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by sshine 1y ago
A few things that are here: - LLMs - Cryptocurrencies - Mobile phones Neither are going away, all are part of our future, but not equally. The inevitabilism argument is that cryptocurrencies were just as hyped a few years ago as
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by sshine 1y ago
LLMs make counting mistakes like forgetting the number of columns halfway through. I won't say "much like humans", since that will probably trigger some. But the general tendency for LLMs to be "bad at counting" (th
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by sshine 1y ago
> How can this possible not be unethical Anyone has the right to buy a domain. The site serves the purpose which you could criticise him for not serving: It lets you download PuTTY. putty.com sells jars with goo, and they don't pr
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by sshine 1y ago
Let's call it "advertise his own product", since he gives the software away for free and hardly makes money on licenses. I would say that it is. He is freeriding on the PuTTY brand name to popularise his own SSH client. It de
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by sshine 1y ago
putty.org has been owned by the same person for 25 years, and has functioned as an unofficial download page forwarder since at least 20 years ago. He's forwarding to Simon Tatham's page and always have; he's not providing mir
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by sshine 1y ago
An interesting email conversation released yesterday (2025-07-13) on putty.org about the matter: https://www.putty.org/20250713-MiraiF-Emails.txt
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by sshine 1y ago
Oh, the content? It's coming soon! Article 16: The Anatomy of a Good Prompt in 2025 (Coming Soon) Article 17: Zero-Shot Prompting: The Foundation (Coming Soon) Article 18: Few-Shot Prompting: Learning from Examples (Comin
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by sshine 1y ago
> this anti-consumer, anti-business viewpoint will help noone It helps regulators. And it does protect consumers, in some ways. Although it protects the common good more, which people may disagree about. It just also removes a lot of c
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by sshine 1y ago
I certainly can be bothered, because it’s great fun. But when Claude Code can do the same thing 20% faster, I’m a fool for not applying that. The trick is: when. Not always. And hardly at all in “yolo mode”.
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by sshine 1y ago
It’s not lying. It’s a term with historic precedence. It’s an aspiration to mechanize thought. Are we there yet? It’s a continuum. Excellent logic.
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by sshine 1y ago
> LLMs (stop calling it AI ffs -- only morons parrot the marketing hype) Researchers have called much less intelligent things AI since 1956. Before there were GPTs, there were RNNs and CNNs. AI is the field of study.
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by sshine 1y ago
Prior to AI, outside the context of crypto, it is/was often not “worth it” to fix security holes, but rather bite the bullet and claim victimhood, sue if possible, and hide behind compliance. If automated exploitation changes that equa
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by sshine 1y ago
I also switched from Philips Hue to IKEA. I like how you can pair things by holding them close and pressing a button. Doesn’t need to get smarter than that for me.
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by sshine 1y ago
> Musk: "[...] rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data." Wow. That idea is j
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by sshine 1y ago
From the article: > Then there’s the other thing that nobody talks about, the massive greenhouse-gas load that all those data centers are going to be pumping out. Arguably, the GPU emissions are lower than the carbon footprint of the h
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by sshine 1y ago
I remember at first year of university being presented with a bunch of “simple” problems early on, such as the Collatz conjecture. I remember wanting to spend time trying to explore what a solution might look like, because such simply formu
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by sshine 1y ago
I didn't know of vidir, but I just thought I'd share some funny etymology, since I know someone called Viðir. Besides meaning vi + dir, the Icelandic name means "willow tree", which is a cool name for a directory travers
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by sshine 1y ago
Before contemporary gender theory challenged the distinction between male and man, there was also a common distinction, e.g. by "becoming a man". A man is a male human adult, and the idea of adulthood is to some degree fluid. The
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by sshine 1y ago
But "there's no such thing as a fish" is a different statement than "there's no such thing as a man". First off, "man" is not a biological category, but a human social category. Biologically, "bo
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by sshine 1y ago
All fish are not phylogenetically correlated: Things became fish multiple times independently. There is no "first fish from which all fish derived". Phylogenetic existence refers to the evolutionary history and relationships of a
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by sshine 1y ago
What a pity to come into this world when the train has already left. This economy is so bad we can’t even afford recreational sex!
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by sshine 1y ago
My mom would have been thrilled when she was still in the workforce 10 years ago. She still uses Thunderbird, but she stopped checking her email. What a piece of software. I remember when I migrated from Outlook Express to Thunderbird 20+ y
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by sshine 1y ago
> disregard for resources and time There is a tradeoff between compile time and running time. This matters for programs that run more often than they get compiled.
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by sshine 1y ago
> I got a nickel every time I spent 15 minutes replacing a trivial use of clap with pico-args and thus reduced the binary size and compile time of some project by at least 80%, I would have at least three nickels. Hahaha, awesome. Than
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by sshine 1y ago
I can only say, I tried to add massive amounts of data points to a fleet of battery systems once; 750 cells per system, 8 metrics per cell, one cell every 20 ms. It became megabits per second, so we only enabled it when engaging the batteri
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by sshine 1y ago
Yes, you're certainly allowed to hope, and I'm happy you do, because I am a cipherpunk at heart. > .ovh requires paying $3.49 every year to renew it And .brave domains are "buy once keep forever"? What's the tr
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by sshine 1y ago
> If they are successfully able to get a gTLD as described in the article everything will be able to use them. The entirety of that speculation in the article, as far as I could read, is three words: “potential ICANN accreditation” — t
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by sshine 1y ago
Sure, it will be around for a long time. Decades, at least! But with “ICANN being around”, we mean “everyone can access ICANN domains unless they live in an oppressive regime”. With “Polygon being around” it’s more like “gopher being around
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by sshine 1y ago
Your second sentence’s lack of commas makes it ambiguous. To disagree with one possible interpretation: Let’s Encrypt is a huge step forward. It provides end-to-end encryption for free, making it extremely abundant.
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by sshine 1y ago
Me too. The Mac auto-replaces “--” so it’s incredibly low effort to use it even in casual contexts.

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