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by macNchz 4mo ago
Device management is definitely a big hole to punch into each machine, but, once you're above a handful of staff, managing devices manually is not really tenable, and I do think the restrictions provided by device management have tangi
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by macNchz 4mo ago
This is something that genuinely runs the gamut across different companies—plenty don't even know the serial numbers of company-owned machines, never mind which devices individuals have, while others do effectively have live feeds of e
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by macNchz 4mo ago
I don’t see if this is one of the covered cases, but one of the more common and nefarious patterns I run into is what you might call "sweeping exceptions under the rug." I think the agent’s motivation to get things running encoura
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by macNchz 4mo ago
My charitable interpretation, having talked to a lot of people about this stuff (and having lived in the rural US, NYC, and European cities), is that much of the US has been so car dependent for so long now that many people just lack a basi
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by macNchz 4mo ago
There's definitely plenty of suburban development in the US that could support small neighborhood businesses without parking spaces, but in the overwhelming majority of the country, they're literally not allowed to exist without
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by macNchz 4mo ago
In most of the US, only single family detached houses are built (by law), which makes things spread out enough that people will want to drive. To address that, businesses are required to have a bunch of parking space. The end result of that
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by macNchz 5mo ago
Yeah that jumped out to me, when I read that line I could instantly remember the smell of my school’s computer lab, like a time warp in my brain. More than 20 years later I can picture the lab from high school perfectly, I could draw a litt
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by macNchz 5mo ago
Gemma 4 26B-A4B might be interesting to try on your machine. The latest optimizations make MoE models work pretty nicely on setups like that with a decent GPU and lots of slowish RAM. I have a 16gb GPU and 64gb of 3200mhz DDR4 and get 15-20
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by macNchz 5mo ago
If you're building on top of APIs and can do some eval work (aka do not need the most bleeding edge model), the Gemini Flash and Flash Lite models are super capable for the price.
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by macNchz 5mo ago
This is something I've been thinking about for a while...the current state of things really does feel kind of like the dialup era, wondering what the "broadband" era could look like. Watching tokens stream in is reminiscent o
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by macNchz 5mo ago
They were arbing keywords through this: they'd place ads directly on Google for low-cost keywords, which would link to an ask.com search results page that itself would display Google ads through that partnership, but with a UI designed
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by macNchz 5mo ago
There are plenty of ways you could wind up with a git commit containing "OpenClaw" despite zero interaction with OpenClaw itself...adding a blog post to a static site repo, or even a clause in your own app's ToS disallowing u
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by macNchz 6mo ago
Yeah I actually find writing the prompt itself to be such a useful mechanism of thinking through problems that I will not-infrequently find myself a couple of paragraphs in and decide to just delete everything I've written and take a n
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by macNchz 6mo ago
I recently broke my 12 Mini beyond reasonable repair during a battery replacement recently (mostly just bad luck, I've been doing my own mobile repair for a long time). I bought a 17 to replace it, and promptly returned it in favor of
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by macNchz 6mo ago
This is something a lot of people seem to believe that is not borne out in the research. Plenty of specific counter examples like Queens NY, a densely populated and exceptionally diverse place with crime rates comparable or better than man
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by macNchz 6mo ago
Yes absolutely—I think cars have obvious utility as machines, but there has now been 100 years of building everything around them and changing laws in such a way that encourages their use: through direct and indirect subsidy, land use rules
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by macNchz 6mo ago
Yeah there's a weird thing where people would get really focused on whether something is "actually doing RAG" when it's pulling in all sorts of outside information, just not using some kind of purpose built RAG tooling
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by macNchz 6mo ago
I’ve created a bunch of fresh Azure accounts over the past few years and each time I’ve found myself sitting there dumbfounded anew at how garbage the experience is. There has been weird broken jank at just about every step of the process
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by macNchz 6mo ago
Beyond just invasive/annoying, ad networks explicitly spread malware and scams/fraud. There's not much incentive for them to clamp down on it, though, as that would cost them money both in lost revenue and in paying for more
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by macNchz 6mo ago
It’s kind of baffling to me that laptops in classrooms took off the way they did, as it seemed like a distraction machine to me even 25+ years ago, as a kid myself! My school got some carts of laptops that would move from classroom to class
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by macNchz 6mo ago
I find that all of Google’s ad products are under-moderated for malicious ads. It’s a choice on their part to not tightly control this—they certainly could, though it would harm their incredible profitability if they did more scrutiny on th
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by macNchz 6mo ago
There's definitely a productivity curve element to getting it to behave effectively within a given codebase. Certainly in the codebases I work with most frequently I find Claude will forget certain key aspects (how to run the tests or
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by macNchz 6mo ago
I've been wondering if we'd see a cyber campaign emerge in this conflict. To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back. Gloves-off cyber war doesn't sound g
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by macNchz 6mo ago
Opus 4.5 to 4.6 was pretty incremental, I didn't see much of a difference. The big coding model moments in recent recollection, IMO, were something like: - Sonnet 3.5 update in October 2024: ability to generate actually-working code us
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by macNchz 7mo ago
Watching over shoulders as elderly people watch YouTube with ads and engage with clips of deepfake celebrities selling fraudulent nonsense is both enlightening and painful.
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by macNchz 7mo ago
Not claiming to have hit on something unique here, but I think it’s realistic and often drowned out in favor of sci-fi nonsense.
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by macNchz 7mo ago
It's definitely creeping into things, though most of the features I've seen are fairly simplistic compared to what would be possible if the video was being reviewed + indexed by current SoTA multimodal LLMs.
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by macNchz 7mo ago
Presumably the ideal is some kind of a fusion. Upload or tag some images/videos and link someone's social profiles and the system can look out for them based on facial recognition, gait recognition, vehicle/pets/common w
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by macNchz 7mo ago
This is a really cool implementation—embeddings still often feel like magic to me. That said, this exact use case is sort of also my biggest point of concern with where AI takes us, much more so than most of the common AI risks you hear lot
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by macNchz 7mo ago
Was curious—good number of projects out there with an un-pinned LiteLLM dependencies in their requirements.txt (628 matches): https://github.com/search?q=path%3A*%2Frequirements.txt%20%2... or pyproject.toml (not possible t

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