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by fwlr 4y ago
“So far voters are not a fan.” While I’m always uncomfortable with violent rhetoric, the very public antipathy around “rent-seeking parasites” does give me hope that in the future, fewer voters will see themselves as “temporarily embarrasse
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by fwlr 4y ago
To be specific, I was thinking that around the same time we started earnestly working on browser sandboxing and fine-grained extension/app privileges, we should have been doing the same thing for our packages. When Joe Normal tries to
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by fwlr 4y ago
The researchers and engineers and other assorted dorks who built it weren’t thinking about moats, for sure, I agree with you there. But I guarantee you that the metaphor of medieval warfare was on the minds of the executives and legal team
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by fwlr 4y ago
In terms of medieval warfare, what Facebook is doing here looks like filling the moat with rocks and dirt. OpenAI is worth billions, Microsoft is spending billions to retrofit most of their big offerings with AI, Google is doubtless also sp
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by fwlr 4y ago
“Someone, I think Bertrand Russell, said we compare the mind to whatever is the most complex machine we know. Clocks, steam engines, telephone relays, digital computers. For AI, it’s the opposite: as capabilities increase, and our understan
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by fwlr 4y ago
More supply-chain attacks, though these (clickbait package names, monetized with referral links) are certainly less sophisticated and less dangerous than the wave that hit PyPI (typos of common package names, monetized by altering crypto ad
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by fwlr 4y ago
The risk a payment processor (credit card, PayPal, etc) takes on when handling your transaction is proportional to the size of the transaction. Basically, if you draw out the complete state transition diagram, there are some terminating sta
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by fwlr 4y ago
Minor quibble: Australians generally aren’t afraid of our poisonous animals, and it generally doesn’t factor into whether we let our kids play outside.
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by fwlr 4y ago
The author mentions near the end that “…only issue that I have right now is that the content of the block is not getting parsed since I’m just putting it into a string variable and spitting it out in the HTML variable as-is”. It might be as
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by fwlr 4y ago
My understanding is that the original issue was the YouTube tutorials used some other service to convert the country code of a phone number into a string of the country’s name and submitted just the country’s name, getting back a valid but
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by fwlr 4y ago
Iceworld gave you a random weapon and you had to make do - that was a fun twist on the usual CS gameplay, and that’s all it took to be popular. Another genre in this style (possibly an evolution of iceworld itself) is “gun game”, where you
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by fwlr 4y ago
“ Don't the spammers spoof innocent people's numbers? ” Oh, they do? I wasn’t aware this was a thing. I’ll only sign up the business from now on.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Why would they change their buyback plans in response to an accident that was already priced into their insurance? Handling the accident isn’t going to deplete their 1.1bn insurance policy. This 7m amount is just one of many payments they’l
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by fwlr 4y ago
In my web dev work I use Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Safari Tech Preview on a 2021 M1 MacBook Pro. My (anecdotal) experience is yes, Chrome eats M1 battery. This is true for Chromium as well, so Electron apps eat battery too. Some people h
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by fwlr 4y ago
The thrust of the article seems to be “we had a good thing going, some of you took it too far, and I TOLD YOU if you kept taking it too far we’d all lose our good thing, and now look at what you’ve done”. For what it’s worth, whenever one o
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by fwlr 4y ago
Feels like the process used to write this article was “find a small dollar number related to the derailment and put it next to a big dollar number that isn’t related to the derailment”. Your average viral twitter dunk has more thought than
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by fwlr 4y ago
Another suggestion: put something like libphonenumber’s isPossibleNumber or isValidNumber on your server, on error run the query string through it. If it says that looks like a phone number, relay this information in the error response. A f
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by fwlr 4y ago
Devs making baby’s first mobile app add “request location information” permissions, the devices start giving them the phone’s GPS information in the form of lat/lon pairs, and those devs naturally look for a service to make that data u
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by fwlr 4y ago
I’m so used to seeing “max cycles”, “cycles to 80% capacity”, etc figures that I was a little confused I couldn’t see such a figure mentioned. According to https://ambri.com/benefits/ they essentially do not degrade. N
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by fwlr 4y ago
I doubt they’re doing anything super clever with examining access to memory regions. From the way they use the word ‘honeypot’ and other comments here about cheating software setting team vision flags, I suspect they simply noticed some of
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by fwlr 4y ago
Yeah, it looks like off-the-shelf spectral notch filters are aimed at laser laboratories. Around 800 usd per lens so 1600 for my glasses, bit steep. You’d get some pretty awesome looking Doc Ock style goggles out of it, though
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by fwlr 4y ago
It’s probably healthy to have some vitriol directed at Safari. I tried to imagine a similar piece written about Chrome to make sure I wasn’t disliking this piece just because I use Apple products, and I realized I don’t need to imagine - th
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by fwlr 4y ago
Those “color vision correcting” glasses (e.g. EnChroma) use an optical technology called notch filtering: “EnChroma glasses are spectral notch filters that remove light from two regions of the visible spectrum: from the region near 480 to 4
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by fwlr 4y ago
Agreed, a fiction writer trying too hard to put a specific idea in my head all the time is going to annoy me. Not all fiction all the time, though - Sanderson’s novels appeal to me in part because he is very specific about how his magic sys
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by fwlr 4y ago
This is layman speculation, but… The human brain is notoriously efficient; neural networks are modeled on the brain so they’re probably doing something like what the brain does; the brain uses electrical signals and these optical transforme
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by fwlr 4y ago
The sentence you quote is the beginning of a paragraph that ends with “There is random noise, but the visual layer evolves the final image from the noise based upon the latent ’meaning’ in the prompt”… which is in complete agreement with wh
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by fwlr 4y ago
It is so unusual to see clear and precise analysis on this topic. I particularly appreciate this turn of phrase, describing what Stable Diffusion does: “pull from an artist-chosen place in its massive table of probabilities to drive the gen
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by fwlr 4y ago
I do this too and it’s very helpful. Just be aware that anything the reader tells you is necessarily going though another round of brain->text->eyeballs->brain. Read their response carefully, lest your brain smudge their words enou
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by fwlr 4y ago
There’s an idea in your head. You produce some text with your fingers. I consume that text with my eyeballs. Some idea forms in my head. Phrased like this, your aim is obviously that the idea in my head closely resembles the idea in y
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by fwlr 4y ago
It is awful that China has so harshly imprisoned those two women (the officer’s mother and sister-in-law). It is also awful that the Dutch military chose to recapitulate China’s cruelty by suspending the officer. However, let us not be stup

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