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by bcoates 9mo ago
I thought that, aside from being among the least visually appealing mass-produced cars in history, the Aztek was pretty well received -- basically an early version of the "the American lusts for some combination of a Gremlin and a Wago
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by bcoates 9mo ago
Is reverse dns even a thing outside of irc and forgetting to give command line tools the "don’t be slow" flag?
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by bcoates 9mo ago
The taste/texture of jello is just collagen (roughly, "meat stew flavor"), fruit juice, and (tons of) sugar. It’s just an extremely heightened version of natural flavors. There is nothing new under the sun.
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by bcoates 10mo ago
I think it's an unavoidable consequence of the space constraints they're working with. On the plus side, when I dayroomed there it was dead silent and the room had blackout curtains.
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by bcoates 10mo ago
Sony released an angry birds movie more than 5 years after peak interest, they're a trailing indicator
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by bcoates 10mo ago
Memory pressure (and a lot of other overload conditions) usually makes latency worse--does that show up in your system? Latency backpressure is a pretty conventional thing to do. You're going to want some way to close the loop back to
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by bcoates 10mo ago
It doesn’t have to be and almost certainly isn't some billionaire. Formulaic spicy political nonsense is reliable engagement bait and it's easy to churn eyeballs into (small amounts of) money. It's not even unique, there are
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by bcoates 10mo ago
"Unlike New York, Chicago or L.A., which each have one, maybe two, San Francisco and the greater Bay Area have over two dozen" Whaaa...? Los Angeles has a whole rat's nest of overlapping agencies, (mostly different cities and
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by bcoates 10mo ago
A thing I've been noticing across the board is that current generative AI systems are horrible at composition. It’s most obvious in image generation models where the composition and blocking tend to be jarringly simple and on point (hy
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by bcoates 10mo ago
That phrase template isn’t just overdone—it's something some text models are obsessed with. The em-dashes, the contrastive language—these are signs of LLMs being asked to summarize or expand a compelling blog post.
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by bcoates 11mo ago
Pumped out water has to go somewhere . With the airgap, it will either back out your garbage disposal or pour out your airgap into the sink basin, depending on the location of the blockage. The airgap causes the pump to be physically inca
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by bcoates 11mo ago
I think he said sharing a circuit with a fridge, which are generally 110 in the US -- i think this is how my apartment is wired (2-phase 30A to oven dedicated, one 20A for the whole rest of kitchen) Trying to run a resistive heater on the s
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by bcoates 11mo ago
The only complaint I have about sharpies is the crap ergonomics on the barrel, causing people to wrap tape around it just to get a nice grip, which inevitably gets super gross: https://www.science.org/do/10.1126/sc
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by bcoates 11mo ago
Yes, I was hoping to see some actual insight on this Domestic Manufacturing Miracle but it seems to just be "if you build it they will come" This flies in the face of the more than one person I know personally that tried to take s
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by bcoates 11mo ago
I don't get it -- AWS deep archive is $12/TB/yr and provides actual durability and connectivity, not just drive-in-a-shoebox. That seems pretty hard to beat by buying raw storage at retail
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by bcoates 11mo ago
It's been closer to 100 years since we figured out information theory and discredited this idea (that continuous/analog processes have more, or different, information in them than discrete/digital ones)
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by bcoates 11mo ago
Also the persuasion paper he links isn't at all about what he's talking about. That paper is about using persuasion prompts to overcome trained in "safety" refusals, not to improve prompt conformance.
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by bcoates 1y ago
I think they're understating the thread safety risks here. The import is going to wind up happening at a random nondeterministic time, in who knows what thread holding who knows what locks (aside from the importer lock). Previously, if
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by bcoates 1y ago
I don't think there is any solution for that but "fix your broken linter".
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by bcoates 1y ago
The idea of app timers seems like exactly the weird self-negotiation alcoholics do around booze where they think mimicking the habits of casual drinkers (on what is, to the casual, a bender) will make them not an alcoholic anymore. Yes, nor
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by bcoates 1y ago
The anthropomorphism implies that all messages from @grok are coming from a text generator with a single consistent "personality" chosen by Twitter or xai or whatever, where in reality the public response is generated primarily by
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by bcoates 1y ago
Made worse by Grok on Twitter having a big dumb UI flaw: it replies to a user on the public timeline as just "grok" so trolls can prompt it to say wild stuff, then tag @grok with an innocuous looking question, then point it it and
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by bcoates 1y ago
'Toilet' itself is a euphemism, an archaic term for dressing/washing room and/or the act of washing up
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by bcoates 1y ago
Does anyone actually use journald? The last time I tried(2 years ago?) it didn't even work with any log management software (like cloudwatch for example). You had to either use some (often abandoned) third party tool or defeat the pur
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by bcoates 1y ago
What's WASM adding here? Without that you're just describing an ordinary SPA+CDN
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by bcoates 1y ago
If I remember right YouTube already provides the tools for that and you can just outright region lock an upload (possibly depending on having the right creator bits as a studio/large channel)
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by bcoates 1y ago
This fun fact has so dominated the algorithm that I'm unable to search for the existence of actual attested (not AI slop, keyword spam, etc) mailman/milkman stork imagery. It persists even if I try to bankshot off the Vlassic pick
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by bcoates 1y ago
Can't really get to the thrust of the article due to paywall but almost certainly yes. If nothing else the 1066 effect is real--as someone with a vague interest in questionably accurate period fiction novels I seem to have osmosed more
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by bcoates 1y ago
I'm just saying ~10MB of short repetitive text lines might be out of scope as a response the LLM driver is willing to give at all, regardless of how derived
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by bcoates 1y ago
The towers of Hanoi one is kind of weird, the prompt asks for a complete move by move solution and the 15 or 20 disk version (where reasoning models fail) means the result is unreasonably long and very repetitive. Likely as not it's ju

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