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by eropple 3y ago
So to me that says you want it both ways, for while I appreciate what the codeshelter folks are trying to do, it is a task that is going to turn out Sudden But Inevitable Betrayals. Instead of contacting a maintainer directly, they just loo
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by eropple 3y ago
That scenario is exactly what PiVPN is avoiding by refusing to nominate a new maintainer and telling interested parties to fork--so what is your actual and concrete objection? Fork the project. Earn your own trust.
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by eropple 3y ago
I've never used RCS; what do you feel like you're getting from that? My editor can tell me committed-on if I want it to, so it's a bit of a head-scratcher for me.
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by eropple 3y ago
"these EDA firms hire scientists and mathematicians, but no one who really knows about UI design, unlike CAD companies " is going to sit with me for a while.
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by eropple 3y ago
Bolting a Cloudfront distribution onto a S3 bucket is pretty well-trod territory, though, and doesn't have these sharp edges. (Has a couple other ones, but they're less common.)
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by eropple 3y ago
I was being a little tongue-in-cheek there, but I think there's truth there too--while excellent tech workers absolutely capture too little of their value, that's, uh, not a universal thing in my experience. But, yeah, walking a
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by eropple 3y ago
> That means there's 270,000 amazing engineers this mythical sales-machine-with-a-big-audience Founder could partner with. But that founder isn't talking to 269,999 of them, in that situation. And the BATNA for not jumping on
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by eropple 3y ago
I think so. Mostly: - Hosted solutions charge you for tokens. More tokens, more money. Keeping money in your pocket: generally recognized as rad. - 1M tokens wouldn't hold the entire codebase I have open in my other window.
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by eropple 3y ago
"Law" (whatever that means to you) does not, in the main, protect you from the private consequences of your speech. It turns out that when you say shitty things about your coworkers in ways themselves violative of the law, peopl
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by eropple 3y ago
I could be wrong, as I haven't used Mamba, but it seems to remain similar to transformers in that it doesn't "decide" anything and streams tokens to follow the existing ones; attention isn't a thing in the same way,
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by eropple 3y ago
Meta-studies seem to indicate that the preponderance of the evidence is against, not for, scary side effects. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481923/
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by eropple 3y ago
Yeah, some of them work, at least for some people. Almost every male in my family, and all the direct-line male relatives on both sides, went bald by their late twenties. Maybe I just got some good dice rolls and so this is a tiger rock, bu
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by eropple 3y ago
> Instead we must make sure somehow that LLM performing arithmetic operations using corresponding rules and axioms. It isn't. It's stringing together likely tokens that approximate (often very effectively!) what its data corp
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by eropple 3y ago
Yes, but "reactji" is also weird and yet people use it for Slack reactions. It's fine.
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by eropple 3y ago
This shows up in other places, too. One of my Slacks has a textji of `groß`, because I enjoy making our German speakers' teeth grind, but you sure can just type `:gross:` to get it.
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by eropple 3y ago
> EDIT: And to be perfectly clear: I am not against cities building themselves toward car-freeness. I support citydwellers making their cities bikeable and walkable! I just don’t want to live there. Are you willing to pay to account fo
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by eropple 3y ago
Yeah, sorry, I meant to reply to 'smeej's post, not yours. :)
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by eropple 3y ago
You described pretty well my almost-suburban New England spot. I walk everywhere, because there's stuff everywhere. There's a guy down the street who built an add-on to his house and his wife runs a convenience store out of it. It
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by eropple 3y ago
I think this is kind of overstating the case, tbh. I don't even live in Boston anymore--I live on the South Shore--but I drive my car maybe once a week, usually to Home Depot or rarely on a pilgrimage to Micro Center. I bought a place
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by eropple 3y ago
> Or perhaps you wish to have a single family home with a yard, but work for a company with an office presence downtown, and need to take your kid to daycare on the way to work. You could do that on mass transit, but would spend less ti
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by eropple 3y ago
If your single car is rivalrous to several other people's ability to live and work in the urban core, yes, that's a pretty good reason to discourage the car. Massachusetts has park-and-ride, and it's pretty great!
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by eropple 3y ago
This is weirdly projective and I'm happy to be an obvious counterpoint to it. I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I moved to a city and didn't have a car for years. It was great and I wish I could've sustained it. As-is, I ha
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by eropple 3y ago
This is true, but that model of suburban development still tends to push necessities out of walking or even biking distance. I visited my folks in the Des Moines suburbs while they were out there and it was an hour's walk to almost any
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by eropple 3y ago
Who exactly do you think maintains the roads that cars need to run on? Or are you bombing around your carmaxxing city in a lifted 4Runner all day just in case you gotta Go Off-Road Because The Government Closed The Roads? The whole concept
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by eropple 3y ago
A small base of users at any given time . Almost everyone needs "accessibility" eventually. You will, too, if you're lucky enough to live that long.
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by eropple 3y ago
The newfound hype around DRS arises as a meme directly out of the Gamestop crankfest/fever-dream. It is harmless, but also meaningless; equities are not any more "yours" because of undertaking the timewaster of DRS and the co
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by eropple 3y ago
I don't think that's true at all. I think most "CS majors" would need to study how to do those things, but none of them are conceptually difficult and build on the same algorithmic and data structures knowledge you lea
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by eropple 3y ago
Federal workers are not project-fungible in such a way as to make what you suggest possible. And it's not just the federal government, either; ask any large corporation. There is no path to "well the IRS's developers should j
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by eropple 3y ago
Why? Iteration is something to be embraced rather than stigmatized in moving towards a more responsive set of government services. Login.gov is the future of government identity in the United States, but IAL2 is a higher bar than most gover
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by eropple 3y ago
Such is the price of a lot of lobbying from those who stood (and still stand) to profit from capturing the audience.

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