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by nomel 2mo ago
Actually a pile of transistors.
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by nomel 2mo ago
Please look at the link where context is clear here. Floating point has limited precision and the complete inability to exactly represent some numbers . Example, this equality check is false: 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 Because the last bits of a flo
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by nomel 2mo ago
> Not to anthropomorphize a machine modeled after humans, but it almost seems delighted? I had Claude Code drive a robot last week, and it was very visibly "delighted" like this, more than I've ever seen. I always find it
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by nomel 2mo ago
It's a mistake to care about equality of floating point numbers [1]. You must usually consider the lower bits of the number as random. I assume you're saying something other than this though? [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by nomel 2mo ago
As a naive third party, wondering the same things he was at each point in the conversation, I think you definitely read him wrong. But, thanks for spending the time! I learned a bunch!
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by nomel 2mo ago
So what you're saying is he should extend the drop height a bit to run a vacuum pump before engaging? Sounds like he's on the path to launch some satellites!
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by nomel 2mo ago
You're comparing completely different training data, harness overhead, and cost function. You're also comparing brains, which aren't really related to this discussion at all. But, it depends on what you're measuring. By
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by nomel 2mo ago
Why does nobody post references anymore!? These are simple facts that nobody should be arguing about. https://www.investopedia.com/democrats-vs-republicans-who-ha... > Republican presidents added about $1.4 trillion per
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by nomel 2mo ago
IANAL, but I don't think you're interpreting that correctly. I believe section 3.b and 3.c are the rights this is referring to, where you can request the source, and even be changed for the physical act . Suggesting this extends
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by nomel 2mo ago
There must be some significant creativity with limitations of the physical display layout! [1] [1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/img/87bb/b84945f8-c8fd-4a06-9291...
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by nomel 2mo ago
At least for Samsung, when you first turn it on, you get a nice big warning that says the phone is not dust or water resistant, and that you can damage the screen with sharp objects, like your fingernail. [1] I tried one and permanently d
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by nomel 2mo ago
> Given the right resources and environments, many small models can function together in an emergent way. What is this based on? Every researcher I've heard talk about this says it's exactly not true, as an uncontested rule, be
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by nomel 2mo ago
Hasn't it been repeatedly shown that many small models perform worse than a large model of the same total parameters?
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by nomel 2mo ago
Ah thanks! So a design/operation flaw of the scales! I didn't realize they were run/monitored so incompetently, where concepts like "make sure the truck is actually on the scale" were ignored. But, I'm in no wa
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by nomel 2mo ago
"top" or maybe "slabtop" will find the offending, very very broken, program that's leaking memory like crazy, making your system doomed no matter what you do or how much physical memory you install.
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by nomel 2mo ago
Yeah, I'm super confused. Is the 34 year old solution to this (swap) somehow broken these days?
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by nomel 2mo ago
I don't know much about musl. > GPU: Vulkan and OpenGL drivers are supplied by the host as shared objects, usually built against glibc, and a fully static musl binary cannot normally dlopen() them. Why? Have people managed to break
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by nomel 2mo ago
jj uses git as a backend, even though it's not a git frontend. You can use it in a "colocated" mode, with an existing git clone, alongside your normal git tools. Either way, nobody will know that you're using jj except
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by nomel 2mo ago
> The road scales are easily gamed, or just avoided. Yes, they stated that in the second half, and I addressed it. What's the first half?
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by nomel 2mo ago
The remote control appears to use a third party relay, and I don't see encryption mentioned. I really want to use this, but I definitely don't trust a vibe coded relay to my shell.
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by nomel 2mo ago
> The road scales are easily gamed, or just avoided. How are they easily gamed, without being able to shift the load as you roll over the scale? And, at least in California, the scales are placed so that, to avoid them, you have to add a
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by nomel 2mo ago
> A camera does not prevent crime. No, while completing ignoring the links I gave, which go against your claim. > I can find a couple that give a meaningless tiny discount I appreciate the confirmation that insurers discount even unmo
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by nomel 2mo ago
> The financing for datacenters is also very shady and its own can of worms Could you expand on that?
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by nomel 2mo ago
> it's a short-term economic quirk Not with the memory cartel that exists right now. They're more than happy to keep things exactly as they are, with lawsuits flying [1]. [1] https://www.rainintelligence.com/blo
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by nomel 2mo ago
> host it yourself. APIs will always have outages, delays and breaking changes every so often. Since you've solved all of these problems, including hardware, etc, you should expand this to a business! Many people would be very int
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by nomel 2mo ago
> Cameras do not prevent crime. What is this based on? They do seem to prevent crime [1][2][3]. To my naive perspective, this seems ludicrously obvious, since there are just countless examples of thieves looking around for cameras, and t
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by nomel 2mo ago
Please note the article you're commenting under, where the case presented is entirely about efficacy.
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by nomel 2mo ago
I would also assume surveillance would increase crime that's reported, at least a little bit, since it would mean the police would be less likely to say what anyone who has lived in a higher crime area is familiar with hearing: "T
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by nomel 2mo ago
Looks like all the designs (unable to find details of this exact one) do temporarily hold the gas to try to ionize it fully, before expelling it. Maybe not too much is predictable ionized at these altitudes? If you accelerate the wrong char
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by nomel 2mo ago
> But yes, there is an interesting change in the past decade, where everything new must be over-hyped. Or, it's that the last two years have been the largest and fastest shift in the daily life of a programmer since the compiler, wi

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