mattstir

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by mattstir 6d ago
Part of the implication is that factories that could be producing consumer-facing DRAM like DDR5 would be retooled to produce HBM instead, leading to even less total consumer RAM production.
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by mattstir 6d ago
Honestly I think the only significant difference is in branding: Flock isn't consumer-facing and is explicitly marketed for tracking people's movements. The major tech companies that make your phone, browser, maybe a few smart hom
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by mattstir 6d ago
Laya is only ~400M parameters and runs comfortably in 1-2 GB of RAM. In my local testing, it's very fast even using CPU. I'd say give it a try!
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by mattstir 10d ago
What's your use-case for automating phone calls?
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by mattstir 10d ago
It's interesting to see Firefox attempt to create slightly more privacy-focused cloud inference infra (assuming you can trust that they adhere to their own policies and don't have bugs, and that their partners adhere to their cont
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by mattstir 10d ago
Canada isn't an abused spouse that's supposed to sit around and wait while their partner magically undoes all of its threats and (economic) violence. "Undoing" the tariffs in a few years won't magically fix the inte
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by mattstir 19d ago
That's just not possible in many parts of the world.
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by mattstir 1mo ago
Something something Apple. For what it's worth though, I agree that companies _subsuming_ others to obtain complete vertical market capture has been a very dangerous trend.
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by mattstir 1mo ago
> which itself is fine, all software is political I don't mean to get distracted from the topic at hand, but is that really true? If I create my own software stack for the TRMNL display I received as a gift because I think it's
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by mattstir 1mo ago
I have to imagine with the event occurring after its training cutoff, a question like "who's the president of the United States?" could have confidently returned a now-outdated answer. They probably saw it as a cheaper fix to
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by mattstir 2mo ago
Claude Design absolutely loves creating phrases like "Share the thread, not the PR". The amount of "do the xyz, not the abc" subheadings on docs in my workplace has exploded in the last 6 months, and it gets a bit tiring
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by mattstir 2mo ago
If they focused on keeping search results genuinely high-quality, I think the outcome could have been very different. Basically everyone I know slowly began shifting their questions to something like ChatGPT because Google search results we
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by mattstir 2mo ago
The prosecution would argue that you ought to have warned officers about the duress pin since this wasn't a robbery scenario.
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by mattstir 2mo ago
Unfortunately I don't think modern consumer CPUs are physically capable of addressing enough RAM to even load the model into memory. We'd have to wait for some random person to make an extremely quantized version before we could r
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by mattstir 2mo ago
That doesn't change the fact that there is a lot of Angular out there. No one's doubting how useful Next.js may or may not be, it's just a matter of fact that plenty of systems were created before it was available and not eve
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by mattstir 2mo ago
I think that those two statements are somewhat contradictory of one another. But in any case, I'm curious about your decision to still use Claude for some questions. Do you find the Chinese models have less worldly knowledge, and if so
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by mattstir 2mo ago
What an odd takeaway from this. The commenter attempting to point out blatant inconsistencies in the winning submission means they should have been bullied more as a child? Could you elaborate on how you came to that conclusion?
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by mattstir 3mo ago
This is admittedly an aside from the content of the post itself, but... why do so many mobile sites insist on preventing zooming in and seem to share the same incredibly buggy image zooming? It's quite frustrating.
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by mattstir 3mo ago
Couldn't even get himself to say "thanks" for receiving $120,000 from the guy by the way, could only manage "that was cool"
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by mattstir 3mo ago
The number of critical CVEs every year related to memory safety seems to point to the contrary. The amount of "just one more static analysizer and we'll never have any bugs!" in the C++ community is honestly disturbing, along
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by mattstir 3mo ago
Depending on the app, you could also get away with limited messaging such as a wheel of predefined callouts in a team game.
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by mattstir 3mo ago
> or on the fly using stable diffusion Steganography fundamentally requires you to be able to know where the data is, which requires you to have the original image to compare against. The only other strategy I'm aware of is setting
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by mattstir 3mo ago
Although it would be much more exciting to have some world conspiracy, try to consider what that would mean. That conspiracy's so powerful it can singularly decide votes across a union of dozens of countries, and yet still feels the ne
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by mattstir 3mo ago
Such systems are unfortunately trivially defeated by, for example, adding rings of colourful blocks around the edges of the image. If the scanning systems are then updated to notice rings around the image, bad actors will start cutting imag
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by mattstir 3mo ago
> I wonder if you're confusing statements of fact, for attacks? Hearsay and gossip from the "juicy grape vine" along with implying Jarred is too stupid to critically think about his own path in life because he didn't
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by mattstir 3mo ago
How is it kind to imply that by not going to university, Jarred was too stupid to think critically about his own path in life? Or just this in its entirety: "Jarred was a stinky manager. Poor communication, unrealistic expectations, lo
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by mattstir 3mo ago
The argument isn't to avoid calling out "bad" behaviour, it's that you can do so with a professional (or at least not actively childish) tone. Using phrases like "stinky manager" while taking multiple jabs at J
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by mattstir 3mo ago
It looks like doctests aren't supported: https://github.com/nextest-rs/nextest/issues/16
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by mattstir 3mo ago
Unfortunately all of the major AI model providers are massively incentivized to fit their models to various political narratives, especially through historical denialism. The "diverse 1940s German soldiers" debacle from Google com
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by mattstir 3mo ago
Who's arguing for that? And why is it not "reasonable" to ask for basic privacy?

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