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by valleyer 6mo ago
Does the boss not understand that they could get Claude to write them a script and a crontab entry (so they don't have to ask you) -- and then run it forever (so they don't have to pay Anthropic, or risk temperature randomness)?
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by valleyer 6mo ago
Or, like, a cron job.
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by valleyer 6mo ago
The book is "Empire of AI". This blog post explains it pretty well: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/empire-of-ai-is-wildly-mislead... Basically, the author (of the book) compares a data center outside Santiago
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by valleyer 6mo ago
> Plus, if you live in a red state, they've likely refused to take the subsidies No. Individual states can refuse Medicaid expansion , but that does not have any bearing on the health insurance marketplace / premium tax credi
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by valleyer 6mo ago
If you're all staring at the TV, you can at least share your thoughts on the thing you're all watching together. If you're all staring at your phones, your minds are in different places. It doesn't serve the same role
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by valleyer 6mo ago
The federal government spends $850 billion per year on the DoD. Why can't it find money in there to buy toiletries and spaghetti for the soldiers and families stationed overseas? Why should communities have to pitch in (beyond their
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by valleyer 6mo ago
In this case, you cannot simply force Congress to appropriate money to a reincorporated CPB -- unless you were to get a second ruling from a judge that the rescission was unconstitutional. The Trump EO was deemed unconstitutional because he
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by valleyer 6mo ago
The CPB, the legal entity that the government actually funded (and which in turn supplied some of the funding for PBS/NPR and its stations) had its funding rescinded by Congress (under HR4 last year), and has since shuttered. It's
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by valleyer 7mo ago
Thanks for the info on the VuPoint. In general, I actually don't mind capture cards not handling deinterlacing, since (as long as I correctly understand the format it's spitting out) I can handle it myself with e.g. ffmpeg. Colo
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by valleyer 7mo ago
Looks like Santa Clara is using the VuPoint Digital Video Converter -- not familiar with this one, so I'll have to look into it. https://www.sclibrary.org/services/other-services/vhs-conver...
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by valleyer 7mo ago
Super, super cool initiative. I would be interested to know what capture hardware they're using. As someone who took on this project for my own family's videos, I ended up using the Canopus ADVC-110, which captures composite (or
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by valleyer 7mo ago
> How do you make a contribution to reduce the debt? Hilarious.
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by valleyer 7mo ago
That's not a distinction that actually exists in the real world. This makes me wonder what other made-up distinctions they are claiming in industries I'm less familiar with.
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by valleyer 7mo ago
That's not a distinction that exists in industry.
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by valleyer 7mo ago
Certainly the OS can't optimize it to a no-op, since `dd` makes separate read and write syscalls. I suppose your `dd` implementation itself could do so, but I don't know why it would.
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by valleyer 7mo ago
Thoughts on that: (1) you'd need a way to visualize the magnetic fields, (2) the data is frequency modulated, (3) due to helical scan, the video field lines do not line up evenly one over the next as they did so nicely in the Laserdisc
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by valleyer 7mo ago
Nit: ISPs don't have access to path names / query strings of browsing activity. Those are encrypted by TLS. (They're also not part of "DNS".)
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by valleyer 7mo ago
Honestly, <span content-filter-level="adult">fuck</span> that.
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by valleyer 7mo ago
What's a computer?
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by valleyer 7mo ago
Addiction. Misappropriation of others' secrets. Perverse incentives.
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by valleyer 7mo ago
I don't think it's inherently impossible, but Apple at least seems to do a really poor job at local cache management on iOS for Photos and Messages attachments. I am constantly amazed to find my non-tech-savvy relatives deleting
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by valleyer 8mo ago
As long as a mutation isn't strongly maladaptive, it can evolve prior to its being useful.
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by valleyer 8mo ago
No -- use doors.
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by valleyer 8mo ago
The first sentence of the article should make that clear. In any case, it's a pretty well-established abbreviation in US policy discussions.
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by valleyer 8mo ago
You are essentially describing the system that Codex (and, I presume, Claude Code et al.) already implements.
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by valleyer 8mo ago
If that part were running sandboxed, then it would be impossible for it to contact the OpenAI servers (to get the LLM's responses), or to spawn an unsandboxed process (for situations where the LLM requests it from the user).
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by valleyer 8mo ago
The LLM inference itself doesn't "run code" per se (it's just doing tensor math), and besides, it runs on OpenAI's servers, not your machine.
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by valleyer 8mo ago
Here's OpenAI's docs page on how they sandbox Codex: https://developers.openai.com/codex/security/ Here's the macOS kernel-enforced sandbox profile that gets applied to processes spawned by the LLM:
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by valleyer 8mo ago
Is it asking you permission to run that python command? If so, then that's expected: commands that you approve get to run without the sandbox. The point is that Codex can (by default) run commands on its own, without approval (e.g., r
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by valleyer 8mo ago
> If you look at the security measures in other coding agents, they're mostly security theater. As soon as your agent can write code and run code, it's pretty much game over. At least for Codex, the agent runs commands inside a

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