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by zargon 3y ago
When I lost my cat of 13 years, the first few weeks were terrible. Even just the feeling of emptiness in the house. And everything reminded me of her. For 6 months I could not talk about her without crying. But it's OK to feel this. I
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by zargon 3y ago
I have mentioned it elsewhere in the thread, so I feel slightly uncomfortable mentioning it repeatedly because I don't want be a walking advertisement, but it's Trupanion.
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by zargon 3y ago
I'm not really familiar with how much dogs cost, but it seems like large dogs just cost a lot. I just did a quote for a small 2 year old dog (Maltipoo), and got $55/month. A 2 year old cat is $38/month. (I enrolled my cats as
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by zargon 3y ago
My insurance policy does not have any maximums. Your second sentence is nonsensical.
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by zargon 3y ago
My comparison is to a young healthy pet who reaches end of life, as pets tend to do. I did the math, including interest on self-insurance savings and deductibles and co-pays. In my circumstance, insurance would have saved me thousands of do
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by zargon 3y ago
In my specific situation, I would have paid less money with insurance for just the diagnostics, not counting any procedures. (For a 16 year old cat.) Definitely do the math, but emergencies and diseases of old age can become extremely expen
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by zargon 3y ago
I self-insured my previous cat. About a year after she passed of cancer, when I felt I was ready for another pet, I did the math for insurance. I would have paid a lot less with the insurance plan I found. So my new cats have insurance. The
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by zargon 3y ago
In the US, Canada, and Australia, it's Trupanion. It doesn't cover routine wellness costs (exams, shots, teeth cleanings). But it covers virtually everything else at 90% with a $250 deductible. No annual limits or lifetime limits.
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by zargon 3y ago
Cherokee Purple and Black Krim are two of my favorites, but they admittedly don't always grow quite as vigorously as some other (less tasty) varieties. Still, they grow 5 to 6 feet high and produce 40+ pounds of fruit per plant. And th
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by zargon 3y ago
It would be surprising to me if their internal engineers don't already have access to a model trained on internal Microsoft code.
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by zargon 3y ago
4-bit quantized 180B will not fit in 64GB. You'll need need over 100 GB for that.
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A Tale of Three Bidirectional Level Shifters(bigmessowires.com)
2 points by zargon 3y ago|0 comments
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by zargon 3y ago
The technique is called reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). It's how, for example, Facebook can train Llama models to meet a certain safety score before releasing them into the wild.
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Lost Cat Behavior(missinganimalresponse.com)
3 points by zargon 3y ago|0 comments
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by zargon 3y ago
It was clearly a joke, not intended to fool anyone. People have been writing technobabble for at least a century before ChatGPT. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator
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by zargon 3y ago
Probably Kiwi Farms or whatever it has evolved into these days.
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by zargon 3y ago
This fact only makes the problem even worse.
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by zargon 3y ago
If those were novels I might read some of them.
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by zargon 3y ago
> their dev tools are dogshit I agree with you except for this. Microsoft has, since the '90s, always had top-tier dev tools. They're a different ecosystem than unixy development, and hence incompatible and unfamiliar with a di
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by zargon 3y ago
And the thing was, in those days when Firefox was a memory hog, it was a 32-bit process. So it was limited to a max of 4GB anyway. It made efficient use of that 4GB and worked surprisingly well with 1000 tabs, even though there were inconve
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by zargon 3y ago
The website has a better view of that. https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ Scroll down to the variants section, where you can choose presets and it will show the set of characters and highlight the ones that are modified in th
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by zargon 3y ago
Open source is about freedom to modify the product. So in the context of an LLM, the source code is the data and the code that processes the data during *training* (not only inference), as that is what generates the weights.
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by zargon 3y ago
Llama isn't open source either. But if I understand your point correctly, you're saying that the commercial use axis is what is important to people, and it's orthogonal to freeware vs open source. In the present environment,
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by zargon 3y ago
It's not open source, it's freeware or something like that. Weights aren't the source code of LLMs, they're the binaries.
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by zargon 3y ago
Does this require OEMs to sell the batteries? Because third party batteries tend to be time bombs, in my experience.
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by zargon 3y ago
This has been my experience with my T14s Gen 3 (6850U). S3 sleep is no longer available, and S0 sleep fails to resume at least once a week. Even in Windows (10 and 11). I eventually got them to replace the machine with a new one, and it has
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by zargon 3y ago
It blocks *all* (non-monitored) extensions from running on *some* websites. What it should do is block *specific* extensions from running on *all* sites. The security justification doesn't align with what they actually did.
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by zargon 3y ago
I haven't played mods, but in vanilla Factorio I have never felt rushed at all by biters.
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by zargon 3y ago
Pulp capping is probably what you're referring to about more conservative treatment before a root canal.
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by zargon 3y ago
The Frankenstein stuff usually involves mixing package repos. Software distributed as a stand-alone .deb is generally pretty self-contained. I personally usually leave them alone. If you're following along with the upgrade instructions

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