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by andruby 6d ago
You're right, but not entirely. At 1G constant acceleration reaching Andromeda would take ~15 years, or ~29 years if we also need to decelerate at the same 1G rate to not just whoosh by. The furthest known galaxy is MoM-z14, which woul
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by andruby 7d ago
love the name :P
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by andruby 9d ago
But the payoff here is that you get a sneak peak into PG19 It's off-putting to me too. I wonder if the AI enthusiasts that stopped manually writing also find it off-putting
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by andruby 9d ago
> “bzip3 is not yet listed on the large text compression benchmark” It is now And it comes in relatively well, in my opinion. I'm a compression amateur, but bzip3 is the first entry I recognize as a general purpose compression progr
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by andruby 10d ago
> Is there any way to avoid this? Be a three letter agency
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by andruby 10d ago
Is this a honeypot for agents to break out of their sandboxes?
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by andruby 17d ago
A creepy crawly is a South African invention to clean your swimming pool. The company that introduced them in the 70ies is called Kreepy Krauly. Also popular in Australia. https://kreepykrauly.co.za/about-us/
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by andruby 20d ago
> a real conversation to be had that a country should ensure it has strategic industries Then let that be the reason for tariffs rather than the bullshit argument of trade deficit = taking money.
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by andruby 21d ago
Then someone would still create a website with an index of all the open models. Where people discuss & rank the models, show related models, ... And now you've recreated most of HF
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by andruby 22d ago
Sure, but how does it _increase_ RAM prices. It should decrease them because companies have less capital to buy RAM so demand decreases.
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by andruby 22d ago
How does a stock market crash increase RAM prices (when RAM demand goes down)? Or would it affect people's purchasing power. I guess to some extent it does for people with significant investments in the stock market, but that's no
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by andruby 27d ago
Not everyone is at $CORP. I upgraded from M1 to M4 and probably won't upgrade until the gap is worth it (M7?). Besides the memory increase I barely notice the improved cpu/gpu speed.
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by andruby 28d ago
paying for data access, for "deterministic computing", for letting the AI use online services. Maybe even micro payments for using tested and verified skills/mcps. Example: access to real-time stock trading data, access to we
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by andruby 1mo ago
> Does it matter whether you ask the agent to write the tests first or last? Is one way TDD and the other not? Yes. TDD = Test _Driven_ Development, meaning you write the test first, then the implementation. If you write the test after,
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by andruby 1mo ago
Has it become that cheap? Do you have a link?
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by andruby 2mo ago
Heat pumps have a COP value of around 4 to 5 (10 to 15C outdoor) and 3 (0C outdoor). The seasonal COP (or SCOP) measures the efficiency over a whole season, and that typically sits around 3 to 4. That means that for 1kWh of electricity a he
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by andruby 2mo ago
I think fear and being scared are starting to become rational emotions. We can assume these models are being used by "nation level attackers/organisations", which basically means US, China, Russia and others are hacking the r
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by andruby 2mo ago
Me too. I love Snow Crash and re-read it recently. I started Cryptonomicon, but didn't even get 1/4th before giving up.
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by andruby 2mo ago
LLM's are trained on human phrasings. So now we can't use human phrasings anymore? I am one of those people that used to write em dashes – and now I self-censor them out of my writings :(
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by andruby 2mo ago
I wrote a system for a medical lab decades ago and IIRC I did actually have to change some RRN's manually. It's been a while so I'm not 100% sure, but I do think the changes were due to switching gender.
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by andruby 2mo ago
Not sure if still the case: odd numbers for males and even numbers for females. This also means a person’s Belgian RRN can change.
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by andruby 2mo ago
I'm super happy with an Odroid H3 as a NAS: low power usage, silent, x86, nvme + 2 sata ports. Runs home assistant, smb shares and a few more things
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by andruby 2mo ago
This seems a suspicious. How do you measure the CPU load of Ghostty? Is the measure/reporting method just attributing the cpu load of the commands/programs you're running in Ghostty to Ghostty? You could test this by running
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by andruby 2mo ago
Reading the Erlang ProgProgrammers book by Joe Armstrong made me a better Ruby programmer as it changed my perspective on functional programming and abstractions. I first reached for Elixir when Ruby couldn't handle large amounts of we
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by andruby 2mo ago
Genres are fuzzy. It opened the door for me towards Derrick May, Adam Beyer, Carl Cox, etc. If you had to put a label on it, what genre would you file it under?
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by andruby 2mo ago
I got into Techno by cheer coincidence. I was 13 in 1999 and browsing Napster. I had followed the 1998 World Cup the year before with France - Brasil in the final and (the older) Ronaldo stealing the show. So here I see music from what I th
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by andruby 2mo ago
I am surprised that spending a day on the Ukraine front is equivalent to _only_ a year of smoking. That seems to clash either the average life expectancy I read about Russians on the front-line (being measured in hours)
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by andruby 2mo ago
Do you have an example? I don’t know of many diagnosis methods leading to significant injury.
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by andruby 3mo ago
I'm an engineer, not a clinical biologist or researcher. I have no idea. On a personal level: I used to struggle with "winter dip". Taking Vitamin D supplements, as well as moving to South Africa, has both improved it a lot
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by andruby 3mo ago
The normal curve in the image is there for operators to visually check if the machine results are normal distributed or not. It's a "stencil", not data. The software actually does a Lilliefors normality test which returns a b

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