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by jdub 7mo ago
Before OLED (and similar), most displays were lit with LEDs (behind or around the screen, through a diffuser, then through liquid crystals) which was indeed the dominant power draw... like 90% or so! But the article is about an OLED display
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by jdub 7mo ago
Even at the best of times, the United States does not have a strong culture of observing or learning from other nations.
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by jdub 7mo ago
> At Reco, we have a policy engine that evaluates JSONata expressions against every message in our data pipeline - billions of events, on thousands of distinct expressions. The original architecture choice and price almost gave me a brai
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by jdub 7mo ago
No, it pays for ticket-clipping middle-men and political corruption.
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by jdub 7mo ago
Or, the ability to construct additional sentences influenced by prior ones.
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by jdub 7mo ago
Digital neural networks and "neurons" were already vastly simpler than biological neural networks and neurons... and getting to transformers involved optimisations that took us even further away from biomimicry.
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by jdub 7mo ago
This is a very optimistic, pro-technology-cleverness point of view. I recommend reading the linked persona selection model document. It's Anthropic through and through - enthusiastic while embracing uncertainty - but ultimately lots of
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by jdub 8mo ago
But there's a spectrum of responses to these technologies, from knee-jerk cynicism to genuine moral disgust. "Useful" and "good for people/society/humanity" don't always go hand-in-hand, particularly
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by jdub 8mo ago
You're likely to find more nuance in opposing views than your "underwhelmed by AI" generalisation could represent.
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by jdub 8mo ago
Did you see the network security stock sell-off after Anthropic announced a code security analysis feature? There's a sliver of nothing between mob mentality and wisdom of the crowd.
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by jdub 8mo ago
How would copyright law possibly compel the burning of books?
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by jdub 8mo ago
> Netscape didn't attack Microsoft's business software, operating systems or other pieces of their offerings. That's not how it was interpreted at the time: Netscape threatened to route around the desktop operating system
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by jdub 8mo ago
History suggests otherwise, and there's nothing particularly special about this moment. Microsoft survived (and even, for a little while, dominated) after missing the web. Netscape didn't eat its lunch. Then Google broke out on a
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by jdub 8mo ago
It's so refreshing to discover that the "I found one bug in systemd which invalidates everything" pattern continues in the year of our lord 2026.
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by jdub 8mo ago
Sure, and systemd would translate that directly into a dependency on network startup, which is precisely equivalent to the approach I mentioned that depends on operator knowledge. It's configuration, not "just works" inferenc
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by jdub 8mo ago
Sounds like your admin, distro, or the systemd team could pay some attention to systemd-update-done.service The "can only be used in /etc/fstab" systemd settings are essentially workarounds to do those things via fstab (
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by jdub 8mo ago
> After 5 minutes I got freshly burned floppy. oh god
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by jdub 8mo ago
OK, think it through... How do we determine that a specific instance of a filesystem mount is "remote", or even requires a "network"? Consider that the network endpoint might be localhost, a netlink/unix/other
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by jdub 8mo ago
LFS never had academic, educational, or pedagogical merit. It was always sheer faith that by doing enough busywork (except the truly difficult stuff), something might rub off. Maybe you learn some names of component parts. Components change
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by jdub 8mo ago
Weeeeelllll... Post-CFEngine (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform) and cloud platform (CloudFormation) infrastructure-as-code is over a decade old. Docker's popularisation of containers is just over a decade old. But containers (and especially
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by jdub 9mo ago
I'm not threatened by the idea that LLMs might actually be intelligent. I know they're not. I'm threatened by other people wrongly believing that LLMs possess elements of intelligence that they simply do not. Anthropomorpho
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by jdub 9mo ago
Why do people even begin to believe that a large language model can usefully understand and interpret health data? Sure, LLM companies and proponents bear responsibility for the positioning of LLM tools, and particularly their presentation
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by jdub 9mo ago
Why do you have those expectations?
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by jdub 9mo ago
> But now that most code is written by LLMs... Pause for a moment and think through a realistic estimation of the numbers and proportions involved.
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by jdub 9mo ago
(Ha, nice to see Jon Corbet's name on the PCI Endpoint documentation...)
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by jdub 10mo ago
And, BARTLET By the way, the words you are looking for are, "Oh, good grief!"
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by jdub 10mo ago
I get the impression that folks who have a strong negative reaction to the phrase "stochastic parrot" tend to do so because they interpret it literally or analogously (revealed in their arguments against it), when it is most usefu
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by jdub 10mo ago
Static linking can be a layer of defence against some security issues, depending on your circumstances. But what I said was "reduced security footprint", considering the trade offs between a single statically linked binary and a f
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by jdub 10mo ago
To simplify for a moment, consider asking an LLM to come up with tests for a function. The tests pass. But did it come up with exhaustive tests? Did it understand the full intent of the function? How would it know? How would the operator kn
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by jdub 10mo ago
Depends how much you care about the size and security footprint of your container images.

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