krisoft

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by krisoft 5d ago
> It’s stuck in the auto calibration stage. It gets halfway through then it stops with a generic error message. So it was dead on arrival. You should have contacted support who would have figured out if you need the whole unit replaced o
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by krisoft 6d ago
I'm not sure what you are hoping from "free", "community owned", and "open source". They make mills and lathes. They are really nice little machines, great for hobby use. We have one lathe from them in our
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by krisoft 6d ago
You are correct. The underlying scientific article is clear on the timeline of observations. My problem is with the editing done by the phys.org article.
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by krisoft 6d ago
> They were not around long enough to confirm whether or not it happened for days And that is perfectly fair. But what is the “possibly days” based on? Did they see the two whales acting weirdly a day later, but then they didn’t see them
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by krisoft 6d ago
I disagree. Fundamentaly the article is about an observation someone made of an animal’s behaviour. It is very important to be clear about what they seen, who seen it, and when. This article is not clear about that. What we know from the ar
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by krisoft 7d ago
> usually by people who are good mathematicians but know close to nothing about teaching. I higly doubt that. Maybe in university level courses. Most people’s only experience with mathematics is an elementary or high school teacher who w
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by krisoft 8d ago
That feels very optimistic. Nothing nuclear is easy. People will want to make sure you are not going to contaminate the atmosphere, or the aquifers. Not just on the day of the explosion, but long term. They will want to know your plans abou
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by krisoft 10d ago
> Obviously ai still can't play chess I believe you are wrong on that. Do you mean large language models can’t play chess?
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by krisoft 11d ago
> The idea that the Kremlin is worried in the slightest that you can prove it's them is absurd. I mean they are. That is the reason they haven’t sent balistic missiles to the same airfield. They could have sent the same agents who p
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by krisoft 11d ago
> You don't need a real basis for a response. There's nobody here enforcing any rules. First order, maybe. But the clearer the attribution the more political capital there is to act. Just look at the article. We don’t know, and
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by krisoft 12d ago
Could you be more clear on who or what you are claiming to be AI slop? Are you saying that geraneum's comment is AI slop?
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by krisoft 12d ago
> The rest of your response is predicated on this mistake. You have to tell me more. Which part of the text you quoted you think is not true? That various people attempted to decipher it? Or that they were missing a crucial hint? Or that
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by krisoft 12d ago
Because the annotation is making it clear what exact part of the comment I'm referring with each part of my answer. > Who is going to miss that context? On hacker news? Anyone. Sometimes you blink and there are 200 different comment
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by krisoft 12d ago
> There are two comments (Jan and Helmut) from 2014 under the blog post which posit that it's a book cipher. Ok? but the clue is that the key is the "32 Proquiritations" immediately before the numbers. Not that it is a bo
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by krisoft 13d ago
> once properly dried That “properly” is doing most of the heavy lifting there. The reason i would be weary of running the dishwasher with a toaster inside because i would worry that liquids trapped around thin electric conductors will c
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by krisoft 15d ago
It sounds like at least some units has battery problems? Based on the description it sounds like water found its way into the battery compartment and short circuited something. A true product design nightmare. That being said: I just don&#x
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by krisoft 15d ago
> If there's one thing that should be obvious from the war in Ukraine it is that relying on private companies is a bad idea for certain types of weapons. I’m not following how that is a lesson from Ukraine. Their drones and missiles
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by krisoft 25d ago
> the low-cost drone thing doesn’t look that great In what sense do you mean that?
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by krisoft 1mo ago
And that is why i always carry my groceries with an Antonov An-225 Mriya. Is it really needed? No, but i refuse to compromise on what is(was/will be) the best.
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by krisoft 1mo ago
> These pets are domesticated. Undoubtedly true. > They are evolving via natural selection to be suited for living in houses, they already pretty much can’t live in the wild. Ok? What you say can be true, and at the same time many pet
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by krisoft 1mo ago
I don’t know what you are on about. Can the robot exhibit signs of the emotions described? If it can then the sentence is not a lie. If it can’t then it is a lie. Are you saying that it won’t do what the sentence says? The sentence is not s
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by krisoft 1mo ago
Sure, prompting can be very free form. In that it is somewhat like managing a human. But then there are ways it is very much different. Claude never quit on me because we didn’t let it add its new pet programing language to a large estabili
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by krisoft 1mo ago
It makes every sense. andsoitis claimed that the process is optimised for "greater good". My observation is that it is not. It is optimised for profit. That's it. If there were some change they could enact which improves the
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by krisoft 1mo ago
> optimize for the greater good Greater good my posterior. The grandma was in the wrong place at that time because they optimised the experience to extract the most money out of the flying public. They were boarding the people who paid
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by krisoft 1mo ago
> the long onset is weird too because anticholinergics come on very quickly. Maybe what causes the effect is not directly in the mushroom, but it needs first to metabolise into it? As in maybe the effect is caused by molecule A, but the
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by krisoft 2mo ago
> I'm not reassured that we need this warning for people allowed to handle that. Not sure what type of explosive that is but the rumour is that C4 when ingested gives a high similar to alcohol. Or at least that is what some troops b
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by krisoft 2mo ago
It is not a “should”. At least not in the “we wish it were so” sense. It is more that there are multiple reasons why this idea (burning an LLM into silicone and deploying it into a device in people’s pockets) requires huge piles of cash and
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by krisoft 2mo ago
> What harness did you use? I let her do all of it without influencing her choices. She choose the web interface of ChatGPT because she already had an account and that's the tool she was familiar with. While I agree with you it is n
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by krisoft 2mo ago
Mayhaps. But Spanish prisoner letters were known much before that. Which is basically the same advance fee scam but with a different cover story. Here is a story which describes one such letter from 1913: https://web.archive.org&
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by krisoft 2mo ago
> What makes this anecdote hard to believe is that seemingly two things happened simultaneously What i described is what happened. I don’t appreciate the undertones where you are insinuating that i’m lying for whatever reason. > The l

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