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by quotemstr 3mo ago
Perhaps not this for this parameter, but for others? Client side.
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
Codex is open source. You can build it yourself. You don't have to use upstream's parameter choices, compaction strategies, subagent heuristics, or whatever. Strange how people act like tweaks to these parameters are mandates when
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
How do you know the "social value" is real value if you ignore the market?
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
Keep in mind that Venus is also an Earth-like planet with an atmosphere in the habitable zone of a sun-like star.
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
> relentless norm of frankly insane positivity, not the ability for people to debate. They are aspects of the same thing. Debate implies that things aren't already perfect. "Why would positive people argue", a Californoid
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
> Debate in private, come to a decision and move forward. This norm is terrible. It's a chief reason California tech companies become dysfunctional. Debate spreads common knowledge and ensures ideas get tested before execution. Hidi
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
It's good advice to "Prefer strict X in Y" for almost any value of X and Y. Lax DWIM stuff always comes back and bites you in the end.
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
I wish it were so. It's not. For an object-level example, look at the difficulties the Russians had reconstituting their industrial base in the post-apocalyptic wasteland they found themselves after the 90s. It took them a decade to fi
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
Over time, the latter becomes the former.
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
TBC, the article isn't about "trust[ing] the database", but about the choice of TCB. There's nothing special about a "database" that makes it more vulnerable than any other API platform. You're worried abo
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
Even if you're one of those people who believes the highest levels of performance require manual memory management (I'd disagree, but whatever), you'd do well to consider the performance of real-world GC against performance o
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
I'm using malloc as synecdoche for all forms of allocation, including Arc<Box<T>> stuff.
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
Rust people: it's wrong to use a language that lacks memory safety and modern developer affordances. Do you really want to spend time debugging crashes and foist security problems on your users? Me: You're right. Java has come a l
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
> ramming through deeply unpopular legislation at a breakneck pace for no apparent reason, lately It's only a matter of time before EU-skeptical opposition parties achieve absolute majorities in critical EU constituency states. They
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
I don't accept that social media is self-evidently bad. Not everyone lives inside the bubble in which its wrongness is obvious.
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
You can't ascertain what's true without free speech. Suppose you start with a true belief. This belief, like any other, has to propagate from person to person to sustain itself. The truth is messy. During each hop, people present
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
People, even in tech, even in AI, are allowed to have opinions that differ from yours. Cancellation doesn't work anymore: you can't get away with presenting your side as normal and other side as deviant and let ostracism win your
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
From a computer science POV, it's spooky how Turing-completeness arises spontaneously out of the most mundane data-processing machines. You look at UTS#35, see "Transforms provide a set of rules for transforming text via a special
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
> GPT-Live-1 is the first version of a new generation of models, and we believe the full-duplex architecture + delegation enables entirely new ways of human-AI interaction. Awesome. Are you guys able to share anything about the model arc
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
> This is the opposite direction AI should be going. There is no moral obligation, in any domain, to refuse to make a product that adults, with full informed consent, find useful and purchase. Who are you to say you know better than the
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
Intellectual and economic accomplishment aren't exactly parallel vectors, but you can't expect me to believe they're orthogonal. A mediocre tech CEO is going to run intellectual circles around some random guy you pick out of
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
> > London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would n
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
You might want to consider using atomic update escape codes: https://github.com/contour-terminal/vt-extensions/blob/maste... The interface flickers like crazy right now.
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
... DuckDB. Columnar databases are array languages, after all.
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
> /dev/kvm is guarded by membership in the kvm group - no need for new capability, just regular old filesystem permissions. Which is precisely why many kinds of kernel feature should be exposed as operations on device nodes, no
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
It kind of asks "What if we built an OS, but with all data sourced from immutable, append-only logs processed by pure functios?" Probably not literally realizable right now, but IMHO, the closer we can get, the better
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
Not sure what would make you think that. https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf seems like an awfully lot of trouble to go through for a joke that isn't even funny. HIC AI is a Delaware corporation, registr
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
Patent pending? On what? > insert a line, delete a range, replace a character, edit a column The ed(1) command set 50 years old. I doubt it's patentable. These guys are far from the first to apply fine-grained text editing to LLM to
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
It's been a while since I've looked at it, but IIRC it doesn't model the compressed RAM as a special swap tier, which IMHO is a pretty elegant way to look at it.
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by quotemstr 3mo ago
> Typically, performance drops enough that the user kills the program or reboots before the page file expands to fill the disk. And other threads here suggest there is something that will prompt users to kill programs in states like this

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