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by skissane 6mo ago
> True, but we have RAG to offset that. In practice that doesn’t always work… I’ve seen cases where (a) the answer is in the RAG but the model can’t find it because it didn’t use the right search terms-embeddings and vector search reduce
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by skissane 6mo ago
> There's no mystery here, it's basic physics and chemistry that this will change things, and it's accepted that we don't know exactly _how_ things will change. The alternative: "adding gigatons of carbon to the
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by skissane 6mo ago
> Its really just a matter of degrees. There are 1 million, 1 million, 1 trillion parameter LLMs... and you keep scaling those parameters and you eventually get to humans. It isn’t because humans and current LLMs have radically different
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by skissane 6mo ago
The term “fascist” has been watered down to the point it doesn’t really mean anything the way many people use it now I think the real standard for “fascist” has to be - how similar is what someone is doing to what Mussolini did? If there’s
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by skissane 6mo ago
> property rights The Australian federal government is planning to build a high-speed rail line from Sydney to Newcastle (medium-sized city two hours drive north). Their solution to property rights, is >50% of the line will be undergr
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by skissane 6mo ago
They could let you nominate an S3 bucket (or Azure/GCP/etc equivalent). Instead of dropping data from the cache, they encrypt it and save it to the bucket; on a cache miss they check the bucket and try to reload from it. You pay f
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by skissane 6mo ago
> but Cygwin is a crazy approach, was slow A lot of this is issues Microsoft could fix if they were sufficiently motivated e.g. Windows lacks a fork() API so cygwin has to emulate it with all these hacks Well, technically the NT API does
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by skissane 6mo ago
I really dislike Notion. Its public API is full of bizarre arbitrary limitations, like a rich text database field can only contain max 100 “child blocks”, where each change in formatting consumes one child block-but its web UI doesn’t have
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by skissane 6mo ago
> TCP is a stream protocol Which has nothing to do with terminals, because nobody runs terminals directly over TCP. Telnet wasn’t simply sending terminal bytes over TCP, it has its own complex system of escape sequences and protocol nego
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by skissane 6mo ago
> For this use case, there would also have to be an extension to the SSH protocol to send such out-of-band information. Maybe this already exists and isn't used? I don’t think one already exists, but it would be straightforward to c
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by skissane 6mo ago
My paid use of Claude has only ever been via AWS Bedrock (paid for by my employer) or via GitHub Copilot (one subscription paid by employer, one paid by myself) I wonder if using it via an intermediary results in less heavy-handed moderatio
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by skissane 6mo ago
This could be fixed with an extension to the kernel pty subsystem Allow a process to send control instructions out-of-band (e.g. via custom ioctls) and then allow the pty master to read them, maybe through some extension of packet mode (TIO
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by skissane 6mo ago
> Anything but the simplest tooling is not transferable between model generations, let alone completely different families. It is transferable-yes, you will get issues if you take prompts and workflows tuned for one model and send them t
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by skissane 7mo ago
> Like [0] that Windows has for its console? What I personally have in mind is something very different-a terminal ioctl which gives you an fd which speaks a completely different protocol, such as JSON-RPC - or whatever else you prefer -
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by skissane 7mo ago
I think we really need a new protocol for apps to use when interacting with terminals, which is richer than sending escape sequences. It could just be the path to a Unix domain socket in an environment variable, where that socket speaks som
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by skissane 7mo ago
> Chris Lattner, inventor of the Swift programming language recently took a look at a compiler entirely written by Claude AI. Lattner found nothing innovative in the code generated by AI [1]. And this is why humans will be needed to adva
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by skissane 7mo ago
> There's jo wat a council can legally require you to enter into an agreement with a bank to use council run facilities, it's likely nobody's challenged them on it though. Is there some law saying they can’t? This is a car
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by skissane 7mo ago
You don’t sound happy. If you don’t have kids, why stay together?
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by skissane 7mo ago
> That leaves innate desire, which just doesn't seem to be that strong. We don't need to posit some recent drop in innate desire to explain the drop in fertility rates. The historical behavior we see fits just fine with innate
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by skissane 7mo ago
> Wife does not even want sex for a few years. I have no idea what the problem is. If you know, please let me know!!! Have you talked to her about what the problem is? It doesn’t sound like you have. In which case, that almost certainly
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by skissane 7mo ago
There are other safety differences with human-driven vehicles… interpersonal violence does happen with taxis (e.g. drivers sexually harassing/assaulting passengers, passengers robbing drivers) - by definition those things cannot happen
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by skissane 7mo ago
Place where I park my car for work (Gosford, Australia) just got rid of cash payment, they now take card payment only (apparently there is also going to be an app, but they haven’t launched it yet). I think the number one reason is they are
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by skissane 7mo ago
The permits are technically called "leaded petrol permits". Unlike "lead", I don't think "leaded" is commonly used with alternative meanings. Another useful search term is "tetraethyl" – the comp
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by skissane 7mo ago
Do you know, does anyone still have copies of Notes versions 1 and 2? I’ve seen Notes 3 clients and servers on the usual abandonware sites, but never any pre-3.x version
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by skissane 7mo ago
> Even in the US, you can't set up a corporation at the federal level: This is only because the drafters of the US constitution didn’t think to list corporations law as an enumerated power of Congress - I don’t think they omitted it
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by skissane 7mo ago
That directive was implemented in the UK by The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) Regulations 1999 (as amended) - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3107/made Part III makes it illegal to sell leade
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by skissane 7mo ago
> There is still one country that uses leaded gasoline for personal cars. That was true five years ago, but no longer-Algeria, the last country to allow it, banned leaded petrol in 2021 - https://www.bbc.com/news/wor
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by skissane 7mo ago
If you publicly release incorrect financial results, there is a formal process you have to follow to notify the public that you made an error (“restating results”). But if you catch the error before you release the results, you get to skip
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by skissane 7mo ago
Releasing data at regular intervals gives people time to review the data, identify mistakes and rectify them. Releasing financial data daily, you are much more likely to release incorrect info and then have to go back and correct it. For ce
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by skissane 7mo ago
Maybe what DNSSEC needs for it to take off, is for it to be made mandatory for EV certs? Of course, EV certs aren’t as attractive as they used to be given browser UI changes no longer call them out like they used to. But if we are going to

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