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by pphysch 5mo ago
We need to erase the Cold War term "whataboutism". It's cold war boomer brain poison that disabled the critical thinking capacities of an entire generation. Context and understanding the situation to make better decisions? WH
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by pphysch 6mo ago
There's a substantial difference between "reducing what you would otherwise spend" and "not spending / defaulting to the minimum". The latter mindset is less about active money management and more about complet
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by pphysch 6mo ago
The public disclosure page has a big blue "Get the exploit" button. It's an advertisement for an unpatched critical exploit and apparently some kind of infosec company.
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by pphysch 6mo ago
The Venn diagram of mainstream distros and individual Linux users is virtually a circle. Ubuntu/RHEL is vulnerable and so are most Linux users by extension.
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Not a good look to accuse others of AI spam because you can't immediately grasp their point. Others clarified it well. ORM has substantial utility beyond just abstracting across different backends (I personally think that is one of the
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Raw SQL is great for simple queries, but gets old quick when you are dealing with "higher order" parameterized queries with lots of joins / optional clauses and you may end up creating an awful bespoke query builder to addres
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Slowly inching? GitHub Copilot announced 600%+ price increases for many workflows, with others being potentially 100x more expensive due to the change from request to token based billing.
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by pphysch 6mo ago
They are now charging per gallon instead of a flat rate per trip
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by pphysch 6mo ago
How practical would it be to include LIDAR in the initial real-world environmental scan to get (or at least seed/constrain with real data samples) an even better collision mesh?
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Seems like mainly a way to write Roblox compatible applications that aren't locked in to the Roblox platform?
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Is that how you rationalize Native American Tribal Reservations as well? Heaven on earth? A privileged gift from the white man?
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Cannabis is psychedelic to the extent that the term means anything. It's not a "classic" psychedelic like acid or shrooms, but there is no obvious category difference between microdosing shrooms vs. smoking a joint vs. having
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Yeah, we didn't want Iran to have nukes, so we rugpulled the JCPOA and murdered the guy who declared a fatwa against nukes. We wanted to save the Iranian people from the regime that murdered 100,000 peaceful protestors (don't ask
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by pphysch 6mo ago
> Over time, cannabis has also allowed me to analyse and think on the past There is danger in attributing something broad like this directly to drug use. Can you only reflect while high? It may be that the initial psychedelic sessions he
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Ironically this is perhaps the main motivation why a lot of companies force accessibility requirements internally. "We don't want an ADA lawsuit" Now if only there were an ADA for website performance...
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by pphysch 6mo ago
TFA cites "env var enumeration", likely implying someone got somewhere they shouldn't and typed 3 characters, as the critical attack that led to customers getting compromised. My point is sensitive secrets should literally ne
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Security-by-obfuscation is ridiculed but I'm a firm believer that preventing yourself from getting owned when someone is able to type 3 letters `env` is a worthy layer of defense. Even if those same secrets are unencrypted somewhere el
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Sure, this isn't a rigorous study. But it's clear that American society is in decay (specifically: education, science, healthcare, democracy) and meanwhile SV has been busily innovating in adtech/surveillance, miltech, fintec
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by pphysch 6mo ago
> you've built something so useful that someone else will pay lots of money for it "Useful" is quite the euphemism. > Fundamentally, the vast vast majority of founders who exit successfully made society better somehow.
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Yeah, isn't the entire point of SF startup culture (for the last decade++) to build personal wealth through a successful exit rather than build a sustainable business that benefits society? It's a big speculative con game... Oppos
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Agreed on all points and this captures the history well.
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by pphysch 6mo ago
I promise you that the main reason HPC is behind on virtualization is not because of the little bit of overhead. There are a dozen other inefficiencies in the average HPC workload that are more significant. Most centers don't even have
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Maybe there are literally 17 models in an initial MoE pass. Seems excessive though.
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by pphysch 6mo ago
The market here is extraordinarily vibes-based and burning billions of dollars for a ephemeral PR boost, which might only last another couple weeks until people find a reason to hate Codex, does not reflect well on OAI's long term viab
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Aimlabs has been significantly gamified, though the core is maybe more of a "toy"
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Both games have gameplay loops that were ahead of their time. Relatively free exploration + combat + RNG "loot" constrained by needing to return to town to heal/restock.
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Diverse competition is the best way to identify a winning formula, which can then be perfected by a fewer number of players.
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by pphysch 6mo ago
The point of a rewrite is to safely delete most of that arcane knowledge required to operate the old system, by reducing the operational complexity of it.
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by pphysch 6mo ago
Big business LLMs even have the opposite incentive, to churn as many tokens as possible.
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by pphysch 6mo ago
A sufficiently complete spec is indistinguishable from source code.

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