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by mcv 3mo ago
Maybe it's time to refresh this idea then. There's a clear demand for running LLMs at home, but the good ones are too big, and you're not using it most of the time. Sharing with others sounds like a perfect solution to me.
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by mcv 3mo ago
A compiler is a deterministic algorithm. Clause is not. Of course Claude is an algorithm, but it's a very vague, fuzzy and complex one, where you have no way to determine what's going on inside, and no way to know up front what&#x
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by mcv 3mo ago
You've got to start somewhere. Even a small UBI, like the one Alaska has, is better than nothing. Replacing welfare with a UBI at the same level would already be a massive improvement because you'd get rid of the poverty trap. Fro
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by mcv 3mo ago
I think the idea is that all companies should be designed to be employee owned for at least a significant part.
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by mcv 3mo ago
Yes, but the US bribes too. In fact, I'd say that corruption is more common in the US than in much of Europe. The article's claim that the US worships Adam Smith is only nominally true; in practice, they love nothing more than mon
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by mcv 3mo ago
I think now would be an excellent time for an EU directive that all government documents must at all times be stored in an openly standardised format. So no OOXML Transitional.
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by mcv 3mo ago
He does employ a lot of hyperbole. Some of his previous blog posts have titles like "I Will Fucking Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet" ( https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-dropkick-you-... )
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by mcv 3mo ago
There have been courts that have voided unreasonable EULAs, I believe. I suspect this can be fought too. But getting actual meaningful consequences for the manufacturers to make them stop doing this, may be a different matter.
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by mcv 3mo ago
This makes sense. So my two questions are the answer to each other. Interesting.
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by mcv 3mo ago
Wasn't that already implicitly the case? Aren't there laws against deceptive advertising? It sounds like an incredibly sensible rule. But is this something a mayor can just declare? Isn't this something aa legislative body ha
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by mcv 3mo ago
Companies consist of people.
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by mcv 3mo ago
Is Linux certain to be safe from this sort of thing? I used to use lots of Dell monitors. Are there any brands that are known not to do anything like this? I'd like to reward them with my patronage.
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by mcv 3mo ago
I've heard so before: that USB is a massive security hole. At least in Windows; I don't know if other OSs are also vulnerable. Better to just never stick strange USB sticks in your computer.
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by mcv 3mo ago
In my family we use the Glorious Model O. My son wanted one ages ago (I got him a mini), and it was so nice, I got one for myself. Now my oldest has a big one, and my youngest uses the mini. We've had them for years. The mini has lost
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by mcv 3mo ago
I don't understand how this is legal. Isn't this malware? Isn't it illegal to install malware on someone's computer without their permission? Or is this very illegal, but nobody cares about that anymore?
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by mcv 3mo ago
Of course not everybody is like that. But I totally believe him that he's met people who lose all reason when confronted with AI. I've met them too. We've all read articles about leaderboards to waste as many tokens as possib
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by mcv 3mo ago
It'd better happen sooner than later. This bubble is distorting everything and turning many executives insane. See https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-glo...
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by mcv 3mo ago
I absolutely would. Let the bubble burst.
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by mcv 3mo ago
A few months ago, I heard a keynote speaker claim that LLMs did not give any measurable productivity gains, except in two fields: customer support and software development, where they resulted in about 30% productivity improvement. I forgot
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by mcv 3mo ago
LLMs can also be used to improve quality. The approach I tend to encourage, is to write the thing yourself, but let the LLM review your work. I think that's a far better and more enjoyable way of working than letting the LLM write it a
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by mcv 3mo ago
16 used to be the minimum drinking age in Netherland, until they raised it to 18. It wouldn't surprise me if there were still countries where it's 16. But it's not really a fair comparison, because alcohol has a very direct d
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by mcv 3mo ago
My kids call. Only they tend to call through Discord or Whatsapp instead of just using the actual phone, for some reason. But they call, and they pick up when I call them. They also call their friends for gaming.
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by mcv 3mo ago
Grades for homework have clearly become meaningless. Instead, give homework as practice, but test them in school, without access to AI.
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by mcv 3mo ago
I recently got the Anker 140W. I bought a MacBook, and apparently they come without a charger these days. So instead of buying an expensive Mac charger, I figured the widely recommended Anker 140W offers a lot more functionality for less mo
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by mcv 3mo ago
Do people want to restrict 16 year olds with phones? That seems like a really bad idea. For 10 year olds it makes sense, but 16 is nearly adult; they need to really learn this responsibility. And of course they need a phone when they go out
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by mcv 3mo ago
Yeah, I'm reading this and find myself wondering what's so new about this. Haven't tech companies always had this role? I suppose Forward Deployed Engineer sounds more like an engineering role than Sales Consultant, which sou
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by mcv 3mo ago
It's not so much a branch, but a dependency between subsequent iterations of the loop, which means execution of each iteration has to wait for the result from the previous iteration, slowing things down. But if most of the time j == ne
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by mcv 3mo ago
Is Explore the only thing subagents are ever used for?
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by mcv 3mo ago
I hear that too, but I'm much more ad-hoc about what model I use for what. Opus can be good at planning too, and Fable is remarkably good at figuring out obscure complexities in the code.
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by mcv 3mo ago
Interesting. I thought modern CPU optimisation required avoiding branches, but here adding the branch allows the branch pediction to parallelise what it otherwise couldn't.

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