margalabargala

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by margalabargala 5d ago
Ecuador was his original plan. He had been granted asylum there.
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by margalabargala 5d ago
And from that you conclude what?
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by margalabargala 5d ago
The post is specifically about how it can "trivially be implemented using rsync" which is why I chose that verbiage :-)
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by margalabargala 5d ago
> What do you have against poor people? They're probably thinking the same thing as those darn busybodies who outlawed child labor.
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by margalabargala 6d ago
> Making thoroughly informed decisions and iterating on a decision doc before committing to a direction and plan is better than every alternative I’ve ever observed in my career. My last company did this. It usually devolved into a desig
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by margalabargala 6d ago
Good ideas are the survivors of lots of bad ideas. Slack is glorified IRC yet they're worth billions. Dropbox can be trivially implemented via rsync yet they're worth billions.
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by margalabargala 6d ago
Yeah, this is the sort of nuance that drives nonnative speakers insane.
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by margalabargala 6d ago
Exactly, you understand that they used "federal government" to mean "federal workforce", yet for some reason are trying to start a fight about it. Consider learning some communication skills.
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by margalabargala 6d ago
Do you mean pool?
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by margalabargala 6d ago
> They are just generations that happen to not be grounded in facts from the real world. Right, yes, and "hallucination" is the term that a critical mass of people have chosen to use.as a shorthand so that we don't have to
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by margalabargala 6d ago
Right, yes, that's my point...you need to consult the comment you replied to.
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by margalabargala 6d ago
Beyond that, there are cases where you absolutely are referring to a specific one, but use a/an. "Our house has a pool" for example. There is a very specific pool being referred to, but it's sufficiently indirect that &q
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by margalabargala 7d ago
So basically the original comment was correct, you agree it was correct, but you're deliberately misunderstanding it because they didn't hedge their.claim rigorously enough for your agenda. You should consider reviewing the HN com
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by margalabargala 7d ago
Sure, but now I'm left wondering what the size of the body doing fusion is. If most of the star is glorified glowing atmosphere, I want to know the mass and radius of the fusing bits.
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by margalabargala 7d ago
> therefore an average density of 5.33 to 8.38 mg/m3 That's nuts. How on earth does fusion happen at that density? Is there a denser core that actually fuses, and the outer fluffy bits just glow from the inner heat?
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by margalabargala 7d ago
He shrunk the federal workforce by 15% in his first year in office. This has never happened before. Both the white house and their opponents agree on these numbers, so not sure why you wouldn't.
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by margalabargala 7d ago
LLMs are useful because (and inasmuch as) their output generally reflects coherent reality. And their output does, usually, reflect coherent reality. The problem class of "properly operating program emits output incompatible with coher
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by margalabargala 7d ago
On the contrary I think it weakens your point. People don't consider "bug" a weasel word, to the point that you yourself held it up as an example of not being a weasel word, despite it being a willful, uncontrollable orga
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by margalabargala 7d ago
> In any other software it would be an error, regression, bug. How is "bug", literally an organism with a will of its own that you cannot control, any less of a weasel word?
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by margalabargala 8d ago
Dark/gallows humor is a thing, and also plenty of people use humor as a coping mechanism. It's fine not to share the same sense of humor, but if you truly lack an understanding of what someone else would find to laugh at that&#x27
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by margalabargala 8d ago
I agree with most of your comment, but... > To name it "hallucination" is an euphemism... those are errors I find this and other "don't anthropomorphize the computer" statements incredibly unconvincing. People de
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by margalabargala 8d ago
A 150kt nuke has like 500,000x the energy release of a mag 3.0 earthquake, but as the article mentions that energy went into the original magnitude 6.3 event.
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by margalabargala 8d ago
Could this be considered a good thing? The energy being released in these many tiny earthquakes was always going to exist in this location. Much better to release it slowly via thousands of tiny earthquakes than all at once. Better to have
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by margalabargala 8d ago
Interesting. Did that PDF have a text layer or did you ask Claude to OCR it? If the latter I'm not surprised at all.
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by margalabargala 8d ago
Not necessarily. Depends how you use it. "Write a python script that breaks down this PDF by X feature" would not hallucinate anything in the PDF. Certainly you could trivially double check that all text in the extracted JSON was
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by margalabargala 8d ago
I don't think it says what you imply. I think they're just trying to vertically integrate. Harnesses are going to be controlled at companies eventually, just like you might not have a choice of OS. They want to make sure they are
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by margalabargala 9d ago
I don't see the claim you describe. That page discusses that daytime contrails have warming and cooling effects, but doesn't appear to take any stance regarding which effect is larger during the daytime. Other sources claim that
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by margalabargala 10d ago
Fun fact, contrails contribute to global warming, but only at night. During the day they have a cooling effect by reflecting/blocking some light. The optimal is not to eliminate them entirely, but to create them only early in the day s
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by margalabargala 11d ago
That's not really true. People don't do bad things because they have nothing to gain from them. Ask someone to do something evil as part of their job, they'll often do it. There's lots of ways that you could go out of yo
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by margalabargala 11d ago
I'm neither stupid nor pretending to be. Rather, this is HN. The guidelines state I should try to take the best interpretation of your comment. So, I've been twisting myself in knots trying to find interpretations of your comment

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