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by rcxdude 6mo ago
This is already true for construction materials on Earth: most of the cost of the materials for a building is in transporting them to the building site. Getting stuff into orbit just makes it even more extreme.
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
Arguably you should have a fixed start date for any given test, but time is quite hard to abstract out like that (there's enough time APIs you'd want OS support, but linux for example doesn't support clock namespaces for the
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
Not a good idea for CI tests. It will just make things flaky and gum up your PR/release process. Randomness or any form of nondeterminism should be in a different set of fuzzing tests (if you must use an RNG, a deterministic one is fin
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
There is a useful signal in such a way of indicating pricing: it signals that the billing is done at such a resolution, which, for some workloads, can make a difference compared to say, a minimum increment of an hour or a day. Though I woul
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
For something the size of Claude, probably not. But for smaller models, maybe (though they also are much cheaper to buy tokens for)
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
What's old is new again: I remember various hacks like this being popular in early android ROMs because the first android phones really didn't have enough RAM to support the OS well.
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
In fact, unless ubiquity in availability is a really core part of the design requirement, they almost certainly aren't the right part for the job.
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
That's not the kind of nondeterminism that would cause replay divergence. The PRNG seed is stored in the replay (if it wasn't, almost every game would diverge very quickly. And since the multiplayer works the same basic way, the g
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
Fashion designers can, in general, work with fabric, yes. And an interior designer should probably have some idea of how to paint at the very least. To me with web design so much of what matters is encoded in the CSS and HTML that it is t
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
There are a lot of subtleties. Ring species are a particularly fun one: you can have a population that live around some natural obstacle (like a large body of water) where individuals can breed successfully with individuals near to them but
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
It's really not a very hard thing to imagine. The contents of the terminal screen were likely just a simple buffer in memory with the cursor position being a pointer into that memory. One missing bounds check and backspace starts messi
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
This is utterly confusing the use of the terms. Opting is making a choice. The default isn't a choice. Opting by default makes no sense.
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
If amazon was just ranking by price, that would be fine. But the described behaviour implies that they would derank a listing even if it was the cheapest option because it was made available by the same seller for cheaper elsewhere. This ki
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
Hyperscale exists as a term pre-LLM-hype. It mainly exists to describe the kind of datacenteres that companies like google and amazon have been building for at least a decade now: very large, very highly integrated and customised hardware,
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
Unified Memory is mainly how consumer hardware has enough RAM accessible by the GPU to run larger models, because otherwise the market segmentation jacks up the price substantially.
766.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
With arcades it at least makes sense because it puts the game out of demo/attract mode.
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
That sounds like the intended effect. I think the objection is that the user's payment is being diluted by all the other listeners. Someone who listens to spotify constantly is going to influence the payouts much more than someone who
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
And yet changing the game generally has better results than trying to change the players.
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
The obligations placed on lawyers with regards to misrepresentation are a kind of check on the power of attorney-client privilege which would generally not exist for chatbots, so it's not obvious that this would be a good idea.
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
Intent matters, though. Accidentally divulging information you intended to send to your attorney is one thing, but if you are deliberately sending it somewhere else it's something different entirely.
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
>If I hand wrote some notes in a notebook or diary, I wouldn't have to hand them over, as I understand it, even with no lawyer in the mix. Same if I wrote some notes in a text file on my computer. Is that true? I would expect that a
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
The issue is it reduces information availability to customers: if a customer finds a brand that produces high quality products that they know from experience they can trust, that trust can't propagate forward in time because the incent
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
They are related, it seems. punter being gambler but evolving into general 'customer/member of the public' over time.
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
I will second this. You might not be able to get away without ROS compatibility depending on the market but a dependancy on it is a big pain in the neck from my point of view.
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
It's probably primarily because Linus is a kernel and filesystem nerd, not a database nerd, so he preferred to just use the filesystem which he understood the performance characteristics of well (at least on linux).
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
In some circumstances, yes (usually when the system itself acts as an integrator somehow). Aircraft controls do not strike me as a system where this is sensible (trimming an aircraft is basically an integral control process). (d'oh, sh
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
That software also often has bugs. It's usually a bit more likely that they are documented, though, and unlikely to cause a significant failure on their own.
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
I always find it kind of ironic when the more allegedly libertarian pro-farmer side of the political spectrum start to get really concerned with how farmers use their land. And a solar farm has to be the most inoffensive thing to live next
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
It's a hell of a lot less dumb than growing crops for biofuel on it, to start. And it's not even an either/or situation, you can do both on the same piece of land. I think there is plenty of 'arable' land for which
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by rcxdude 7mo ago
Modern software infrastructure also relies on a lot of professionals.

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