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by everforward 6d ago
> A car capable of driving itself onto this pad could as easily drive itself to a spot to plug in. Extendo-arm from the car could easily slot into an outlet in the floor. Those two things really aren't comparably difficult. Eg in t
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by everforward 6d ago
Robo vacuum charging is almost inherently safe. They probably charge at something like 12V/2A. Voltage too low to penetrate skin, wattage too low to cause serious injury unless you’re really trying. You can kind of just leave them expo
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by everforward 7d ago
Doesn’t Git store data in sparse files? My impression is that git’s on-disk layout is exactly the kind of thing you’d avoid on object storage. Interactions involve a ton of small reads, resulting in poor performance and enormous bills. It o
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by everforward 7d ago
I don’t think this delineation is that clear, unless by “application” you mean the app tier of a 3 tier app. Postgres and Nginx make sense in system programming languages; they’re extremely performance sensitive and that granular level of c
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by everforward 8d ago
Some of them are a sort of hydraulic one that uses a spring and some fluid to make the spring release slowly. No idea which you would have lol. The slow closing prevents water hammer, at least in water systems. In air systems it might just
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by everforward 8d ago
I _think_ they fixed the file sync issue; I haven’t had desynced files in a few weeks. Still a bad bug that lingered entirely too long. > when a file is changed asynchronously, which for me, most happens due to a pull or LLM edits! If yo
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by everforward 8d ago
I think it’s sort of self-defined. If a model is able to use bash well enough to not need specific tools. The research seems to agree with you, though. The paper calls out that for “bash capable” models, adding tools to do things bash can a
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by everforward 10d ago
The only part that would really be novel is the liability. I would be shocked if you could publish an iOS app without Apple being able to tell the government who you are. Less because Apple cares and more because Apple requires you to pay,
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by everforward 10d ago
It also relies on lifelong tenure, which would be a huge cultural shift for both employers and employees. Employees are often used to quitting rather than having to fix business issues (easier to quit than make the business fix X), and busi
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by everforward 14d ago
I think people don’t do genuine benchmarks because the market forces them to pretend their solution works for anything you can throw AI at. Companies whose valuation is based on them being the RAG/compression/routing/etc co
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by everforward 15d ago
Naively, I think some optimizations would require access to the whole codebase and that would make people nervous (plus incur more cost). Eg absurd idea, but you could write something that minifies a codebase (by token, rather than byte) an
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by everforward 16d ago
I would guess they’ll spend ages arguing about what an “ad” is. Eg if I ask Llama 3 to find me the best headphones, I think we can agree its response isn’t an ad. If Claude responds with a banner that Sennheiser designed and paid Claude to
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by everforward 16d ago
I’ve been looking along a similar line, but I came at it from the infra side rather than the software. Mine pretends to be a local ACP agent, but it’s actually managing a Docker container and proxying the ACP connection into the container o
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by everforward 20d ago
There’s a big gap between hobby self-hosting and enterprise. Clouds are appealing (note, not technically better but more appealing) in the enterprise for numerous reasons. We already have a contract, I don’t have to spend a month with procu
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by everforward 26d ago
I'm not positing that as a moral good or bad. It's possible for stock market gambling to be bad for society but have better price discovery, in the same way that dictatorships are bad but tend to have faster response times to eve
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by everforward 26d ago
I've worked on both sides and I really think it comes down to Dunbar's number [1] and thus the size of the company. At a sufficiently small company, you can just trust people will generally do the right thing. I ask X to accompli
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by everforward 28d ago
The utility is always the same. The stock market provides price discovery, which drives efficient resource allocation (in theory). Theoretically, more gamblers should mean better price discovery because the payouts for correctly taking the
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by everforward 28d ago
Acetaminophen overdose does actually have a surprisingly high rate of occurrence. A lot of people don’t realize how narrow the therapeutic band is. Doubling your meds on a bad pain day can put you way beyond the safe limits. People think it
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by everforward 28d ago
When I messed with it I used Kagi's search and I didn't have that issue (not claiming they're the best, they're the only one I tried). They filter their results through their AI, though, so you get a sort of meta-summary
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by everforward 29d ago
Sort of depends on how well the core reasoning works. It’s not a big effort to connect an LLM to a search provider. You do pay for the tokens, but in theory on a smaller model each token is cheaper.
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by everforward 1mo ago
That’s just two sides of the same coin. They run a proxy for LLM providers, which inevitably creates a marketplace. They’re amazon.com for tokens. The flip side that others are pointing out is that Amazon is sticky because there’s a sprawli
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by everforward 1mo ago
I don’t expect it to be exact or like code, but at the very least I expect it to be predictable and the “spirit of the law” fails that test often. I still remember GDPR coming out and I read til my head hurt, decided the lawyers would have
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by everforward 1mo ago
I would disagree with you, because "technical compliance" is compliance with the letter of the law. You have complied with every explicit requirement of the law. If the law is insufficient then legislature is free to add a claus
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by everforward 1mo ago
Because it likely is, despite both their levity and the general lack of nuance in the CFAA. Quoted from 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (the CFAA) [1] (without quote blocks, because mobile): --- Start Quote (2) intentionally accesses a computer without a
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by everforward 1mo ago
I’ve bought some stuff off there and can tease out some aspects, though they may be after the fact rationalizations of subconscious effects. The first is price. The stuff is cheap, as in so cheap I know it will be terrible and I still sort
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by everforward 1mo ago
It might just not be for you. I use OpenRouter because I do like being able to quickly check whether a new model works better, but mine is a “human in the loop” dev process so it won’t ruin a day of batch processing or anything. I do like b
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by everforward 1mo ago
It cost them more than normal food to maintain the stockpile. I’m not for profiteering but maintaining a stockpile implies excess production that spoils rather than being sold. It does seem fair to pay enough to cover that at least.
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by everforward 1mo ago
I don’t think so because those both live in the context window and as such pollute it when they’re not performing optimally. I think having unused or rarely used weights doesn’t influence the results as poorly as RAG injecting irrelevant fa
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by everforward 1mo ago
Do they do something neat with the colon? I do prefer the shorter keyword syntax, at least in Clojure because of how common they are. Clojure tends to use them very heavily though, and last I looked it seemed like Racket used more lists (as
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by everforward 1mo ago
I have little faith any of it would stop someone who was a) devoted, b) prepared, and c) had physical access for a reasonable time. It’s still worth doing because the vast, vast majority of people will fail at a or b without even reaching c

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