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by mcculley 3y ago
> Who would invest in a Reddit IPO now?! The same kinds of investors who did no diligence on FTX. I am certain there is dumb money out there.
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by mcculley 3y ago
(As far as you know, none of your machines were ever hacked.) Your luck is not good security policy. When I was getting started with Linux in 1992 and only intermittently connected to the Internet via dial-up, I celebrated long uptimes. Now
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by mcculley 3y ago
My team has installed a lot of LED lights in tugboat engine rooms. They fail often. They don’t seem to handle heat and vibration very well.
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by mcculley 3y ago
A long time ago, I had desktops with huge uptimes. The world has changed. I will no longer go that long without a security update. Too much is now passing through my machine.
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by mcculley 3y ago
Did you run a poll? How did you arrive at this conclusion?
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by mcculley 3y ago
I am always amused that the discourse around LSD uses the term “microdosing”. We know that tiny doses can harm and hurt humans. Claiming that many uses are “microdoses” is rationalization. Edit: I meant to say “harm and help”, not “harm and
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by mcculley 3y ago
Yes. I don't know why there is so much silly talk about alignment. If alignment were possible, we would have already aligned corporations with outcomes beneficial for humanity. AI will just make corporations more powerful and they will
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by mcculley 3y ago
It seems pretty obvious to me that whoever wrote that sentence did not like the album and was trying ineffectively to communicate.
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by mcculley 3y ago
I have taken to unplugging TVs in hotel rooms as it has become more difficult to figure out how to shut them off entirely. Some will leave a blue or red LED on all night when I would prefer darkness. Also, it is really hard to tell what the
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by mcculley 3y ago
I watched this for a bit and then scrubbed around to try to understand what is going on. Now I have more questions.
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ChatGPT Playing Wordle(enki.org)
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by mcculley 3y ago
We have this in Florida, a non-profit insurer of last resort. Eventually, we will have a year with enough hurricane damage that it will wreck the entire economy, because so many homes have been built that cannot be reasonably maintained. h
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by mcculley 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuegong-1
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by mcculley 3y ago
China got to 370 days total, but my reading of the articles about it is that the most a single group endured was 200 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuegong-1
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by mcculley 3y ago
The Republicans keep saying that Biden improperly withdrew from Afghanistan.
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by mcculley 3y ago
I have found that localities in the U.S. are very different when it comes to this kind of behavior. It is part of the friction of doing business in that you don't know what is actually required to get anything done. That said, I also d
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by mcculley 3y ago
Yes. I believe that myopic, reactive legislators were able to go to the NSA/CIA/FBI and get lots of input on what they would like in a new bill. I am skeptical that "the Patriot Act was written and ready before 9/11&quot
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by mcculley 3y ago
I am aware of ThinThread. The assertion made was "The Patriot Act was written and ready before 9/11". Do you have any specific pointers into where in this 2 hour 35 minute video that claim is made? Or better yet, does anyone
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by mcculley 3y ago
> The Patriot Act was written and ready before 9/11 Do you have a citation for this assertion?
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by mcculley 3y ago
Did you arrive at this certainty through reading something other than what OpenAI has published? The document [0] that describes the training data for GPT-2 makes this assertion hilarious to me. [0]: https://github.com/opena
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by mcculley 3y ago
I am very interested in what LLMs will be able to do when trained on something other than the content on the Internet, which is primarily generated to sell advertising views.
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by mcculley 3y ago
> ChatGPT was trained with ALL the data possible My understanding is that ChatGPT was trained on text from the Internet and public domain texts. There is orders of magnitude more text available to humans behind paywalls and otherwise ina
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by mcculley 3y ago
Having been on roads in Germany and other places in the world, I find this to be a ridiculous statement.
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by mcculley 3y ago
> Remember manually tweaking mode lines? I put my first Linux box together in late 1992 using SLS and a fixed frequency monitor. I got the mode line wrong and the magic black smoke escape from the monitor.
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by mcculley 3y ago
> Like, I agree we shouldn't have cars that can go over even 100mph on public roads, as that risks other people's lives, but all of them can already. Do you mean in the U.S.? Everywhere? My understanding is that cars in Germany
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by mcculley 3y ago
Yes, many predictions have been made by entities with wildly different credibility. It would be silly to disregard forecasts made by serious people because unserious forecasts have also been made by others.
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by mcculley 3y ago
I agree that if one assumes the most optimal theoretical possibilities, it would be great.
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by mcculley 3y ago
One of the docks I work on is frequented by a pigeon with a blowdart embedded in its neck. I have tried to catch it a few times, but I am not sure that removing it would not harm the pigeon even worse. One day I ran across two young men on
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by mcculley 3y ago
I have read Tesla owners reporting the AC consuming 1-3 kW. I still don't see how a roof of solar panels "goes a long way in offsetting the power consumed by the AC".
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by mcculley 3y ago
As a Floridian who has always consumed a lot of energy trying to keep cool, I am surprised by: "An average car roof is big enough to provide 400W to 600W which goes a long way in offsetting the power consumed by the AC." These num

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