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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
The recent Trivy / LiteLLM mess was also a security thing, and seems rather different.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
That's unfortunately less informative if you aren't already one of their subscribers.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
It's from Latin for a bundle of sticks. Everything - government, companies, social clubs, etc - unified as elements of one cohesive State, all directed towards one shared goal. It's not about being past some position on the badn
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
> To be clear, the first quote was talking about 2^64 bytes That's 16 exabytes. Wikipedia cites a re:invent video to say that Amazon S3 has "100s of exabytes" in it. So it not only could theoretically be done, but has
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
16 million terablocks, or 8 billion terabytes. Or a third of a billion 24 TB drives, which is one of the larger sizes currently available. Some random search results say the global hard drive market is around an eighth of a billion units, b
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
I remember when the official terminology changed from "child porn" to "child sexual abuse material", and how this was meant to emphasize that it was produced by actually abusing an actual child.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
That's one possible approach, sure. If you're willing to blindly trust the unknown future to be fundamentally kind and uncontended.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
The comment you're replying to wasn't about the original name, it was about the current name.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
> I've seen cyclists using laptops. How? That seems like it would be rather mechanically challenging.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
But it (looking at the demo innards) doesn't add much of anything you wouldn't get from watching one expand and comparing that to opening a foldable?
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
Well, "yearly", "monthly, in the summer", and "monthly, in the winter" could plausibly all be different numbers.
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
The place I work has[1] a thing where they'll pay for (some?) college classes, and it comes with a clawback if you leave too quickly after. [1] well, as of when I last looked a few years ago
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
> You ignore that solar on-site coupled with EV chargers on site eliminates a lot of grid transmission losses. In theory a residential complex, employer, retail, or commercial site could set up something like this, pumping most of the e
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
The key is in the presence of the word "mandate".
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
> This is the kind of thing that every western ( or “rich” ) government should have mandated years ago. If it's cost effective there's no need to mandate it. If it's not cost effective but you want it anyway, you can exp
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
> What do low income people have to do with it, when AI companies and research is borne out of Silicon Valley culture of rich, liberal Californians? RLHF is "ask a human to score lots of LLM answers". So the claim is that the
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
> Fun fact: Palantir is powered entirely by Claude I'm pretty sure Palantir predates the modern AI boom.
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
> Palantir is an AI firm now? Of course. Everyone is an AI firm now.
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
> At the same time it likely puts things like the *Arr stack at more risk given their more tailored nature. Well, those would be in the same position now that they previously were I think.
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
> I know the US already has a different 240V plug shape, so it might have to be an unlicensed installation, but surely someone wanted hot tea faster and did that calculus before? How expensive would a proper AC->DC->AC brick for
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-releases-new-report-eval... > The report finds that data centers consumed about 4.4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023 and are expected to consume approximately 6.7 to 12% of tota
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
> You can't use CRDTs for version control You misunderstand what is being proposed. Using CRDTs to calculate the results of a merge does not require being allowed to commit the results of that calculation, and doesn't even
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
Well, no, saying that the law is wrong doen't necessarily mean someone is uninformed. Those are distinct things.
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
> I’m not sure why the labor board is involved here. Not all jurisdictions respect freedom of association to the same degree. Employment can be anywhere on a scale from a simple exchange of time for money, to something closer to a feud
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
> We know this intuitively. We pay premiums for Swiss watches, Hermès bags and old properties precisely because of the time embedded in them. Either because of the time it took to build them or because of their age. Oh, I thought it wa
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
Sure, don't build your system to keep audit trails until after you have questions to answer so that you know what needs to go in those audit trails. Don't insist on file-based data ingestion being a wrapper around a json-rpc api j
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
> However small latency is, power failure is still faster. A fancy switching power supply with a friendly power factor (looks like a resistive load, rather than drawing more amps during the lower voltage parts of the waveform) actually
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
Once you move from abstract to practical - like say having legislators or regulators make rules based on The Science, or relying personally on more facts than you have time to independently verify - yes you do need to have trustworthy peopl
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
As catlifeonmars noted, what's valuable changes over time. But beyond that, part of the nature of that change over time is that things tend to be valuable because they're scarce . So the definition from upthread becomes roughly &
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by tbrownaw 7mo ago
What is the as-of date on what work is economically valuable and how much is available?

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