abotsis

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by abotsis 1mo ago
I love the keyboard casually hanging off the desk like it’s not 20lbs!
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by abotsis 2mo ago
No- and that’s the point. Any open weights model, regardless of the origin can be abliterated. So effectively he’s saying he’s all for open weights models as long as they’re safe, which by the very nature you can’t guarantee.
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by abotsis 2mo ago
I’m simply making the point that any model can be abliterated to sidestep guardrails. It’s similar to the argument that open source software like nmap or netcat shouldn’t be allowed because it can be used for evil. To continue the analogy,
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by abotsis 2mo ago
China releasing open weight models, powerful or not, does nothing to prevent their development of models they’ll use for evil. Nor does it stop someone from abliterating a non-Chinese model and using it for evil. Sorry- I don’t see any othe
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by abotsis 10mo ago
I’ve been looking at incus, and some aspects are appealing (creating a vm/container via cli). But I think proxmox having better clustering, and built in support for ceph, backups (with proxmox backup server)… proxmox just had a little
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by abotsis 11mo ago
Ha! I do the same thing at about the same time age. That was turbo pascal. I also got suspended for writing a TSR in turbo pascal during library time that used inline assembly. It scrolled “hello there, how are you today?” In the 5 characte
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by abotsis 1y ago
Whatever you choose, make sure you leave enough money in your budget for a second printer. Easiest way to double your print throughput :)
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by abotsis 1y ago
I wonder what would happen if you repeated the test while going into the office constantly for a few months. Would you develop better habits to alleviate the distractions?
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by abotsis 1y ago
I feel like people almost pay that already with pair programming.
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by abotsis 1y ago
I usually buy AppleCare+ for my new products (laptop, etc). I think an awesome use case here is the “hand me downs” that my 8yo gets. All are out of warranty, but he’s a lot tougher and more clumsy with the equipment. Covering all that (Mac
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by abotsis 1y ago
I’ll often buy a game (esp an Indie game) and just not have time to play it. I don’t have a ton of free time, so if a game doesn’t immediately draw me in and keep my attention, I don’t play it. I think that’s pretty common. I’ll also buy ga
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by abotsis 1y ago
Yea, it’s too easy. Maybe if it were a “guess the number” but in binary? Hints are just “too high” or “too low”? …though now that I’m playing it in my head that’s too easy too. (Start at MSB and shift right if too high and add bits if too l
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by abotsis 1y ago
I continue to be happy that Apple continues to enhance and embrace the posix side of osx vs gradually stripping it away in some kind of attempt to make it more like iOS.
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by abotsis 2y ago
Is this a big surprise? The law banning it was rooted in national security, presumably because of location tracking. Them knowing where users are was kind of the problem…
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by abotsis 2y ago
I have strabismus and have always been good at these games. I wonder if it helps me for similar reasons? The examples on his page were pretty easy for me, though the universe one took maybe 45 seconds.
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by abotsis 2y ago
I can across this years ago, it’s a really useful way to view any actor/target relationships in the time domain- not just source control.
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by abotsis 2y ago
Couple thoughts here: 1. The “rightsizer” example mentioned might well have had the same outcome if the outage was analyzed in a “traditional” sense. That said, it is much easier and more actionable with this new approach. 2. I’ve always h
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by abotsis 2y ago
I'm just here to say thanks, as I'm not above taking credit for creating our neighborhood in Minecraft for my 8yo. There's nothing in the GPL that prohibits creating false heroes AFAIK.
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by abotsis 2y ago
As a huge ZFS fan, this looks promising. There's little documentation on it. Not sure it needs much, but I'm curious how they do things like malloc()ing the ARC and how it might interfere with memory pressure in windows. They also
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by abotsis 2y ago
It still doesn’t protect against rogue commits to packages by bad actors. Which, IMO, is the larger threat (and one that’s been actively exploited). So while a step in the right direction, it certainly doesn’t completely solve the supply ch
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by abotsis 2y ago
This concept reminds me of the cloudflare lava lamps! Awesome!
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by abotsis 2y ago
I had a meeting with him (as a customer) in probably 2007. Super unassuming and humble guy. I had no idea who he was during the meeting until after, when I saw him get in his car with an XMODEM license plate and googled him and found the co
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by abotsis 2y ago
I’m not sure I follow this. Isn’t an LLMs dimensionality measured by how many parameters the model supports? Ie 10s of billions in some cases? If I understand it correctly, then, the model is already evaluating things in lots of dimensions
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by abotsis 2y ago
What about other applications? For example lighting for evening events (concerts, sporting events, festivals), burning man.
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by abotsis 2y ago
I wish textualize-web used this.
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by abotsis 2y ago
This is the way.
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by abotsis 2y ago
If only the iOS version worked with a goddamn keyboard. I check again every 6 months or so.
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by abotsis 2y ago
I think what made this so digestible for me were the animations. The timing, how they expand/contract and unfold while he’s speaking.. is all very well done.
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by abotsis 3y ago
640 cores ought to be enough for anyone!
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by abotsis 3y ago
Too bad we didn't have such technology for the xbox "red ring of death". oh wait.

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