syrrim

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by syrrim 17d ago
> 1. Any cloud business essentially is "unpacking servers and plugging them in." Yet the cloud business has been exploding quarter-over-quarter ever since AWS came online. To the tune of double-digit billions cash flow every qu
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by syrrim 19d ago
You trust trump more than any of those three? Really?
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by syrrim 20d ago
He's also incredibly vain. See how hard he pushed back on releasing the epstein files that contained basically nothing bad about him.
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by syrrim 2mo ago
> I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point. Then bad news: LLMs already use randomness in a fundamental way. Each time they go to generate a token, they first generate a probability
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by syrrim 2mo ago
Those are two ways of phrasing the same issue.
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by syrrim 2mo ago
Twitter has right wing and center/apolitical people on it, bluesky just has left wing people. They "cater" to them by not clamping down on those people harrassing anyone who joins who doesn't agree with their politics. A
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by syrrim 2mo ago
llms prefer indents too
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by syrrim 2mo ago
Programmers look at the indentation.
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by syrrim 2mo ago
Why would someone make a language where the programmer and the interpreter have two different ways of figuring out where blocks start and end?
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by syrrim 2mo ago
Hn has strict length limits that often force people to editorialize. They could be more careful to not alter the meaning when they do so.
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by syrrim 2mo ago
Who's taking creep shots from any real distance?
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by syrrim 2mo ago
There isn't such a problem, it is at best an incidental use case that has been blown out of proportion. Such glasses would only be useful for illicit purposes in instances where a person is permitted to look at something, but not to ph
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by syrrim 2mo ago
I don't think that product exists, and I think an ordinary trash compactor would be far more likely to be used instead. Should we blame the people compressing their garbage for all the people crushing puppies?
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by syrrim 2mo ago
This is a facile and pointless discussion. The hard work in building source code is paying millions of dollars to software engineers to write it. "Open source" allows others to benefit from this expenditure. The hard work in build
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by syrrim 2mo ago
Fighter jets don't need 100%. In a war, we accept a much higher rate of casualties than we do in day to day driving. I would also imagine that while planes are harder for a person to pilot, they are easier for a computer. Most of what
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by syrrim 2mo ago
> What happens when "those files on a USB drive" turn into a zero day button that can harm millions of people? We need to make sure only the chinese and criminals have that zero day button and western companies can't disco
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by syrrim 2mo ago
There's no question about it. Llm output is not copyrightable. Which is moot anyways, because training on copyrighted data is completely legal.
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by syrrim 2mo ago
The "head of strategic futures" at openai stated "I don't think [kimi's] performance can be explained away by distillation". So you're premise is likely faulty.
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by syrrim 2mo ago
that's not arch specific per se but touche
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by syrrim 2mo ago
> I don't know if that is an Arch distribution specific feature. That's unlikely for two reasons, first because minecraft is closed source, and second because arch packages usually follow upstream very closely.
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by syrrim 2y ago
recommend setting up tests for your code s/t failures block deployment. can catch categories of bugs beyond typing errors
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by syrrim 3y ago
And someone choosing to pay for threema presumably trusts threema.
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by syrrim 3y ago
Or require it of all devices sold in the EU, regardless of where those devices are later brought. This would be entirely defensible - "we're just regulating products sold within our market" - but inevitably they would make th
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by syrrim 3y ago
Could you render very close objects twice, far objects once, then composite the image for each eye?
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by syrrim 3y ago
Presumably, the GP considers intent to be the only relevant factor in determining if something is racist.
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by syrrim 3y ago
> The police can't circumvent legislation by just paying a PI to stalk you instead. Why would they need to? Stalking you doesn't require a warrant. Breaking into your house, for example, would require a warrant, but a PI can&#x
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by syrrim 3y ago
Or they were supremely overvalued as of oct '21, as were many other stocks and securities, and the decline represents a return to sanity.
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by syrrim 3y ago
One suspects that the delay was not caused by the complexity of the implementation, but rather uncertainty around the necessity or desirability of it.
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by syrrim 3y ago
A middle ground between exceptions in c++ and checking every function call for an error code in c.
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by syrrim 3y ago
Most implementations I've seen use an ioctl to query those particular bits. That's implemented quite reliably, since the same ioctl is used for character size as window size. Some implementations just set the character size to zer

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