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by jl6 10mo ago
This is why communication skill is the most important differentiator between a senior dev and a junior dev.
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by jl6 10mo ago
Got it, thank you.
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by jl6 10mo ago
OK, fair enough, but what are OpenAI doing buying production capacity rather than, say, paying NVIDIA to do it? OpenAI aren’t the ones making the hardware?
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by jl6 10mo ago
Can someone explain why OpenAI is buying DDR5 RAM specifically? I thought LLMs typically ran on GPUs with specialised VRAM, not on main system memory. Have they figured out how to scale using regular RAM?
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by jl6 10mo ago
Demand spills over to substitutes.
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by jl6 10mo ago
> Historically, elites could shape support only through limited instruments like schooling and mass media Schooling and mass media are expensive things to control. Surely reducing the cost of persuasion opens persuasion up to more player
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by jl6 10mo ago
How to get every tech enthusiast in the world to root for OpenAI to implode in order to release the RAM hostages.
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by jl6 11mo ago
I get generally good results from prompts asking for something I know definitely exists or is definitely possible, like an ffmpeg command I know I’ve used in the past but can’t remember. Recently I asked how to something in Imagemagick whic
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by jl6 11mo ago
The article seems heavy on blame but it seems the people involved are just trying to do the best they can for patients who are in an extremely grave situation where good outcomes are unlikely.
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by jl6 11mo ago
Knowing math specifically and intelligence generally are orthogonal to the skill of wise decision making. Some of the smartest people I’ve ever known at any age have been among the worst at “life skills”.
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by jl6 11mo ago
Seems a stretch to use this as the basis of any radical change like raising the voting age to 32 (although maybe it supports reducing the minimum presidential age from 35 to 32!), but it does perhaps suggest looking at what kind of soft-pat
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by jl6 11mo ago
Nice, that means the latest Ubuntu LTS release (24.04) can be supported beyond the date of the Year 2038 Problem. Although theoretically now solved using 64-bit time_t, I wonder how robustly it’s been tested in real world deployments.
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by jl6 11mo ago
There’s a lot of ideological snap-to-grid.
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by jl6 11mo ago
News is often highly decontextualized, to our detriment. This site is a nice idea, because seeing echoes of today in old news is a starting point for adding a little bit of context back in. A lot of people live in a permanent rage-state ind
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by jl6 11mo ago
Is there any chance that this is part of a good-faith attempt to apply pressure to the patent pool consortium*? They are presumably now missing out on a substantial license fee revenue stream, and may wish to regain Dell and HP as license
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by jl6 11mo ago
“Constitution-Free Zone” Now there’s a trumped-up charge.
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by jl6 11mo ago
Mutually assured down-detection.
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by jl6 11mo ago
It’s debatable. Everything is layered, and one layer’s application/product is the higher layer’s tool/platform. In the context of understanding where and why OSS is dominant, I think the tool/app distinction is whether the th
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by jl6 11mo ago
TeX is arguably the only application amongst these, as opposed to tool (and that’s debatable). OSS definitely dominates in tooling, but successful open source end-user applications are rarer.
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by jl6 11mo ago
Mass production has never been tried before for nuclear so those 50 years don’t tell us much about the possibilities for the next 50 years. They built multiple mainframes of the same design too, but the scale remained tiny and so the costs
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by jl6 11mo ago
This is a rare moment of sanity in energy policy. It’s not about wind vs nuclear. We (the whole world) need everything we’ve got. SMRs have the potential to move nuclear out of its mainframe era. Remember iPhones would cost ~$billions each
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by jl6 11mo ago
> However, the study authors emphasize that more research is needed to confirm these mechanisms and determine whether the survival benefit observed in this real-world analysis represents a direct anti-cancer effect or an indirect result
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by jl6 11mo ago
I hope one day the DevTeam releases a NetHack 5 which serves as a successor to both variants.
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by jl6 11mo ago
That’s a nice piece of cloth. I would worry about it getting damaged. I wonder if they will sell a case for it.
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by jl6 11mo ago
Ryanair is best thought of, not as an airline, but as a kind of carnival game that delivers a small monetary prize if you win, and a nasty electric shock if you do it wrong. By playing Ryanair, you have the opportunity to acquire a slightly
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by jl6 11mo ago
It’s surely not just (or even mostly) a moral decision but a practical one too. Superhumans that dominate mere-humans would make that sport de facto superhuman-only, so if mere-humans want to enjoy competitive sport (and we do!) we’d organi
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by jl6 11mo ago
If Facebook have actively hidden job opportunities from someone who is actively searching for employment, that seems like clear and harmful discrimination. If they have just shown targeted ads to someone, possibly mixed into the general ads
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by jl6 11mo ago
Are these ads in the sense of unsolicited adverts, or is this some kind of job search engine where people are actively asking Facebook to find a job for them?
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by jl6 11mo ago
Some topics are definitely more susceptible to rot than others. Questions like “how do I do X on Ubuntu” tend to have a lot of outdated (yet accepted) answers from a decade ago. There have been a lot of Ubuntu releases since then, with a lo
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by jl6 11mo ago
My lay reading of the OP’s paper is that the universe is, in fact, braking for somebody.

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