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by shostack 2y ago
Which is where they shift focus to lock in and growing the amount of your things that live in their walled cloud garden.
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by shostack 2y ago
What sort of measurement setup and process are you running to compare these and properly control your experiments?
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by shostack 2y ago
How is inference latency for coding use cases on a local 3090 or 4090 compared to say, hitting the GPT-4o API?
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by shostack 2y ago
Two anthologies are: Sunvault: stories of solarpunk and eco-speculation Glass and gardens: solarpunk summers
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by shostack 2y ago
I think the idea is a good one, I just have zero trust in Microsoft to have my interests in mind so it becomes a question of when, not if, it becomes abused, if not by them then some bad actor.
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by shostack 2y ago
And Reddit comments are down (on Android at least). Coincidence?
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by shostack 2y ago
Is there anything that can get this to replace the results from the default Android search bar?
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by shostack 2y ago
For sure a healthy dose of privilege enabled that. I was surprised to learn my father even owned NVDA shares from even further back for some reason. The most valuable thing he taught me though was not buying individual shares, but low fee i
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by shostack 2y ago
I'll do it one better. As a gamer when I was younger, I knew they were the future. I asked for shares for my bday at the time and got them at least at $22.88 a share as that's as far back as my records go.
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by shostack 2y ago
When you think about Russia and China and not adhering to international law, you could imagine a total war scenario where they use chemical and biological weapons to do just this. Imagine a drone force deploying over a city at night, disper
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by shostack 2y ago
Why do you say that?
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by shostack 2y ago
Can you ELI5 this?
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by shostack 2y ago
This isn't just useful for their own marketing as some may imply. My guess is building out an ad network/platform for 3p advertisers to run ads on it.
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by shostack 2y ago
A thousand times this. I distinctly recall going to a Columbia store to get a new basic fleece jacket years ago and all they had were jackets with that stupid breast zipper pocket which I didn't want. It clearly seemed like the new sty
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by shostack 2y ago
The problem is with the lack of transparency and expectation setting. If you sell something with lots of hype and then deliver half of it, you've failed.
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by shostack 2y ago
What is her business?
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by shostack 3y ago
And here I was hoping for something related to how to approach self-driven learning and education when you have a hectic and unpredictable schedule and are trying to fit learning in-between things with the fragments of time you have.
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by shostack 3y ago
One thing I really dislike about hosted models is how opaque that behavior is. As a user I should never be guessing if they've reduced a model's capabilities to save on compute for example. This is why I'm excited for the gro
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by shostack 3y ago
Can the Continue plugin handle multiple files in a directory of code?
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by shostack 3y ago
The flip side, and I recognize this is not a privilege everyone shares, is that being an older parent may mean better financial stability and opportunities. On today's world of housing costs putting ownership out of reach of many, infl
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by shostack 3y ago
Rainbows End was very prophetic and changed how I view technology.
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by shostack 3y ago
Celery leaves are actually delicious torn into salads or garnish on a stir fry. And broccoli stalks can be sliced and roasted or shaved into a salad.
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by shostack 3y ago
If you consider Texas more liberal than California purely on the basis of home affordability it is clear you're not interested in making a serious point.
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by shostack 3y ago
In some ways I see parallels to space debris in LEO that create growing risk for navigating that space and finding anything up there.
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by shostack 3y ago
Vatsim may not be the most accurate in terms of teaching you what to say, but it will get you comfortable saying it live. I've had some truly amazing experiences, including the night before my first discovery flight at KPAO when KPAO w
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by shostack 3y ago
What did I just read?
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by shostack 3y ago
This. I want an AI assistant like in the movie Her. But when I think about the realities of data access that requires, and my limited trust in companies that are playing in this space to do so in a way that respects my privacy, I realize I
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by shostack 3y ago
What is the loop hole?
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by shostack 3y ago
So, what's my cut for years of commenting?
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by shostack 3y ago
Wake me when I can get access without handing over my texts and contacts. I opened the Gemini app on Android and that onerous privacy policy was the first experience. Worse, I didn't seem able to move past accepting giving Google the a

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