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by serf 4mo ago
yeah it's pretty fair if you compare them apples to apples. an iphone boots in 15-20s depending on how stale things are, you'll presumably need to unlock it, and then navigate to the camera app however you do so. it's just pr
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by serf 4mo ago
if you don't like that concept of value then let's make a new concept of value that can't be reviewed or compared through the ages -- but until then I am completely comfortable with the idea that a full detail continental map
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by serf 4mo ago
>How do you know? a 4 word summary of the entire works of every religion in the world, ever -- the original Pascal's Wager flavored FOMO social networking maneuver.
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by serf 4mo ago
>One of my old coworkers was a retired navy captain who used to be an instructor at Top Gun and had hundreds of night carrier landings. He told me that he'd have to be forced at gunpoint to fly on a small general aviation airplane,
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by serf 4mo ago
it took 5 refreshes to get 'Erect penis in yellow condom' from the 'Condom' wiki entry, which was just a (explicit) cropped picture of a dick in a condom on the random front page. nothing a bit of regex cant fix.. hell a
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by serf 4mo ago
automotive workers unions started around 1918 and became major political players in the 30s -- a fact that i'm sure is wholly unrelated to why there are so many un-automated tasks in that industry.
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by serf 4mo ago
it's a valid idea to try to make an 'easy' modeling/cad system -- the problem is that every such version of software that takes on that challenge makes the suite near useless or incredibly hard to use/clunky for exp
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by serf 4mo ago
This happens to me a lot when I ask a qwen3.6 model to respond to a question in JSON. No clue why.
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by serf 4mo ago
yeah except that isn't how it's presented. social media boards don't go creating slides and mission statements that mentions those second order effects. most go something like: "Connecting people and souls through the te
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by serf 4mo ago
>One day, when there is no job for you, you will look back on this moment and chide your past self. people say this as if having principles will leave you jobless inevitably, but there is so much evidence to the contrary that this rings
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by serf 4mo ago
> .. if you're into spending your time managing your harness .. as is always the answer when this comes up about anything agent related : save yourself the time and have the agent do it. Don't spend hours on something you don&
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by serf 4mo ago
tailscale syndrome. "we want to be infrastructure for people, and a business towards professionals." stuck between "we need cash to operate" and "we want to be a public good infrastructural system." , with the
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by serf 4mo ago
the quantum slop argument : "yeah it's everywhere but no one ships it."
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by serf 4mo ago
it's not unmanageable to do if you have plentiful and cheap access to area that can see the sun. My 'vintage' computing collection got a lot bigger when I switched to solar. a big ask in most of the UK, though.
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by serf 4mo ago
its less hard than you'd think unless you're really going for long range. for my sailboat I am getting rid of a 300lbs diesel and a 30gallon fuel tank with a 45lbs PMAC. That means I have opened up about 465lbs for batteries. Now,
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by serf 4mo ago
>It's such a weird "Gotcha" that seems to only assume that Chinese LLMs might censor something. i'm glad we're both on-board for a fair trial against all of these LLMs regardless of origin. now refresh my memory
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by serf 4mo ago
"I did my best" comes across as exceedingly hollow when the post itself is : 1) : 'circus freaks of open source' isn't some clever pun or double entendre; it's just a jab. and 2) : "Hey everyone , this lis
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by serf 4mo ago
do you realize how many edge or unconnected nodes do OpenCV work? some SBC w/ an industrial camera that is doing pick-place or go/no-go operations on a conveyor belt against a singular object type doesn't need a huge image-ge
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by serf 4mo ago
rewrite the quote for comic relief or use quotes to signify accuracy to the spoken line .[0] not both , please. [0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-a...
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by serf 4mo ago
if you find yourself saying 'if you tell it to' a lot about LLMs that usually just says something about your prompting methods. or, in other words , if you want the thing to always read the documentation then make that a strongly
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by serf 4mo ago
`M98` allows for essentially function calls (nested or not.) If you had a part of a machine that could save state (say.. turning on a coolant pump..) I wonder how much more of a turing machine you could wrastle into it. (or you could just c
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by serf 4mo ago
ive been using a pixel watch and element messenger for exactly this for a few months. works great. that said : the first gen pixel watch was hot garbage; this project seems like it'd be better off as a software package for existing (an
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by serf 4mo ago
which is why unionization and labor groups exist... because a worker demanding things does jack shit by itself.
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by serf 4mo ago
some people see 'career growth' as going to seminars and networking with manager types. some people see 'career growth' as opening up a new technical manual and acquainting themselves with new stuff. I think it's im
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by serf 4mo ago
it's not really like a 'live axle' from an older truck, it's more like a de-Dion style suspension (or dead axle ). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Dion_suspension you still see these in velocipede
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by serf 4mo ago
LFP prismatics are dirt cheap, I actually thought that was cooler -- it's rare to see a car part for a specific brand that is so close to a COTS equivalent.
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by serf 4mo ago
It's a modeling of language, it's not structurally anything like an LLM.
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by serf 5mo ago
>It's just a machine, if certain negative token inputs provide +3-10% better accuracy then I am confused why anyone would choose not to do it? then add it to your pre-prompt, no need to practice roleplaying as an asshole.
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by serf 5mo ago
easily liking any kind of music only on the merit that it is human generated seems lazy, too. similarly, firing up a music gen system rather than listening to a billy joel song for the 30,000th time seems less lazy. say what you want about
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by serf 5mo ago
> I don't think people want to live in a fake world. yeah that's why escapist hobbies , movies & video games do so poorly. it's not even 'another world' , it's just a slightly different kind of screen, o

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