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by nine_k 4mo ago
SpaceX serves a large market that was underserved, via Starlink, and via satellite launches. There's nothing comparably easy (for some values of "easy") to monetize underwater, except in shallow places like the continental sh
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/* It's a bummer that there is addition but no vipition. */
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In short: AI-based tools tend to "upcode" cases and bill for more serious conditions, and more expensive treatment. (This is not about AI costing too much.)
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Peruse tvtropes.com enough, and you will realize that nothing is ever original, everything follows this or that long-established pattern, and complaining about that is another old trope. More seriously, I like the fact that articles follo
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The US administration restricting the use of US-trained models is one of the best gifts it could make to the Chinese LLM producers, and to the PRC government.
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It's still good to know that SOTA is further, and we can expect the more advanced designs to seep into more affordable segments.
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Looks ideal for a power wall at home.
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The mention of quality puts it firmly into the joke territory, indeed.
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One thing is a model that's trained from the start to say "This topic is above my pay grade" to any mention of the status of Taiwan, etc. Quite another is an architecture where the big model is not mutilated, but is gaslighte
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Likely the point of NATCIOS is exactly in being a made-up word not found anywhere, so a model won't utter it.
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An old thin client machine, like a Thinkcentre M73, would do the job, and would cost less than an RPi. Look at EBay.
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Average throughput is one thing, tail latency, quite another.
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Steganography has rather obvious size limits if you want the image continue looking innocent. EXIF data is way less limited.
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More than that; the trigger code can sit passively and just check the cache for whatever payloads may come its way. I suppose image sanitizers come soon to browsers. Only sanitized images will be cached; anything the browser can't make
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/* What will happen first? * Anthropic runs out of genre names. * Anthropic changes the model naming convention. * AGI is achieved and handles its own naming. */
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I first wanted to compare the use of void * to the use of a chainsaw. But then I realized that a chainsaw was many more safety features.
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> Why isn't this thing done yesterday? Land rights. Environmental reviews. Various suits attempting to exert extra compensations for tangential (at best) issues. Basically the California around.
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I would humbly suggest that a reasonable site should assume that the user has set the comfortable font size in the browser, and make all other font sizes in percentages, or using rem units.
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At least it would be reasonable to show a message like "Sorry, no mobile support yet".
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To me, "cool" is a slightly derogatory term when applied to design. It usually means that smoke and mirrors play a significant role.
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How would you do it? The speed of light being what it is, and tail latencies being large unless you over provision wildly, you keep facing hundreds of milliseconds of reconciliation time, if you want guaranteed synchronous result.
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The user clicks the button, the mutation is stored in local storage. The user closes the tab, but it's not a problem. A background worker picks up the mutation and sends it to the remote backend. It takes time, retries, etc. Similarly,
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You can locate an "intermediary backend" on the client, write outstanding mutations into local storage, have a background worker send it to the backend, with necessary retries, etc. At worst, the background worker would put out a
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Apparently the pale, semi-translucent skin is a mutation that allowed hominids to live at high latitudes, where darker-skinned hominids would whither due to the lack of vitamins of the D group [1]. That same mutation made them vulnerable to
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The network shenanigans that apparently affect the p2p gaming is allegedly by the militaries of many countries, related to the Iran war. Much like GPS disturbancs in Northern and Eastern Europe are due to the war in Ukraine. Dudes deliverin
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Regular people here are as opposed to military servicemen. The people who did not sign up for going to war.
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Maybe I won't care about upgradeability right now . The architecture is clearly in flux, the roles of traditional "CPU" and "GPU" are rapidly evolving. Maybe in 5 years, or even 3 years, a brand-new machine from 20
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Maybe CUDA support, or something else specific to NVidia?
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POSIX threads having problems with signals is, imho, mostly the problem with signals in general. They are pretty poorly designed: https://lwn.net/Articles/414618/

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