Delk

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by Delk 5d ago
> In the last decade, keeping my OS on a different volume from my data in `/home` has saved my work at least 5-10 times. Mine is of course just another anecdote, but despite seeing some crashes or hangs over the years, I can't
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by Delk 22d ago
I think the first release of Windows 95 did include TCP/IP networking support. I remember using it. But I think it wasn't installed by default, so you had to go and install it separately via the control panel.
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by Delk 24d ago
I remember at least Civilization II, Descent II, Settlers II, Outcast, and I think some rallying game I had as using Redbook audio. The industrial soundtrack of Descent II was actually pretty good. The interwebs also mention G-Police, which
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by Delk 24d ago
The sandboxed application would be something you explicitly chose to run. When the browser is the platform, every web page you visit has access to the general-purpose runtime. (Of course permission checks e.g. for microphones exist.)
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by Delk 1mo ago
It was actually reasonably common around the mid 90's for game CDs to have their music as audio tracks on the CD. I guess there was a point when CD-ROM was the target format anyway but game content hadn't necessarily grown to fill
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by Delk 1mo ago
That has been the trend for decades in lots of other developed countries as well. It doesn't have to be in any way because of increased means of surveillance.
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by Delk 1mo ago
> There is no objective evidence of qualia. You can argue there's no objective evidence for qualia in others than oneself, but I'm sure you know you have subjective experience just as I know I do. > All of these appeals to d
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by Delk 1mo ago
Sure, but those internal states could then exist for just about any program, or at the very least for any ANN. Nobody in their right minds would have suggested that those might have been aware before the rise of generative models. When peop
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by Delk 2mo ago
I just don't think linguistic (or other symbolic) representations alone can contain the information, in any sense of the word, of what e.g. human subjective experiences actually are like. The concepts we express with language get their
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by Delk 2mo ago
I wasn't trying to give a model. The point was that I don't think it's necessary to give one. You didn't address any of what I wrote, let alone provide any counterarguments. Which part of what I wrote do you think was wr
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by Delk 2mo ago
I honestly don't think a language model is enough for self-awareness, regardless of the exact model of awareness. A language model (or an image model or whatever) cannot even be sentient, and I think sentience is a prerequisite for awa
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by Delk 2mo ago
16 GiB was good 11 years ago but laptops were also sold around that time that maxed out at 8 GiB due to limited slots or soldered memory. And lots of laptops are still being sold today with 16 GiB of memory soldered in, with no upgrade poss
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by Delk 2mo ago
Police do need authority and respect in order to do their jobs, of course. But at the same time their position of power and their role as maintainers of public peace mean they should have a thicker skin rather than thinner. They should be
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by Delk 2mo ago
> a tiny minority of people care about [...] You know, unlike the minor issues of war and peace and hunger and poverty and economics and minority rights et cetera :) The complexity and realism of some particular regulation aside, I hones
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by Delk 3mo ago
> I experience some habituation actually. I suppose it can be quite different for different people. I stopped using it because it often (not always) made me still feel tired and unfocused in the morning, something that apparently also do
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by Delk 3mo ago
AFAIK mirtazapine shouldn't cause habituation the way actual "sleeping pills" or benzodiazepines do. That's one of the reasons it may be preferable as a sleeping aid, especially in the longer term. Anecdotally, when I to
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by Delk 3mo ago
Shortcuts, mostly. The shortcut for toggling fullscreen in Firefox is F11. Many default shortcuts in JetBrains IDEs also use function keys. The keymap can be changed, of course, so you can design your own keymap to avoid F keys, but that&#x
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by Delk 3mo ago
Maybe it's the advice that's usually right.
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by Delk 4mo ago
I'm not asking for LLM tools to be similar to compilers, or saying that they can't be useful if they aren't. I know rather well that the two are different, and that's the point. Because LLMs aren't deterministic in
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by Delk 4mo ago
> From what I've seen in these HN discussions, most people are using "determinism" when they really mean "prompt sensitivity", i.e. minor variations in framing leading to different results. This, in turn, confuse
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by Delk 4mo ago
In my (admittedly limited) experience, a verbose and elaborate writing style is also traditionally more common in humanities whereas scientific or technical writing favours a rather more terse and matter-of-fact style. I don't know abo
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by Delk 5mo ago
Sounds like the short answer is "because there was no standard for the variable set by MS-DOS from the get go". The background is that the issue hadn't existed in CP/M because there hadn't been environment variables
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by Delk 5mo ago
I think #2 is actually circular, or perhaps rather contradictory. In order to be able to have an illusion one would have to be conscious in the first place. Or how would you have an illusion of something if you're not aware enough to e
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by Delk 5mo ago
You could do all of those things on an OS with proper security separation as long as you have full root access. There's no megacorp stopping you from reading and writing kernel memory. Unless, of course, the computer refuses to run sof
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by Delk 5mo ago
> I’m still at where when I connect external hard drive or SSD via USB, use it and then eject it, I shut down the MacBook Pro completely before I unplug the cable. Just in case. That sounds... a bit paranoid? At least on Linux (Gnome), i
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by Delk 6mo ago
A lot of that probably came down to the motherboard chipset. IIRC Intel made their own chipsets for the Pentium III and they were good and reliable. Athlons were coupled with chipsets from VIA and whatnot. Some of those chipsets were fine a
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by Delk 7mo ago
I almost never get Firefox crashes on Linux, and I don't remember seeing significant slowdowns with text boxes either, at least not simple ones. How long are the inputs that you get problems with?
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by Delk 7mo ago
If running low on memory seems to matter less now than it did a couple of decades ago, I'd rather say that's because fast SSDs make swapping a lot faster. Even though virtual memory and swapping were available even on PCs since Wi
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by Delk 7mo ago
What do you do to address health concerns before they become ER-level?
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by Delk 7mo ago
> Remember, a hash is a "one way function". It isn't invertible (that would defeat the purpose!). It is a surjective function. Meaning that reversing the function results in a non-unique output. This is a bit of a nitpick

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