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Video describes the decline in usage of US-based AI due to budget concerns overriding whatever benefits the models might provide. To realize LLM benefits at a lower cost, companies are switching to Chinese models -- with the added benefit
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> a fine fate for narcissistic bosses. Fire them all and let unemployment sort them out! Never underestimate the self-preservation abilities of an entrenched cohort within the organization they manage; you cannot reform the good old boys
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> would require thousands of changes But LLMs are great at this, provided you have a test suite to keep the process on the rails.
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Some are more equal than others.
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A friend with an iPhone runs his a couple businesses with the Quo app (nee OpenPhone) which allows him to manage calls/sms for multiple business numbers from his personal phone while allowing him to automatically disable ringing after
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s/LLMs, maybe two/LLMs may be too/ Text to speech, you're killing me!
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Sentrix' product has integrated this for Windows, but I couldn't help but wonder how I would implement equivalent functionality for Linux. You could detect access to a honeytoken file by monitoring SELinux logs; on access, you co
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> if an LLM can either produce something higher-quality and more tailored LLMs won’t always do this well. The best ideas in my backlog are the ones where the LLMs won’t finish my thoughts because they’re contrary to what 1000 people sai
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I have exclusively printed from Ubuntu, I currently use a Dell C1765 color laser. I also use a Brother HL-2170W, but I was unable to enable network printing on this device without first attaching it to a windows machine via USB and running
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My memory was that this was an NPR story, the local affiliate has distinct production values that I believe I would have noticed. However, even searching the local affiliate's site only yielded the stories you referenced.
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> mixes in the name of a competitor If I were your competitor and saw that your listing includes my business name but your contact info, you might be getting a letter from my lawyer. Have you let Google know they're putting you
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Was the floppy quieter than an HD?
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While we’re on the topic, on the last year, NPR interviewed an expert who warned of lifelong debilitating injury (pain walking) that dancers developed by going en pointe too young. The woman recommended waiting until 15. But searching for
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I'm glad to see UBNT in this space. I've always used ZFS because it's vastly superior to other options. When I see storage companies building without fault tolerance, or without a merkle tree (so that you can backup deltas e
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My hope from this headline was that some open source solution was functionally equivalent from a business perspective. But then I read that Tesco has had to: > procure alternative solutions with reduced functionality meaning VMWare is s
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> 40-50x number is more lower bound [...] easily score another order of magnitude slower This is about what I observe. I had a utility based on `scapy`; there were no obviously bad ideas in the python source, but porting the work loop i
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When learning a language, I've heard it's good to find a reference speaker, such as a prolific actor, and mimic them in order to absorb several aspects of what makes them sound authentic as a speaker, such as vocabulary, intonatio
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A friend who served was assigned to fix broken planes quickly. He and his fellow mechanics could be punished for not being ready to make urgent repairs, so they maintained a stock of commonly used parts in the hangar. One year, a congressi
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Mandatory ID for online participants will be useful for suppressing social unrest.
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Even better: what if we made achieving elected office a felony offense punishable by life in prison with no parole? This would remove legislator’s motivation to use their power to accumulate personal wealth, as they could enjoy none of it.
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> God forbid you have to deal with CORS + mTLS As someone who is about to deal with exactly this, what kind of trouble am I in for?
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> full of moles I'm imagining a comedy in the style of "The Office" in which the majority of the workers are agents of sabotage who are unaware that the majority of their coworkers are doing the same. How far fetched is i
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Why would a malware scanner read the comments?
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> the most blatant attempts at subverting due process This seems so clear to me; KYC is an end run around the constitution. But how do we stop it? If we legislate "no KYC" then what is my recourse when an imposter empties my
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> Program goals must now be “aligned with administration policies and priorities” What previous administration funded programs that did not align with its policies and priorities?
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> willingness to ensure that work is formally recorded under your name Where I work the title "Principal Engineer" is a coveted, well compensated, and rarely achieved. Those I've worked with are all highly effective and p
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> I have an uneasy feeling in my stomach because i know anthropic or openai acquiring zed is inevitable. They have too many good ideas and their software is too good. Why stop at zed? The trillion dollar investment AI companies have amas
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> sandbox so that the agent doesn't keep asking tedious permission questions > 80% of the questions the agent asks me require a lot of thought. 20% of what it does needs correction. I've found even the permissions questions
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> That's not structure, that's leadership. [...] one guy at the top [...] said no. Yeah, there's no rule structure that can't be skirted and subverted by new owners with different objectives. The most resilient way
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If you're building a place, consider how you could arrange some of your basement for effective food storage. This family[0] appears to be 90% agriculturally self-sufficient: they occasionally eat out, but grow most of what they eat. T

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