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by pvtmert 8mo ago
With the current scale and speed, it is not yet viable to make N+1 calls to other models with specific prompts. (Or even calling multiple fine-tuned models) However, even Google (and others) admit(s) that some sort of prompt-injection is al
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by pvtmert 8mo ago
I originally saw this on Twitter/X, the wording here is very confusing. The tl;dr version is simply they are going to be KTLO -keep the lights on- mode.
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by pvtmert 8mo ago
Interesting approach. I like Docker/Kubernetes way of secret mounts where you can limit user/group permissions too. Meanwhile, I was an avid user of the echo secret | ssh consume approach, specifically for the kerberos authenticat
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
> That would be even worse than not being able to update macOS on the DFU port. I'm supposed to remember which of 3 ports I originally used, forever?? I simply use the port that is closest to the MagSafe. Haven't tried much wit
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
I have been booting from external drives on different hardware since 2007. I was even able to trick Windows XP to boot off of a 12GB SanDisk thumb drive. (Although it was horribly slow!) Coming back to the author's story, as others hav
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
May be hugged to death https://archive.is/2014.11.13-220102/http://www.catb.org/~es ... edit: actually not. I just have the HTTPS first flag enabled on Safari...
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
> Under Prime Minister Modi's leadership, India has successfully built digital infrastructure that connects businesses to customers, small towns to global markets, and traditional enterprises to modern technology. I smell corruption
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
and other sometimes you forgot to charge it, becoming even heavier thing to continue your journey with. or, there is a high grade slope where excess weight is more than the motor capacity
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
In my ~10 year tenure, every single manager/boss I had was a variation of Michael Scott. This is in terms of both good and bad. I could literally write 20 page essay about every single piece of slighting, favouritism, discrimination, o
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
> It’s the normal procedure to buy things from Europe since Brexit 2020. It’s actually quite shocking that Royal Mail still hasn’t updated their tracking system to be able to give a status “waiting on import fees to be paid online”. They
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
> After some days, the DHL website said they tried to deliver but nobody home, this is bullshit This is typical DHL. I started to believe, they put "tried to deliver, but nobody home" for any & all "UnhandledException&
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
would be better if a user can also filter by the total price range. ie, if I have a budget of 100$, I would rather get the best out of it. (ie. Highest GB/TB)
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
They said they will cut 30k, but they removed only 14k in October. The 90-day grace period of the impacted people (to find internal transfers, etc) ending on Monday. Imagine, you are one of the minuscule number of people who was impacted bu
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
i cannot tell exactly but it kinda bothers me while working/typing it is not like a huge latency, definitely not like ssh-connection. to explain better, i usually have pre-defined set of keystrokes i input, so it's not the i
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
I envision even simpler and more practical thing, under-the-floor heating with addition of disposal water. Me and my wife are taking shower daily, hers being hotter than mine (apparently that's common difference between female & ma
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
shell completions consist of basically a state, and DAG (directed acyclic graph) consider following - git -> [ -C, <sub-commands> ] - <sub-commands> -> [ add, branch, checkout, clone, remote, stash ] - -C -> [ <direc
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
i would 100% pay for non-electron/non-vscode ui (sublime text? anyone?) nothing specifically against vscode/electron/atom. i did use atom 10 years ago, then started sublime text 2, since then, it has been really hard to beat
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
i noticed all these new ai-tool launches have this zooming effect. maybe 1.2x zoom is fine, but these usually over-do the zoom like 3x. instead, an old-school arrow/pointer (or pointer trails like its '98!) would be nicer.
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
i agree with this one, in this particular order, how things be in large cities & crowded areas: - loud person does not care in the first place, that's why they do the loud act - usually they are more than 1 person, outnumbering me
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
there are many sibling/child comments here touching the bluetooth speaker topic. obviously there are numerous people blasting those in public places in waay too high volume. sometimes when I ride bicycle in non-car road (cycle/h
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
should've been posted on April 1st. would be better suited on that specific date! /s
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
https://mert.akeng.in stack: - github pages, plain html+css+js (using spectre-css) + sub pages are markdown, rendered directly in the browser with marked.js or markdown.js - blog is hot-linked to notion-api + a simple api-key in
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
I think the title needs editing to include; - Anthropic Claude-Code Sandbox Data ExFil via DNS Technically, an attacker can run iodine (DNS tunnel) and have full external network access to the users' data...
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by pvtmert 9mo ago
sounds like a privacy/GDPR issue to me. In EU, you would be able to extract apartment's buying cost just because they overstepped privacy laws... nevertheless, housing (especially rental) is not cheap in EU. Mostly because there i
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by pvtmert 10mo ago
parent is meaning asymptote as in maths where a line is approaching to a value but never touching it. maybe it was a typo or auto correct... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote
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by pvtmert 10mo ago
s/assorted/useful/
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by pvtmert 10mo ago
I meant to say modern-day influencer. Like instagram/tiktok like. All this "American-Dream" style things were promotional material with twisted reality. Movies showing luxury lifestyle of a "regular" American/U
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by pvtmert 10mo ago
There are lots of discussions about relatedness of these numbers for a regular software engineer. Firstly, I want to start with the fact that the base system is a macOS/M4Pro, hence; - Memory related access is possibly much faster th
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by pvtmert 10mo ago
I haven't tried on a laptop but on iOS (iPhone 13 Pro) and iPadOS (iPad Air) It is quite nice on iPhone, while I agree font is smaller in iPad for readability. Although, they didn't block zooming/pinching (I hate when they do
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by pvtmert 10mo ago
Clarifications: They still can-send and receive letters but sending letters now requiring going to a shop and handing them over. Previously, you could buy a set of stamps and envelopes (possibly prepaid ones) put your letter into an envelop

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