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by rnxrx 5mo ago
Awesome! I'll be sure to check them out.
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by rnxrx 5mo ago
The idea that the provenance of a given tool's code inherently pollutes the material it's used with seems kind of illogical. Wouldn't it follow from this premise that any code written using open source IDEs and debugged with
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by rnxrx 5mo ago
I love it when APL threads pop up here - really a novel approach to making computers do useful things. The videos from 1975 demonstrating it seem decades ahead of their time. I'm surprised APL hasn't had more of a resurgence giv
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by rnxrx 6mo ago
- when all hope is lost in conversation, retreat into your self I get a bunch of the others, but this one kind of confuses me. What's the opposite (better?) move? Logorrhea? Forcing a confrontation? Reciting bad poetry? I suppose th
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by rnxrx 6mo ago
It's not just code generation, either - more and more people in my own org are using Claude Code for infrastructure automation, devops, etc. Obviously some amount of code in there, but an absolute ton of tokens being consumed just dea
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by rnxrx 6mo ago
Lots and lots of vendor financing during the dotcom era, and it ended up being a material part of those vendors' own difficulties. Especially when service providers were concerned (e.g. the huge crash in optical in particular). Obviou
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by rnxrx 6mo ago
I've been using the NousResearch Hermes agent for the past couple of weeks and have to say it's been really good. I tend to hit multiple instances (and accounts)of Claude across three or four machines (between work and personal)
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by rnxrx 6mo ago
Gemini is featured just as prominently, and they've most recently been pushing their own model series (Composer).
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by rnxrx 7mo ago
This a great article - both interesting and potentially really useful to folks teaching- or learning- programming.
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by rnxrx 7mo ago
There's something I've never seen a good answer to: why is this being mandated in the OS vs requiring it for apps - or classes of apps? There's plenty of parental controls already available for browsers - after verifying the
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by rnxrx 7mo ago
This is probably fantastic news for the VPN providers. Lots of people who otherwise wouldn't have bothered are now likely incorporating VPN connectivity into their daily routine. This very obviously includes kids. I also wouldn'
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by rnxrx 7mo ago
Maybe there's an analogy to our long and short term memory - immediate stimuli is processed in the context deep patterns that have accreted over a lifetime. The effect of new information can absolutely challenge a lot of those pattern
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by rnxrx 7mo ago
How about we just start with SCOTUS having transparent (and enforced) ethics and corruption policies?
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by rnxrx 8mo ago
I'm also increasingly aware that my own writing style and punctuation seem to line up with what might be associated with an AI, but some of the tells (em-dashes, spaces after periods, etc) seem like artifacts of when in history we lear
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by rnxrx 10mo ago
The development of steam technology is a great metaphor. The basic understanding of steam as a thing that could yield some kind of mechanical force almost certainly predated even the Romans. That said, it was the synthesis of other techno
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by rnxrx 1y ago
There's a point in the article that mentions allowing the model to ask questions. I've found this to be especially helpful in avoiding the bad or incomplete assumptions that so often lead to lousy code and debugging. The (occasio
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by rnxrx 1y ago
I think the progression of sentiment is basically the same. There were lots of folks pushing the agenda that connecting us all would somehow bring about the evolution of the human race by putting information at our fingertips that was even
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by rnxrx 1y ago
It's only a matter of time until private enterprises figure out they can monetize a lot of otherwise useless datasets by tagging them and selling (likely via a broker) to organizations building models. The implications for valuation of
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by rnxrx 1y ago
The other side of this argument is that we're constantly fed lots of extraneous information along with the actual interesting content. The point about listening to the storyteller is completely valid, but that story teller wasn't
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by rnxrx 1y ago
I'm curious about why the performance gains mentioned were so substantial for Qwen vs Llama?
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by rnxrx 1y ago
I had the same experience with Digital Ocean. Thankfully there were several other providers happy to take my money immediately.
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by rnxrx 1y ago
FWIW, 100% that BGP itself doesn't *use* multicast, but it can *propagate* multicast routing information. It's certainly technically possible to support multicast on the Internet (..thus the invention of MBGP) but in practice has
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by rnxrx 2y ago
It's kind of funny - a fair amount of the major network vendors' hardware (i.e. Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE) isn't that much better than what MikroTik has produced at a fraction of the cost. Having a better and faster process
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by rnxrx 2y ago
This really does change the interaction with art. As a future expansion it might be neat to recognize images on camera that would make for interesting art (i.e. detection of people/animals or recognition of certain styles of compositi
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by rnxrx 2y ago
In practice at the time I know we used Sparc 10 and Sparc 20 pizza boxes as servers. Until the various Ultras came out it was pretty common to see stacks of them running firewalls, dns (...and sometimes nis) or web servers next to the big i
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by rnxrx 2y ago
In my experience the environment where the drives are running makes a huge difference in longevity. There's a ton more variability in residential contexts than in data center (or even office) space. Potential temperature and humidity
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by rnxrx 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but wouldn't the paid-for check mark also mean that a given account can be more specifically targeted, thus increasing the potential ad revenue to Twitter?
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by rnxrx 4y ago
The dilemma with these sorts of discussions always seems to come back to where the line is drawn between the personality and the disorder. Clearly there are some pathologies whose features manifest in ways that are dangerous (..to one&#x27
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by rnxrx 4y ago
Do countries with more billionaires inherently rank higher in terms of quality of life, or do billionaires tend to live in places that already have higher quality of life (...particularly for the wealthy)?
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by rnxrx 4y ago
There were also a number of Usenet <-> FidoNet/echomail gateways. This was especially useful for local BBS users that weren’t affiliated with any university computing facilities.

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