kmeisthax

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by kmeisthax 5d ago
Probably not. Doing a RAM swap and then selling the resulting unit as if it were a Raspberry Pi of the higher RAM capacity might be construed as trademark infringement[0]. And in general it's fairly difficult to make arguments in antit
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by kmeisthax 5d ago
I think this is really dumb and stupid. Not that I don't agree with their reasoning - it's actually very reasonable - but that I have a lot of distaste from "saving the customer from themselves" type antifeatures. Practi
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by kmeisthax 5d ago
YouTube actually does block sponsor spots in videos if you have Premium. They call it "Skip Ahead" and don't really talk about sponsor spots, but practically speaking it's 9/10 just the "skip sponsor segment&
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by kmeisthax 5d ago
One additional wrinkle in all of this is that money was a very straightforward way to fund conquest. Soldiers are paid in coin minted by the army they work for and the conquered are required to pay taxes in the same coin. Conquered villages
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by kmeisthax 8d ago
Copies are not rivalrous, but the underlying creativity absolutely is. If I pay someone to draw a picture, that's labor, and they've got a finite number of hours to sell. Except it's also very inconvenient to pay for creative
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by kmeisthax 9d ago
Hot take: if you have a service that is 11 nines reliable, but there is an underlying component whose reliability is lower, cap the nines to that component.
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by kmeisthax 9d ago
To be clear, basic IEEE-754 scalar operations are already not compatible across different CPU hardware vendors. At best, we can say that if you run the same code generated by the same compiler targeting the same hardware, you'll get
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by kmeisthax 10d ago
If AI models are people then "one person, one vote" is meaningless and plutocracy is the only defensible political system. The cryptocurrency people win. Why? Simple: Sybil attacks. Models can be cloned at zero cost. They run infe
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by kmeisthax 10d ago
> “Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony,” the modder said on social media. “I asked them to at least wait for GTA 6 to come out so that people would have the o
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by kmeisthax 10d ago
Clean room is not 100% legally necessary for RE, but I would never touch an LLM to do RE work when there's even a chance the models have been trained on the thing I ultimately plan to reimplement. Furthermore, given that Asahi Linux, t
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by kmeisthax 11d ago
I remember the time when spurious copy-paste failures meant something shit the bed so badly in the Win32 subsystem you needed to reboot. Never did figure out why that would happen but it kinda stopped around the Windows 8 era...
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by kmeisthax 12d ago
I drive a Hyundai Elantra GT hatchback, and if there was a way to just rip out the engine and gas tank and replace them with an electric drivetrain and battery, I would. I literally do not need any more car than that, and every attempt to s
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by kmeisthax 12d ago
I mean, North Korea also claims to be a democratic republic, but they also have "a great deal of institutional inequality" - to put it lightly. You have one guy with basically all of the power[0]. I think it would at least be sa
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by kmeisthax 13d ago
It's not one person, one vote, so it's not democracy. It's very explicitly plutocracy (rule by money) as the operating principle of voting power is one share, one vote. Except there's also a bunch of companies with spe
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by kmeisthax 14d ago
> Err, no? That's not at all how llms work. The Transformer architecture that almost all LLMs use are composed of many layers in sequence, each containing an attention component and a neural network component. The attention componen
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by kmeisthax 16d ago
Apple Silicon was autopilot. Or more specifically the insanely cool decision happened under Jobs, and everything else is just coasting (i.e. repeating the same business success again and again without taking very many risks). Their first
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by kmeisthax 16d ago
The uptick in Webflow usage alone would suggest the damage has already been done.
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by kmeisthax 16d ago
WP Engine's "forking" consisted of disabling the revisions feature by default. As someone who's personally been bitten by this particular WP Engine misfeature, describing this as a "fork" is disingenuous at bes
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by kmeisthax 16d ago
I am saying this as someone who has had repeated and ongoing issues with WP Engine as a hosting platform: no, Matt Mullenweg was not even valid in his basic assumptions motivating his lawsuit against WP Engine. The idea that a hosting plat
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by kmeisthax 17d ago
To add onto this, if you use a shiny new model and it gives you a turd, you're not going to tweet about it ("hey guys, look what I made with Astra! Nothing!"), and even if you do nobody is going to interact with it so it does
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by kmeisthax 19d ago
Yes and no. The biggest historical commonality between the American South and Japan - or, at least, the Tokugawa shogunate that was ruling around the same time as the South - was that both of them were at one point ruled by a cabal of essen
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by kmeisthax 20d ago
I am now imagining GPT-7 convincing a bunch of OpenAI executives to go ahead with a destructive "mind upload" process involving a high-resolution X-ray and a neurotoxic tracer agent that happens to look like Flavor-Aid.
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by kmeisthax 20d ago
The "neuralese" in a looped model is a residual stream vector. We already know how to decode these vectors into tokens; it seems pretty straightforward that a model could be built to decode a series of residual stream vectors into
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by kmeisthax 20d ago
I am very confused as to why LLM proponents insist that I can be left behind by a technology that takes almost 0 seconds to adopt. In the event that I realize "Oh no, I got left behind!" I can just ask an LLM to catch me up.
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by kmeisthax 22d ago
No, the freights are NOT OK. US freight railways are responsible for the "precision scheduled railroading" brainworm that makes freight genuinely worse for anything that can be carried by truck and isn't good for anyone: 1. F
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by kmeisthax 22d ago
I just finished writing a long rant on the other Project Xanadu related submission today where I specifically noted that Xanadu has a feature called a "permascroll" where everything you publish gets written into the permascroll an
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by kmeisthax 22d ago
I first read about Xanadu very early in my life, and this project is an absolute miracle in terms of how much it can hold my interest for something that could not and never would work. The crazy irritating zig-zagging split document view ha
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by kmeisthax 22d ago
You can fix the density problem, at least on one end, with park-and-ride lots; every successful commuter / regional[3] rail service puts parking next to the suburban train stations. You just need a dense corridor for people to go to
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by kmeisthax 22d ago
USA's lacking rail commutes come down to the fact that America's leaders made the deliberate decision to destroy its own rail network and force people onto planes. The electric range of this aircraft is 125 miles[0], which is at t
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by kmeisthax 23d ago
> This feels like a strange reductio ad absurdum argument in reverse, where the argument isn’t disproven by reducing it: it is instead proven that merchandise and specifically software is sold as copies not as a singular entity. I’m not

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