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by xyzzy123 3mo ago
> Practically speaking, is there really a difference between prompting an LLM to create a CMS for a website and installing something like WordPress or Ghost? There is some difference; when you install WordPress or Ghost, your problems ar
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by xyzzy123 3mo ago
The problem he's describing comes up any time you have a team of developers. That doesn't mean the usefulness of teams is a fantasy because you didn't write all the code yourself. If you don't have a useful mental model
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by xyzzy123 3mo ago
The incident is funny on 2 levels; a) OpenAI thought so little of the model's _actual_ security capabilities that they gave it a "wet paper bag" sandbox and b) OpenAI failed to use AI to accelerate their security processes.
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by xyzzy123 3mo ago
Food is allocated using a variety of mechanisms in peaceful first world countries, primarily money but also via government assistance, kinship, friendship, community, etc. At any given time many people have problems with one or more of thos
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by xyzzy123 3mo ago
I like your moxie and I also agree Australia is an over-regulated racket... but I'm also glad my neighbours aren't mass farming frogs or cockroaches in my suburb without talking to the council first. My brother had a neighbour bui
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by xyzzy123 3mo ago
If we take a contested issue like the origins of COVID-19, the facts are detailed, complex, contradictory and ambiguous. They also don't make narrative sense without some degree of interpretation. Interpretations of complex webs of fac
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by xyzzy123 4mo ago
In Sydney Australia its < 2 days of median rent.
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by xyzzy123 4mo ago
If you jerk off a horse just for the love of the game, you're a criminal and that's abuse. But if you're paid to do it (e.g. for insemination) that's fine. The act is the same, seems doubtful the horse is harmed. What so
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by xyzzy123 4mo ago
I feel like the build threshold discussed is _extremely_ optimistic? > But does that always hold true? Let’s take the other side for a second by examining a much higher-priced SaaS product. Gemini reports that the price of a fully loaded
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by xyzzy123 4mo ago
I wonder if what you're noticing in Fabrice's code is a lack of _abstraction_ beyond whats obviously needed to get the job done. It's not spaghetti IMHO, I think its what code looks like when you're smart enough to just
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by xyzzy123 4mo ago
I use hermes with crons and kanban for this. I have a "self driving" homelab where upgrades & config changes happen in a non-prod ct before being applied to "prod" (just, a diff ct). Its mainly compose stacks with da
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by xyzzy123 4mo ago
> You and I can still trade with each other, no robots need be involved. Unless one of us happens to be a food producer we will both starve. We need our trade graph to be connected to resources we need. Production also tends to need excl
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by xyzzy123 4mo ago
The materials in a 60hz transformer I think are the main BOM cost for linears? Relatively, transformers are say 2x cheaper than in 1970 (steel and copper are relatively MORE expensive than they used to be but the manufacturing improved) - b
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by xyzzy123 4mo ago
The real sandbox is not caring if your computer gets bricked.
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by xyzzy123 4mo ago
Recursive improvement for me but not for thee.
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by xyzzy123 4mo ago
Right; most kids won't be very interested unless they're around other people who seem genuinely interested. They key their learning effort off perceived relevance. Perversely, bad school environments can kill interest instead of n
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by xyzzy123 4mo ago
Feels like an interesting trend where a "solution" for parent anxiety (and to be fair, vastly increased societal expectations around what "care" looks like) is proposed to be electronic surveillance. It's a kid trac
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
It is not "multiculturalism" in the way that word would be used in say, Canada. They have quotas to prevent enclaves, they actively manage immigration to keep it about 3/4 Chinese, there are a lot of restrictions on speech an
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
I feel like the shape of the market right now for "home lab" inference is: The sparks are good if your ultimate plan is to spend even more on NVidia hardware in future to run your dev setups at usable speeds. Or, you're devel
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
Or like a m4 max? This thing has <300GB/s vs the max with 550GB/s All those CUDA cores in the sparks but they're starved for memory bandwidth. I am still waiting for NVidia to release a system that legit beats 3090 maxxing
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
From the perspective of pre-history, anyone living in a western country is in a post-scarcity society. Practically no one starves. The murder rate is down by crazy numbers. I'm not sure how much of a problem racism was at that time, bu
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
Thanks; I didn't spot that they disabled tools in the harness. Also they don't provide an "out" to allow the models to express uncertainty so the instructions force a guess to be made. As an aside though it's still
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
> "On May 18, 2026, Ukraine carried out a drone attack on Moscow, Russia" I actually don't know which way you came down on that one? I think strictly it's false but "mostly true" would be justifiable? (as in
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
iOS always had a strong focus on security but if you take the time period say 2005 - 2015 it did not seem like there was much investment in macOS security at Apple. I am talking about stuff like exploit mitigations and relatively low hangin
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
Agree that pre Apple Silicon, macOS didn't get much focus. Fair point historically.
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
What's your thinking on this? From my perspective Apple security go pretty hard. They have a strong track record of being able to ship architectural mitigations like PACs / MIE / Exclaves first. I guess because Apple control
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
Structurally the way it works is that the AMA or ALPA or what have you lobby for regulations that just so happen to limit supply, and heavily push back whenever anyone proposes regulations that would loosen it, usually on safety / qual
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
These "unions" in high paying fields behave more like guilds or cartels than worker's unions - they generally restrict supply. Athletes and Hollywood unions are sort of special cases too, IMHO. I don't think it's re
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
I find this complaint hard to square when US developers earn "moon money" compared to both: a) fields requiring similar levels of expertise like EE or Mech-E and b) international developers in similar roles. Plus, equity. [GIF of
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by xyzzy123 5mo ago
There’s no discussion about risk, investment or variance in the post. I want my life to be uniquely GREAT but unless you apply a bit of strategy the outcome of "do improbable things" could just as well be uniquely BAD. Everyone no

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