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by sfink 3y ago
Yeah, that seems to be the elephant in the room. It's great that planets tidally locked to a red dwarf can block the heat with clouds, and mix the heat around with their atmosphere and ocean. But if being stuck up against a star means
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by sfink 3y ago
It seems fair for the browser to charge a fee (in the form of losing a percentage of users) in exchange for money earned by stealing data from users. Creators do not get offered large sums of money by entities motivated by the desire to bet
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by sfink 3y ago
> There is only one right answer to that question. Yes, I agree. Where did I say otherwise? But if you ask the question of a bag of shuffled Scrabble tiles and it spells out "I DONT KNOW THEY SEEM ABOUT THE SAME TO ME", then wh
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by sfink 3y ago
+1000, thank you for saying this. A guy is driving down a road that splits to the left and right. He intended to go right. Just then, the steering goes out, and he crashes straight into a tree between the two forks. The police show up and a
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by sfink 3y ago
This was a weird, long-winded article that boils down to pearl-clutching about pearl-clutching. If you're going to be offended at an LLM refusing to take a position on "is X worse than Y?", then just imagine how offended you&
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by sfink 3y ago
> I doubt that the fact that it's JS matters all that much given that either loop is absolutely tiny once it's compiled down to optimized assembly. It might matter. At least when run in the browser, JS needs to be interruptible
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by sfink 3y ago
> Open markets where markets have been open for awhile (and no new game changing things like new technology, new ideology, etc. have happened) will maintain homeostasis at that level. I think "homeostasis" is overselling it, ev
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by sfink 3y ago
I don't really know what I'm talking about, but doesn't this address that? > with newly learned parameters that make up less than 0.6% of the total parameters in the generative model 0.6% sounds like a small number. Is it
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by sfink 3y ago
I am increasingly of the mind that this is a feature, not a bug. If you want to be Twitter, you'll end up being Twitter. We already have one of those, it sucks, and we don't need another one. Social networks go to crap above a cer
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by sfink 3y ago
> The future is model graphs with networked mixtures of experts, where models know about other models and can call them as part of recursive prompts, with some sort of online training to tune the weights of the model graph. What's t
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by sfink 3y ago
I have unfortunately run into exceptions. I tried to play Neverhood on my Windows install, and it wouldn't start up. Tried the various compatibility modes. No luck. I ended up running it under Wine in Win95 mode (or similar; I don&#x27
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by sfink 3y ago
Yeah, same. It suggests that you must be employing one of the time-honored approaches to getting zero bugs: * Redefine all bugs as features * Redefine "bug" to conveniently only apply to the things your system prevents * Don'
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by sfink 3y ago
That'll work great for your Distributed QSort Incorporated startup, where the only product is a sorting algorithm. Formal software verification is very useful. But what can be usefully formalized is rather limited, and what can be form
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by sfink 3y ago
Yes, though don't think of "traditional" JS engines as being all the way on the throughput side. One of the main distinguishing characteristics of JS engines, at least those that are used in web browsers, is that they have to
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by sfink 3y ago
Only if your only criterion for success is diversity. I don't think the intention has ever been to recruit evenly from all zip codes or whatever. My understanding is that the idea is to have a substantial portion come from a less advan
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by sfink 3y ago
> If the result is correlated with race, that’s not necessarily an issue with admission processes. True, though if socioeconomic status were not correlated with race, then there would be much less of a reason to want to select based on r
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by sfink 3y ago
It's not necessarily irrational. For example, for some people if they ever have any extra money, someone else will immediately spend it for them. If the earner wants to make a larger purchase, perhaps something that will cost short ter
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by sfink 3y ago
> but crypto (in the sense of cryptography) has been around for decades and is definitely here to stay... But that's not the sense under discussion. "Crypto"=cryptography lost the language war and was completely supplanted
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by sfink 3y ago
I work on the Firefox GC, so I guess I'm biased, but this doesn't seem like the greatest idea if you use it exactly as proposed. By setting a really high threshold for automatic GC scheduling, you're guaranteeing that memory
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by sfink 3y ago
> In this specific case, it should be clear that you can select multiple options from context or by text, or it should be encouraged to try it out (i.e. easy to undo). It seems like you're saying that because there isn't anythi
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by sfink 3y ago
You can if you do it with an A/B test where you can argue about the percentage of treatment, the duration of the test (is the difference persistent?), and do precise time tracking to log how long the user takes to take an action. That&
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by sfink 3y ago
Oh, come on. It's easy enough to figure out! It's always the other button, as in not the one labeled Cancel. Or No. Rarely, Reject/Fail/Abort. Except when there's only one button, then you use the X in the corner.
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by sfink 3y ago
...you really think the low crime rates in Japan are due to aggressive punishment? From what I hear, it might have a little bit to do with societal expectations (NOT resulting from fear of imprisonment, btw), underreporting, it being easier
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by sfink 3y ago
Oops, looks like you're right. I mixed up "Linux x64 Shippable" with AArch64.
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by sfink 3y ago
In this case, it's not just a flag. Unless you're going through the Mozilla build system, in which case it kind of is. But what's actually happening is that it compiles the browser once, then runs it against some very small
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by sfink 3y ago
This article annoyed me. Not because I think it overestimates any of the difficulties, but it condescendingly compares against "standard software engineers" as if their problems are so much easier and lack additional dimensions be
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by sfink 3y ago
My first reaction was: wat? Isn't that only from the perspective of a relatively complex organism? Life constantly explores in all the directions it can, so it's no wonder that one frontier of that exploration is towards increasin
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by sfink 3y ago
I see linux/aarch64 builds at https://treeherder.mozilla.org/jobs?repo=mozilla-release&sea... so it seems like they exist. Maybe they aren't packaged for apt?
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by sfink 3y ago
Think of it more as "we compile with -O3". If you installed with the .tar.bz2, you'd get that already. If you use a 3rd party produced .deb, they might build with -O2. That's just an example; the blog is probably referri
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by sfink 3y ago
16 is a lot. Uppercase + numbers + special characters will only give 1.3 more bits per character. 26 possibilities is 4.7 bits, so each additional lowercase letter adds enough entropy to make up for the alphabet size of 4.7/1.3=3.6 cha

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