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by serf 3mo ago
for me it's often codebase decomposition. it's hard to modularize a monolith without keeping large chunks in context at first pre-delegation; the orchestrator -- however you implement it -- needs to carry as much of the original t
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by serf 3mo ago
>I use GLM5.2 and gpt-5.5 and 5.6 and never noticed any quality degradation near the limits of the context or due to compaction. that's because you and your workloads probably fall into a bucket of users where compaction is tuned we
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by serf 3mo ago
we don't have master AI that can create a great product out of a mediocre prompt. but we do have sufficient AI to make a great product out of a great prompt. garbage in -> garbage out hasn't gone anywhere. so: much like to anyo
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by serf 3mo ago
it's not as hard as you're making it seem, you just allow for a positive or negative time offset and rely on the devices counting seconds similarly, which is mostly a given now. I did this with raw footage and a VESC speed control
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by serf 3mo ago
the site almost sells you on a ford maverick "Wow, the same style engine, a reputable dealership network, a hybrid system with battery, and a turbo charger for only another 7 grand?"
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by serf 3mo ago
> This article reads like a description of gambling-addiction behavior; the author appears to be addicted to using LLMs. you're projecting, it's just insanely irritating to work with a tool that 1) limits its' own use 2) w
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by serf 3mo ago
why would we assume a corporate entity wouldn't manipulate popularity numbers on an owned and unregulated platform that sells their own goods? https://80.lv/articles/former-valve-developer-claims-steam-l... owning
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by serf 3mo ago
>If it was just recognizing license plates that would be fine. not really. I don't want any private entity to catalogue humans identifiably to a population-scale extent. if we as a collective whole wanted these things around they (F
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by serf 3mo ago
(token usage) is trending towards predictability for a lot of reasons. it's not deterministic but it's getting easier to reason about usage.
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by serf 3mo ago
this was released in 1996. Microsoft was at one of its' most powerful evil phases it had ever seen during that phase, and to pretend it was some kind of antithesis to 'corporate metric please' is a disservice to history. I li
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by serf 3mo ago
I don't know about the other industries, but within old cycling circles they're also just seen as the group that was first to make good counterfeit goods that were actually high enough quality to use, and their entrance to the m
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by serf 3mo ago
I think 'enforcement' is wholly outside the ballpark of a memory system.
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by serf 3mo ago
man it sucks that waveshare doesnt sell a 7 incher w/ integrated esp32 like they do with every single other round display, could've had the whole package ready to go.
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by serf 3mo ago
it's dead accurate for you because it aligns with your ideas on the subject. if it had been for defense or some other such thing the media outlet wanted to celebrate it'd have been worded "Our defense apparatus sips only 23%
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by serf 3mo ago
it's estimated around 5% of people remained covid-free & vaccine-free. I guess it's an easy guess that they would've caught it, but it's not certain.
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by serf 3mo ago
a new hot take spotted : newtonian physics isn't a thing. let's see how well the freeways work once we stop cleaning up after the accidents.
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by serf 3mo ago
>You don’t want to hire that guy. It’s not worth it. how many times in history does this need to be disproven? some of the most insufferable assholes in human history were absolutely brilliant once-in-an-era types. it's a chicken-or
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by serf 3mo ago
there isn't a market for barebones for the sake of privacy, but there is a market apparently for 'barebones for the sake of value', which is what the whole Slate truck thing is attacking. I'm sure a chinese EV group coul
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by serf 3mo ago
>That is excellent news eh. https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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by serf 3mo ago
such a cop-out when its policy shifts that are destroying it. let's be real : it's microsoft.
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by serf 3mo ago
yes? it says it uses the haptic motors like within 2 or 3 sentences, it says it 'slams the controller into the puck until it charges', it says it uses an overhead camera, and it even says that it navigates the controller to the pu
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by serf 3mo ago
in pecunia veritas , an old HN favorite.
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by serf 3mo ago
the things that empower modern toy drones were export restricted for years before hand.
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by serf 3mo ago
>I have seen this pattern over and over again. Anytime someone is an actual expert at anything, AI output appears insufficient or incomplete or outright misleading media is awash at the moment with experts chiming in to support AI, sayin
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by serf 3mo ago
these types of (modern) eating disorders are a product of our current market, and I think that blaming humans for eating wrong due to 'food noise' when many shelves have little else to offer is insensitive victim blaming. the perp
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by serf 3mo ago
llms are fantastic disassembly partners, they're quite good at labeling functions from various dissassemblers -- the net losses from losing the benefits of open source , imo , outweigh the protection afforded by hiding your source code
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by serf 4mo ago
> Ancient societies ... were much more careful when introducing new technologies I do not believe this for a minute. > But I think they would be more surprised by how we managed to invent things ... which destroy our brain. what kind
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by serf 4mo ago
yeah , beautifully simple -- now instead of chasing arguments for a single command you get to chase arguments for tar, ssh, and whatever else you get to pipe in to match rsyncs argument list while hoping the entire incantation doesnt 1) bre
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by serf 4mo ago
>Over a decade of development and an estimated budget between $1-2 Billion, I am okay with paying ten bucks more. I don't balance my checkbook based on what other people spend, and presuming that those things have anything to do w
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by serf 4mo ago
you can get a zero booting under 10 seconds fairly reliably. still slower than a hot phone with an app, but it's faster than 22s.

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