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by themafia 9mo ago
It reminds me of a saying I heard from an Italian: "...and if my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike."
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by themafia 9mo ago
When people feel underrepresented to the point of being bullied they turn to any voice which seems to reflect even a tiny fraction of their frustrations. There's a real mean spirit in open source lately and a lot of it seems to revolve
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by themafia 9mo ago
It should run very quickly given that there are few things competing with it for resources like CPU cache space. It's like "your car is going to get dirty why even wash it?"
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by themafia 9mo ago
Saying shill implies XLibre is some kind of scam he's trying to trick you into, where as, if you don't like it, you're absolutely free to not use it. Or, what's the popular line in this scenario, "if you don&#x
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by themafia 9mo ago
I don't think you even need a stateful firewall. If it's an IoT device that's not meant to provide services to the internet then it seems to me you can just drop all non local subnet originated traffic and get most of the se
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by themafia 9mo ago
I moved into the cloud a few years ago and so I don't get to play with fixed server infrastructure like pgsql as much anymore. Is the syntax highlighting built into pgsql now or is that some other wrapper that provides that? (it looks
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by themafia 9mo ago
Then why do they spend so much marketing them? I think the position you describe is a capitulation not their original intention.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Electric motors are essentially maintenance free They require maintenance, although less than an ICE, but drive train repairs are not as uncommon as you might think. Manufacturers are always going to pinch pennies. > That cuts ou
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by themafia 9mo ago
They should be encouraged to not turn in casual plagiarism as their own work. I believe there is a mechanism for this already.
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by themafia 9mo ago
Google destroyed search and replaced it with that dippy LLM box. Are you sure student desire is the driving force here?
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by themafia 9mo ago
> once you graduate from college, the answer is: "enough to not get fired" I thought the point was to continue in the same vein and contribute to the sum total of all human knowledge. I suppose this is why people criticize col
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by themafia 9mo ago
Awful compared to what? I've seen benchmarks that go both ways in terms of a "winner" but in terms of overall variance there seems to be very little. There are some cases where ARM64 or RISCV do better and there are some cas
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by themafia 10mo ago
> There is no platform to show or compare or share. That's the irony of social media to me. Thinking back to it's genesis I really thought of it as a way to connect "grandma" to the family and share pictures with her
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by themafia 10mo ago
> Truly random binary generator left to its own device. This has been tried. It tends to overfit to unseen test environment conditions. You will not produce what you intend to produce. > the massive compute capability we will have J
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by themafia 10mo ago
> You generate random code, Code derived from a training set is not at all "random."
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by themafia 10mo ago
"Ants are great if you're really hungry and want two thousand of something." - Mitch Hedburg
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by themafia 10mo ago
> make a valuable process accessible to themselves I am directly calling into question the "value" of that process. It's also becoming increasingly clear that these tools just whitewash away the copyrights of the material
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by themafia 10mo ago
Lie. Their strategy is just to lie. Until they're caught. A CEO with no AI skills and no business skills. There's not a lot of analysis you have to put into this.
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by themafia 10mo ago
It's the vibe coders who would love to pretend that the opposite end of the spectrum from them is "artisinal coding." They honestly have no idea what "software engineering" in a professional context even looks like.
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by themafia 10mo ago
> is the ozone layer repair. Which was, stop using CFCs, and stop venting them into the atmosphere to "dispose" of them. We also stopped lighting rivers on fire for mostly the same reasons, stop dumping industrial waste in
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by themafia 10mo ago
> We need to avoid reaching tipping points that will cause non-recoverable damage to the earth system. Then I'd be far more worried about nuclear war than minor temperature excursions. Aside from that "non recoverable" dam
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by themafia 10mo ago
The models are trained on fake internet conversations where group appeasement is an apparent goal. So now we have machines that just tell us what we clearly already want to hear. Ask any model why something is bad, then separately ask why
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by themafia 10mo ago
The US birth rate was steady from 1990 to 2010. I also have no idea how you can legitimately claim to predict the birth rate. There is a trend to be sure but it's driven by several factors so this "heartwrenching" prognostic
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by themafia 10mo ago
ALPN per transaction certificates. Why take the chance?
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by themafia 10mo ago
They're aware of the major use cases. I doubt the minority cases are even on their radar. So great for E-Commerce, not so great for anyone else.
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by themafia 10mo ago
Every K-Paxian knows this.
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by themafia 10mo ago
And terrorism is just an abstract way of securing underprepared government facilities.
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by themafia 10mo ago
> and had a crypto project (worldcoin) That was a biometric surveillance project disguised as a crypto project. > Is there even any evidence that "crypto bros" and "AI bros" are even the same set of people No, the
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by themafia 10mo ago
"ChatGPT Plus 360 Advanced."
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by themafia 10mo ago
Just view the "input cost" vs "output accuracy" graph. It _is_ stuck at this point. There's so much money involved no one wants to admit it out loud. They have no path to the necessary exponential gains and no one i

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