kevincox

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by kevincox 2mo ago
I usually hate touch controls. But for the stove I actually like them. I always hated cleaning in and around the knobs. When cooking on the stove you almost always get some sort of splatter so it is nice to clean them every time (something
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by kevincox 2mo ago
It uses `safeAtomicCopy` so you know it is good. Of course safeAtomicCopy only ensures that the output is atomic, it doesn't lock the database in anyway. So yes, you will get corruption. It also attempts to support WAL but just copies
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by kevincox 2mo ago
Mostly rendering. A bunch of images, text, UI elements. On a modern high resolution display it adds up quite quickly. You can surely cut it down a bit, but 100MB isn't absurd.
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by kevincox 2mo ago
Flash sales are a huge scaling issue for Shopify. There are celebrities who want to sell thousands of items in a few minutes window at the end of an advertised countdown. Basically this is an incredibly rare case but a feature that they wan
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by kevincox 2mo ago
Ah, I figured it out. It is because he isn't using the distance to the landmark as the heuristic but the difference between the distance to the current location and the distance to the target. This means landmarks behind you will be ne
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by kevincox 2mo ago
I don't understand how the multiple landmarks works. If you just max all of the landmark distances wouldn't some landmark near the starting point eventually dominate as you move away from it? Once you get halfway through the path
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by kevincox 2mo ago
It seems that this is still a primary device that the replica devices connect to. So if your primary is offline, out of battery or broken your other device are still useless. Not proper multi-device support.
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by kevincox 2mo ago
My personal website is a "low quality blog" but I definitely feel that it shouldn't be up for grabs because I don't want to pay thousands of dollars a year.
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Web Security is Too Hard(textslashplain.com)
227 points by kevincox 2mo ago|119 comments
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by kevincox 2mo ago
RSS is no simpler. And in fact when you have to take account the ambiguity of different clients interpreting the sloppy specification differently it just gets more complex. Even the trivial case of trying to include "&" in a t
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by kevincox 2mo ago
At least in the past it was GLM-4.6. IDK if it is ever changed. https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/4276
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by kevincox 2mo ago
Scrolling on desktop is also broken.
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by kevincox 2mo ago
This seems like a great option for local usage. With 16 GiB of VRAM on the official ( https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-S-2.1-GGUF ) Q4_K_M quant (which seems to be recommended) I can get about 50 t/s in and 10
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by kevincox 2mo ago
Wow an LLM hallucinated? What a novel discovery.
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by kevincox 2mo ago
See also why houses are often painted when being staged for selling just so that the new purchaser can paint immediately after with their preferred colour. Wasteful but it works.
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by kevincox 2mo ago
In minesweeper you start with nothing visible and explore while avoiding the bombs. In this you start with all of the hints visible and place the bombs. However in practice it is very similar since identifying where the bombs are to not cl
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by kevincox 2mo ago
Traversing a linked list is terrible for performance. But in cases like the cache you are only poping from the front, appending to the back or removing which are all quite fast and require little pointer chashing. Cache cost of individual a
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by kevincox 2mo ago
.eu is an exception as it is for the European Union but they don't consider themselves a country.
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by kevincox 2mo ago
I am not a huge fan of most of these, but a few do seem useful. : "${1:?missing argument, aborting!}" I wouldn't use this because I would want to give $1 a name for the rest of the script, so I would assign. But it c
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by kevincox 2mo ago
I think a very knowledgeable reviewer can make a decent guess. But to really know you would need to tear it apart and analyze all of the materials used (maybe the metal or plastic has been swapped to a slightly different material which is v
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by kevincox 2mo ago
Not to mention that tying your insurance to your job is a *huge* pain. If you switch jobs or get fired you need to deal with coverage gaps, considering individual coverage for the duration, and you may need to switch care providers dependin
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by kevincox 2mo ago
> and advertisements (and even review sites!) almost never address it properly The thing that annoys me the most is when the reviewer opens the box, shakes it gently and says "feels well built" or "plastic build". It
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by kevincox 2mo ago
While that is true the bigger issue is that LineageOS doesn't qualify for "They do not break the AOSP security model" as it allows users to get root access without modifying the OS. So even if there was verified boot Roblox w
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by kevincox 2mo ago
If anything this distillation is more ethical than the original as it is on machine-generated content rather than copyrighted human-labour products.
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by kevincox 2mo ago
I'm strongly in favour of this. I think income tax should approach 100%. So your second billion you still make more. But not twice as much. The exact decay function is up to date. But I really don't think your post-tax take home s
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by kevincox 2mo ago
The problem isn't that we are gaining more knowledge and better technology. The problem is that we are allowing the rich to use the technology to subjugate the majority. If AI improves human productivity so much that millions of people
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by kevincox 2mo ago
Dead-man's switch means triggering when something doesn't happen. (The name comes from a switch that an alive operator would need to hold in such a way that if they died they would stop holding.) So in this case she means that her
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by kevincox 2mo ago
A USB drive with FLAC files works pretty well. It doesn't have the same feel as a CD with art though. For movies there isn't a legal way to acquire proper files unfortunately.
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by kevincox 2mo ago
But even that isn't the whole story because the models can produce wildly amount of thinking output as well as regular output for a similar query. Sometimes you can take a cheap model and have it think a ton or an expensive model that
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by kevincox 2mo ago
I think 10 t/s output is usable for many coding workflows if the input speed is much much higher (~100 t/s is a rough minimum line). The low output speed can really hurt for heavy reasoning output but it can still be used to get s

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