jcgrillo

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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
You give it your etrade login and retire early.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Way back when I was a student I had a professor who had a policy that if your homework scores differed substantially from your exam scores, the homework portion of your grade would be disregarded and your final grade would be determined sol
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
High signal/noise ratio is extra important when things are going badly
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
IIUC part of the reason ballistic missiles have multiple warheads is that some of them detonate high up to knock out air defenses and other electronics allowing the rest to fall through to their targets. The last time we tried this experime
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
You can buy a 128GB mainboard from framework for $2300, so maybe somewhere a bit over $9k by the time you've got power, storage, cables, racks (they sell those too). I was thinking about getting into one of these Strix Halo setups but
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Either way, the bribes will flow like wine, the message has been sent loud and clear
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I am reminded of bcantrill's legendary quote: > You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. Except this is like two lawnmowers going at i
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
guess it didn't work, whiskey pete did the thing: https://xcancel.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
hell yeah, give it the ssh keys too and sleep all the time
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
It took me until the 3rd paragraph to figure this out
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Agreed
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I like the idea of SQL as the "common tongue" because provided the query is reasonably terse it's easy for the human to verify and reason about, there's shitloads of it in the LLM's training set, and (usually) the d
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I've always thought it was like this, maybe I'm wrong: O(some constant) -- "nearby" that constant (maybe "order of magnitude" or whatever is contextually convenient) O(some parameter) -- denotes the asymptotic
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Yeah this is my experience with logs data. You only actually care about O(10) lines per query, usually related by some correlation ID. Or, instead of searching you're summarizing by counting things. In that case, actually counting is i
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Do you think it could do anything interesting with a highly compressed representation? CLP can apparently achieve 169x compression ratio: https://github.com/y-scope/clp https://www.uber.com/blog/re
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
There's a simpler explanation than "billionaires with hearts of gold" here. If: (1) this is a wildly unpopular and optically bad deal (2) it's a high data rate deal--lots of tokens means bad things for Anthropic. Users w
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
They're still a megacorp, roughly, with like 6k people remaining. That's a huge company. Huge companies need hierarchy to function, the "flat" thing is a really dumb idea. There's no way to make it analogous to that
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
They hire people, and then they fire them!
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Imagine not being laid off in this situation.. I'd demand to be. EDIT: I guess if it comes with 300% raise I'd pause for a bit to think about it, but otherwise absolutely not.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
A diesel electric hybrid, at least naively, makes quite a lot of sense to me. Your generator can be sized such that at full output at its torque peak it's making enough power to push the truck at highway speed up a slight incline (just
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
A Cat 3406 weighs around 4000lbs and an Eaton 18spd weighs around 1000lbs. So rounding up a bit for accessories and other equipment say 6000lbs total (~2750kg).
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
This is excellent, I'm really looking forward to your piece on fuel additives.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
You make a good point about the furnace. It remains to be seen how long it'll last. My only hope is that it was designed to be serviceable. I was very surprised to find the battery. This thermostat is designed to be compatible with old
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
It's been done many times before, quite successfully. The Napier Deltic (3 crankshafts!) and Junkers Jumo are two examples. The Commer Knocker is another (which had only one crankshaft I believe). Two crankshafts makes the engine sligh
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
this thread is worthless without pics ;)
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
There's potentially an even better option than the I6 layout: opposed piston I3 2 stroke. Same number of power pulses per rev as I6 4 stroke, no valves , no cylinder heads . It seems that these guys solved the oil loss problem and by
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
From Toyota there are many greats: 1FZ-FE, 1HZ, 1HD-FT, 12H-T, etc The Cummins 5.9L is excellent, particularly the 12 valve with P7100 pump. Awesome low end torque. From Mercedes the M104 and OM606 are phenomenal. Powerful, efficient, incre
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
It's an interesting conundrum.. I've always viewed "the law" as something that doesn't really materialize until you're arrested, arraigned, tried, and sentenced. So "breaking" the law and "gettin
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Hope somebody smuggles a decent screw jack onboard otherwise they're fucked.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Could it though? I have lived in rural areas and urban areas of the US. This speaks more to the rural areas than the urban, but only marginally--Americans like their firearms, they're suspicious of The Government, and they don't m

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