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by wongarsu 7mo ago
We need more people like you in government
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
There's the obvious meme of "the US used to be able to do it, but can they still do it?". That wouldn't stand in question if the US had say a Mars mission, but if all the US can show are some low earth orbit activities w
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
So you were actually pledging under duress. Contracts and statements made under duress are usually treated as null and void, so you have that going for you. Still highly unethical of that teacher
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
"exactly 24 hours" could still be anywhere between 86399 and 86401 seconds, depending on leap seconds. At least if by an hour you mean an interval of 60 minutes, because a minute that contains a leap second will have either 59 or
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Better developer UX can directly lead to better safety. "You are holding it wrong" is a frequent source of security bugs, and better UX reduces the ways you can hold it wrong, or at least makes you more likely to hold it the right
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The threat of a Chinese moon landing keeps the Artemis program alive. As long as Artemis is slowly working towards the goal of eventually landing Americans on the surface of the moon and eventually building a habitat they can be injected wi
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Always a bit harder to tell with marketing pieces because both LLMs and marketing love certain patterns and heavily lean on saying things that seem meaningful but are actually non-sequiturs. But I agree that this seems at least LLM-assisted
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> 141 countries appeared in the dataset. US organisations are the most frequent targets at 40%, but the remaining 60% spans six continents. European subsidiaries, APAC operations, and Latin American offices are all represented Love how t
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> In practice you will tend to have a few, but you won't be vendoring out critical things like HTTP, TCP, JSON, string sanitation, cryptography Unless you are Python, where the standard library includes multiple HTTP libraries and e
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brb, switching everything to 9 days
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Don't forget about regional holidays, which might follow arbitrary borders that don't match any of the official subdivisions of the country. Or may even depend on the chosen faith of the worker
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Seconds are also unambiguous. Depending on your chosen definition, "X days" may or may not be influenced by leap seconds and DST changes. I doubt anyone cares about an hour more or less in this context. But if you want multiple im
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
I've used two touchscreen laptops during the Windows 7 era, and I'd largely agree with Jobs. It's great for some niche cases, but sits unused 99% of the time. Of course that was before Windows 8 completely redesigned the UI t
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There was also that one paper that had very noticeable benchmark improvements in non-thinking models by just writing the prompt twice. The same paper remarked how thinking models often repeat the relevant parts of the prompt, achieving the
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However output tokens are 5-10 times more expensive. So it ends up a lot more even on price
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Many of them are promising not to store any of this. Of course we have to trust them, for all we know they are all funded by various spy agencies
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Yes. I would not consider Kimi a particularly good model relative to its size, and making a SotA model is a lot more expensive. But training costs are explicitly excluded when talking about the cost to serve tokens
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Yeah, that's unfortunate. But the same is true of lots of other crimes. No way to unstab someone. Usually we account for that by setting a higher punishment
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The original assumption behind CCTV was that it's recorded but realistically never seen, or maybe seen by one person staring at a bunch of screens at once. That's what made it acceptable. Of course this has changed drastically, bu
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I can get Kimi K2.5 inference on openrouter for about $0.5/MTok input + $2.5/MTok output, from six providers that have no moat besides efficiently selling GPU time. We can assume they are doing so at a profit (they have no incenti
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I struggle to see how this clock would be less practical to use with a 24 hour system Or if we want to keep the numbers small to make them easier to read in this clock's numerals, why not a 6 hour system?
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Once upon a time we had whois lookup for exactly that usecase (finding a domain's owner without visiting the site). Of course now nearly everyone has meaningless entries from some domain privacy service
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An easy claim to make if you only check with species from one star system
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I assume you are against them due to the silent forest hypothesis? Better not announce ourselves, because anything out there might not be friendly to us?
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Take decades to catch up to the location of either voyager probe. The probes have be traveling for a long time. They have also taken advantage of a rare planetary alignment that allowed them to visit a lot of planets and get gravity assists
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Visiting this many planets was only possible due to a very rare alignment. It's a once a century event. That's why we sent two probes, not just one
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But with the monkey there are two levels of separation from the artist: the human makes the creative decision to hand the camera to a monkey, who presses the trigger, and the camera makes the picture. Compared to the single layer of separat
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Just like we settled on photographers havin copyright on the works created by their camera. The same arguments seem to apply The US Copyright Office has published a piece that argues otherwise, but a) unless they pass regulation their opini
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The Windows 2000 and Windows XP sources are readily available and must have made it into the training data. But most software has dropped XP support. You really need at least some of the Win 8 and Win 10 APIs to claim compatibility with mod
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This is also supported by the Opus degradation tracker [1]. The dotted line is when they switched from Opus 4.5 to 4.6. There's no difference on statistically significant difference the tested benchmark. 1: https://marginlab

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