tonyarkles

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by tonyarkles 5mo ago
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra... Classic patio11 article.
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by tonyarkles 5mo ago
Suing someone in the Philippines probably won’t be worth the effort for an $18 product. And the FBI probably will not care much about a $18 international fraud.
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by tonyarkles 5mo ago
I had similar feelings but the comments below about adding an SDR to it with an M.2 slot got me looking a little closer. This has an 8-core Rockchip A72/A53 processor and 8GB of RAM. This is not an incremental improvement over the Flip
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
It's a disingenuous trick question though, specifically because of the nuance that most people won't think too much about. Did the vaccine "prevent transmission"? No, obviously not. Did it seriously curb the virus from r
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
I’m smiling, both because your wife is improving and because of the asymmetry thing. After my second knee surgery, I asked the surgeon about physio. He didn’t really think it was necessary for the kind of surgery I had, but when I insisted
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
I was, for a long time, in the "follow the statistics" camp until about 5 years ago when I did an experiment because of an HN comment. My wife has had low-key GI problems for years. I read a random comment in a thread here about a
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
Right, but the word "prevented" in this is way too subtle and nuanced: > whether people believed that the COVID vaccine prevented transmission of the virus Because the correct answer is "no, it didn't prevent transm
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
> COVID vaccine prevented transmission of the virus People aren't good at subtlety and nuance, and it's quite necessary: - Did the COVID vaccine prevent transmission of the virus? No, clearly not, because I was double vaccina
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
You absolutely nailed it. The way COVID-19 was handled by governments around the world has unequivocally eroded trust in public health as an institution. I'm not by any means a conspiracy theorist, but between the lies (like you'v
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
> that certain very specific substances are bad for (for the general population) if you consume them too often There are people who smoke their entire lives, die at 90, and tobacco had nothing to do with their individual deaths or even
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
Has some, yes, although it looks like at least 75% of the fleet is actually leased and not owned. Looking, though, it seems like they currently have an incredibly small market cap of only $7M (with a huge spread), so maybe you could get eno
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
This is a really interesting thing, both from an ownership structure perspective and from a "there is nuance in the details" perspective. I did a bit of a deep dive into this a few years ago when there was a local refinery strike.
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
I had the exact same thought. Pretty low probability that there's going to be a script-kiddie exploit for your custom tools. Pretty decent probability that there will be vulnerabilities present if someone cares enough to target you.
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
> That's not so easy today, and no one is running remote X anyway. I was quite recently, but even then remote X is missing a really big usability piece: keeping a long-running application open on the host and periodically connecting
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
> but AI is still terrible at understanding some critical parts of the problem I agree to some extent with regards to writing new code. One piece where I have been perpetually impressed is at asking it to put together a plausible explana
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
I’m not sure I fully understand the distinction you’re making, or if I do I’m not sure I agree. Concretely, I agree that these are very different mechanisms. Abstractly… I agree that an LLM cannot be burned. I’m not sure I agree, though, th
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
I think I was using one of the HuaHuaCS Qwen 3.6 models and was playing around with Tiananmen Square questions too. One of the funniest parts was that this instantly caused the thinking block to change from English to Chinese. The start of
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
Oh... thank you for the reminder to try running the C version of this exploit on an Android phone over adb. The curiosity is now killing me. Edit: for context, I work in embedded and the aarch64 version (PR #42 in the repo) has successfully
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
https://www.docling.ai/ I don’t know how many difference little models this uses under the hood, but I was shocked at how good it was at the couple document extraction tasks I threw it at.
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
And zero record of it ever happening as far as the carrier's concerned.
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
There’s an interesting thing there that I believe varies person to person. My understanding is that some people do think in a more symbolic/heuristic way, some rely very heavily on their inner monologue to make sense of things (I am in
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
The wild part, for me at the time, was how many steps there were from cause and effect and how perfectly they'd been reasoned through. The first time I had that experience was my first real "this LLM stuff might have some legs&quo
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
It's funny... reading this thread, I'm reminded of a friend of mine who indeed gets migraines from tomatoes. That was actually what she figured out first; the MSG connection came later.
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
> I bought a 2 in 1 and the experience is much better, simply because i can detach the keyboard and use it as a massive tablet. its not as fluid as an ipad, but most of the time its simply mildly annoying to get to the app/browser i
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
I'll throw this out as something where it has saved literally weeks of work: debugging pathological behaviour in third-party code. Prompt example: "Today, when I did U, V, and W. I ended up with X happening. I fixed it by doing Y.
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
Just to contextualize this... https://lmcache.ai/kv_cache_calculator.html . They only have smaller open models, but for Qwen3-32B with 50k tokens it's coming up with 7.62GB for the KV cache. Imagining a 900k session wit
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
"siliogogogoch" for short :)
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
While I’m not at all surprised that they’re still running, I am a little surprised at how many Farm-all owners are on HN. Farm-all H owner checking in :)
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
My in-laws use a Farm-all H around the yard for a lot of tasks. I don’t know what year it was made, but it looks like they were made from 1939-1954. It just… runs. We basically just do oil changes on it.
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by tonyarkles 6mo ago
Awesome! Yeah, I haven't used west-sans-Zephyr yet but interestingly enough NXP decided to use it for their MCUXpresso framework: https://github.com/nxp-mcuxpresso/mcuxsdk-manifests/blob/mai... I have mi

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