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by lossyalgo 1y ago
Weird, DDG supposedly uses Bing which should be indexing everything. Then again this is Microsoft, who can't even get local search working - Win11 lately can't even find Add/Remove Programs on my PC, I have to go through Sett
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
AI sycophancy[0] is a real problem, for multiple reasons, but your example is one that makes me disable AI on all search engines entirely. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/ai-sycophancy-isnt-just-a-...
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
Are you perhaps getting AI-generated trash that is just SEO optimized? I've noticed a TON more of these results in DDG and Google lately. You can now block those websites completely from DDG as of very recently (or at least I only noti
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
That's weird to hear. I've been using DDG daily since years and it's gotten progressively better, though lately every search engine's top results are often AI generated trash. To combat this it seems that DDG recently ad
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
AI is killing websites[0]. Why visit a website if the AI summary is good? But soon, if everyone is only using AI results, then there will be no reason to create new websites, unless you don't care about anyone visiting your site except
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
LLMs were not designed to count letters[0] since they work with tokens, so whatever trick they are now doing behind the scenes to handle this case, can probably only handle this particular case. I wonder if it's now included in the sys
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
Yes but an illiterate person can be taught to read. Also LLMs generally fail (non-deterministically) at math in general, but humans can also be taught math.
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
LLMs were not designed to count letters[0] since they work with tokens, so whatever trick they are now doing behind the scenes to handle this case, can probably only handle this particular case. I wonder if it's now included in the sys
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
haha that's a great analogy! How about non-determinism (i.e. hallucinations)? Ask a human ANY question 3 times and they will give you the same answer, every time, unless you prod them or rephrase the question. Sure the answer might be
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
Tell that to German-speakers, where the verb comes last, and the order of things in sentences is not anything like English, therefore requiring you to think of the entire sentence before you just spit it out. Even the numbers are backwards
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
Just ask it how many r's are in strawberry and you will realize there isn't a lot of reasoning going on here, it's just trickery on top of token generators.
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
Furthermore regarding reasoning, just ask any LLM how many "r letters are in strawberry" - repeat maybe 3 times just to get a feeling for how much variance in answers you can get. And this "quirk" of the inability to get
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
re #2: Do people call it thinking, or is it just clever marketing from AI companies, that whenever you ask a question and it repeatedly prints out "...thinking...", as well as offering various modes with the word "thinking&qu
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
When did you last live there? I was traveling/living in various parts of Greece for short periods of time over the last 30 years, the last time in 2018, where, due to EU economic sanctions, there were still regular fires happening in t
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
Only if Sicily can somehow make water magically appear (I won't bother linking any articles, as there are literally hundreds in the last 2-3 years about the utter lack of water and suffering of Sicilians). Or perhaps building a bridge
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
It was/is also that way in Athens, at least in the "anarchist" quarter of town. Every Friday the so-called anarchists (would) take dumpsters and light them on fire, to make a point, that the government is corrupt, or somethin
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
+1 can confirm. Also the best rock candy is made with actual rocks.
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
The TPM 2.0 requirement is also bullshit. I'm sure there are good excuses but I know several people who have older PCs that still run perfectly fine and now have to move to Linux/Mac or buy a new PC. I've been offering to hel
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
First comment on that post claims that according to Mimecast, 37% of EU-based spam originates from Hetzner and Digital Ocean. People have been asking for 3 days for a link to the source (I can't find it either). On the other hand, some
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
I'm confused - you used FreeNAS on a single disk? I wasn't even aware that was possible. Thankfully you were able to recover! I think almost everyone has learned to make backups the hard way at some point. I am the local IT guy am
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
I thought it was implied with "No RAID?" in response to data loss (wherein they mentioned that they had a backup :) I'm personally very skeptical as I have been using/used RAID for 20+ years, and I have lost data due to:
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
True, it does cover that specific case. But it doesn't cover the your RAID controller dying, your house burning down, burglary, tornado, tsunami, earthquake and other "acts of god", etc. "A backup is a copy of the inform
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
Just because it's in the name, doesn't mean it should be considered a fact or best practice in accordance with reality. I think this[0] reddit post frames it in the simplest way possible: "A backup is a copy of the informatio
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
RAID isn't a backup, it only handles certain/specific failure scenarios.
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
I (and surely others) would love to know the reason(s) for the FreeNAS failure i.e. what kind of configuration did you have and what went wrong?
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
If you scroll down there is a description explaining the pose: > This design presents a young Steve Jobs sitting in front of a quintessentially northern California landscape of oak-covered rolling hills. His posture and expression, as he
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
Some things are forged in hell and refuse to die.
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by lossyalgo 1y ago
It could definitely be worse. I have the privilege of using it weekly :(