more than when I started reading. In some cases, this is by design. The project is n
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by duskwuff 1y ago
That really depends on the game. Loading every texture in advance isn't practical for all games - many newer "open world" games will stream textures to the GPU as needed based on the player's location and what they'
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by duskwuff 1y ago
There's an ugly social aspect to it, too. In South Africa, for a woman who is in a relationship to take PrEP is often seen as an admission of her infidelity. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262227835_Conce
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It was 100% because the name contained the word "Cuba". Source: had the exact same problem with PayPal about ten years ago, except the trigger word was the name of another sanctioned country.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> As I understand it, it gets cool enough in SF to require heating a lot of the time. Definitely not "a lot of the time". The coldest it gets is maybe 40°F on a particularly chilly winter night - with a well-insulated house you
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> A bot told me they offer downloads of the underlying WARC files but I could not find it The "bot" is wrong. Most of the crawl data used by the Internet Archive, particularly the Alexa crawls, isn't publicly accessible. (
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by duskwuff 1y ago
1) You are probably overestimating the sophistication of IT controls at most companies. It's not uncommon for companies to give their employees local admin. Even if they don't, there's quite a few remote desktop tools which d
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by duskwuff 1y ago
MacApp was never required for Mac OS development, though - it was an entirely optional "userspace" development framework which used the Toolbox just like any other MAc OS application.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Ars Technica reviewed a BYD Dolphin (small electric hatchback, £26k ≈ $35k) a few months ago: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/a-small-cheap-ev-you-ca...
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by duskwuff 1y ago
There are, unfortunately, some older devices (like some Sun systems) which use the same MAC address for every network interface on the device.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
There are some stupid tricks you can pull with image formats like emitting the headers for a gigantic image without including enough image data to actually encode the whole image. Most decoders will try to allocate a buffer up front (possib
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Most MEMS accelerometers have low-power modes to generate an interrupt when movement is detected. That's probably what Google is using here (and only switching to higher-power modes when there's movement).

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