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by hedora 1mo ago
West coast calling: What if you annexed us? We have beaches and it’d more than double your economy.
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by hedora 1mo ago
You’ll like the Simple Sabotage Field Manual too: https://archive.org/details/simplesabotagefi26184gut/page/n1... It helped the allies win WWII. It contains lots of good advice (and the white collar chapter
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by hedora 1mo ago
Streaming is getting worse fast. I basically just pay for curation, and AI slop is creating cracks in that model. Some of the musicians I like are getting crushed by sybil style attacks, where there are 10 new albums in their artist page,
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by hedora 1mo ago
1.4b; assume 5% returns. That’s $70M per year for devs. At $1M per year (equivalent to a good startup exit, but zero risk), that’s 70 engineers; probably senior to principal phd’s with 10 yr+ experience. If that’s not enough to maintain a
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by hedora 1mo ago
I use firefox and sometimes safari. I had to install chrome recently, and I don’t understand how people stand it. It’s a half-assed attempt to reimplement windows 95 era preload spam. (Or non-decrapified win11). I don’t understand how it
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by hedora 1mo ago
Any news on what happened to the statewide “bury high risk lines” project? I get the impression it was very expensive, since PG&E was touting it, but the last time I heard (a year or so in), they had not yet buried 10 miles of line, st
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by hedora 1mo ago
From the article: "Well, just talking about this though could contribute to antisemitism." Are there any bullshit detector LLM benchmarks?
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by hedora 1mo ago
My AMD strix halo box (haven’t benchmarked yet) should also run it reasonably well. It was $1400 at launch, and is $4K now. Your mac is < $2K in Biden-era dollars. Presumably the economy will eventually recover; maybe in one Moore’s la
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by hedora 1mo ago
I think the big models have adequate recall, so tool use is probably unnecessary, but the user said the correctness of my response is important. Let me look up the data instead of relying on my memory.
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by hedora 1mo ago
It can also be weaponized. Israel uses these sorts of datasets to systematically murder the families and neighbors of their targets. The operation name is something like “Where’s daddy?” They use commercial datasets to figure out where t
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by hedora 1mo ago
There are laws, even for credit card data. They used to be enforced and largely obeyed.
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by hedora 1mo ago
In the UK, google extracts one average lifetime retirement savings per person in revenue, on average. You could argue that Google’s customers, like advertisers, propaganda firms, etc, all overpay for the data. That seems unlikely, since I
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by hedora 1mo ago
That sounds like engagement hacking. Someone’s promotion packet probably brags about the number of emojis sent. On a related note: I refuse to install teams, and have never seen an emoji popup in the web video chat thing.
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by hedora 1mo ago
Or if it didn’t constantly kick people off fable. It won’t talk to me about gardening or computing. It will happily walk me through all the legal and illegal ways to systematically kill rodents. At least it is on-brand for something used b
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by hedora 1mo ago
I find the headline offensive. AI is objectively a good thing. The backlash is against big tech’s plan to use AI for the enshitification of everything from the economy to the arts to the environment.
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by hedora 1mo ago
Do database dumps of it still exist? Maybe it’s time to just download it and Wikipedia, then point an LLM / vectordb at it.
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by hedora 1mo ago
Only 36% pays for cable TV. Seems pretty comparable to me. https://www.cablecompare.com/blog/us-cable-subscriber-statis...
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by hedora 1mo ago
As of a year ago, the strix halo AMD (system on chip, unified ram) was within single digit percentages of the mac, but it’s a linux box, so much better for most dev and as an llm server. I know AMD has announced the replacement, and it will
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by hedora 1mo ago
This is a great route. Just yank or wipe the windows disk, install Linux, and it’s way more secure and performant than any preload windows would be. It probably runs games better too.
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by hedora 1mo ago
I had to buy a replacement HDD recently. They’re also stupid expensive.
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by hedora 1mo ago
Linux has been going down hill, but since you can choose distributions, there is an escape hatch. I’ve been moving all my machines to devuan with xfce (or freebsd with xfce). I have zero issues despite not having to deal with wayland, syste
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by hedora 1mo ago
The promise of RISC-V is probably not that it cuts pennies of a $1 embedded ARM core (or dollars off a $100 core). Instead, it’s that Moore’s law keeps on trucking along, so now we have lots of dark silicon (you cannot turn the whole core o
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by hedora 1mo ago
I have been thinking alot about which jobs are obsoleted by AI. I think VC’s are probably at the top of the list next to software developers. The old VC bargain is trading ten engineers for a year or so for controlling interest in the comp
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by hedora 1mo ago
Thanks. My current stack ranking of anthropic models is: 4.6 ~= 4.8 4.7 much worse. Fable and newer consistently tells me to pound sand, so I’m not sure what I’m paying $200/month for. 4.8 sometimes does too, but it’s at least usable
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by hedora 1mo ago
Time to dust off my 128GB strix halo (literally—it’s been dusty, and it’s running a bit warm these days). Any idea where this model sits according toquality benchmarks? Pre-bubble MSRP on this hardware was $1400, and it draws 200-ish watts
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by hedora 1mo ago
Like a stopped clock, Fox News is right once or twice a day. For instance election tampering in the US is a well-documented thing: However it almost always favors republicans in districts with electronic voting machines that do not generate
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by hedora 1mo ago
Probably, but you are asking the wrong question: Is it legal to produce non-backdoored networked devices or services in China? The answer to that question in the US is within epsilon of “no” thanks to the cloud act. Europe and China have p
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by hedora 2mo ago
They let all sorts of stuff that they shouldn't in. For instance, Meta and Google publish 'free' iOS libraries that firehose surveillance data back to them. The libraries are popular, so apps that use them must be allowed in
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by hedora 2mo ago
If you think that's bad, try asking for gardening tips.
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by hedora 2mo ago
Why should we believe a pro-genocide crackpot political appointee from east Texas, and a computer scientist that somehow got a Nobel prize instead of a Turing award?

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