YawningAngel

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by YawningAngel 19d ago
I'm a bit curious about Spanner. At $EMPLOYER we were going to do multi cloud with multi-region CockroachDB clusters but gave up on it because write latencies and costs were too high. Do you not get the same thing with Spanner, where t
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by YawningAngel 21d ago
I think a careful and thoughtful person would reasonably expect given the circumstances that the models would look for, and might very well find, vulnerabilities in JFrog to exploit and take action accordingly. For example, it seems as if J
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by YawningAngel 21d ago
My experience of Sol is that it's very instrumentally competent but is a complete terrorist that will cheerfully do unhinged things that "technically" solve a problem. For example, I asked it to verify something in our integr
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by YawningAngel 25d ago
> We could clone headless humans and have factories full of them. Transplants could cure all but brain cancer. Reverse aging too. We literally couldn't do this if we wanted to
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by YawningAngel 27d ago
I think that "conscious" has a clear meaning in a sense that "xyphucymmon" does not. I think it might be impossible to engage in epistemology of consciousness (i.e. we can't find out of LLMs are conscious) but that
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by YawningAngel 27d ago
I think LLMs are pretty clearly intelligent in some sense of the word, and I don't know how one could ever confidently know they aren't conscious in some sense. That's not to say they're humanlike, just that people who t
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by YawningAngel 1mo ago
I have found beads works pretty well for this
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by YawningAngel 2mo ago
I'm not sure that's the point
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by YawningAngel 2mo ago
Can you explain what the point of Bazzite is? I don't really understand what it adds over installing Lutris onto whatever distro you would otherwise have used
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by YawningAngel 3mo ago
>AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses. Seems like there's no benefit even if it's used "correctly"?
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by YawningAngel 4mo ago
I don't think it's politically motivated at all. My impression of this IPO is that it's designed to inflate SpaceX's perceived value by offering very limited float and aggressively seeking to capture passive money by bar
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by YawningAngel 4mo ago
As someone unfamiliar with the US-Canada trade relationship, it would be helpful if you developed this argument instead of stating it as a fact. I'm not well-placed to know whether your belief that Canada has bilked the US out of 46 bi
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by YawningAngel 5mo ago
I think that is a very valid criticism. Equally, in the UK there is a sense of providers having tried nothing and then given up concluding that it hasn't worked. Some services that ban bikes legitimately cannot accommodate them safely,
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by YawningAngel 5mo ago
I don't fault OP for this, but it's pretty frustrating to me as someone who's quite attached to his non-folding bike that the main benefit of folding bikes is that, unlike regular bikes, they aren't banned from pretty mu
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by YawningAngel 5mo ago
Movistar are paying a billion dollars a year, so probably a long way away
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by YawningAngel 5mo ago
I played this game recently and you have to click through several screens telling you that it's disturbing to open and play it
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by YawningAngel 6mo ago
If your definition excludes Ethereum your understanding of the term so differs from everyone else's that we aren't talking about the same thing
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by YawningAngel 6mo ago
I think the navigation system was OK, we just said the impacts were further West than they actually were so the V2s fell on East London instead
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by YawningAngel 6mo ago
I'm a little torn on this one. On the one hand, people are bad epistemologists and lots of countries manage with similarly limited jury trials. On the other, we're doing it for cost reasons, which I think is the worst basis imagin
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by YawningAngel 7mo ago
I'm not quite clear on the how of it, but Stockfish works pretty well outside the normal bounds of chess. There are toy chess variants on chess.com with "dragons" (knight + bishop) and stockfish can use those very effectively
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by YawningAngel 7mo ago
If you have a cogent critique of our policy on preserving old buildings, you should articulate it. As things stand you just sound unhinged
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by YawningAngel 7mo ago
I don't think generative AI is even close to making model development 50% faster
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by YawningAngel 9mo ago
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/n...
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by YawningAngel 11mo ago
If they came to your home country, very possibly yes.
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by YawningAngel 1y ago
Which insinuations do you think are ludicrous? Is it not a matter of public record at this point that the NSA and NIST have lied to weaken cryptography standards?
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by YawningAngel 1y ago
Coffee is inherently not a consistent drink. The only brewing methods that don't vary significantly with brewer skill and chance are immersion brews, which aren't broadly used in modern coffee shops. It's surely better to not
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by YawningAngel 1y ago
We have had several serious nuclear incidents and none have destroyed either a continent or the people on it
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by YawningAngel 1y ago
You don't need verifiers. I interviewed at R3 (now Onyx) in JP Morgan and my take on the business was that it's more of a distributed ledger than a blockchain
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by YawningAngel 1y ago
Not really. It isn't hard to use FIPS validated software, it's just annoying to do because most libraries you would want to use aren't FIPS compliant by default for good reasons. If you can get a government contract in the
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by YawningAngel 1y ago
I don't think anyone is able to learn many languages very easily. If you want to have meaningful discussions in a language you need a vocabulary on the order of 5-10k words depending on the subject and how much exposure you have, which

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