kimixa

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by kimixa 7mo ago
People here seem to be thinking this a UK/Europe-specific phenomenon, but there's plenty of examples of the US "seizing" sites that were never hosted in the USA either, and even put pressure on countries to extradite peo
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by kimixa 7mo ago
most US states have a lower total population than LA county.
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by kimixa 7mo ago
Selling back to the grid, maybe. But if displacing your own use, 10p/kwh is a pipe dream in the UK, more like 25p+. And my point is more that in that example price/kwh, the "best" location only returns $150 or so for tha
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by kimixa 7mo ago
The insolation requred to get decent return is often overstated on the internet - you generally see over 1000kwh for a 1kw system over a year, only dropping to ~900 in scotland. California only really gets 40-50% more useful energy out. Sur
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by kimixa 7mo ago
Again my experience with local schools doesn't match that, though I'd acknowledge that local authority can cause a lot of differences. And I'm talking about state schools - not public schools. Remember that means a very dif
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by kimixa 7mo ago
They don't "hand out" anything really - probably the closest thing is government programmes to fund laptops/tablets for low income families, but not a single school locally "gives out" tablets to kids. But th
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by kimixa 7mo ago
There's no (state) school giving out tablets that aren't pretty much single-use locked down devices. That's the parents. The expectation that "Parenting" is now outsourced to Teachers, to the Government, to anyone e
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by kimixa 7mo ago
I believe training currently costs significantly more than inference to all the current vendors, so I'd be surprised if it doesn't also use more power. And by the look of it, that'll be the norm pretty much forever - unless s
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by kimixa 8mo ago
All laws are vague and interpreted, and in common law (as in the UK and US) interpreted based on precedent rather than the specific text of the original law. If people with power over you want to "selectively punish you" they don&
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by kimixa 8mo ago
Yes - AI has completely destroyed the set of "Signals" people used to judge quality of much software. They weren't ever 100% accurate, sure, but they were often pretty good heuristics for "level of care", what the d
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by kimixa 8mo ago
That may help with tokens being "ignored" while still being in the context window, but not context window size costs and limitations in the first place.
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by kimixa 8mo ago
Humans have the ability to ignore and generally not remember things after a short scan, prioritize what's actually important etc. But to an LLM a token is a token. There's attempts at effectively doing something similar with analy
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by kimixa 8mo ago
AMD's implementation very much doesn't have that issue - it throttles slightly, maybe, but it's still a net benefit. The problem with Intel's implementation is that the throttling was immediate - and took noticeable time
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by kimixa 8mo ago
LLMs have always been great at generating code that doesn't really mean anything - no architectural decisions, the same for "any" program. But only rarely does one see questions why we're needing to generating "me
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by kimixa 8mo ago
Even Claude opus 4.6 is pretty willing to start tearing apart my tests or special-case test values if it doesn't find a solution quickly (and in c++/rust land a good proportion of its "patience" seems to be taken up just
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by kimixa 8mo ago
> Or, you could use spaces between em dashes, as incorrect as it is. That's the normal way of using them in British English. Though they also tend to be the (slightly shorter) en-dashes too. I feel that style is often pretty common
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by kimixa 8mo ago
It seems most of the complaints are about the reliability and infrastructure - which is very much often a direct result of lack of investment and development resources. And then many UI changes people have been complaining about are related
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by kimixa 8mo ago
We loved Github as a product when it needed to return or profit beyond "getting more users". I feel this is just the natural trajectory for any VC-funded "service" that isn't actually profitable at the time you adop
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by kimixa 8mo ago
Man I can't wait for tcc to be reposted for the 4th time this week with the license scrubbed and the comment of "The Latest AI just zero-shotted an entire C compiler in 5 minutes!"
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by kimixa 8mo ago
None of this is new , it was pretty much all "best practice" for decades and so already in the training data for the first generation. If the issue is SNR and the ratio of "good" vs "bad" practices in the inpu
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by kimixa 8mo ago
People have also been saying we'd be seeing the results of 100x quality improvements in software with corresponding decease in cost since gpt-4 time. So where is that ?
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by kimixa 8mo ago
The opus context window is 200k tokens not 1mm. But I kinda see your point - assuming from you're name you're not just a single purpose troll - I'm still not sold on the cost effectiveness of the current generation, and can&#
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by kimixa 8mo ago
I mean the systems I work on have enough weird custom APIs and internal interfaces just getting them working seems to take a good chunk of the context. I've spent a long time trying to minimize every input document where I can, compact
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by kimixa 8mo ago
Man I hope so - the context limit is hit really quickly in many of my use cases - and a compaction event inevitably means another round of corrections and fixes to the current task. Though I'm wary about that being a magic bullet fix -
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by kimixa 8mo ago
But that doesn't actually work for my use cases though, plenty of other people have already told me "I'm Holding It Wrong" without actual suggestions that work I've started ignoring them. At this stage I just assu
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by kimixa 8mo ago
Indeed, that seems unnecessarily complex for what is actually needed. I don't understand why the great grandparent comment seems to suggest it's an "unsolved" problem - as if grid-scale solar buildouts don't alrea
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by kimixa 8mo ago
I feel that Cynics are often average. Optimists are either rich, or destitute. And though you probably hear more about the richer parts, that doesn't mean they're more common.
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by kimixa 8mo ago
Yup. We don't use fibre optics on earth rather than lasers because of some specific limitation of the earth's surface being in orbit would avoid. We use them because they're many orders of magnitude cheaper and simpler for
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by kimixa 8mo ago
Yup - my example of the Sahara wasn't really a specific suggestion, so much as an example of "The Most Inconvenient Inhospitable part of the earth's surface is still much better than space for these use cases". This is
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by kimixa 8mo ago
Output from radiating heat scales with area it can dissipate from. Lots of small satellites have a much higher ratio than fewer larger satellites. Cooling 10k separate objects is orders of magnitude easier than 10 objects at 1000x the pow

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