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by gspr 5mo ago
Somewhat unrelated anecdotal praise of Noctua: due to various life factors, I hadn't built a PC since maybe 2010 or thereabouts - something I did relatively often before then and had quite a bit of experience with. Then a few months ag
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by gspr 6mo ago
> Disregarding the article for a second, has anyone else had the pattern that "parse don't validate" makes sense in object oriented style, but less sense in functional style programming? Parse, don't validate was wr
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by gspr 6mo ago
> In actual fact, people who need software built hire a tool (e.g., a software developer like me) to build it for them. That tool - me or you - has inside it a tremendous library of copyrighted works represented. Humans are distinct from
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by gspr 6mo ago
Let me get this straight: Since there are only so many ways to write a for loop, you doubt that for loops are copyrightable. From this you conclude that code, in general isn't copyrightable? That's like saying "there's
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by gspr 6mo ago
> What should matter is intent, the human that gives the orders. I'd like to hear more nuance with regards to this line of reasoning. Can you conceive of a model that contains highly non-trivial representations of IP owned by others
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by gspr 6mo ago
> I'm not sure where in our lawbooks there are laws that specifically target humans to the exclusion of human-operated tools. If we take the point of view that LLMs are tools (I agree), then people need to be absolutely certain that
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by gspr 6mo ago
... and from that temporary monopoly humans have exemptions (critique, inspiration, etc.)
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by gspr 6mo ago
And the process by which we agree is lawmaking.
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by gspr 6mo ago
What's special about LLMs in your argument? When I was an edgy teenager in the 90s, I'd argue that it's not piracy because the DivX representation of the movie isn't bit-for-bit identical to the Hollywood master or whate
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by gspr 6mo ago
… so a bunch of people just decided that rights we granted to humans also apply to their tools? Without any discussion? This isn't how anything is supposed to work when it comes to common rules!
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by gspr 6mo ago
> When I write code, what I write and how I write it is informed by having read countless source code files over my education and my career. Just as I ingest all that experience to fine-tune how my later code is written, so does the LLM
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by gspr 6mo ago
I'm still flabbergasted that people – and big, visible companies with big targets on their backs – choose to keep on using the output of LLMs without having an answer to these questions. And I'm worried that once that has been suf
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by gspr 6mo ago
The same way you can get weak if you don't use your muscles.
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by gspr 6mo ago
I'd very much like to read up on the various proposed ID systems, pros and cons and experience. Do you have a good starting point to recommend beyond "(insert country) eID" on Wikipedia?
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by gspr 6mo ago
You can get an overview of that status by looking at the "version" box on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nvidia-graphics-drivers
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by gspr 6mo ago
> what would happy to X if it did this? Would it have friction, etc? MuJoCo does not simulate at a scale where you can discover whether something has friction or not. Friction is a parameter to MuJoCo's simulations.
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Ask HN: Simple tooling for local LLM code critique without IDE integration?
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by gspr 6mo ago
I wouldn't be so worried about it. It's really hard for something as big as this to really hit 100%. If we hit 80% or thereabouts, we can at least plausibly argue to backwards ISPs that IPv6 is the default and the standard that ev
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by gspr 6mo ago
I had the same feeling when I saw it years ago. Dread, sadness, and a sinking stomach. A few weeks ago I was vacationing in the Basque country, and realized Guernica (the town) was a mere half hour drive away. So we went. Although none of
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by gspr 6mo ago
Right. Thanks!
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by gspr 6mo ago
So we can hope for a future where cheap ARM/RISC-V SBCs are as pleasant to use as any bog standard x86?
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by gspr 6mo ago
Sure. But a heterogenous environment is interesting. And I wouldn't put all my eggs in one product line.
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by gspr 6mo ago
Please forgive this naive question from someone with zero knowledge in the area: What's stopping ARM/RISCV-based stuff from using ACPI/UEFI?
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by gspr 6mo ago
> The trend of buying SBCs for general purpose compute is declining, thankfully, as more people come to realize that these are not the best options for general purpose computing. If we take a step back, I think this is something to be sa
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by gspr 6mo ago
Then I'm mistaken. I thought the law only demanded that piracy sites were blocked, and then ISPs made life easier for themselves by blocking all of Cloudflare. At any rate, this behavior isn't befitting a serious country like Spai
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by gspr 6mo ago
Ok, I'm sorry for the hyperbole of saying "half the internet" if it's in fact 10%. But come on, that's still massive. It's not a stretch for small businesses to be reliant on residential connections either.
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by gspr 6mo ago
I wonder when businesses will start suing ISPs for the losses they incur while they're cut off from half the internet.
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by gspr 6mo ago
> In hindsight I see how much of a gift my family gave me. Gotta tack on to this thread showing appreciation for parents. We could never afford new computers in the 90s, but luckily my dad could bring home obsolete equipment from work. W
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by gspr 6mo ago
You and me both. Git is just so prevalent and fundamental to so much these days that I forced myself to use only a cheat sheet lying on my desk until I could comfortably use a reasonably productive subset by memory. Little did I know that t
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by gspr 6mo ago
No.

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