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by elcritch 7mo ago
Renewables may be the cheapest at spot values, but there needs to be a way to price in the intermittent nature of the power.
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by elcritch 7mo ago
And pay $60 per Ethernet POE+ light bulb.
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by elcritch 7mo ago
I discovered the same exact thing wiring a second phone line to my bedroom as a teenager. I jumped into a pile of fiberglass insulation! :/
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Having LC_CTYPE bit set to utf8 would be my worry. Would suck to not be able to logging because the LC* lang changed. Hmmm, hopefully sudo-rs respects LC* env vars. I recall reading a few years back that some Rust Unix tools skipped that an
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Heh, my preferred language is Nim which has good docs for the stdlib. It also does static binaries and runs on esp32 like a dream. I’m not worried about some internet downtime, but I also enjoy what I can guide LLMs to build for me. The BLE
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by elcritch 7mo ago
I find writing by hand is the best. LLMs spit out such linked-in writing that I don’t even want to read it. ;) But that would be a good blog post and I got some travel coming up. But honestly it was just “oh here’s a BLE python library, see
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Not just profiling, but decoding protocols too. Recently I tried Codex/GPT5 with updating a bluetooth library for batteries and it was able to start capturing bluetooth packets and comparing them with the libraries other models. It was
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Yeah I recall that there was an attack researchers demonstrated years back of using recordings of typing with an AI model to predict the typed text with some accuracy. Something to do with the timings of letter pairings, among other things.
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by elcritch 7mo ago
It could also give useful priors for targeted attacks, "Their password is 5 characters, and their daughters name is also 5 characters, let's try variations of that".
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Drats, you're right. I thought it'd be worse, but the ratio seems to only depend on the number of letters in your character set: 1/count(letters in alphabet). For ascii at 95 printable chars you get 0.9894736842. Makes intuit
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Unfortunately podman on freebsd is pretty early stage. I was only able to get very simple containers to run.
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Partially true, but it's more complicated than this. Especially for Christianity. Christianity did spread initially through the Roman empire despite broad persecutions by the state until Constantine legalized it. There's also evid
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Not sure its a standard explanation, but i recall reading a couple of research articles about that topic.
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by elcritch 7mo ago
> he could probably bag a few trillion if he can trick humanity into kicking off the biggest space boondoggle That makes no sense. You don't pick colonizing Mars as a get rich quick scheme. Also his seemingly genuine obsession has r
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Recently it seems that even if you add those conditions the LLMs will tend to ignore them. So you have to repeatedly prompt them. Sometimes string or emphatic language will help them keep it “in mind”.
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Great now I’m envisioning a rich guy using an A100 as his desktop GPU just to show off. Which begs the question if that’s even possible.
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by elcritch 7mo ago
For these large services it seems that small companies should be allowed to sue them. Otherwise there’s no incentive for the big providers to care. Similarly for anti-virus. It’s a PITA when Windows or Mac falsely flag a program as a virus
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by elcritch 7mo ago
The LLM/transformers attention layers require an O(n^2) operation between all tokens, which does require significant bandwidth. Yes the latency hurts performance, that why it’s only achieving ~8tok/s.
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Now its available to many standard patients and for more types of cancers. Thats huge progress.
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Running inference requires sharing intermediate matrix results between nodes. Faster networking speeds that up.
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Nope the US has interests and stakes in this going back decades. Saudi Arabia was also heavily lobbying the US to attack Iran as well (1). 1: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-israel-attack-iran-iran-i...
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by elcritch 7mo ago
Indeed, I'vve already read about an opposition government being organized.
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by elcritch 8mo ago
That’s pretty awesome! Though only 5gig Ethernet? Can’t they do usb-c / thunderbolt 40 Gb/s connections like Macs?
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by elcritch 8mo ago
> It turns out the columnist copied his blog post verbatim: but he says he can't complain without being inconsistent, since he pirated every movie ever made. Copyright laws should be applied to LLMs and their users just like any oth
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by elcritch 8mo ago
> the people in charge think they can replace people with LLMs Additionally using it as a pretext to fire lots of workers like Amazon and others seem to have been doing. Some friends mentioned their companies using it as a way to offshor
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by elcritch 8mo ago
> For me it's the constant feel of everything being "exciting" while no real information is actually conveyed. It's a common tactic of both AI and clickbaity articles. Yes! You put your finger on what bugs me about &q
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by elcritch 8mo ago
> The waves are assumed to be regular waves propagating unidirectionally over an infinitely deep ocean across all wave frequencies, and the GWEC is modelled as a 1-DoF system with pitch motion. Also you gotta love physics!
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by elcritch 8mo ago
This is a fascinating idea IMHO. A couple years back I was toying with the idea of whether multiple gyroscopes could be combined to make extraction easier aboard a vessel. The limit I see is how difficult / practical the mechanism to c
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by elcritch 8mo ago
If so that’s great. Congress has long become too complacent and willing to just wait for their parties turn to use presidential overreach.
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by elcritch 8mo ago
> We need robustness in the global economy more than some megajillionaire needs another half cent per customer in profit. Exactly this. Economies follow the same general principles of our distributed products. There’s good reasons you pa

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