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by ryao 1y ago
I upvoted your reply for its clever (ab)use of ambiguity to say otherwise to a fairly open and shut case. That said, I suspect the other person was actually agreeing with me, and tried to state that software incorporating LLMs would eventua
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by ryao 1y ago
The maxim “sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me” comes to mind here. That said, I think this misses the point that the LLM is not a gatekeeper to any of this.
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by ryao 1y ago
That is not universally true. The yes program is a counter example: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/yes.1.html
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by ryao 1y ago
This is analogous to saying a computer can be used to do bad things if it is loaded with the right software. Coincidentally, people do load computers with the right software to do bad things, yet people are overwhelmingly opposed to measure
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by ryao 1y ago
It is possible to turn any open weight model into that with fine tuning. It is likely possible to do that with closed weight models, even when there is no creator provided sandbox for fine tuning them, through clever prompting and trying ov
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by ryao 1y ago
There are other forms of safety, but whether a digital parrot says something that people do not like is not a form of safety. They are abusing the term safety for marketing purposes.
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by ryao 1y ago
In NY at least, Tesla super chargers charge rates above residential rates, so that does not actually happen unless you are grandfathered into unlimited free supercharging.
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by ryao 1y ago
Am I the only one who thinks mention of “safety tests” for LLMs is a marketing scheme? Cars, planes and elevators have safety tests. LLMs don’t. Nobody is going to die if a LLM gives an output that its creators do not like, yet when they sa
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by ryao 1y ago
Wasn’t that figure just the cost of the GPUs and nothing else?
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by ryao 1y ago
It is possible to get >100% from solar + batteries. All energy needs can be handled using only a small fraction of solar radiation reaching the planet’s surface. That said, using it in aircraft (and a number of boots/submersibles) e
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by ryao 1y ago
I had forgotten about those, since they had not been relevant to the controversy at the time. The controversy had applied to nearly all iPhones at the time, not just the small number of iPhone 6s devices with batteries that degraded prematu
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by ryao 1y ago
My recollection is different. The batteries were not defective. They simply got old in terms of cycle life and once they were old enough, they could not support the peak current needed by the phones causing crashes. Apple shipped an iOS upd
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by ryao 1y ago
Commercial and industrial rates are lower than residential rates in the US and elsewhere. The bigger users are apparently better at negotiating rates while the residential customers take what they are given.
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by ryao 1y ago
You should specify what you mean by radar. If you mean for missile defense, one problem is that they use directional antennas aimed largely at the ground, which should make it useless for detecting an incoming missile.
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by ryao 1y ago
I recall an episode of Fraiser where Niles moved into “The Montana” and it was so famous that he could just have people write his name followed by “The Montana” on envelopes to send mail to him. I believe that was based on the Dakota apartm
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by ryao 1y ago
The chart labeled Percent Decline in Hours Spent Attending or Hosting Social Event by Age 2003 - 2024 seems to be a bad way of view thing the data since it assumes that there is an inherit difference on how people approach this based on arb
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by ryao 1y ago
There are open source designs. Here is one: https://github.com/riscv-boom/riscv-boom
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by ryao 1y ago
That was a huge gift to AMD since it let them use TSMC as for fabrication instead, and they gained a process node advantage over Intel for the first time in history. My guess is that the guys in Abu Dhabi did not want to do the investments
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by ryao 1y ago
If you use secure string functions, you can generally avoid buffer overflows in C. The problem is that not everyone does. That said, exploiting buffer overflows in programs whose source code and binaries are not public is very difficult. It
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by ryao 1y ago
My take away from this is that letting the small fish go under the premise that they are juveniles that will later grow to be bigger lets the adult midgets go, ruining the gene pool. I wonder if this finding will have any impact on conserva
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by ryao 1y ago
Uneven abnormal contact resistance is what causes the wires to become unbalanced, and then the remaining ones whose contacts have low resistance have huge currents pushed through them, causing them to overheat due to wire resistance. I am n
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by ryao 1y ago
Large file writes are an exception in ZFS. They are broken into multiple transactions, which can go into multiple transaction groups, such that the updates are not ACID. You can see this in the code here: https://github.com/
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by ryao 1y ago
In what way do you consider CoW to be an efficiency gain? Traditionally, it is considered more expensive due to write amplification. In place filesystems such as XFS tend to be more efficient in terms of IOPs and CoW filesystems need to do
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by ryao 1y ago
> I suspect those URE numbers are made by the manufacturers figuring out they can be sure the disk will do 10^14, but they don't actually try to find the real number because 10^14 is good enough. I am inclined to agree. However, I h
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by ryao 1y ago
Linux’s power management APIs that handle these things are behind GPL symbol exports. In theory, it should be fairly simple to resolve this if it were not for that. Right now, if you want hibernation with ZFS, you should use FreeBSD.
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by ryao 1y ago
> Previous well-designed video cards used the technologies I described. Eliminating the sense circuits and fusing is a recent development. My point is that the PCB is where such features would be present, not the connector. There are con
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by ryao 1y ago
I thought that the contact resistance caused the unbalanced wires, which then overheat alongside the connector, giving the connector’s heat nowhere to go.
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by ryao 1y ago
A common bus that is not also overheating would cool the overheating contact(s).
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by ryao 1y ago
Has anyone made 12VHPWR cables that replace the 12 little wires with 2 large gauge wires yet? That would prevent the wires from becoming unbalanced, which should preempt the melting connector problem. As a bonus, if the gauge is large enoug
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by ryao 1y ago
It seems incredibly wrong to assume that there was only 1 issue with 12WHPWR. 12V-2x6 was an improvement that eliminated some potential issues, not all of them. If you want to eliminate all of them, replace the 12 current carrying wires wit

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