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by themafia 4mo ago
It's a census: it's only function is to determine the number of representatives your state should have. Please don't ask about my toilets, my demographics, or my religion. Thanks.
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by themafia 4mo ago
I've done nearly the same thing and have called it 'keyd' as well. It's a little more inspired by a "djb" style design. Instead of having a configuration file, the program takes a single argument which is mea
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by themafia 4mo ago
Given that it's most public use in open source so far is to whitewash GPL code into MIT code, no, I'm sorry, I don't think "open source AI" is particularly important.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. Do you have any publicly available demonstrations of this claim? > A lot of you don't want to hear it That there are skill difference
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by themafia 4mo ago
Is the assumption that the LLM did the translation? Or that it just understood your query and submitted, on your behalf, to a tool you could have just used directly?
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by themafia 4mo ago
Then I'd have to ask of publishers please don't use subscription oriented paywalls. I'd be happy to pay for an article here and there. I do not want to understand your subscription model, compare benefits between "tie
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by themafia 4mo ago
Or he's broadcasting his intention to destroy world governments and institute a new global order under technocratic control. He's banking on a US General not understanding the deeper lore behind of the name.
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by themafia 4mo ago
Cars already have lots of wear items and a mature service industry for them. If I can reliably get at least 50k miles out of it, then I wouldn't be all that bothered, as this is not likely to be an expensive part or service.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> that we have better alternatives (WebRTC, FaceTime et al) They may or may not be better. What they _aren't_ is "widely available." Also I feel like a lot of people forget that phones still work even if the power grid is
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by themafia 4mo ago
Private Mail Boxes are a godsend. In California this can even be the address on your state ID. You do have to give them your residence address but they consider that private information and only share it with authorized agencies.
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by themafia 4mo ago
That's rather public. Most likely is monitoring a journalist so you can more easily discover their sources or engaging in "parallel construction" to deal with "undesirables" of any stripe.
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by themafia 4mo ago
Said on a forum that was accessed by IP protocol.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> for ideological reasons. Yes. The ideology is "you harmed me first so now I can harm you back." A large number of people, while not willing to admit it, do practice this philosophy. One should consider this before launch
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by themafia 4mo ago
And for $200/mo they can now sing the song that ends the world.
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by themafia 4mo ago
There was often a little table at the front of the white pages which would help you work out what the rate would be for any particular long distance call. In the Midwest you could get relatively cheap rates to BBSes several states away, a
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by themafia 4mo ago
My parents let me fill my tank with gas. They wouldn't let me open an AWS account. Aside from that, if it is misuse of a parents card, then then answer is "chargeback."
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by themafia 4mo ago
Developers can change their minds.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> covid era over-hiring That's a generous excuse. To me it looks like they're just trying to depress wages across the board. Given that _several_ rounds of layoffs have occured since then, this 6 year old excuse rings partic
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by themafia 4mo ago
Let's measure "executive performance" by counting how many "answered phone calls" per hour they have. If they don't answer enough calls, that's a signal, that they aren't doing anything useful, an
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by themafia 4mo ago
> Even the poor have cars Poor, relative to whom?
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by themafia 4mo ago
> This kind of gender politics is tiresome. I think they're trying to convey that this kind of gender ignorance is equally tiresome.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> Waymo should treat it like a security flaw that anyone can stop your car and there's nothing you can do about it. And accept liability for obvious and potentially devistating problems? I wouldn't hold my breath.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> if the AI is used to stop an ISIS Describe that scenario to me. What precisely is the language model going to do? To defeat a _terrorist_ organization? I feel like this is way to asymmetric of a philosophy to actually work, but, I
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by themafia 4mo ago
People like to talk tough online. They tend to change their rhetoric in person. Our "training data" is problematic by design.
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by themafia 4mo ago
They all have conditioning prompts that precede your input; presumably, most of the detected "personality" comes from the differences in these inputs.
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by themafia 4mo ago
Behavioral observation.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> There isn’t a fully general solution to positioning and sizing GUI boxes. flexbox. You can literally recreate any fully responsive desktop style GUI with it. You just need to layout your elements the same way you would in a GUI desig
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by themafia 4mo ago
I feel like consciousness is an emergent phenomenon derived from several brain processes that constructively overlap. Many mammals have several necessary elements but lack the complete set of structures necessary to achieve what an average
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by themafia 4mo ago
Do Bats reminisce about the past? How far ahead do Bats plan their next action? Can a Bat be jealous?
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by themafia 4mo ago
It turns out GNC is significantly easier than rendering a video game. You don't even need that fast of a control loop. Your bigger concern is legitimate real time processing over raw compute power. Otherwise, we have shown, if you

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