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by snackbroken 1y ago
Out of the 11 games I've bought through Steam this year, I've had to refund one (1) because it wouldn't run under Proton, two (2) had minor graphical glitches that didn't meaningfully affect my enjoyment of them, and two
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by snackbroken 1y ago
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12721325 Edit: alternatively, https://github.com/ssrg-vt/FoxDec
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by snackbroken 1y ago
In high school they had a few information kiosk computers spread around the various buildings; two in the library, one in the main reception, one in the cafeteria, and one in the mostly unused hallway right outside the computer club room. T
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by snackbroken 1y ago
The few times I've used LLMs as question answering engines for anything moderately technical, they've given subtly-but-in-important-ways incorrect information such that taking them at face value would've likely lost me hours
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by snackbroken 1y ago
It's already happening in the movie industry. Things like painstakingly hand-tracking an actor's face onto a body double vs using deepfake face replacement. A single vfx artist can now do this work much more quickly, pushing down
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by snackbroken 1y ago
It is easy to fool oneself into thinking one knows how something works, when in reality one only has a surface level understanding without really knowing about the internals. The serialization process exposes all the dangling pointers. Your
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by snackbroken 1y ago
A tip on how to reinforce good safety habits taught to me by my shop class teacher is to refer to any dangerous tool you are using by the kind of injury it is likely to inflict. The lathe is the deglover, the angle grinder is the eye splint
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by snackbroken 1y ago
> But then, ed is so simple and more or less standard More or less? ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! [1] [1] https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
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by snackbroken 1y ago
A casual googling tells me Amphastar produces both morphine and naloxone. Presumably they aren't the only pharma company that produces both a drug and its antidote, they were just my first hit.
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by snackbroken 1y ago
This is a nice example of why one should parse, not validate. If every function that requires some kind of permission takes that permission as an argument, say (pseudocode) void doFoo(PermissionToDoFoo permission, ...){...} and then,
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Popularity contests don't do a great job of surfacing quality. They do OK at pruning away the dullest 25℅, but tend to also throw away the top 5‰ most interesting stuff, because that stuff is invariably niche. They also don't do g
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Bend[1] and Vine[1] are two experimental programming languages that take similar approaches to automatically parallelizing programs; interaction nets[3]. IIUC, they basically turn the whole program into one big dependency graph, then the ru
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by snackbroken 2y ago
On a site like HN you'd expect a significant proportion of people to be willfully ignorant and/or make excuses about this stuff because it helps them sleep at night. I have been suspecting for a while that the "consent"
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Courts consistently interpreting a law wrongly is cause for amending said law to clarify its intent. Amending the constitution is certainly something that can happen within the system of governance as evidenced by the fact that we are discu
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by snackbroken 2y ago
So is fraud, libel, extortion, sexual harassment, impersonating a police officer, perjury, incitement, performing a stage play without a license from the writer, etc. but this hasn't stopped congress from passing laws to abridge the fr
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by snackbroken 2y ago
In my experience dealing with Google support across ads, workspace and cloud, the self-service GUI has been preferable because the self-service GUI typically provides zero utility.
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Any time two parts of a system disagree on how to interpret a given input, there's an exploit waiting to happen. One of the more famous examples of this is HTTP request smuggling. As a more concrete example of how file type confusion c
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by snackbroken 2y ago
1) Try a few different "dustless" chalk brands. Pick the one that's the least dusty. It probably won't write as nicely. 2) Erase with a damp cloth, not a dry felt eraser. 3) Use a blackboard with relatively low surface r
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Ants exhibit rather complex first-aid behavior in response to wounded nest-mates (amputating mangled limbs, coating wounds in anti-microbial secretions, carrying the victim off to safety, feeding the wounded ant while it recuperates) so it
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by snackbroken 2y ago
The people providing science funding ought to be interested in their money being spent on science. If the methods of a study are not described in sufficient detail as to enable replication, the study is simply not science. Of course, doing
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by snackbroken 2y ago
TL;DR: Japan doesn't have ubiquitous public garbage cans - you are expected to take your garbage with you until get home.
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by snackbroken 2y ago
> Manifesting the Invisible Hand requires a lot of prerequisites that are obviously untrue in the real world. Like that customers are able to do research and understand the findings. Worse. It requires that doing so is effectively free.
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by snackbroken 2y ago
No, I was just taking "runaway self-improving" as a premise because that's what the comment I was responding to did. I fully expect that at some point "self-improving" would be cast aside at the altar of "self-
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Sorry, I probably made too many unstated leaps of logic. What I meant was: Runaway self-improving AI will almost certainly involve self-replication at some point in the early stages since "make a copy of myself with some tweaks to the
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Once AI achieves runaway self improvement, it will be subject to natural selection pressures. This does not bode well for any organisms competing in its niche for data center resources.
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Yes, an hour. In practice, most scheduled maintenance will take closer to a minute than the full scheduled hour. If it's good enough for the government and the bank, it's probably good enough for you. What happens if you're o
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Most web projects can tolerate an hour of scheduled downtime a week and the occasional (< 1/year) unscheduled hour of downtime to replace broken hardware. Running on a single machine with 2 disks in RAID1 right up until the point wh
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Cool, thanks! Looks like they still have a ways to go before some major pain points are ironed out, but at least the phones are actually phones now! I'll have to consider them next time I switch phones as I'd much rather the Linux
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Can those actually place/receive phone calls (actual phone calls, not WhatsApp or whatever) and send/receive SMS messages these days? Last I checked, which admittedly was 5+ years ago, the answer ranged from "no" to &quo
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by snackbroken 2y ago
I'm not claiming that humans are somehow born with way more than a few billion parameters, no. I'm agreeing that we have an existence proof for the possibility of an efficient model encoding that only requires a few thousand calor

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