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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
That’s weird. I cancelled prime a couple years ago and only sign up for it when they offer a free trial. Without prime I still order from them more than I feel good about, but only ever opt for the free, slow, shipping. I’m at something lik
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
On one hand, that’s shitty and shows how much loyalty corporations typically have to their people (zero). On the other, they were associated with a flip, and corps are known to be all about $ and ‘what have you done for me lately’. On a thi
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
For those of us with Twitter.com blocked in local dns, what size model is it getting 40tok/s on?
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Por que no los dos?
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
They acknowledged there’s no technical moat, so it’s time to lobby for a regulatory one. Predictable. Disappointing, but predictable.
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Tech industry workers say the era of Sam Altman is over; worst pundit ever
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
I see where you’re coming from, but I’ve had a couple occasions over the years that have led me to expect and accept that at any given time my brain harbors an abundance of different ideas and not all of them are valid. Like the time I deci
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Tl;dr: I think that a left brain/right brain parallel is in the cards for LLMs Our own brains have multiple neural circuits. Parallel, serial, competing, cumulative… Including ones which error-check others’ output. I guess the term in
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Can you clarify on “seeking knowledge”? Is this something you were supposed to stop along with overthinking, or things you were supposed to learn that would help- if the latter, what were those bits of knowledge? And elaborate, specifically
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
I look forward to a world where comments like yours get upvoted instead of downvoted. Insightfulness adds value, particularly when it happens to be humorous at the same time.
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
A Neal Stephenson book named “Fall; or Dodge in Hell” explores this idea a bit. It’s a worthwhile read.
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
Does SQLite do direct disk I/o or something? I’m open to being convinced otherwise, but I would expect that inserts/s would vary a bunch by filesystem. But I do agree that local nvme with any file system is absurdly better than wh
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
I think you’ll be very pleasantly surprised. Consider talking to a couple local dpc providers and see which you feel you’d work best with.
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
I honestly don’t know if ‘concierge medicine’ is a different thing, but from what it sounds like and my own experience with direct primary care they sound equivalent. Possibly different by cost or target demographic. A rose by any other nam
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
That’s a great way to articulate the problem. Imho, a brilliant solution is direct primary care. For $80/mo, I have access to a dr that works for me, and not my insurance company. Absolute game changer in that he has a bias toward unde
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
You might get some mileage out of FoolEd By Randomness, by N. Taleb. What brings it to mind here is there’s a thought experiment that considers a very large number of people playing a series of rounds of Russian roulette. At the end there a
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
Trane xl1050. Requires getting into technician config mode, which I’m pretty sure could result in rendering it inoperable if I screwed with the wrong settings. But it’s doable; I go through the process whenever my utility company changes th
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
Salespeople are often ignorant af. I have both a heat pump and a gas furnace. I program my thermostat with: - Electric cost per kWh - Gas cost per therm - Heat pump afue - Furnace efficiency It does the math and runs whichever is cheaper. T
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
“We’re dead last to the ev game, and mostly make shit vehicles whose main selling point is aggressive marketing and easy financing. Let’s talk about why it’s impossible to succeed to try to distract folks from all the other companies that a
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
How accurate do we think a clock tower is? Or was the one in 1955 connected through its own time machine to an ntp server or gps or something? I mean, it’s fiction. But it still feels pretty lucky.
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
Well I for one welcome our Trojan horse banning, hostile foreign agenda squashing overlords
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
To save some of you the trouble of clicking on the link, I can report that this is not about the clock tower strike in Back to the Future.
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
Never underestimate the sleep-inducing power of a diabetic coma.
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
Inflammatory and misleading headline. This applies to drivers who use Tesla’s insurance offering. Not tesla owners as a group.
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
We used to call this a “sudden outbreak of common sense”
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
You might get something out of Profession, by Isaac Asimov: https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php You could also take some classes in AI in addition to the run of the mill CS stuff.
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
As a wise man once said: “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” There’
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
My guess would be so that eagle-eyed ocd tesla owners don’t freak out over seeming to have fewer cameras in their car than their buddy’s previous model year version. I’m certain there’s be posts complaining about being short a camera withou
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
Why take out a loan against it when you can sell it to your buddies, or at least get some nice kickbacks? Chicago is pretty famous for corruption.
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by electric_mayhem 4y ago
Wait, was he not using a password manager or something? I hear lastpass is pretty good, if he needs recommendations.

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