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by kenmacd 2y ago
There's a lot that I believe to be misinformed in your post, but rather than address most of that I'll ask if you've considered your reasons that you're so hostile towards this field? I doubt you refuse to work with anyo
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by kenmacd 2y ago
If you're just looking for something that's similar in the auto-complete category, I'd suggest adding the Continue plugin/extension ( https://docs.continue.dev/quickstart#jetbrains ) and pointing it at Cla
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by kenmacd 2y ago
I have to agree with mid-kid here. GrapheneOS is great for security, but some of that ends up directly in conflict with privacy. For example years ago I opened an issue around runtime-patching applications ( https://github.com&#x2
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by kenmacd 2y ago
> by providing it with 10 to 20 examples of a chat dialogue in the initial prompt context Can you recommended examples (or a source of examples) that would have models act similar to the instruct models?
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by kenmacd 2y ago
I'm sure you're right. I'm not sure how the 'the bad things with AI' shake out, but I'm trying to be optimistic. For example it's not like customer supports bots aren't already commonly used, and it&#
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by kenmacd 2y ago
> "Capital continues to pour into the AI sector with very little attention being paid to company fundamentals," Maybe I'm just overly optimistic, but on a wider society scale I see a lot worse things they could be pouring
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by kenmacd 2y ago
Bit of a strange article. It seems to be trying to claim AI is 'hype' while at the same time claiming it "has the potential to ruin what were stable [hand weaver] careers".
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by kenmacd 2y ago
> as customers remained reticent to make the switch away from gas-powered cars. I find this disingenuous. I think a lot of customer would gladly switch if there was anything electric and remotely affordable.
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by kenmacd 2y ago
A while ago I hacked root on my LG tv, but eventually I gave up on the war against spying/ads and just unchecked all the agreements, unplugged the network from it, and hooked up a $20 Onn 4k tv box instead. Now it does everything I wan
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by kenmacd 2y ago
> I just haven't found the motivation yet. I moved from Arch to NixOS. In case it helps these are my main motivations: * In Arch, very rarely, I'd apply an update that would break things. Going back to a stable system was a pai
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by kenmacd 2y ago
Like wayland, podman was one of those things that took a lot of "I'll give it another shot? Nope, not ready" before I could switch. Lately the only real incompatibility I run in to with podman is that the handling of `RUN --m
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by kenmacd 2y ago
You're also trading some amount of risk due to not having newer safety features. For example electronic stability control has been shown by study after study to reduce accidents. With your manual brakes there's simply no way to ap
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by kenmacd 2y ago
> After 3 Pixels, ALL with issues that never should have been present, I decided Google can shove it's Pixel phones. I can understand issues, but what I can't forgive is Google not taking responsibility for those issues. My mot
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by kenmacd 3y ago
If you still use it, my best suggestion is to use a github search for 'path:.nix TERMs' when you run in to issues. It's likely someone already has that custom package, or an overlay to fix that missing compile option, or what
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by kenmacd 3y ago
> You don't own the data, just a temporary right to use it. Agreed, bonkers. You didn't 'own the data' when it was a VCR recording a broadcast TV show or movie, but now it's all "but they broke our ROT13-sup
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by kenmacd 3y ago
If you already have a copy of the original repo, add this as another remote with: ``` git remote add irfanhakim-as https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/yuzu-mainline git fetch irfanhakim-as 537296095ab24eddcb196b5ef98004f9
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by kenmacd 3y ago
> I know electricity production is not renewable everywhere in the world yet, but at least it’s on a path and possible And somewhat counter-intuitively, even if you are going to consume that natural gas, it still works out better for the
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by kenmacd 3y ago
> here isn't any heat pump out there that will produce water hot enough (e.g. 185F) For 185: https://www.arcticheatpumps.com/high-temperature-heat-pump.h... Or much more common, if you can deal with 176F, the SANCO2
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by kenmacd 3y ago
I'd much prefer companies actually follow NIST and stop using SMS for any type of authentication. eSIM has the advantage of allowing me to switch to cheaper services without paying $10 and waiting for a physical card to arrive. Is it&#
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by kenmacd 3y ago
> git his one linear history > Don't make me pick! I'm not understanding what you mean... to me it doesn't. For example you can browse by 'chapters' by adding `--first-parent` to your `git log`. You have commi
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by kenmacd 3y ago
I couldn't agree more. I've worked on multiple projects where PRs must be 'squash-merged' and I've never understood why people want to throw away history and make their bisects harder. If you use proper merges you c
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by kenmacd 3y ago
It's not a new one, but also good to get the shingles vaccine if you're over 50. Even under 50 might be a good idea as cases—although still uncommon—are increasing in younger people[1]. (Unfortunately where I live they won't
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by kenmacd 3y ago
> They’ll What if I asked you to list all our source material that led you to use that particular contraction. Heuristics will not do, you must list each. Can you do it? Do you believe AI should. > I agree that it should be possible t
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by kenmacd 3y ago
> I think generative AI should be able to provide links to similar source material in the training data Except these aren't databases, so that's generally not possible, in the same way that it's not possible for your prov
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by kenmacd 3y ago
> TOTP + password manager is more convenient (and more online) than yubikey, in my opinion. Especially convenient with a browser plugin. More convenient than yubikey webauthn, or just yubikey TOTP? Personally I find tapping my yubikey m
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by kenmacd 3y ago
> due to security and version compatibility, I feel maybe it shouldn't exist anymore. I've also thought similar. From a security standpoint though it seems like shared libraries are largely a win. Imagine you're running a
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by kenmacd 3y ago
> There is not any version of this issue that isn't a particularly morbid form of the trolley problem. Do you believe withdrawing life support is murder? What about a doctor following a patients do-not-resuscitate order? If an accid
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by kenmacd 3y ago
> I’ll admit this article gave me some uncomfortable feelings over that fact. Which part made you uncomfortable? Would it improve your comfort level if they started by cutting of your head? > they at least need to provide multiple cla
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by kenmacd 3y ago
While I applaud the modularity here, I just can't get excited about a ICE vehicle from a company actively lobbying against BEVs.
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by kenmacd 3y ago
There's at least a couple of reasons that your analogy doesn't really work. First a lot of these roads are 'free' and yet you're still being charged for it. If two large networks come to an agreement then they conne

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