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by raddan 6mo ago
I use the “just do it” trick a lot myself. It was something I discovered when I was in my early 20s, hiking the Appalachian Trail, which requires you to get up and move every day. My partner and I did not have much money, so if we failed to
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by raddan 6mo ago
I mean-- to an LLM is there really any difference between the actual source and disassembled source? Informative names and comments probably help them too, but it's not clear that they're necessary.
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by raddan 6mo ago
That is not correct. Leibniz’ work on calculating machines was hugely influential. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_wheel
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by raddan 6mo ago
On the other hand, Leibniz was one of the very first philosophers who recognized the value of the unique combination of formal thinking and computation. There’s no doubt that he was one of the originators of the idea that calculation could
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by raddan 6mo ago
A collection of statistical patterns is hardly objective truth. If that’s what you think an LLM is, you’re mistaken.
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by raddan 7mo ago
I also think it is important to learn to feel and to separate the feeling from the acting on the feelings. In my mind this is what distinguishes an adult from a child. Sadly, I know many adults who have never learned this lesson (includin
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by raddan 7mo ago
This reminds of me the following wonderful Numberphile video [1] where they compare the success of billionares to gas molecules: "everybody is just bumping around randomly but the one person that, you know, that became a billionare or
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by raddan 7mo ago
Yes.
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by raddan 7mo ago
How does panel shut-off work for emergency responders? Where I live, a solar energy system is required to have a shut off switch. For example, my system has a big red handle mounted on the side of the house. This is important not just for f
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by raddan 7mo ago
Remember, our objective function here is “feels safe.”
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by raddan 7mo ago
With the notable exception of cross-platform audio.
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by raddan 7mo ago
Seconded. Way simpler than BPF, especially when all you want to see is syscalls.
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by raddan 7mo ago
> they won't be gaining any by this move. Then why even do it?
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by raddan 7mo ago
If you don’t need a laptop, you can also build a machine from parts. This is probably the best way to run a desktop computer.
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by raddan 7mo ago
I tend to agree but I think the strategy here is to convert people who stubbornly cling to gas vehicles because EVs somehow defy their expectations. I have been approached many times at highway rest stops by people who are curious and sligh
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by raddan 7mo ago
Many are made in Canada [1]. I remember traveling to Quebec in the early 2000s and being surprised to see more people driving Fords than back home in the US. I suspect part of BYD’s strategy is to get a foothold in the North American free t
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by raddan 7mo ago
That’s a rather tall argument given that the US is currently experiencing historic income inequality [1]. [1] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/exploding-wealth-inequality-u...
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by raddan 7mo ago
Unfortunately, a corrupt autocracy with a strategy seems more likely to win the capitalist arms race than a wealthy but feckless democracy. It’s only slightly ironic that said autocracy calls itself communist.
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by raddan 7mo ago
What’s the scam?
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by raddan 7mo ago
One of my most delightful discoveries of the early 2000s was that iPod Minis used Microdrives that were pin-compatible with CompactFlash cards. I had a little cottage industry in the back of my office upgrading my coworkers’ old iPods to us
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by raddan 7mo ago
That’s a good question, and I can’t speak for the parent, but for me, I like reading about a person’s journey of discovery. There were many insights this person did not have because he turned the task over to a power tool. People can use wh
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by raddan 7mo ago
Yeah, this is also a group of people who refer to gentle suggestions as “guardrails.” It’s not clear they’ve ever read a single security paper.
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by raddan 7mo ago
It's hard to say whether it's Windows related since the two x86_64 machines don't just run different OSes, they also have different processors, from different manufacturers. I don't know whether an AMD Ryzen 5 3600X ver
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by raddan 7mo ago
Yeah I’ve been scratching my head about this too. Like, if my boss said this, I would basically start looking for a new job right then and there. Seems like a good way to drive off your own talent.
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by raddan 7mo ago
There’s a difference between a collapse and a slowdown. We don’t need a collapse for hiring to slow down [1,2]. I think we’re finally just seeing the maturation of software development. Software is increasingly a commodity, so maybe the era
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by raddan 8mo ago
My guess is that you're getting retransmissions because of dropped frames, not because there's some huge buffer in the sky.
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by raddan 8mo ago
Now that I know pickles are a pizza topping, maybe.
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by raddan 8mo ago
You are mistaken. ChatGPT Health [1] is a model specifically designed for health applications and was co-developed with a benchmark suite, HealthBench [2], for testing against health conditions. This study suggests that the people working
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by raddan 8mo ago
Bring back hot or not!
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by raddan 8mo ago
Sweet potato pie is at least as good as a pumpkin pie if you've never tried it. If you're making filling from scratch, it's easier too. I learned not too long ago that the "pumpkin pie" my mom made every year was a

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