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by jrmg 7mo ago
And people in the late 1700s were just allowed to do anything? (The answer to that is obviously ‘no’). I’m not even in complete disagreement with your opinion on data centers (like, people are coming up with noise, water use, pollution and
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by jrmg 7mo ago
Since when did we restrict people's ability to do things? This question is not the obvious winner you think it is. To me, and I am sure many, it sort of undermines your argument. Even in the most ‘free' cultures, society has _al
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by jrmg 7mo ago
It’s been my experience that those that most loudly say they value extreme directness like this are also those with the most fragile egos. If you directly tell them something they did is wrong or non-optimal, they conclude that you’re an id
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by jrmg 7mo ago
This seems like a weird hangup. Is it likely? Taking these films back in the 60s might’ve been illegal, but has anyone actually been prosecuted for it in modern times? Haven’t other lost episodes been recovered from ‘illegitimate’ sources w
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by jrmg 7mo ago
Right - setting up LM studio is not hard. But how do I connect LM Studio to Copilot, or set up an agent?
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by jrmg 7mo ago
Is there a reliable guide somewhere to setting up local AI for coding (please don’t say ‘just Google it’ - that just results in a morass of AI slop/SEO pages with out of date, non-self-consistent, incorrect or impossible instructions).
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by jrmg 7mo ago
Yeah, the _reason_ this was in the iPhone is that YouTube was a normal and reasonable (if unusual - because sharing videos online was unusual) way to share videos with friends and family. And people cared way less about privacy back then.
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by jrmg 8mo ago
It has one more syllable than ‘warfighter’, which also doesn’t do any of the things you said.
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BBC Journalist SEO-Hacks ChatGPT and Google's AI(bbc.com)
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by jrmg 8mo ago
Our local municipal waste authority recommends using laundry detergent liquid bottles as sharps containers. Seems the FDA agrees they’re suitable: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safely-using-sharps-need...
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by jrmg 8mo ago
Also macOS in its various guises, for decades.
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by jrmg 8mo ago
I found three new numbers!
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by jrmg 8mo ago
There was nothing at the article’s URL for a day or so after it was pulled (on a holiday weekend, FWIW), which I agree isn’t great. But there is, now, a page up at the article’s original URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/
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by jrmg 8mo ago
I have the same worry about LLMs in general - I know that ‘model collapse’ seems to be an unfashionable idea, but when the internet’s just full of garbage (soon?…), what are we going to train these things on?
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by jrmg 8mo ago
Is it normal/expected for a news organization to publish that they fired someone? I’m inclined to take the ‘don’t comment on personnel matters’ at face value. They did report on the article quote sourcing debacle at the time - perhaps
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by jrmg 8mo ago
You can see the fall in real time - half the sources are also dubious AI slop now and that number’s only growing :-/
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by jrmg 8mo ago
Yeah, I just don’t get it. My M2 MacBook’s as great as it’s ever been.
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by jrmg 8mo ago
I always thought conductive ink had too high a resistance to use to make PCBs. That’s not the case? How do you attach the components to it?
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by jrmg 8mo ago
LLMs are, fundamentally, compressed lookup tables that map input -> input + next token. Or, If you like, input -> input + list of possible next tokens with probabilities.
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by jrmg 8mo ago
They are the same amount of ‘risk’ to national security that the various ‘emergencies’ the executive branch has used as legal excuses to do otherwise illegal things are emergencies. Congress is negligent in not reigning this kind of thing i
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by jrmg 8mo ago
DuckDuckGo is fine for quickly getting to well known sites where I can't remember the URL, but it's objectively worse for trying to find everything from Reddit threads to Recipes. Agree with this. DDG just seems to have less ‘in
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by jrmg 8mo ago
Yes, that’s clearly the intent of the bill (note I’m not commenting on the wisdom of this idea!)
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by jrmg 8mo ago
The actual bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... Bill text (it’s longer, but the rest is mostly definitions of the terms used here): 1798.501. (a) An operating system provider shall do
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by jrmg 8mo ago
After spending time on Apple’s M1/M2 Macs (coming from a large x86_64 desktop), going back to x86_64 feels like a regression, both in performance and battery life. Isn’t it still the case that, for speeds comparable to an Apple syste
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by jrmg 8mo ago
I don’t see a CLAUDE.md (or any mention of Claude) in the repo that’s posted or the one you quoted?
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by jrmg 8mo ago
You appear to be saying that this is the content it will just serve to a middle age man who hasn’t used it in a long time by default. You don’t think that’s problematic?
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by jrmg 8mo ago
It’s returned to nothing. Losing touch with people you didn’t contact regularly was the norm until the mid 2000s. For someone who grew up in the ‘golden years’ of social media, it’s kinda weird to see.
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by jrmg 8mo ago
Can I get compensation from UPS or FedEx for making me pay illegal tariffs - and making me pay a fee to them for processing it too? (I know the answer is practically ’no’, but it does still seem to me that the bureaucracy and companies that
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by jrmg 8mo ago
I’m sorry people are downvoting you for just replying to my question!
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by jrmg 8mo ago
Always gives me COMEFROM vibes.

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