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by perlgeek 5mo ago
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds has some more infos; some is outdated, but it also has a chart showing how many packages are built in the CI, and how many of those are reproducible builds. (Orange = FTBR = "
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by perlgeek 5mo ago
> Do you think 100 enterprises with 1 bln of tokens are going to make a better product than specialized vendor with 100bln of tokens? I'm not sure if this is sound reasoning, because "better product" is very context-depend
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by perlgeek 5mo ago
> Is every company that sells software as their core business model going to go out of business? Probably not, for a number of reasons: * Some software suites are (probably still for a few years) too big to regenerate them through a codi
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by perlgeek 5mo ago
Has anybody thought through the legal aspects of this, regarding code ownership? As far as I understand the situation in the US (sorry, no idea where he is located), output from LLMs, once published, is essentially in the Public Domain, sin
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by perlgeek 5mo ago
When you do CQRS, you basically have to generate some form of unique identifier in the client. Why not a UUID in the browser?
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by perlgeek 5mo ago
When Windows was the predominant desktop OS in the 90s and maybe early 00s (ok, maybe still is), it was so badly insecure that you could be pretty much sure that it would be easy to compromise. That's when firewalls were widely deploye
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by perlgeek 5mo ago
A "general misunderstanding" isn't really a theory whose complexity you can compare to the Dark Matter theory. One could also argue that on the one hand you need just one concept (dark matter) to explain three phenomena (gala
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
Or join something that's inherently a group activity. For me, it's singing in a choir. Everybody goes there to do something together with other folk, which lowers the barrier.
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
In music, you can have copyright for a composition (like, lyrics and sheet music), and then for a master record. If you sell a copy of a song, you generally have pay royalties to both copyright holders. So, in your example, the specifiers w
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
> but you can't honestly expect someone to check every repo available from all time to see if a model [...] might've reproduced code from it. Well, if you care about not violating any licenses, you could buy services from an LL
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
The auto complete function doesn't really change what you write, so it doesn't remove the human creativity.
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
Technically not, because you're required to toss the ball with your free hand. However, exceptions are made, for example I once played against a one-handed player, he simply tossed it with his playing hand, it was fine. It's a bit
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
Do you think they ever built two of them? :-) > How easy is it to introduce artifacts that reduce accuracy and performance? Probably pretty easy. Have less-than-perfect lighting or introduce some wind, and the AI has to do a huge amount
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
I'm already impressed by their progress, but I wouldn't say it puts robots on par with humans when it comes to table tennis. Another limitation is that most humans[0] cannot actually see the spin that's on a ball, but need to
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
That's not how humans operate though. Humans use every clue they can get to predict the trajectory as early as possible. For example most players use a roughly similar technique for a certain stroke, e.g. the forehand topspin. They als
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
> In matches detailed in the study, Ace in April 2025 won three out of five versus elite players and lost two matches against professional players, the top skill level in the sport. Sony AI said that since then Ace beat professional play
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
What you really need are strong consumer protection offices, and the right for them to sue. This has really helped in Germany.
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
Are there tokens reserved for tool calls? If yes, I can see the equivalence. If not, not so much.
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
> Tool calls are nothing more than specially formatted text which gets parsed and interpreted by the inference server I know this is getting off-topic, but is anybody working on more direct tool calling? LLMs are based on neural networks
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
Yet there are also many civil uses for drones, and I can totally understand the desire to involved only with the civil side of robotics.
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
I think this discussion distracts a bit from the main point. The main point is that there are super widespread software systems in use that we know aren't secure, and we certainly could do better if we (as the industry, as customers,
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
Another fun fact: There's a second big dam that supplies Paraguay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacyret%C3%A1_Dam It's also a two-country joint venture, this time with Argentina. And again, Paraguay uses m
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
I used it just the other day. My parents have a sound bowl, and I wanted to know the resonance frequency. Took an audio spectrum, zoomed in on the first peak, read the frequency (iirc it was around 208 Hz).
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
This is the point where you send a letter to the company, stating both the situation and the remedy you want (e.g. refund of payments for inaccessible services, cancellation of the account, maybe a reasonably small amount as compensation fo
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
I think OP's context is: they get called to help troubled projects. Often the people that hired them might not know where exactly the trouble comes from. If you look at a code base that's not really in trouble, these commands don&
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
Isn't this Microsoft abusing their quasi-monopoly as a consumer PC OS vendor? If it weren't for the current administration, I'd say it's time for regulatory action.
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
Wut? The headline is from Krebs on Security, not from the German authorities.
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by perlgeek 6mo ago
It seems to me that the meaning of the word "doxxing" has slowly drifted to mean "revealing information about somebody without their consent", be it by state actor, a company or an individual. BTW, what do you think will
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by perlgeek 7mo ago
I love building static (or statically generated) websites, but all too often, customers want dynamic content. And what's worse, they don't tell you up-front, because they don't really understand the difference. "I need a
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by perlgeek 7mo ago
Somewhere on the page they mentioned that there are separate serving chopsticks. Turning the eating chopsticks around is probably more normal when there aren't separate ones.

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