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by fastball 1mo ago
Well the difference is that most home water filtration systems (e.g. Brita et al) are made out of plastic, so even if their filters do reduce microplastic levels, making that claim to consumers ("our plastic filters help reduce plast
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by fastball 1mo ago
It's not really a unit of measurement but rather just what you'd call the container[1], which in turn is 5 gallon / 19L. But nobody says "My 19L water jug", they they just say "My water gallon". Since most
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by fastball 1mo ago
Yeah, in Indonesia (and other parts of the world), the 5-gallon jug you would stick in e.g. a water cooler is called a "water gallon".
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by fastball 1mo ago
There is a company[1] in Indonesia that actually makes very nice versions of this tech. [1] https://www.terrawaterindonesia.com/
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by fastball 1mo ago
Moral posturing also doesn't equate to moral or ethical goodness. That said, effectiveness actually is a frequent shortcut to goodness, in that effectiveness often leads to efficiency and efficiency is one of the best methods of indi
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by fastball 1mo ago
In my experience your criticism of the writing is valid in all Claude 5 models, so I wonder if it is somehow related to the new tokenizer introduced in gen 5.
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by fastball 1mo ago
A 2s LLM call is pretty slow.
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by fastball 2mo ago
Is it one or the other? You either need to keep everything in separate PRs or you need to pretend that services are contiguous where deployment order doesn't matter?
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by fastball 2mo ago
Do you do any cross workspace/repo work, or are you mostly constrained to a single namespace?
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by fastball 2mo ago
But the model is open weight?
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by fastball 2mo ago
The author didn't say "we (all software engineers)", so the only person including you in his class is you.
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by fastball 2mo ago
He's had a private Twitter for a while.
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by fastball 2mo ago
Should've called it Safestral. Also I do like Mistral's seemingly newer strategy of focusing on smaller, more fine-tuned models for various use-cases, presumably the result of their large MoE models not competing effectively with
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by fastball 2mo ago
Arguably the majority of codebases are not available on the public internet
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by fastball 2mo ago
I remember going from Tiger to Leopard and thinking "this is nice, I like a lot of these changes" and then going from Leopard to Snow Leopard and thinking "wow this is great ". Then Lion came along and I was like "
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by fastball 2mo ago
The thing about data centers and thermoelectric power plants is that you can make them effectively closed cycle, vs agriculture where that is somewhat intractable. Not saying that is true today though.
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by fastball 2mo ago
What I meant by "will they?" was "will they any more than a human already needs to in order to understand other humans?" I don't think this is legibly that different from human behavior, so if new graduates didn&#x2
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by fastball 2mo ago
Will they? This really isn't different from how humans interact with each other. The vast majority of lying is not people being explicitly asked to lie in some form, it is incentives which make lying appealing . That is what OP said a
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by fastball 2mo ago
That is just a single benchmark tho
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by fastball 2mo ago
Medium vs High? Why? From all the charts I've seen the performance jump is pretty large from med -> high (not as noticeable from high -> xhigh).
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by fastball 2mo ago
So let's say hypothetically we kept the number of homeless people stable in Oakland, but made them all white. You think all (most? many?) of the people currently complaining about homelessness would shut up?
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by fastball 2mo ago
Homelessness is pretty race neutral tho? Especially in Oakland, which is incredibly race-balanced.
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by fastball 2mo ago
It is actually definitely yes! You can script with JS. Steve Ruiz demonstrates having an LLM do that for you in his intro video to this "offline" version of tldraw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCyENfxgyYA
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by fastball 2mo ago
The typical meaning of space junk is stuff orbiting around without the ability to control itself and without de-orbiting, therefore presenting a risk/nuisance to other things in orbit. Is a Starlink sat that reaches EOL and sets i
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by fastball 2mo ago
> However, the rapidly increasing numbers of launches to low Earth orbit now threaten to increase the levels of space junk reentering the atmosphere. Isn't it not space junk if it is burning up in the atmosphere? Kinda conflating
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by fastball 2mo ago
If you want the "agentic future" version of this (sorry), tldraw just relased "tldraw offline"[1] which in some ways has a lot of overlap with HyperCard as well. [1] https://offline.tldraw.com/
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by fastball 2mo ago
Is it? There are shills and bots all over the internet, and referring to the model as ChatGPT is probably common for some people, but not for software engineers that actually track and compare the models (at least in my experience).
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by fastball 2mo ago
The fact you called it ChatGPT instead of Codex makes me suspicious of this entire comment.
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by fastball 2mo ago
Gimbal the floor?
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by fastball 2mo ago
With so few parameters, I imagine a voice fine-tune might be readily tractable.

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