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by zephen 8mo ago
You have to think about the training data, which has much content far outside the context of pure software. You have all the real life Harvey Weinsteins and Andrew Tates, and you have all the bodice-ripper fiction, and probably lots of othe
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by zephen 8mo ago
Yeah, LLMs are so sexy. S- Security E- Exploitable X- Exfiltration Y- Your base belong to us.
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by zephen 8mo ago
I hadn't heard that, but certainly, there must have been many times when Intel held the crown of "biggest working hunk of silicon area devoted to RAM."
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by zephen 8mo ago
> CPUs now dedicate a ton of silicon to decoding the CISC stream into RISC-y microcode. In absolute terms, this is true. But in relative terms, you're talking less than 1% of the die area on a modern, heavily cached, heavily specul
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by zephen 8mo ago
It turns out I'll never get those three minutes back.
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by zephen 8mo ago
Thanks. I saw everybody responding as if there might be at least a modicum of gravitas there, and thought I was suffering a stroke, or was pulled into another dimension.
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by zephen 8mo ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned zig. Surely its "bring your own allocator" paradigm also allows this.
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by zephen 8mo ago
> Entire libraries are a weird sort of exception. Not really. The entire point of the article is that there are a lot of problem domains where data stays on a single machine, or at least a single type of machine.
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by zephen 8mo ago
Right, I should have written governmental immunity. In any case, it's a losing lawsuit.
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by zephen 8mo ago
> is that you _did_ judge them by a standard used for weapons manufacturers. I think any of these companies will attempt to get away with whatever the fuck they can. That has fuckall to do with your rhetorical question of: > That&#x27
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by zephen 8mo ago
It's not about the standard we should judge them by, which is equivalent to how we think they should act. It's about how we think they will act. Especially when it comes to sales to the US military, I have no expectations abou
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by zephen 8mo ago
A few years ago I would have believed this. But then, I would have also believed that youtube would have been sued into oblivion before it even got established, and that uber and lyft would not have been able to sidestep all the municipal r
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by zephen 8mo ago
> owners sued firemen for pulling water hoses through their cars after breaking the windows - the law was not allowing it even if the line through the car was the only option. I'll bet anything you have no citation for this. Soverei
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by zephen 8mo ago
Doesn't matter. There will always be some company willing to sell to even the worst person, in any product category. The response that companies have to boycotts, and the results of the boycotts themselves, are fractally chaotic at b
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by zephen 8mo ago
Ahhh, direct to consumer. Where either it's a computer program (website) that knows nothing about you, or cutco. If you think you wouldn't find a cutco representative to sell to you, you're on some good reality-altering drugs
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by zephen 8mo ago
So now it's "luxury" kitchen knives? Goalposts moved.
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by zephen 8mo ago
Meh. Not sure why knife dealers would be assumed to be more moral than firearms dealers. See, e.g. Delana v. CED Sales (Missouri) > the bad PR (see the "found out" and "direct to consumer" part) would make you a h
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by zephen 8mo ago
Your contention that Trump's administration is big tent is risible. Political witch hunts, women and minorities forced out of the military, and kicking out all the allied countries that used to be in the tent with us? Bullshit of the f
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by zephen 8mo ago
The knife manufacturer would be more than happy to continue to sell to you, except for that minor little detail that you're in jail.
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by zephen 8mo ago
He's reading the room. No, not this room. The one with Hegseth in it. Look at his other comments. He's not wrong.
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by zephen 8mo ago
> if the directive had never been made public, would that blog post exist? You're ignoring the sequence of events on the ground. If there hadn't been any been any internal pushback from Anthropic, would the directive have ever
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by zephen 8mo ago
P.P.S. "Honor-based" has a historic meaning. It is you who are attempting to change it. That... Usually doesn't go well. https://social.psych.iastate.edu/about-my-research/research-...
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by zephen 8mo ago
> But of course, if I adopt a religion's or legal system's idea of morality as my personal compass (certainly the easiest way to go, and easily installed in youth) ... then the distinction falls apart. That's obviously par
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by zephen 8mo ago
"Honor-based" has a specific meaning, and it is not good. If the parent is torn about whether this is good or bad, they're really not paying attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing http
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by zephen 8mo ago
I think you're missing the point. Or, on re-reading, the parent is missing the point. "Honor culture" or "Culture of honor" is the term for people who are thin-skinned, quick to offense, and worried more about appe
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by zephen 8mo ago
Security is a series of trade-offs, which in the worst case disallows anybody from doing anything. In the simplest case, if a person has two different sets of systems they desire to access from a cellphone, and an unwillingness to carry two
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by zephen 8mo ago
Have one source of truth is a universal guideline. Prefer structs over classes is a universal, if weak, guideline. It's funny how people can be all hung up on composability of things like type systems, and then completely blow off the
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by zephen 8mo ago
Obviously to you and me, but you can see comments right here where others disagree. And the detractors certainly have momentum in certain segments on their side. Historically, of course, it was languages like Fortran and COBOL and even Smal
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by zephen 8mo ago
The invariant of index < count, of course, only works when using Djikstra's half-open indexing standard, which seems to have a few very vocal detractors.
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by zephen 8mo ago
Yeah, no thanks. My instincts about raku were always that perl was too fiddly, so why would I want perl 6, and this isn't doing anything to dissuade me from that position.

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