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by jerf 5mo ago
Until Bitwarden screws up it's going to be difficult for any fork to get much attention. If they do, that will the moment to launch a fork. It's Bitwarden's game to lose. Forking is easy enough that there's no great need
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by jerf 5mo ago
I've seen many people on reddit use AIs to translate their text. Given that it clearly puts the "default AI voice" on top of their text, it makes me think that it is a fairly inaccurate translation. I suspect something like G
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by jerf 5mo ago
Unless that's something more than the already-common practice called "memories" that are text files held off to the side, that doesn't change what I meant. You can do all sorts of interesting things within the context wi
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by jerf 5mo ago
I'm flashing back to using a 1200 baud modem when the world was on 28.8k. Modems are much more regular-looking, though, since each character is a character. Unless you count color changes and such, which you only really notice at 1200.
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by jerf 5mo ago
From a certain and quite valid point of view, they have no mechanism for feedback at all. Every time you start a conversation you're starting in the same state, modulo the random numbers. At most you have this very, very vague loop in
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by jerf 5mo ago
In principle, I agree with you. In practice, Google has earned the way my priors are ready to believe it's 100% their fault with mighty and sustained effort. Or lack thereof, depending on your point of view.
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by jerf 5mo ago
And why some very, very special languages have an effectively-global variable called "errno" that you have to check after the call manually, and worry about whether maybe it was populated from some previous error. Nothing says &qu
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by jerf 5mo ago
There has never been a commencement speech made when the speaker couldn't have spent the entire time speaking about problems. Ever. Not even one. It has always been possible to spin an hour of doom and gloom about the future, based on
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by jerf 5mo ago
College students had 4+ years to learn about the real issues before the graduation ceremory, and the rest of their lives after it. Rubbing every problem in the world in their face at a graduation ceremony is just gauche . To everything a t
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by jerf 5mo ago
"how does music that relies on these weird sequences actually sound?" Like random garbage, mostly. Music being music, someone can take that random garbage and try to make something that sounds good out of it. It is a common proble
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by jerf 5mo ago
Not only can you implement that with PTYs, it's how they operate by default. That's why you can telnet to an HTTP server and make a mistake and use backspace to fix it. The terminal will only send lines over. You have to use a com
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by jerf 5mo ago
LLMs-as-search-proxies have some pretty nice capabilities. For instance you can say "limit your search to scientific papers" and they'll do a much nicer job. I've also had some success recently prompting them with "
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by jerf 5mo ago
Does the math math on this to be "free" for a long period of time? Ads can only pay for so much and AI can really suck down the money. Ads have been close enough to covering costs for conventional internet search that even though
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by jerf 5mo ago
I'm not a woodworker. (By which I mean I don't have any of those tools, not that I'm unwilling to learn. But I would need $1K+ of tools to get started.) I have a different idea I'm going for. The first test print is just
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by jerf 5mo ago
I consider this a disproof of the "dark forest" hypothesis. That doesn't affect the Three Body Problem as a work of science fiction at all; science fiction gets to make a few assumptions and then ride from there. But if it we
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by jerf 5mo ago
Oxygen is a highly reactive element that on a cosmological time frame instantly disappears by bonding with things. It is very difficult to come up with an explanation other than "life" for why an atmosphere would be full of oxygen
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by jerf 5mo ago
Tempted to 3D print something based on this. It's pretty neat. And now's the time, too, while the periodic table ends nicely at the last row.
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by jerf 5mo ago
I believe it is just "as of" the XKCD comic, for which "aperiodic table" seems more sensible than "quasiperiodic table" for how the comic was written. The exciting thing about using the Penrose tiling is that y
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by jerf 5mo ago
I'm running Vaultwarden because while on the one hand I'd like to just pay a company to make my password problem go away, I don't know who I can actually trust to not try to take advantage of the fact they have all the keys t
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by jerf 5mo ago
I chose that example precisely because even by prediction market standards it shows the degree to which people will go to skew the market. The much more popular method of making bets in a variety of ways to skew the system, use all the powe
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by jerf 5mo ago
We have a skewed-to-the-positive view about AI around here because we are the industry where it has turned out to work to a significant degree. We can argue about whether it lived up to the promises and the practical implications of using i
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by jerf 5mo ago
They don't work. They only work if all the participants in prediction markets don't notice their incentive to cheat the market. One example of many: https://moneywise.com/investing/cryptocurrency/polymark
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by jerf 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i... , then click the "Status" sorter on the list, which should sort by "current" first. If my eyeball count is correct, there are currentl
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by jerf 5mo ago
If universities jailed everyone who did something stupid on their network, they'd have to close their computer science department for lack of students. I once stood up a DHCP server without realizing I'd start serving addresses to
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by jerf 5mo ago
It's an interesting idea, and it may be something that could be mathematically justified, but I do think this is an abuse of Lindy's Law in the absence of such a justification. Per Wikipedia [1]: "The Lindy effect applies to
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by jerf 5mo ago
Which isn't a hierarchy, it's a tagging system. The tags have some hierarchy but that's not uncommon. The distinguishing characteristic of "nested hierarchy" is that a particular thing should only appear exactly onc
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by jerf 5mo ago
Except the GP quote actually happens. For example, if you've ever wondered why useless art trades at such eye-watering valuations, the answer is that the high valuations are fictions that governments will accept for tax purposes, from
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by jerf 5mo ago
I don't think anyone is asking you to stupidly follow the advice off a cliff. You're welcome to call "stripping all your screw heads" broken and take appropriate action.
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by jerf 5mo ago
I've been using this as a touchstone for whether or not we are actually going to take security seriously for a long time. We've moved slightly closer to this, but in a world where we're still arguing over memory safety being
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by jerf 5mo ago
"Too few contributors". I was a language explorer and I think I hadn't heard of Ocaml by then. Even if you built the best dnsmasq project ever in Ocaml nobody would have heard of it or known how to build it.

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