ufmace

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by ufmace 7mo ago
That seems a bit contrived to me. Okay, that particular place is pretty deeply nested, but it's clearly a regular menu tucked away in there, with a option to show the menu bar. If you turn that on, then those options are half as deep.
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by ufmace 7mo ago
Fedora works well with it for me, no complaints. Though I haven't yet used it through a major version update.
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by ufmace 7mo ago
The part that always struck me as weird about this stuff is that all of these "agents" with their "personas" are the same baseline LLMs with the same training ultimately, just told to basically pretend they're diffe
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by ufmace 7mo ago
Perhaps anti-oil activists would have been a better term. That seems more plainly true to me. They might or might not have had more valid cases in their respective pasts. But it doesn't seem right to me to term themselves "trial m
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by ufmace 8mo ago
I don't think it's a money thing really. IIRC the regular XZ creator/maintainer had a regular job and enough money already, and it was more of a burnout thing from dealing with the usual hassles of OSS. Which means what it re
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by ufmace 8mo ago
If you wrote a science fiction novel around the idea that we make computing devices by blasting fine drops of tin in a vacuum with a laser exactly 3 times at exactly 100,000 drops per second, nobody would believe it. Truth is crazier than f
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by ufmace 8mo ago
Why not lean into it instead of becoming a wet blanket? Just look at the trench every few hours or so, and if it gets too deep, tell them about and help them with setting up some shoring.
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by ufmace 8mo ago
This gets near something I was thinking about. Most of the numbers seem to assume that injuries, injury severity, and deaths are all some fixed proportion of each other. But is that really true in the context of self-driving cars of all typ
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by ufmace 8mo ago
The best way to understand why it isn't widespread is to spend 10 minutes attempting to use it to actually chat with some people you know. I don't know which issues you'll run into, but it's virtually guaranteed you&#x27
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by ufmace 8mo ago
Have you checked whether the work laptop's bad battery life is due to the OS, or due to the mountain of crapware security and monitoring stuff that many corporations put on all their computers? I currently have a M3 Pro for a work lapt
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by ufmace 8mo ago
I think a VPN likely hurts more than it helps. Maybe they can't tell your IP address anymore, but they have a ton of ways of tracking through it anyways. It probably hurts more by marking you as someone willing to shell out too much mo
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by ufmace 8mo ago
It's only discussed in a similarly ambiguous way - like that they know noise is a potential problem that they're working on. Though to be fair, the designers probably have no idea themselves, since apparently nobody has built a pr
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by ufmace 8mo ago
I have a feeling it's too little, too late, even if it's completely true and sincere, which I doubt at this point. I can't help but wonder if they're in the process of losing an entire generation of tech enthusiasts to L
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by ufmace 8mo ago
It's more that you don't seem to engage much with the trade-offs of all of the possible options. This debate has been going on for decades and society has swung back and forth multiple times already. "Let's enforce thing
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by ufmace 8mo ago
In addition to what the sibling said regarding the impracticality of not driving in most of the US, which I completely agree with, I'd also ask exactly what you want to do with your "fast feedback loop to catch people driving with
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by ufmace 8mo ago
I don't think I'd want to take much from such a statistical result yet. A sample size of 1 accident just isn't enough information to get a real rate from, not that I want to see more collisions with children. Though this is a
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by ufmace 8mo ago
That's true, but note that getting much more severe on enforcement and punishment for DUI/OWI will result in an even higher prison population, more serious life consequences for poor and minorities, etc, when the US is constantly
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by ufmace 8mo ago
> More than 50% of roadway fatalities involve drugs or alcohol. If you want to spend your efforts improving safety _anywhere_ it's right here. Self driving cars do not stand a chance of improving outcomes as much as sensible policy
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by ufmace 9mo ago
I haven't seen any web apps that seem to be intentionally unusable, or any belonging to banks, personally at least. I don't think anybody is doing this as a publicly announced policy. But I have seen several websites for major ins
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by ufmace 9mo ago
I don't think it's the same. On older Apple hardware, it just keeps on running on the older OS version. You don't get some new features or styling of the new OS, but nothing else changes. On Windows, it periodically brings up
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by ufmace 9mo ago
There's a little bit of considering it already yeah. Plus what the sibling comments say of it being clearly against what Microsoft wants, so no guarantee they won't disable it or make it even harder in the future. And also, the fa
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by ufmace 9mo ago
I'm in the exact same boat. I was a little unhappy with the ads etc in Windows, but perfectly willing to give Windows 11 a try. But Microsoft decreed that my admittedly a bit old but perfectly workable CPU was incompatible, due to not
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by ufmace 9mo ago
I get what you're saying, but I don't think punishing bad behavior is practical here. It's like a "enumerating badness" problem - there's way more bad actors with nothing to lose and not much practical way to p
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by ufmace 9mo ago
That's just the thing though - it seems like, to get really good code out of an LLM, a lot of the time, you have to describe everything you want done and the full context in such excruciating detail and go through so many rounds of rev
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by ufmace 9mo ago
https://archive.ph/N4thi
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by ufmace 9mo ago
What I'm wondering - their future cash flow may be massive compared to any conceivable rational task, but the market for servers and datacenters seems to be pretty saturated right now. Maybe, for all their available capital, they just
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by ufmace 9mo ago
Okay, it makes sense that that's what it is. Still, it seems to me like that's more of an optimization technique that's applicable to certain specific scenarios rather than a mindset to view all software development as. I hav
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by ufmace 9mo ago
I don't get the "individual" vs "grouped" element thing at all. I guess you could interpret everything as a list, where null is actually empty list, but it seems like that would be a ton of boilerplate and architect
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by ufmace 9mo ago
Oh, I've run Linux on the desktop before all right, for years. I eventually decided, at the time, that Windows was drastically better at "just working" for desktop applications and it wasn't worth the bother. Now, though
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by ufmace 9mo ago
I disagree with AI being part of the OS. IMO, any desktop OS should have absolutely nothing to do with AI. It's only a platform for managing other applications and resources. Remote AI stuff should be on websites only, available only i

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