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by rcxdude 3mo ago
That's not all there is to it, to be fair. Rust seems to work particularly well for LLMs in part because it's better at catching their errors.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
What exactly is Anthropic's multi-billion dollar microphone here?
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Rust does so a lot of abbreviation, though. fn, ptr, mut, etc.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Were the MOQ for the resistors a major contributer to cost? Usually they're super cheap so even buying 100 is not a crazy problem. Also most PCB assemblers will have a generic component library for common resistor and capacitor values
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Part selection is often the bulk of the work in a PCB design, yeah. What tools were you using, though? In general the parametric searches on digikey, mouser, etc are pretty good for the standard components. For stuff like resistors it'
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
A solid will put up some resistance to shear forces, up to the plastic limit. A liquid gives zero resistance to a constant shear force after enough time. What this means is that a solid might approximate a sphere but it will still at the li
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
I think the main trick is balancing the two. Companies that take any +ev bet, no matter how big, will tend to explode spectacularly eventually (SBF famously had this philosophy, for example). Skunkworks is a decent example of how this can w
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
This. People repeat stuff they suspect might be happening like it's facts. Would I be surprised? Only a little. Does that mean it's definitely happening? of course not.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Questionable monetization meaning essentially turning a blind eye to and profiting from the gambling industry that skirts regulations and targets kids that is enabled by the market for rare skins in their games (as well as the inherently ga
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
I dunno, it often matters a lot less than you think when something goes down. And distributed systems have a knack for going down in a much less predictable way, it's not going to automatically make your system more reliable. (modern s
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
To expand a little on this: a chip fabrication process is a series of steps from incoming bare wafers to finished chips (potentially multiple wafers get combined into a finished chip, as well). To build up the physical structure of the chip
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
With grapheneOS you can lock the bootloader with your own keys. Huge difference. (That said, I don't know if the apps which demand the attestation trust anything but the official grapheneOS keys)
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
Chip fabrication processes are not fungible: GPUs and CPUs might be made on roughly the same process, but DRAM is not (flash is a different process again, as is power electronics, analog electronics, MEMS, etc. And even within those broader
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
>And he would have the unbridled rage of everyone in the UK who has decided that 100 years of the Tory/Labour cycle has run its course and meaningful change is needed Binface is a better protest candidate than Farage for this purpos
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
I think they were specifically bristling at the implication that 'high-end' was mainly relating to price as opposed to functionality. The most expensive watches are expensive for reasons of fashion while being inferior in terms of
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
Well, Death of the Author has been a concept for quite a while. How it's made and what the author intended is explicitly not a concern for a lot of criticism and analysis.
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
TBH, the whole of It Takes Two made me think 'these people are pretty terrible, I'm not sure I want to help them'. The stuffed toy bit was just the cherry on the cake. Good gameplay, not very good writing IMO (Split fiction i
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
I think the first picture is not showing structural columns: they're more a symptom (buckling as the building is moving) as opposed to the cause.
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
to be fair, the 741 is not a particularly good op-amp nowadays. It's used mainly through sheer inertia.
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
This proves it is an idea worth selling to some people. Not the same thing. (to me it seems especially nuts because there's plenty of space to the side of most railways!)
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
> If the compiler can optimize a piece of code, it can also show the user what it thinks the optimal code would be so that they can rewrite it themselves, if they so choose This is not straightforward. Apart from the mapping from a sever
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
The C++ style tends to create much larger omnibus libraries. If you're concerned about the liability and bloat extra dependencies create, you should be thinking of a) the number of people you are trusting in your supply chain, and b) t
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
I kinda think the reaction and reporting on this is already being colored by the objection to the datacenters, as opposed to the other way around. And it's not obvious exactly where the problem came from in the first place: it doesn&#x
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
Radio waves are not ionizing radiation, so they aren't directly cancerous in the same way as say, x-rays or UV light (UV light is about the threshold for this), but they are still absorbed by water in tissue, which heats it up slightly
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
Hotels cancel events all the time, when they prove to be more trouble than they're worth. In extreme cases, they might cancel the event while it's running and kick out the attendees and organizers.
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
Not to mention starlink is not a solution for internet for everyone on the planet: it cannot serve everyone in a densely populated area, no matter how many satellites they have in their constellation. It's a useful piece of infrastruct
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
I don't disagree, but there's a big difference between 'this is massively overinvested and valued and that's distorting the market around a useful product' and 'this is all basically a scam with no value to it
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
TBH, the whole thing reads like a pretty off-topic rant, its a leap from 'accesibility to blind users' to 'treatment of people with disabilities' to 'cyclists being aggressive towards the poster, who is neither but
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
Was there a particular change to the network or the way that it was trained that introduced the 'backtrack and error correct' mechanism?
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by rcxdude 4mo ago
Well, LLM networks don't have a 'back track and error correct' component in the design, AFAIK.

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