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by jandrese 1y ago
> That being said, one point is very correct here - by far the best effort to resist broad crawlers is a _custom_ anti-bot that could be as simple as "click your mouse 3 times" because handling something custom is very difficul
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by jandrese 1y ago
> Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL are all available for preorder today starting at $799, $999 and $1199. No Pixel 10a was announced, and frankly Google's track record with hardware is a bit discouraging for someone thinki
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> Don’t forget Digg’s demise wasn’t just the revamp, it’s that most of the front page was dominated by a few people who were literally posting all the damn time. This is true of all social media platforms. People who have all day to pos
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Or the "global warming left the environment more hospitable to some horrible parasite/disease".
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Some VPN providers let you mail them cash. Bitcoin or other crypto currencies are also pretty common payment methods. Honestly VPNs are cheap enough that there are a lot of options that don't require a debit/credit card.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Ok, this one is for the end of 2025 so we could still achieve it, and this is from a guy with an AI company (xAI): https://www.reuters.com/technology/teslas-musk-predicts-ai-w... Another AI company CEO prediction: htt
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by jandrese 1y ago
CEOs are just salivating at the prospect of firing most of their staff and replacing them with AIs. And then you have hype men at these AI companies blowing a burning coal mine of smoke up their asses. And every month the products become
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by jandrese 1y ago
The idea is that you live there cheaply while building equity for 5 years or so and then trade up to a family house once you are married and looking to settle down.
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Hundreds per month but spread out over hundreds of units. Yes, condos have expenses, but the fees always seem grossly out of line with reality.
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2br 1bath doesn’t make sense in single family homes. That’s a condo/apartment size residence. Maybe townhome if you live in a low density area. Condos should be a lot more popular, especially for the young and old, but the fees are p
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by jandrese 1y ago
You can't put a NDA on a Patent. NDAs are basically the modern version of guilds. Imagine a world where absolutely everything about your job is kept under a strict NDA. This is true of startups, but it doesn't scale, especially
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I don't think I would use HFT as a stand-in for companies that produce useful goods or services.
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It's telling that before the Patent system the solution was secretive guilds that jealously (sometimes lethally) guarded their secrets to avoid competition. This was obviously terrible since it greatly slowed down innovation. I'm
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by jandrese 1y ago
> A nice thing about IEEE floats is that the rounding behavior is well defined. Until it isn't. I used to play the CodeWeavers port of Kohan and while the game would allow you to do crossplay between Windows and Linux, differences
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by jandrese 1y ago
The first rule is true, but relying on it is dangerous unless you are well versed in what floats can and can not be represented exactly. It's best to pretend it isn't true in most cases to avoid footguns.
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I think of it more like visualizing a fractal on a computer. The more detail you try to dig down into the more detail you find, and pretty quickly you run out of precision in your model and the whole thing falls apart. Every layer further
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by jandrese 1y ago
> Your SCSI devices are only as fast as the slowest device in the chain. There are not many forums where you would see this analogy.
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It's a fools errand. The kinds of problems you end up coding for are the ones that are blatantly obvious and ultimately useless except as a gotcha to the AI engines. All you're doing is papering over the deficiency of the model
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by jandrese 1y ago
Yes, but are you going to special case all of these pain points? The whole point of these LLMs is that they learn from training data, not from people coding logic directly. If you do this people will come up with a dozen new ways in which
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by jandrese 1y ago
By making your own stack and using loops.
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My take is that they felt like they were already pushing their luck with the prototype and didn't want to scare investors away when it inevitably crashed. I share your skepticism, especially with their timeline. It has been some time
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by jandrese 1y ago
You can spend more for the higher tier plan that won't get your traffic prioritized down into the "best effort" tier. It looks like your neighbors have already done that. You may need to buy directly from whomever is runnin
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by jandrese 1y ago
The caveat with this is that many people on dialup are the ones who live too far from civilization to get cell coverage. The only reason they have phone service at all is government incentives in the mid 20th century.
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They predated the web browser by several years. Even once they added a browser a lot of people didn't have computers powerful enough to run them. Netscape for example needed 8MB of RAM, which was a lot in the early 90s. Plus back th
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by jandrese 1y ago
And for people on the Internet every waking moment of their lives it's hard to explain how people got by at the insane price points those services had. AOL for example gave you 5 hours of dialup time per month. They billed by the m
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by jandrese 1y ago
IIRC connecting to the PSTN the best you would ever see was 48kbps, at least in the states, although if you were transferring uncompressed data in the clear sometimes the modem could compress it for you on the fly to get more data on the wi
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by jandrese 1y ago
To be fair when you are put on the 128kbps penalty box with the cell provider they also de-prioritize your traffic to the very very bottom of the queue so it's almost impossible to even get the 128kbps, and if the network is busy at al
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In practice if you're making up tags on the fly it's not much better than untagged data. A LLM that can figure out what the tags mean can probably just infer it from the data anyway.
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The generally recommended way is to download Tails to a USB thumb drive and boot off of that. This is safer than just using the TOR browser and if something does attack your system none of your actual data is on the OS. https://
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The semantic web was theoretically great for data scientists and metadata scrapers, but offered close to zero value for ordinary humans, both on the publishing side an the consumption side. Also, nobody did the hard work of defining all of

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