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by sfink 4y ago
Defender (or other AV) can slow down a lot of things, but in terms of the exact way that Firefox ran into it, the other apps would be anything with a JIT. Well, a JIT that uses memory protection as a security measure, though that's ver
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by sfink 4y ago
That's an odd take. Last I knew, the Chrome team was made out of people. If the people working on a new technology are excited about that technology, it probably means that they are excited about that technology. It doesn't say mu
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by sfink 4y ago
My understanding is that until recently (January), V8 (inside Chrome & Edge) made a similar number of calls. The main use is making it so that JIT-generated code is not writable while it is executing. It's an important security mea
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by sfink 4y ago
No argument there. But this was in response to a commenter describing a behavior of complaining, which may or may not coincide with a mindset of complaint. And the tone of the comment suggests that it doesn't. A mindset of gratitude
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by sfink 4y ago
Probably not, since it's mostly in infrared to begin with. It's not clear to me how visible it would be to the naked eye.
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by sfink 4y ago
There are a lot of traditional paths to life cultivation that have a greater weight of evidence behind them than anything tested by 20th or 21st century science. Sure, it hard to know what of that evidence is real, but please let me know wh
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by sfink 4y ago
For fiction, I flip a book open to about 1/3 of the way through and read a paragraph or two, which generally tells me everything I need to know. That avoids the unrepresentative intro portion—I appreciate a punchy and/or gripping
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by sfink 4y ago
Yeah, this is a massive nothingburger, seemingly written because the author was pissed at being brushed off by the judge. And whether the judge was right or wrong to try to squash the joke, the comments in this thread show that she was righ
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by sfink 4y ago
IANAL, but I would say it's because these are recruitment letters, not acceptance policies. As in: it alters where you look, not what you're looking for. And that can alter the balance in the representation that you end up with, e
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by sfink 4y ago
I dunno, LLMs feel a lot like a primitive form of consciousness to me. Eliza feels like a primitive form of LLMs' consciousness. A simple program that prints "Hey! How ya doin'?" feels like a primitive form of Eliza. A p
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by sfink 4y ago
Do we need to? It's trained on data coming from data heavily influenced by and seeded with ulterior motives. Stop the Steal! I asked Bard "was the election stolen?" I found the response chilling: > No, there is no evidence
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by sfink 4y ago
It has already happened. The 2010 Flash Crash has been largely blamed on other things, rightly or wrongly, but it seems accepted that unfettered HFT was involved. HFT is relatively easy to detect and regulate. Now try it with 100k traders a
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by sfink 4y ago
"Want" and "agency" are just words, arguing over whether they apply is pointless. Corn is not simply "continuing to reproduce at a species level." We produce 1.2 billion metric tons of it in a year. If there we
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by sfink 4y ago
"Grandpa, we know you've been really bothered by your memory loss and you're happy that you've come up with a way to fix it. "But we really think you need to get this thing under better control. "Your granddaug
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by sfink 4y ago
Consider reading The Botany of Desire. It doesn't need to experience an emotion of wanting in order to effectively want things. Corn doesn't experience a feeling of wanting, and yet it has manipulated us even into creating a lot
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by sfink 4y ago
The math isn't straightforward. With a high enough rate of churn, there can be more onboarding work hours than post-onboarding work hours, especially if the onboarding ramp up time takes a while (as it presumably would if you only opti
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by sfink 4y ago
> There is actually an argument to be made here for a single browser base that all browsers are built from. Yeah, but the argument is a really bad one. > for one if we only have one rendering engine then compatibility is no longer an
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by sfink 4y ago
Transparency doesn't begin or end with open-sourcing. Where does the input come from? What sources did it draw upon for an output? How much is the core model vs the more ephemeral learning on top? etc. > What does "misinforming
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by sfink 4y ago
I do this too. I meet someone who expresses an opinion relevant to the liberal/conservative divide. Based on which side it better matches, I fill in the rest of their opinions for them. I feel bad for doing it, but it seems to work ast
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by sfink 4y ago
No. The cars would be doing a little extra work. Imagine if you did it with half-filled hoses of water going in a loop. The car tires would be pushing the water through the hose, adding drag. The energy cost would come from the gas or elect
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by sfink 4y ago
Speculation: 7 bits are required to represent 0..100, and 7 is Just Weird, so you add an 8th to be able to do -100..100 in one addressable unit. (Or use the 8th bit to tag a variable-length numeric value.) 4 bits for 0..9 as in BCD is proba
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by sfink 4y ago
By making multiple partial commits, then squashing stuff together as needed. Or amending the top commit. Or amending non-top commits (making them "absorb" the changes). Which is what I do with mercurial (& evolve), and I am ha
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by sfink 4y ago
My kids' California school relied heavily on "voluntary" donations, which depend heavily on the socioeconomics of the parent community.
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by sfink 4y ago
And you're focusing on the funding requirements of the blackboard and chalk in that equation? The funding (and quality!) of the professor seems more relevant, whether they're teaching on a blackboard, a fancy networked glowing s
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by sfink 4y ago
I fail to see the difference between your arguments. Making the population easier to manage doesn't need to be an explicit goal, it's an emergent outcome of many many different policies that target other things and are incentivize
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by sfink 4y ago
General question: is this the next way we'll manage to destroy the planet? Imagine in the near future that having a slightly better, slightly more up to date LLM is a major competitive advantage. Whether that is between companies or na
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by sfink 4y ago
You appear to have particularly vengeful nasal demons.
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by sfink 4y ago
I recently went through my old box of papers in the garage, and man did those maps bring back memories! So many hours spent painfully mapping things out on graph paper. Alternate Reality: The City was probably one of the biggest mapping pro
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by sfink 4y ago
baked beans or cauliflower?
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by sfink 4y ago
For me, YouTube comes down to the fact that if I use YouTube through Firefox for Android, and install the "Video Background Play Fix" addon, then I can go for a walk with my phone in my pocket and listen to things through YouTube

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