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by saulpw 20d ago
If the wealthy control the substrate (the server farms) and can restrict access to the machine, then it would be basically a truism that the machine would be only usable by the wealthy? Unless somehow the AI is secretly on the side of the
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by saulpw 22d ago
Yeah I'm working on a C64 game myself (Below The Root). Are yours a secret?
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by saulpw 22d ago
Which game are you planning to do? We all should coordinate so we're not doing the same games repeatedly.
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Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message(gadgetreview.com)
88 points by saulpw 26d ago|87 comments
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by saulpw 26d ago
> October 17, 1988 > The typical Apple engineer’s office contains [...] about a gigabyte of hard disk space A gigabyte?! In 1988?? Am I misremembering, or was that about 10-20x what we consumers had in our computers?
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by saulpw 26d ago
Even if they all become corrupt eventually, which one takes the longest to get there? Better to squeeze a few decades of decency out of it than a few years, or not get anything at all by handing it over directly to the already corrupted.
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by saulpw 26d ago
A natural descriptivist.
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by saulpw 27d ago
Libraries, universities; institutions which have shown themselves to be devoted to the public good over centuries.
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by saulpw 27d ago
and then why would you use an LLM to write a forum post about it?
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by saulpw 29d ago
https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-la...
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by saulpw 29d ago
This is generally called ASV for ASCII-separated values, or USV for Unicode-separated values (e.g. U+241E, which is different from the ASCII U+001E equivalent). Also, as wonderful as this would be, as other comments say, no one uses it beca
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by saulpw 29d ago
Microsoft owns GitHub.
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by saulpw 1mo ago
Death comes in threes and they were both 80, could be a party soon
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by saulpw 1mo ago
After all the average human has one breast and one testicle.
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by saulpw 1mo ago
Maybe we can add some licorice root to balance the effect.
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by saulpw 1mo ago
It's for a personal link bookmark site[0]. And I guess I had made the repo[1] public after all. It's been working well for about 6 months now. [1] https://github.com/saulpw/trove/ [0] https:/&#x2
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by saulpw 1mo ago
I'm actually using Github issues as a low-volume/high-latency DB for a project right now. I use a Netlify function to do extremely simple auth and then open an issue on Github, which triggers a CI action, which appends to a .json
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by saulpw 1mo ago
I use Netlify connected to Github/Gitlab, which does a build on every commit to the main branch. For low-volume static sites (which all of mine are) this is free, fast, and convenient.
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The Creation of Abulafia(blog.veitheller.de)
39 points by saulpw 1mo ago|10 comments
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by saulpw 1mo ago
I mean I'm constantly saying things like 'wtf bro', that's pretty much talking to it like a friend. At least he's still using 'it' pronouns for it.
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by saulpw 1mo ago
"to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
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by saulpw 1mo ago
I agree it would be very difficult, but still a lot easier than 'perpetual'.
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by saulpw 1mo ago
ACA is not Universal Health Coverage. So this would be different enough. And you don't need perpetual majority control, only sensible politicians for about a generation (like FDR/Truman/Eisenhower/JFK) to lock in a pop
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by saulpw 1mo ago
The problem with this idea is that knowing Python makes the model a better Swift programmer, as does a higher-number of parameters during training. So you'd be so much better off with a 90B general purpose model trained on everything
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by saulpw 1mo ago
I don't see how you could verify "same application in every meaningful way" inside of 30 minutes. Even if the other fellow just vibed it up like you did, him caring about the product and doing thoughtful QA and actually usin
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by saulpw 1mo ago
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
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by saulpw 1mo ago
bubblesort has entered the chat
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by saulpw 1mo ago
I said umber!
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by saulpw 2mo ago
In the 80s, source control was like networking. Yes some orgs had it (mostly academia) but the rest of us just had a precious floppy that we copied the known-good source onto.
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by saulpw 2mo ago
You're right about those things, but you're forgetting that we had no source control, and almost all software was closed source. You took what you were given and you liked it, and you developed strong attachments to particular ve

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