renonce

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by renonce 3y ago
There is no point in arguing whether LLMs have minds or are conscious, and neither is arguing whether it actually understands any concepts. Neither are LLMs are the first tech to be useful to humans - caculators are invented much earlier. W
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by renonce 3y ago
Which region are you using? I’m not sure with the case in other countries, but in China we buy Apple accounts for several CNY ($1~$2 in US dollars) to bypass region restrictions.
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by renonce 3y ago
> there is no good iOS app There is. Check out Mobius Sync - it’s as fast as PC on foreground and supports background syncing (albeit slower). You do have to pay a little but it’s worth the cost and you get it forever. I use it routinely
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by renonce 3y ago
YouTube Premium means you are paying YouTube for content made by someone else than YouTube, while YouTube generates lots of ad revenue from non-Premium users. Makes me feel I’m compensating the wrong person. I wish a higher percentage of my
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by renonce 3y ago
Right, and you can use fdisk and gdisk to see the partition table and determine the offsets
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by renonce 3y ago
There are many other ways to get reliability at the software level, usually via redundancy. Even enterprise level SSDs doesn't guarantee you free of data losses and downtimes, you have to back them up regularly and preferably set up hi
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by renonce 3y ago
What about another word for the amount of money that you collected this year and get to use next year? Budget?
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by renonce 3y ago
That's also what I use Thunderbird for. Taking control of my emails and importing/exporting them between email providers. I wonder if there is a version of such software that can run on a cloud server though.
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by renonce 3y ago
What aspects of the UX do you think that needs improvement? For me the default layout (sidebar for email accounts and folders, upper frame for email list and lower frame for single email) looks very good. The pain is in finding the setting
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by renonce 3y ago
At least you can switch to another email provider at any time. The domain is yours.
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by renonce 3y ago
I wonder if this is the norm of scientific research nowadays. I mean, not the top 20% of useful researches but the bottom 80% that do not turn out to be useful immediately. We have too many scientists hungry for publications and citations s
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by renonce 3y ago
Non US banks have to deposit their dollars to a US bank that actually handles transactions and decides if a transaction can go on or not.
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by renonce 3y ago
The author does not use official APIs so the author does not have to agree to the official ToS.
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by renonce 4y ago
Spending $100b on net losses is too much for such an outcome.
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by renonce 4y ago
> Oh, I'm glad you popped out of the womb fully trained. As for the rest of us we have to go through a learning curve of gaining experience that takes years. You did pop out of the womb fully trained to use ChatGPT. Now you're
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by renonce 4y ago
So someone does a single dubious research, and we follow with 3 more dubious researches to justify the first research. For each of these 3 dubious researches we have to do 3 more to ensure their credibility. And the number of researches gro
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by renonce 4y ago
Whenever I hear stories about someone losing jobs due to a new technology, I would say capitalism and economics rather than technology is to blame here. Yes, you lost your job, but it's not like GPT4 made the decision to fire you, it&#
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by renonce 4y ago
If you know the src and dst IPs, you can impose arbitrary firewall rules and cut down specific connections. That’s what China is already doing with their national firewall. I’m not sure if there is an additional layer of encryption at both
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by renonce 4y ago
Does using Windows 11 and keeping up with the latest updates as soon as they’re available prevent that from happening, compared to the author’s setup? Nothing would help if you click on the wrong download link for your favourite software in
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by renonce 4y ago
> How long was it visible for? And no, "briefly" doesn't cut it. I don't know how long exactly, but in theory you can subscribe to a stream of ALL events happening at GitHub by fetching from this endpoint: https:&#x2
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by renonce 4y ago
Keeping a complete log of all GET requests to random files in a public repository in a reliable way would be insane.
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by renonce 4y ago
Training is a bandwidth-intensive operation and requires huge (20Gbps+ stable and uninterrupted) bandwidth between all peers.
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by renonce 4y ago
That’s if you use their dedicated servers. They have Hetzner Cloud which does the above as well.
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by renonce 4y ago
You should compare EC2 with Hetzner Cloud. Hetzner Cloud do send such alerts occasionally.
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by renonce 4y ago
In what crypto? Holding in USDC means trusting your money with Circle, and holding BTC means trusting whatever exchange that you're going to deposit your money into.
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by renonce 4y ago
Interest rate between 2008 and 2015 was around 0.1% per year. Not much I think.
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by renonce 4y ago
You can have that with infrastructure-as-code solutions like Terraform or k8s as well.
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by renonce 4y ago
This applies only to these major cloud providers where traffic costs are like $100 per TB. With a decent VPS or dedicated server you pay $10/TB, €2/TB or 1Gbps unmetered.
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by renonce 4y ago
Simpler solutions like dedicated servers, VPS work well enough, and the service provider will take care of all the above. The problem is with things like AWS and GCP, and once you fall into their wide matrix of products you'll have a h
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by renonce 4y ago
It's more like free public attractions like national parks. In real life they are paid by taxpayers which are in turn paid by estate taxes and income taxes by local residents.

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