kmacdough

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by kmacdough 7mo ago
Well that is a high enough level even the bet would probably be enforced. But the point is valid, this is a slippery slope and there's a reason these bets are illegal.
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by kmacdough 8mo ago
What are we testing here? It feels like a very odd test because it's such an unreasonable way to answer this with an LLM. Nothing about the task requires more than a very localized understanding. It's not like a codebase or corpor
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by kmacdough 9mo ago
Based on who's definition? Plenty of people use "middle management" to describe anyone under executives, but who doesn't spend time closely aligned with front-line work. In some structures, lowest level management is clo
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by kmacdough 9mo ago
The biggest advantage? Regional caches. If your traffic volume stays well below server capacity, the network connection is impeccable and throughput isn't a major factor in ISP costs, then the improvement is indeed negligible. However,
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by kmacdough 9mo ago
I'm assuming this is referencing "taking a pound of flesh" generally meaning to being cruel in demanding what you're owed (from Shakespeare Merchant of Venice). Presumably they're tired of unloading on people for no
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by kmacdough 11mo ago
Furthermore, paid models are heavily subsidized by bullish investors playing for monopoly. So that tips the scales further towards Deepseek.
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by kmacdough 11mo ago
> A typical pumped storage facility uses 100m of delta Most projects seek 200-600m. This map doesn't even consider pumped hydro <200m: https://maps.nrel.gov/psh > And pumped storage is significantly cheaper fo
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by kmacdough 1y ago
The problem is as aforementioned players pressure users and government, they can make certain aspects of the economy entirely inaccessible to unapproved platforms. Netflix and co can simply refuse to support streaming on devices which aren&
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by kmacdough 1y ago
There's no significant immediate threat to life or well-being. It's simply not an emergency. We're all constantly exposed to some ionizing radiation. It's a question of how much. In this case, not much. It's still a
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by kmacdough 1y ago
For a business headed open source project, it's still about the community. In this case, the business tends to take a defining and often controlling role in the community. This has plusses and minuses. On the plus side, if a business h
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by kmacdough 1y ago
No engineer actually thinks a space elevator is possible. It would be a silly waste of resources.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Because space elevators aren't actually possible so it doesn't really matter.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Would be boring and space elevators are just for fun. They aren't a real idea.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
I mean the idea isn't actually real or practical. It's a thought experiment that makes for some fun calculus. No one's actually going to try and build one.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Super fun! I do always have to object to comments like "space elevators are possible," "scientists have studied" and "would save money". It's a fun thought experiment, nothing more (for now). You can do so
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by kmacdough 1y ago
> But that's something else, that's no longer just OCR ("Optical Character Recognition"). Lines often blur for technologies under such rapid evolution. Not sure it's helpful to nitpick the verbal semantics. It is
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by kmacdough 1y ago
> But that's something else, that's no longer just OCR ("Optical Character Recognition"). Lines often blur for technologies under such rapid evolution. Not sure it's helpful to nitpick the verbal semantics. It is
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by kmacdough 1y ago
This seems to ignore most of the experiments in this study. Note that also studied much more extreme distributions including only happy/white and sad/black. Even in these cases of extreme bias, the bias went unnoticed. You hyper-f
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by kmacdough 1y ago
A question that was already asked and answered. The only reason to re-ask seems to be to pull it from context and apply black/white arguments to a complex sociopolitical event.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
User state is sometimes necessary, but frequently a crutch to avoid answering the real questions. Much of the time, this user-state is at the core of many performance and behavior issues as the user is burdened with unnecessary DOM reorgani
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by kmacdough 1y ago
This is one of known hardest parts of RL. The short answer is human feedback. But this is easier said than done. Current models require vastly more learning events than humans, making direct supervision infeasable. One strategy is to train
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Tab groups have become incredibly popular and were subsequently copied to Chrome.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
I've got several 50+W chargers from other devices (old mbp, soldiering iron, a generic one). If you don't have a high power charger, buy one. Easy enough. But there are plenty of use that don't need another.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
If it's dead or if it's low? In my experience a low-power charger will revive, you just must wait for it to hit enough SOC since it is effectively starting off the battery. This does take a while, but starting dead on a supply tha
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Provocative, sure. But people are generally provocative within a very narrow, uninformed window. Taking an extreme view on a hot political issue. Democrats are stupid. Republicans are evil. Science is broken and unrecoverable. There is very
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by kmacdough 1y ago
I use both to good effect. Similar goal, but not the same in practice. UBO is a request-level filtering system. It blocks certain requests based on a set of patterns. It's incredibly simple, incredibly fast, and surprisingly effective,
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by kmacdough 1y ago
I suspect they underestimated the lashback. They wanted to make their changes whenever they wanted, to fit their specific needs. They didn't think twice about the community, so much so that they didn't consider the community migh
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by kmacdough 1y ago
She could well have written in third person. She was watching herself dying slowly, separating further and further from her life. If it felt like I was already dead towards the end, I might just run with it when writing my life story. Just
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Calling BS on "gaming not part of the equation". Several of my friends and I have exclusively games on integrated graphics. Sure we don't play the most abusively unoptimized AAA games like RDR2. But we're here and we&#x2
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Maybe, but theres a real benefit to getting your tool in the hands of ambitious kids if you want to sustain a market share once those kids grow older. There's a reason Apple still gives pretty solid educational discounts even as the la

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