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by noosphr 1y ago
>And, no, Wine cannot run anything. Wine may not be able to run the apps you need, but it can run plenty. The older the software gets the more wine becomes the only option to run it.
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People defer thinking about what correct and incorrect actually looks like for a whole wide scope of scenarios and instead choose to discover through trial and error. LLMs are _still_ terrible at deriving even the simplest
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I've moved from Linux to OpenBSD for this reason. It's all so boring it's wonderful.
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> Another thing we can learn from the past is the failure of characterizations like "Computing Science is really nothing but X", where for X you may substitute your favourite discipline, such as numerical analysis, electrical e
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by noosphr 1y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266649842...
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It's their 2060 plan. Take it up with the CPP.
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These people don't have access to the grid. That's the issue to begin with.
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It absolutely does not. But having electricity 13 days every two weeks is much better than not having it at all. This isn't about China building out their grid with an over capacity factor of 200% so they can keep everything running ev
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Genuine question: what can go wrong?
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This is the big one. In 2006 when the first EC2 instances showed up they were on par with an ok laptop and would take 24 months to pay enough in rent to cover the cost of hardware. Today the smallest instance is a joke and the medium instan
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I remember those numbers being a third that 20 years ago. Either we have evolved brand new eyes without noticing or you are just talking about the current state of the art like it's the limit of human vision. Put another way look at 30
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I can't find the article where I read it, many years ago now, but it was about strategies that small communities can adopt to keep their culture from being subsumed by the mainstream. One was to pick a set of norms repugnant to the mai
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OpenBSD is a very well kept secret that very few people are aware of. As close to nirvana as I can manage. The fact I miss pretty much all the drama around the latest corporate take over attempts on Linux is just icing on the cake. The toxi
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We are all dead in a matter of time.
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The whole thread started someone making the wrong point that: >They are of no commercial interest to Ubuntu. Which is plainly false. Julian can believe whatever he wants, in fact the more naively idealistic he is the better for Canonical
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I'd say push tricycle. After all chains are too complicated an you hardly need them in the kids playground.
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There is no such thing as top of the line. There are preferences. Asking where to begin with 'modern' Emacs is like asking where to begin with 'music'. Just use stock until you find something you like better. It is one o
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Yes, the blind stumble down hill eventually. But we let them do it in their own time.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog I don't understand how people keep giving the benefit of the doubt to corporations. They aren't people. They feel no guilt and have no shame.
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I'm glad you understand how self defense works.
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Yes, but we're not making a push to make everything a bilingual c/lisp code base. Rust people for some reason are.
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I find that languages with a high intellectual barrier to entry are much more pleasant places to be since people like the OP can't understand them and we never have people try to bully us into doing things _the right way_. This is some
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You could just read his signiture in the mailing list. https://mastodon.social/@juliank >Senior Engineer at Canonical.
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I'm very happy with common lisp for fast code. Of course most people aren't smart enough for the language so they have to use inferior algol languages like rust.
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The person making the post is getting paid by Ubuntu.
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I don't get the need for Rust since I happily compile common lisp to machine code when I need fast binaries. But the people who use the language have an amazing talent to make people on the fence hate them within half a dozen sentences
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>While it is technically feasible, it is not a good idea to try and find a technical solution to a people/organisation problem.
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A sota decoder model is a bigger deal than yet another trillion parameter encoder only model trained on benchmarks. I don't get why you think that the only way that you can beat the big guys is by having more parameters than them.
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State of the art doesn't mean frontier.
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>Otherwise we'd see SOTA models from new groups every month We do. It's just that startups don't go after the frontier models but niche spaces which are under served and can be explored with a few million in hardware. Just

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