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by jnwatson 1y ago
I've written a lot of low level software, BSPs, and most of an OS, and the main reason to not write your own OS these days is silicon vendors. Back in the day, they would provide you a spec detailed enough that you could feasibly write
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by jnwatson 1y ago
In a market economy, shortages are simply a statement that the buyers value a good or service less than the market price. Medical care shortages are mostly a function that hospitals don't want to pay nurses market rate and then treat t
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Cool that you're into retrocomputing, but many of the rest of us think perhaps some features added to vim from the last 30 years might be useful. That vi was standardized was one of the many failures of POSIX as an idea. The very idea
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by jnwatson 1y ago
This makes Perplexity look really bad. This isn't an advanced attack; this is LLM security 101. It seems like they have nobody thinking about security at all, and certainly nobody assigned to security. Disclosure: I work on LLM secur
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by jnwatson 1y ago
That's right in the center of my experience. For any tech that has been around for a while and has a combination of deprecated and new hotness, I've noticed Gemini CLI frequently use old and obsolete styles and calls. I find using
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by jnwatson 1y ago
You can do all those things with a vehicle half the size. Modern F-150s are industrial vehicles. They weight 5000 pounds. They and their large SUV cousins are a menace to pedestrians, normal-sized vehicles, and the road itself.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
In the US, we have two tiers of nurse below the 4 year degree and one tier above, and we still have a major nursing shortage. You can get training to be a certified nursing assistant in just a few weeks here.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
The best VPN is to host your own. I used Digital Ocean. They have preconfigured droplet images for OpenVPN access server. The droplet even serves a client pre-configured with the connection settings. It took me all of 10 minutes to set up
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by jnwatson 1y ago
The TI C40 used them.
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The standard is 41 years old, so there has been plenty of time for extensions. Practically, the useful encodings are DER, which is canonical and used for crypto, and XER, which is human-readable. It is a neat spec, chock-full of great ideas
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Their latest Llama is a couple steps behind the frontier. Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI are all well ahead. They missed the boat on LLMs and have been playing catch up.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Chromecast has used ultrasound in lieu of pairing code for a while now.
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AI can figure out how to send a patch via email a lot faster than a human.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
I just finished writing one. It is essentially the onboarding doc for your project. It is the same stuff you'd tell a new developer on your team: here are the design docs, here are the tools, the code, and this is how you build and tes
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Literally less than an hour ago, I reviewed a bunch of LLM-generated boilerplate. I then told the agent to show me a plan to refactor it. I suggested some tweaks, and then it implemented the plan and then tested that it didn't break an
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by jnwatson 1y ago
I'm stunned that the paper doesn't mention this. I think the paper is simply "caffeine before bedtime is bad for sleep".
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Only if you set temperature to 0 or have some way to set the random seed.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Multimodal LLMs are absolutely LLMs, the language is just not human language.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
I think there's a simpler answer. Google has drastically slowed hiring. Less hiring means fewer natural opportunities for growth. I joined in 2021. I feel like I caught the tail end of old Google. Any decent idea was greenlit. Now, it
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Don't forget the climate-change-decision-accelerating decision to mothball all their nuclear reactors. This was a monumentally poor strategic decision from multiple angles.
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> it's the OS. It's the OS that requires apps to get permission before accessing my location, it's the OS that isolates apps from each other, it's the OS that provides an easy way to install/uninstall packages. S
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by jnwatson 2y ago
AI is a product when you slap an API on top and host it for other businesses to figure out a use case. In a gold rush, the folks that sell pickaxes make a reliable living.
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by jnwatson 2y ago
An evil timeline is the construction of frameworks in the future that are only grokkable by AI. The standard for new frameworks won't be "does this make humans more productive using new concepts". It will be "can I get a
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by jnwatson 2y ago
Exactly, though without some sort of parsimony pressure you can end up with rambling programs to interpret.
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by jnwatson 2y ago
I've used GP successfully in a very particular circuit path covering problem. GA (not GP) is commonly used for hyperparameter choice in deep learning.
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by jnwatson 2y ago
This is notably better than previous attempts. I hear the basic structures that make a piece of music more than a series of notes. None of the pieces I heard were good, but I think they'd get a passing grade in a composition class.
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by jnwatson 2y ago
Raw fish is flash frozen in the US. Not necessarily so in other countries. Be careful eating sushi outside the US/Japan.
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Likewise with the Texas Instruments C40 DSP. sizeof(char)==sizeof(int) in that case, both representing 32-bit values.
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Don't hate the player, hate the game. This is what attracts the eye balls.
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by jnwatson 2y ago
In the grand tradition of sysadmins having to diagnose everything from a misconfigured router to a plugged toilet, I think diagnosing medical problems might as well be in the skill set. First, I'd check the cooking oil and seasonings f

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