radlad

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by radlad 6mo ago
Dishonesty, meet dishonesty. (Legally, I think libel requires intent.)
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by radlad 6mo ago
For something like YouTube, there is a small monetary cost in order to verify a phone number.
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by radlad 6mo ago
> Cygwin had less overhead which mattered in a world of limited RAM and heavy, limited swapping (x86-32, limited I/O, PATA, ...). Maybe so, but my memory of Cygwin was waiting multiple seconds just for the Cygwin CLI prompt to load.
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by radlad 6mo ago
More than anything this seems like a good reminder that spiders aren't human.
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by radlad 6mo ago
Bless you
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by radlad 6mo ago
Plain English automation, including control of external systems. Even better that it exhibits some forms of decision-making autonomy for edge cases.
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by radlad 6mo ago
I realized that one of my bigger issues with LLMs is actually that I worry they increase "information entropy" on average. Most tools help me reduce entropy - LLMs seem to increase it, on a global scale. This is related to my obse
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by radlad 6mo ago
I'm getting a lot more done by handing off the code writing parts of my tasks to many agents running simultaneously. But my attention still has its limits.
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by radlad 6mo ago
Yes, the LLM is able to see the entire prior chat history including tool use. This type of interaction occurs when the LLM fails to read the file, but acts as though it had.
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by radlad 6mo ago
> It has been observed, sometimes, a model will write perfectly normal looking English sentences that secretly contain hidden codes for itself in the way the words are spaced or chosen. This sounds very interesting, do you have any refer
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by radlad 6mo ago
I had never heard of Geese until all the stories about how Geese bought their popularity. Now I feel I should give them a listen to know what all the fuss is about!
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by radlad 6mo ago
Why aren't we talking about an EC2? Because this is a thread about the Gemini inference API. Loss of service would be restored on payment, not permanent. But that's besides the point: I as the customer set a limit, and you as as t
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by radlad 6mo ago
If I set a limit, and you cut off my service because I reached the limit, I would definitely not "complain just as much" as if I set a limit and you allowed me to spend past it. We're not talking about an EC2 or EBS volume he
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by radlad 6mo ago
van Gogh didn't become van Gogh by prompting LLM.
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by radlad 6mo ago
Yes - this puts it perfectly. I am a very fast typist - I can type ~156wpm in QWERTY. When I was a kid and learned about Dvorak, it was tempting - but I already typed so fast that learning another keyboard just seemed like it would cause &q
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by radlad 6mo ago
Yes but I would push back a little on the idea that you simply put yourself in a "mindset of writing bug-free code." Simpler code has fewer bugs. Embedded code tends to be simpler and more targeted in its role. Of course, putting
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by radlad 6mo ago
And thus, you don't have to build on every single unreviewed PR - but often it's quite sane to do so.
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by radlad 7mo ago
How did they do this exactly?
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by radlad 7mo ago
Imagine being Anthropic and opening yourself up to the deluge of CC-coded PRs by all of your users.
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by radlad 7mo ago
I've never heard the expression "to play one's Uno card." Is this a play on "to play one's Trump card"? I can understand why this phrasing could cause confusion, but want to make sure I'm not missing
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by radlad 7mo ago
The primary reason I stick to iptables instead of nft is that I already learned iptables decades ago, and some software I interact with still defaults to iptables and/or does not have full support for nft. Why do you doubt the sanity o
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by radlad 7mo ago
The problem is that it's not optional to end-users if sites enforce its use.
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by radlad 7mo ago
This is definitely a matter of perspective. I have had a Github account since 2010, and git comes installed on Linux and macOS. I don't always have a server available to host an HTTP+FTP server on. Or want to pay for one, or spend time
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by radlad 7mo ago
Right - but these were also not "hard cut" dates. They are a couple simple examples of the evolution of social media that continued (and continues) to occur. The platforms continue to optimize for engagement (i.e. addiction.)
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by radlad 7mo ago
Because it doesn't require you to run an HTTP server, FTP server, or install an FTP client.
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by radlad 7mo ago
> If social media adoption was driving the increase in suicides, we would have started to see a rise in suicides around the early 2000s, reaching it's peak around 2008. I think there is a logical fallacy here. Social media has not r
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by radlad 7mo ago
I did mention IT at offices buying computers for their coworkers. :-) I know more and more people who are editing photos and videos on their phone/tablet - not movie producers, sure. But lots of YouTubers, influencers, etc.
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by radlad 7mo ago
Why would you have to modify fstab? Surely you are using UUID/PARTUUID these days. I also wouldn't expect a kernel panic on Linux... Maybe no video though.
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by radlad 7mo ago
Do non-tech people even buy computers anymore? I imagine you basically have tech enthusiasts, gamers, and IT at offices buying desktop computers at this point.
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by radlad 7mo ago
Not sure he's "big MAGA" but I assume this is where the idea stems from - https://www.newsweek.com/afroman-explains-his-new-song-hunte...

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