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by krisoft 5mo ago
> One can take a great 70B model and have it run in only ~16GB with no loss in capability and the ability to keep training, but the last few years funding only went for "bigger". Awesome. What is holding you back? What do you n
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by krisoft 5mo ago
You appear to have missed this part: “Candidates should answer THREE questions.” > Animals have no ability to lie. This is false. There are many documented cases of deception by animals. As an example here is one where researchers observ
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> Where do you see that? There are multiple mentions of him being motivated by wanting to shoot deer for meat. It is a through line via the article. > The article is about someone in Scotland who took up marksmanship as a hobby. I wis
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> It is absolutely an abandoned pet. That. Or the family fabricated the story for online fame. Not saying that i have any evidence either way. Fundamentaly it is an unverifiable feel-good story with great online “viral” potential. It mig
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> TIL Scotland Yard is the Metropolitan Police. It is not? But also it is. You are right that when people say "Scotland Yard" they do frequently mean the whole Metropolitan Police. And you are also right that there is no other
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by krisoft 6mo ago
But worth enough to send a new probe? Generally we don’t construct and maintain expensive scientific equipment just for the fun of it. There usually is some question or debate we expect them to answer or settle.
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by krisoft 6mo ago
I’m all for stomping out bait and switch, but "SAR imagery from the world's largest SAR satellite constellation" does not imply that you will get all the imagery they have. Same as if i describe a liquid as “water from the At
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by krisoft 6mo ago
Okay, but user070223 is talking about watercolour paints as an alternative use of gum arabic. Now i’m just recognising this might be a language issue: watercolour paints are a type of paint to paint with on paper using a brush dipped in wat
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by krisoft 6mo ago
Not sure what you are asking. The stone age way of making paint is to find some place where the ground has a weird colour, dig it up, clean it and you have a pigment. Even to this day many of our paint pigments are mined this way. Red/
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> "Anyone can juggle" Technically this is not incompatible with the title. Just uses “can” in a different sense. The title would be using “can” in the “has the skill already”, while you use “can” in the “able to acquire the ski
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by krisoft 6mo ago
One thing is that “underground” is not a homogenous single thing. Sometimes it is loose water logged sand, or clay, or gravel, sometimes it is solid hard rock, sometimes it is large very hard pieces of fractured hard rock forming a loose ru
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by krisoft 6mo ago
Unilateraly on the level of countries. The other signatories (China, France, Russia, the U.K., Germany and the EU) believed that the deal was good and Iran was holding up their end of the bargain at that time. If the USA government had cred
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> The flowing of oil is not of primary importance to the US in this conflict. You think so? Then why did the US make it the condition of cease fire? Why did the US even agree to a cease fire? It is not like Iran is hurting the US mainlan
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> I have no opinion on this Use your mind and develop an opinion. I read the article too, i’m just disagreeing with it. > visibility There are two kinds of visibility to be had. Not knowing where the tunnel is, and not knowing who and
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> Civil engineers have contemplated at length just about every structural scenario you can imagine. I bet. Do they recommend cut and cover highways in contested environments? Or do they recommend shooting back until the area is no longer
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> what if the Army could cut and cover 100 meters of precast tunnel segments in a day If you have the precast tunnel segments to do that why wouldn’t you just plop them down on the ground? What benefit does cutting and covering provide?
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> Idk what to tell you, but any target that seems to get marked in Iran blows the fuck up. I’m sure that is true. And yet, the oil is not flowing. We keep “winning” like this for a few more weeks/months and we lose. Not because we s
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> When the choice is "let Iran have nukes" or "bomb Iran", you bomb Iran every time. There was also the choice of “Iran let us verify that they are not making nukes, and in return we remove economic sanctions from the
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> It would be very surprising if at least the United States and Russia didn't have orbital weapons. They've been in sending large stuff to space for decades. Depends on what you mean by “orbital weapons”. I assume you are not t
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by krisoft 6mo ago
If by “free” you mean “very very expensive” then i agree with you. It would cost a fortune to even just attempt a pilot project proving feasability. Then we would need to send up regular replacements to the “sending the harvest down” hardwa
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by krisoft 6mo ago
Everyone talks about the AIS signal being turned off in the strait as if it is an insurmountable problem. Ships had their AIS on before the war, and will turn it on again once they left the area. So we can just filter for ships which previo
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> The US didn't back down, it used a credible mad-man style threat to get what it wanted. Okay. Tell me, what did the US got? You say they got what they wanted. What is that they wanted and now got?
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> This weakened Iran would have no ability […], close the strait, […] Here is where we disagree. And i think this is the only point which matters. I agree with you that the US always had the ability to destroy Iranian civilian infrastruc
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by krisoft 6mo ago
Sounds like you agree with me that “we” haven’t decided.
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by krisoft 6mo ago
Why not. Doesn’t sound that crazy.
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> We have a system of laws that decide which private contracts are enforceable and which are not. And we are arguing that private contracts like this should not be enforceable. > we have decided I have not been consulted on this matte
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> The reason gyms can offer flat-rate pricing is that they bet on under-utilization, not that costs are flat. Yes. In fact i remember hearing about a gym which offered a flat-rate pricing model but explicitly excluded certain professions
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> I would have ever ever in my life bet that Microsoft software could be shipped in a spacecraft carrying human beings. Do you also worry when you are flying on an airplane where some other passengers carry a laptop running windows? Just
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> I asked Claude […]. The answer confirmed my gut feeling. And i drawn a tarot card and the card refuted your gut feeling. Joking asside, there is no reason to suspect that an LLM is telling you correct information about how best to use
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by krisoft 6mo ago
> Signal is one of the most secure communication platforms out there That might be true amongst the communication platforms available for the average Joe. It is definietly not the most secure communication platform available for someone

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