firebaze

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by firebaze 3y ago
good thing that https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/dolphin-2_2-yi-34b-GGUF surpasses even Mixtral MoE. Let's hope this continues.
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by firebaze 3y ago
Quite a few people in this thread assume that the AWS key id is part of a "security by obscurity" "protection in depth". This will probably be downvoted, but if you read this anyway: this is a good example of why "s
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by firebaze 3y ago
The argument is, an event (in this case, someone creates a simulation of an universe) happens observably at least once. That means its probability is >0. Now apply the law of large numbers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by firebaze 3y ago
"v" claims to be a language in which you can choose between an "arena", "garbage" and "don't care, do it for me" memory handling, on compile time, without taking care of your code base at all. Th
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by firebaze 3y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39478551
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by firebaze 3y ago
The V lang author implicitly claims to understand CS theory better than quite a lot of people including Go and Rust lang devs.
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by firebaze 3y ago
As harmless as they are, even in the numbers we are exposed to every second, they can also be deadly: https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/
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Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures(radgametools.com)
382 points by firebaze 3y ago|251 comments
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by firebaze 3y ago
Now down for solid 5+ hours, UI takes forever to load, builds do not start. And no progress in sight, other than they are "continuing to investigate the cause of the degraded performance."
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Bitbucket Down Since >1h(bitbucket.status.atlassian.com)
4 points by firebaze 3y ago|3 comments
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GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power [video](youtube.com)
176 points by firebaze 3y ago|98 comments
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by firebaze 3y ago
I assume that in an active war zone, it is kind of hard to track which equipment gets taken by the enemy. We're talking of 50-100 meters of movement per day. Suppose Starlink would even more aggressively constrain access to "known
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by firebaze 3y ago
How should Starlink know if Russians or Ukrainians use it in the war zone?
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OpenAI Chat down (at least) in Europe
1 points by firebaze 3y ago|0 comments
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by firebaze 3y ago
How does this belong on HN frontpage? This is not just trivial, as another commenter 6 hours ago (!) posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39262873 It's not hacker, it's not news, it's not innovative,
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Will Box:new() make a copy from stack to heap? (Rust)(stackoverflow.com)
4 points by firebaze 3y ago|0 comments
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by firebaze 3y ago
My 80yo father switched 4 months ago to Linux (PopOS) and is happy after I showed him how he can access gmail, Word (Office 365 Word in Chromium) and his photos. After he learned he didn't have to install a printer driver but could jus
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by firebaze 3y ago
It's almost the opposite in 2024.
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Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by firebaze 3y ago|0 comments
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by firebaze 3y ago
Any experienced C programmer knows this is undefined behavior. But taking this test, would you really check "I don't know" if you do know it is UB, when there is no option "platform specific" or "UB"?
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by firebaze 3y ago
The revenge of captain obvious. There is no free lunch. (Yes I know this will come at the cost of some downvotes). In general, we are not only bad but hilariously bad as a species in thinking in 2nd and 3rd order effects. Next up: gigantic
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by firebaze 3y ago
ChatGPT4 solved today's riddle in the first try for me. Caution, spoilers ahead: https://chat.openai.com/share/0c40a0b5-ab8f-4094-a7cc-21bb94... (it even ignored some embarrassing typos ...)
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by firebaze 3y ago
But even with this scrutiny glaring issues like the current ones have been missed. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeings-o... (The most recent problem is missing yet)
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by firebaze 3y ago
You can vouch though after clicking on the "... minutes ago" field, which is what I did in this specific case and apparently enough others to undo the flag.
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by firebaze 3y ago
> "While the figures may indicate progress, the industry emissions reduction did not reflect a "sustainable development," cautioned Müller. > "The crisis-related slump in production weakens the German economy. If e
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by firebaze 3y ago
Can you please provide some links? As far as I know there are no credible references. Also, my whole family drives Toyotas for at least 40+ years, so I both have a real interest to know if that occurs, and I also have some anecdotal evidenc
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by firebaze 3y ago
This post is ridiculous. Had some more text here, but there's nothing else to say than that. Anything I want to reply reads simply utterly stupid, like: do you really think there aren't kids able to hack corps? Did you really neve
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How do I bring up non-negotiables with a hiring team?(workplace.stackexchange.com)
1 points by firebaze 3y ago|2 comments
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by firebaze 3y ago
No, neither for english, spanish, romanian, or latin. Nor does my wife, their parents, my parents, my sister and anyone I know speaking english as their 2nd language. Growing up in a first language is a different thing, and there are hints
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by firebaze 3y ago
Quite a good short opportunity, if true

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