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by michaelt 1y ago
Obviously not things like blogs, or things you’d find via search, or independent forums, or newspaper websites. They certainly aren’t prospering. But walled gardens like YouTube, Discord, ChatGPT and suchlike that are delivered via the brow
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by michaelt 1y ago
Interesting. How does the revocation of lost/stolen cards interact with the anonymous design of the age attestation? If an enterprising 19-year-old sold their card and PIN to a 15-year-old and reported it lost to get a replacement, pre
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by michaelt 1y ago
> "3 generations" seems like a bit of a stretch. Millions of Blackwell systems use PCIe 6.x today True. And yet, if you buy an RTX 5090 today, costing $2400 and released in January this year, it's PCIe 5.0 x16
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by michaelt 1y ago
> this would solve the biggest issue with non-server motherboards: not enough PCIe lanes. Is that a problem? These days, you don't need slots for your sound card and network card, that stuff's all integrated on the motherbo
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by michaelt 1y ago
Yes, these days our prime ministers normal, everyday knights, etonians and billionaires. Sometimes they'll be photographed without a tie, or they'll have a chummy nickname like Tony or Dave or Liz. You know, normal people like you
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by michaelt 1y ago
Also the EU's population is 450 million, while the UK's is 69 million. So losing the users stings 85% less.
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I tend to feel that a lack of government intervention isn't a significant piece of this puzzle. Depends if you agree with somenameforme's theory that tech companies start off amazing, get big, then become awful. You may hav
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Do you feel that Wikipedia today is banned through the letter of the law? Wikipedia is certainly large enough, in terms of traffic. And as anyone can edit it, it would seem to be a user-to-user service, making it a Category 1 provide
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by michaelt 1y ago
A lot of 1990s tech optimists thought that people with awful opinions were the unfortunate victims of a lack of access to books and education; and the strict gatekeeping of broadcast media by the powerful. This new multi-media technology wa
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by michaelt 1y ago
It's a good deal more complicated than that. MPs belong to political parties - consider what happens if an MP's constituents and an MP's party disagree? They might be allowed to vote against the government, if their vote will
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Exposing them to intelligent thought keeps them from being powerful ignoramuses But would it not also, for the same reasons be good if the rich and powerful were exposed to Native Americans, military veterans, wheelchair users, rel
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by michaelt 1y ago
I think some people on the SVG design committee were aiming to replace Flash for things like browser games, and wanted animations and javascript and so on to support that role. That lead to the weird situation where browsers have two ways o
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by michaelt 1y ago
In the bad old days, if your company-internal tools were full of XSS bugs, fixing them wasn't a priority, because the tools could only be accessed with a login and VPN connection. So outside attackers have already been foiled, and insi
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by michaelt 1y ago
The problem, in my mind, is the interaction of legacy admissions with other forms of background-based admission. Once I'm overlooking poor test scores for the 'landed gentry' background, I've got little defence when peop
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by michaelt 1y ago
In quite a few industries, companies are very reluctant to risk $$$$$ on developing new automation (which might not even work, and even if it does work might not be cheaper) Why spend $$$$$$ developing a drone delivery system that might fac
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by michaelt 1y ago
My Linux machine is very modern, but I still need i386 architecture support installed, because Steam requires 32-bit support. And Steam requires 32-bit support so people can play 15-year-old games. (Admittedly, the 32-bit support Ubuntu shi
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by michaelt 1y ago
Yeah, in the UK there have been 1,355 recipients of ‘Victoria Cross’ their highest medal. You know how many there have been since WW2? Fifteen. Recipients who are alive today? Five. So the demographics of recipients are more reflective of
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by michaelt 1y ago
When you use a well-documented chip, the datasheet will contain diagrams and they'll have a working demo board which they'll give you the full schematic for. Closer to 3 pages than 300. Of course, a person can still get it wron
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by michaelt 1y ago
I mean, for a long time the situation was reversed. Huge gaming demand and easy retail availability of nvidia's cards was providing economies of scale. If a few professors were buying the GeForce 8800 to look at this new 'CUDA&#x2
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by michaelt 1y ago
I kinda see what you mean. Steam [1] tells me gamers use Intel by 59:41 Price-performance scatter plots [2] say although Intel isn't battling AMD for the >$1000 threadripper territory, they have some competitive products in the sub-
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by michaelt 1y ago
In the badge from the article they're using 18650s, so AA batteries would actually have slimmed it down by 3.5mm. Lower voltage, of course.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Why stop at 80 H100s for a mere 6.4 terabytes of GPU memory? Supermicro will sell you a full rack loaded with servers [1] providing 13.4 TB of GPU memory. And with 132kW of power output, you can heat an olympic-sized swimming pool by 1°C ev
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by michaelt 1y ago
For $20/month you get Opus in-browser chat access, and Sonnet claude code access. If you want to use Opus in claude code, you've got to get the $100/month plan - or pay API prices. And agentic coding uses a lot of token
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by michaelt 1y ago
My experience with coding agents is they need a lot of hand-holding. They're impressive despite that. But if Sonnet is $20/month and I have to intervene every 3 minutes, while Opus is $100/month and I have to intervene every
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by michaelt 1y ago
Openrouter provides a multi-model, multi-provider API for hosted LLMs. I myself used their API to compare different LLMs for document classification. They provide usage rankings [1] and the top 10 applications, in terms of tokens used, are:
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by michaelt 1y ago
I mean, it's both. Chatgpt, claude, gemini in chatbot or coding agent form? Great stuff, saves me some googling. The same AI popping up in an e-mail, chat or spreadsheet tool? No thanks, normal people don't need an AI summary of a
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by michaelt 1y ago
If a person is configuring an LLM for education, to provide personalised math coaching to 10 year olds, they want an LLM that won't output anything NSFW, no matter how the user pokes and prods it. That's totally reasonable. But if
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by michaelt 1y ago
The jargon to google here is "length bias" It turns out if you generate two LLM responses and ask a judge to choose which is better, many judges have a bias in favour of long answers full of waffle.
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by michaelt 1y ago
> There’s a reason they all do it, and it’s because SSO is one of the few features enterprises are almost universally willing to pay for. Also, anyone who's dealt with SAML knows it's like licking lead-based paint. It's
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by michaelt 1y ago
The pro-porn side has zero PR because respectable public figures don't see pro-porn advocacy as a good career move. At most, you'll get some oblique references to it. Meanwhile, the anti-porn side has a formidable alliance: Right-

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