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by sgc 5mo ago
> good ideas ... aren’t substantially in greater supply Which is sad because they should be. People should be freed up to think and create better things, instead these companies seem to be doing the equivalent of locking their employ
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by sgc 5mo ago
You must be living in absolute opulence :)
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by sgc 5mo ago
Subterfuge so simple it is designed to target only the most foolish.
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by sgc 5mo ago
There is no intellectual property in ai output, at least as far as legal rulings in the US currently stand. I guess you are asking whether they will use them once you unsubscribe. My cynical take would be probably they will, but read throug
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by sgc 5mo ago
I think that is not an exception, but is pretty common almost anywhere in the US rural enough to have a roadside stand. Although bowls are not immune to wind, so generally the exact implementation takes that into account. Often a slotted bo
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by sgc 5mo ago
We are in the context of already having to pay. You are at their mercy no matter what, so the only value of any interaction with them is based on hoping they have incentive to maintain their promises to protect their reputation etc. It&#x27
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by sgc 5mo ago
If you have to pay, at least try to negotiate 1) a guarantee that the hackers won't just do it again sometime later, and 2) full disclosure / assistance in repairing your vulnerabilities so you have some kind of head start for the
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by sgc 5mo ago
I don't know of anything Ubuntu is doing that is significantly beyond what Debian is doing in this regard, nor that they have a distributed reproduction system set up???
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by sgc 5mo ago
To move away from organizational dependence, there should be an installable project for debian where I can dedicate some configurable small percentage of my compute when idle to reproducibly building debian components to make a robust verif
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by sgc 5mo ago
Well at least that doesn't require functioning DNS. This time around, it in fact could not have been an email :)
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by sgc 5mo ago
My poor fellow. You wrote about how something is a bad tool for a long list of serious reasons. Then it failed spectacularly because everybody decided to depend on it anyway - exactly what you were cautioning against. But somehow you have t
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by sgc 5mo ago
They are obvious in the links, no time for silly games.
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by sgc 5mo ago
You actually think that LLMs are not fed docs on how they work in order to help users interact with them better? Asking an LLM how to use it is based on the reasonable presumption that the company making it will prioritize making it useful
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by sgc 5mo ago
Are you referring to technical implementation or the poor anti-privacy decisions they keep making when you say 'slightly better'? I have not given up, but I am profoundly disappointed and for somebody who says they have used FF fo
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by sgc 5mo ago
Every LLM I have ever asked about this says they perform better when they receive pretty-printed code because it is easier to see structure and priorities. It has been an almost universal recommendation for me, and it makes sense since LLMs
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by sgc 5mo ago
In another field I have heard it called going for the jugular; the vivid description helps get the point across nicely. If you want to master something, you will have to know the hardest part. So just deal with that first and then everythin
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by sgc 5mo ago
General tip is *iterate*. Look at what it does right and does wrong, and refine. My most complex prompt took me 2 weeks of work to get right, and I just spent a half a day improving that even more. Obviously not worth it unless you are goin
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by sgc 5mo ago
I think it's decidedly preliminary to compare models using the same .md file, since they respond quite differently to the same input. I try to narrow to the top 2-3 and then refine inputs for each one. For me it's unfortunately no
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by sgc 5mo ago
Of all the standards, I find the SCAA the least useful. That was the standard 30 years ago, but nobody serious about improving their craft is brewing such a watered down espresso anymore, and a 1:2 ratio is the most common one. So 15g for 3
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by sgc 5mo ago
1-2 bars isn't really espresso, it's a moka - which can be quite good in its own right. It falls into the genus of pressurized brewing though, so same genus different species. There's a no man's land from 3-5 bars that i
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by sgc 5mo ago
Yes of course, but by dropping opv pressure on most home machines that also drops flow due to opv bleed off. If you have your opv at 9-10 bar you get a full flow shot on a coarser grind - which is way too fast. You need to drop pressure unt
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by sgc 5mo ago
They failed to mention the important point, that you have to be able to reduce the pressure to increase the grind size. I am convinced the best espresso you can make is at 6 bar, since you can grind the coarsest possible. It comes out sweet
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by sgc 5mo ago
This is a very long-standing and AFAIK never explicitly decided copyright and human rights question: If something is Public Domain, are contracts restricting distribution valid? Is our right to information or knowledge a fundamental human r
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by sgc 6mo ago
I already posted this, but the budget cuts are also because Federal funding was up to historic level due to COVID and has been cut significantly below baseline by the current administration. California should not calculate school funding th
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by sgc 6mo ago
Sure, let's have 100 child classes which are hell on earth for everybody involved, starting with the little kids who will literally be scarred for life from it. Teacher costs should be going up as much as we can afford, to keep reducin
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by sgc 6mo ago
It is just a fact that California schools are laying off a large percentage of personnel and getting rid of many programs. Pink slips by the thousands have been sent out that will take effect in a couple months at the end of the school year
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by sgc 6mo ago
Given that school budgets are absolutely gutted with mass layoffs this year and next, and the miscalculation looks like 2/3 of the budget shortfall, hiding such a basic and impactful error requires a much better explanation than I see
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by sgc 6mo ago
As far as I can tell (including looking at third party analytics attempts), there had been a massive increase in users over the last 3 years. Smaller communities tend to hold their trademark character a lot better. Pure speculation, but (be
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by sgc 6mo ago
> what I call "red" could be very different to someone else's subjective perception It's worth noting that is true of virtually everything we know. >>This is a very simple sentence.<< Anybody who under
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by sgc 6mo ago
I am so embarrassed I have never tried it. I am extremely bursty with video so I just grabbed obs and openshot and use those. I always presumed it wouldn't be enough because it was 'just part of the kde suite'. I will try to

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