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by mabbo 3y ago
There's a way to make a QR code that provides a device with all the info it needs to sign onto a WiFi network. I'm wondering if I could make one of those, turn it into an interesting piece of art, then frame it and put it up in my
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by mabbo 3y ago
Must be 25 years ago now I was chatting with a family friend, my friends dad, and he told me roughly what it was that he does: "If I have physical access to your computer, I can probably get whatever data you have off of it". It w
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by mabbo 3y ago
Ah shoot- already discussed yesterday, from the real source of the info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36274884
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Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills(ca.finance.yahoo.com)
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by mabbo 3y ago
Elixir has a similar concept with doc tests: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/docs-tests-a... You're comments/docs for the method can have demonstration code that is executed when you run
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by mabbo 3y ago
Yes, but they were still the biggest player. Reddit took what they gave up and grew from there. I wonder who will take reddits lunch and how far they will go with it.
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by mabbo 3y ago
You know the Digg self destruct was 13 years ago? Time sure does fly. I guess it's time for reddit to complete the cycle as well.
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by mabbo 3y ago
The GPT model is enough complexity, information, pattern matching to simulate human responses to a high degree. Reasoning about it the way we reason about people may not be 'right', but it is effective because the algorithm is d
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by mabbo 3y ago
When I was laid off by Shopify last month, it was almost done perfectly. The day started. Everyone got an email saying what was happening and whether or not they were impacted. I was. I was given access to slack to say farewells for a few h
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by mabbo 3y ago
This is the most 2023 answer possible but I wonder if LLM translation will help handle this sort of situation better. An LLM first translates to tokens in more of a "concept space", then translates to other languages. So it would
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by mabbo 3y ago
Still lots of work to do to catch up, I feel. Falcon 40B: > I've got two cats named Buttons and Jackson. They both like to wear cute little ties. Buttons wears a red tie. My other cat wears a blue tie. What is the name of the cat th
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by mabbo 3y ago
What exactly happens if even one of those batteries pops?
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by mabbo 3y ago
> and divide each square in two in a non-periodic way. That doesn't actually sound simple. Can you provide an example of how you would do that?
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by mabbo 3y ago
Reminds me of: https://m.xkcd.com/1526/
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by mabbo 3y ago
There's a great video recently by Kurzgesagt video recently[0] on just how hard the immune system works to identify and kill any cell that is not cooperating anymore. In a nutshell, the DNA fails at protecting from changes all the time
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by mabbo 3y ago
Now can we go further and add self-healing? Include a checksum somewhere. Modify the output or the checksum until they agree. This is starting to sound like how the immune system works actually...
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by mabbo 3y ago
Does "Anywhere" include outside of the US? Or is all employment within the US only?
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by mabbo 3y ago
Space shuttle still needed to restart their engines in space so that they could slow down enough to return to earth.
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by mabbo 3y ago
> When asked about the cluster by Howard Stern in a September 25, 2013, interview on The Howard Stern Show, Michael J. Fox stated, "Believe it or not, from a scientific point of view, that's not significant." I thought Fox
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by mabbo 3y ago
I keep telling people: Space is hard . > The rocket lost thrust after the first stage separation due to an “abnormal startup of the engine” on the vehicle’s second stage that may have been caused by an instability in the engine and fuel
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by mabbo 3y ago
What a great plot that would be for a movie. Big court case where it's pretty clear the plucky good guys aren't going to win it. So they hire hackers to break into westlaw and give the opposition fake cases, then bait them into pr
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by mabbo 3y ago
Yeah, but you could ask the LLM to do a few different things at each step. You could provide it with the background, the story, the secrets, and the summary of everything that has happened so far- as well as what new things have taken pla
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by mabbo 3y ago
There's definitely a potential for a D&D DM with an LLM, but you'd need a lot of careful prompting and processing to handle the token limits today's models have. Simply put: a d&d game has more story and state than th
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by mabbo 3y ago
I think the judge should not take into consideration anything about where the lawyer said they got the case information from. When you go to court and cite previous cases, you are responsible for ensuring they are real cases. If you can&#x2
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by mabbo 3y ago
This feels like a niche market someone needs to go after. I would love to have a bathroom floor or a kitchen backsplash tiled in 'hat' in 4 colours (ensuring no two same-colour tiles touched of course).
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by mabbo 3y ago
There's a lot of nuance to all of this, but the general important trend is clear: expect less, for now. I was laid off at the start of the month. But I've been paid so well for so long that I'm not really planning to go back
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by mabbo 3y ago
They do explicitly call out that this one has under 100 data points. There's a few people who are well paid and are running software on map reduce. That's all.
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by mabbo 3y ago
What I like about this proposal is that no one has to use it. There's lots of comments here saying why they prefer GET, and those people are welcome to keep using it- GET will remain unchanged. But for those applications where having
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by mabbo 3y ago
Both techs are important. We need to reduce our production of greenhouse gasses, but that only gets us to break even. We then need to quickly undo the damage we caused, which needs tech like this. But you're right: first we need to pri
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by mabbo 3y ago
Ah, so you're saying (if I'm reading this correctly) that the plane only carries the carbon portion of the CO2, and the oxygen comes from the air itself. That's how it's emitting more CO2 then it's fuel mass. Is tha

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