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Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?(quantamagazine.org)
102 points by layer8 4mo ago|59 comments
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by layer8 4mo ago
Windows Enterprise provides a much better experience than Windows Home, even more-so if you have domain admins that care. You can also largely get to that with Windows Professional and some tweaking.
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by layer8 4mo ago
Maybe this will fly in the US, but I don’t think it will in the EU and other places, with regard to laws making covert advertising illegal. There’s also the difficulty of proving to the advertising clients that the advertising actually take
724.
by layer8 4mo ago
Buyers of consumer storage, RAM, and GPUs care. People affected by the data center buildouts care. Workers losing jobs due to underpriced tokens care. People on the receiving end of AI slop care.
725.
by layer8 4mo ago
They are in the sense that the recommended supported length is only 8000 bytes. There are no such specified length recommendations for HTTP body size.
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by layer8 4mo ago
AI seems to have a different impact here: https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/why-do-kids-hate-ai-gen-z-bac...
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by layer8 4mo ago
The economics of it (token cost) means, however, that what will be chosen most often is the barely sustainable minimum level of quality, aka race to the bottom. AI is more cost-sensitive in that way than humans caring or not caring about ma
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by layer8 4mo ago
What would be “the task”, other than physical labor or doing dull RLHF work, unless you’re in the 1% of exceptional intellectual talent that AI won’t be able to replace yet?
729.
by layer8 4mo ago
The computer market was also much smaller and society much more independent from it at the time.
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by layer8 4mo ago
Query parameters are length-limited, because HTTP URIs are: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9110/#section-4.1-5 . There is no expectation for arbitrarily long HTTP URLs to be functioning.
731.
by layer8 4mo ago
My impression is that in Europe much fewer people are convinced that AI-maxxing is necessary or even a net benefit.
732.
by layer8 4mo ago
??? The same market that is paying for Codex or Claude Code, if Meta offers competitive services.
733.
by layer8 4mo ago
Hide My Email isn’t particularly related to apps. You can use it on any web form that asks for your email address, or as the sender of any email message you send using Apple Mail.
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by layer8 4mo ago
It depends a bit on the market. Firefox still has 15% desktop market share in Germany, only at second place after Chrome.
735.
by layer8 4mo ago
Isn’t the RTX 6000 Blackwell Pro Workstation over $13000 now?
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by layer8 4mo ago
Because coding appears to be the most monetizable use of AI, for some time to come.
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by layer8 4mo ago
From the article: > Forced data labeling with 4,500+ engineers is to generate high-quality RLHF I doubt that you get high quality from forced reassignments where the now-data labelers don’t actually want to do that kind of work. It’s cra
738.
by layer8 4mo ago
The site hides its content after a few seconds when using an ad blocker (on mobile Safari), showing a modal prompt asking to disable the ad blocker. Of course there are ways around this, but at that point I don’t bother which such blogs any
739.
by layer8 4mo ago
It’s necessary for erasing cat pixels.
740.
by layer8 4mo ago
You don’t need to backport other people’s fixes. You only need to re-merge your patches into updated versions of the upstream (aka vendor branch), which usually is straightforward. Maybe you mean that if there are many people like you, they
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by layer8 4mo ago
Unfortunately the traffic noises don’t make this very relaxing.
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by layer8 4mo ago
It had already been announced end of May that there would be a change: https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/standardization-and-price-...
743.
by layer8 4mo ago
Unfortunately, humans want houses and cars and vacations and such, which makes them very expensive. ;)
744.
by layer8 4mo ago
And OpenShell: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
745.
by layer8 4mo ago
How do you set up the sandbox without having downloaded anything from the internet? I guess there’s still places where you can buy Linux CDs.
746.
by layer8 4mo ago
Why would you personally need the entire internet to receive a fix?
747.
by layer8 4mo ago
I'd take Steve Ballmer over most of the current big-tech CEOs, to be honest.
748.
by layer8 4mo ago
The parent alludes to the fact that the sentence could conceivably be read as "In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust [the machine]", i.e. reading "adjust" as transitive rather than as intransitive. However,
749.
by layer8 4mo ago
I was referring to the claim that they couldn't phone someone to pick them up.
750.
by layer8 4mo ago
It constantly varies.

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