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by michaelt 1y ago
In a single request? Oof. I was benchmarking some models the other day via openrouter and I got the distinct impression some of these models treat the thinking token budget as a target rather than a maximum.
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by michaelt 1y ago
A pivot, by definition, means turning away from the original course of the business. If you were really motivated by the previous goal, and you're disinterested in the new goal, why stick around? I've seen companies pivot from &qu
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by michaelt 1y ago
Are there all that many parents who want to teach their kid woodworking, but can't use the classic teaching method of taking them to the workshop and handing them a coping saw under careful supervision? I mean, I'm sure there&#x27
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by michaelt 1y ago
There are some statements that, though reasonable in isolation, are almost always heard from people teeing up a really bad opinion. For example, if someone says "I'm not racist, but" I'm already rolling my eyes before th
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I would put a lot of money on it not being able to detect you pointing your phone at a Veo3 video of an old person though. I recently had to verify my identity for UK government company registration purposes. I had to use my phone to
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by michaelt 1y ago
IMHO the problem is: OpenAI wants 3000W to run a high-end multi-GPU server to serve 1000 users paying $20/month each. They've got $20,000/month of income from the server, if they can power it. Grandma wants 3000W to run her c
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by michaelt 1y ago
> If a controversial rich guy offers you a CEO job that consists entirely of laundering his reputation by pretending his decisions are your own, you have a social responsibility not to take it. I don't think you become the CEO of
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by michaelt 1y ago
At first I thought the fact the advertising-and-tracking company needed access to their competitor's encrypted messenger was related to the tracking that is their core business model. But it's unfair to assume bad faith like that.
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by michaelt 1y ago
As far as I know, CAs don't have to "save up to their latest entry" The info they get back from the CT log may be a Merkle Hash that partly depends on the other entries in the log - but they don't have to store the enti
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by michaelt 1y ago
The point of CT logging is to ensure a person can ask "What certificates were issued for example.com?" or "What certificates were issued by Example CA?" and get an answer that's correct - even if the website or CA f
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by michaelt 1y ago
There are, I think, different norms and risk levels in different types of employment. Somewhat ironically, it's much easier to get fired from a minimum wage fast food service job than it is to get fired from a six-figure-salary job at
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by michaelt 1y ago
I assume all the corporate GenAI models have blocks for "photorealistic image of <politician name> being arrested", "<politician name> waving ISIS flag", "<politician name> punching baby" and
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by michaelt 1y ago
It depends. If you're spending 99% of your time on your favourite websites that you've already tuned the blocking on? Barely a problem. On the other hand if your job involves going to lots of different vendors' websites - you
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by michaelt 1y ago
The problem with being on google's bot blocklist is you'll suddenly discover that recaptcha is used in a heck of a lot of places.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Would you not simply buy a regular NAS? Why buy a tiny, m.2 only mini-NAS if your need is better met by a vanilla 2-bay NAS?
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by michaelt 1y ago
And a predecessor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(chief_mouser) Served under: Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, and Clement Attlee
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by michaelt 1y ago
> And it's taught atrociously badly. The vast majority of graduates, after about 13 years of mandatory Irish classes, cannot functionally speak it. I grew up in a country where we had mandatory lessons in a little-used local langu
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by michaelt 1y ago
Right, but you have some laptops coming back from leaving workers. Laptops issued to interns. Windows laptops issued to people who come back and say they need Linux. Laptops loaned to people while their main laptop was being repaired. And o
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by michaelt 1y ago
> This is a kind of principal/agent problem that the private sector partially manages with equity or deferred compensation The private sector also has the option (and usually the motivation) to just quietly disappear failed projec
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by michaelt 1y ago
Unfortunately even if you're paying for the hardware, and paying monthly for iCloud, and paying 30% of every app and in-app purchase Apple still won't give you an ad-free experience. The cash brought in by ads is concrete, qua
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Who knows what are gems are what are not? In this case, the author wrote the notes. If they say it has no value, they probably know what they’re talking about.
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by michaelt 1y ago
I could start running my own DNS server, and start manually curating all the important entries in it, sure. Or I could just use HTTP, or a self-signed certificate. If an attacker intercepts traffic on twenty feet of ethernet cable in my hom
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I really don’t understand solo unpaid maintainers who feel “pressure” from users. Some open source projects which are well funded and/or motivated to grow are giddy with excitement at the prospect you might file a bug report [1,
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by michaelt 1y ago
I considered doing that for a project once. Then I realised that when my internet was down, 192-18-1-1.foo.com wouldn't resolve. And when my internet is down is exactly when I want to access my router's admin page. I decided simpl
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by michaelt 1y ago
Some are, some aren't. For example, MIG welding robots tend to life a hard life. And if you look at photos of industrial painting robots, you'll find they're often fitted with plastic smocks. If you look up photos online you&
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by michaelt 1y ago
Yes, obviously that 1% figure is a simplification. Of course not all motors are created equal, and neither are all operating conditions! But the neat thing about my argument is it holds true regardless of the underlying failure rate! So lon
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by michaelt 1y ago
To an extent, yes. For example, an industrial robot arm with 6 motors achieves much higher reliability than a consumer roomba with 3 motors. They do this with more metal parts, more precision machining, much more generous design tolerances,
838.
by michaelt 1y ago
It's a simple matter of the number of motors you have. [1] Assume every motor has a 1% failure rate per year. A boring wheeled roomba has 3 motors. That's a 2.9% failure rate per year, and 8.6% failures over 3 years. Assume a huma
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I don’t know how you could assume this is useful unless you assume the average person is really stupid. Would you feel comfortable telling a stranger this? Would you be able to say it in a way that isn’t demeaning? Something I'v
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by michaelt 1y ago
Or the vendors you’re paying to help you adopt a bunch of corporate paperwork are helping you adopt a bunch of corporate paperwork. Kinda their job, no? If I hire a fire safety consultant, I gotta expect he’s going to recommend sprinklers a

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