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by bscphil 2mo ago
Oh cool, someone talking about the really weird bug that I've never seen reported elsewhere. Seems like an issue where certain versions of Unity (to name one engine) doesn't like it when your actual game controller is the second j
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by bscphil 2mo ago
Why did Anthropic settle with authors for 1.5 billion then? Surely their lawyers must have decided there's a pretty good chance of judges ultimately deciding that it is copyright infringement?
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by bscphil 2mo ago
> It's implicitly assumed when you read something that a person write it. I basically agree, but it's more specific than that, I think. The basic promise is that the writer believes the thing you are writing. This is a featur
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by bscphil 2mo ago
Because the point of the test is to see what the agentic swarm approach is capable of. If your test assumes that a version of the thing you are trying to build is available in the training data, or can't determine if it matters whether
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by bscphil 3mo ago
It's clearly vibecoded if you look at the commit history.
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by bscphil 3mo ago
Right, I think the problem with a lot of the economics-based analyses in this thread is that they rely on the assumption that Valve ought to, or wants to, sell the device at its market value.
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by bscphil 3mo ago
Well, I suppose that's true strictly speaking. What I'm reacting to is your claim that this is a simple "choice" that everyone else is making: > Embracing or shunning the society you live in is a choice. When the real
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by bscphil 3mo ago
Surely the solution to this social problem, however, can't be "everyone should simply convert to my religion / achieve a higher state of mind where they're not bothered by any form of inconvenience, irritation, or interr
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by bscphil 3mo ago
> about how Claude or even Codex have refused to perform some normal program development tasks > a lot of reports that the US LLMs refuse to answer questions I think the specific ask is for a case where the LLM is trained to lie abo
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by bscphil 4mo ago
Looks like the SVG was converted from an EPS file, and the resulting SVG contains individual glyph positions (advances) for the characters in "Personality score", but it doesn't specify a valid font, probably because the font
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by bscphil 6mo ago
> i reckon Meta would have found it challenging to download very large files without sharing. It's certainly much faster if you don't get throttled or banned by many peers. You're not that likely to get throttled by seeds
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by bscphil 6mo ago
I believe they changed the app since Trixie was released (Trixie has KDE 6.3, the changes were in 6.4) and buried a lot of the really common settings behind menus. E.g. you might want to take a screenshot on a delay, and that's now hid
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by bscphil 7mo ago
I don't think this is quite right. It's not that the question is inherently underspecified, it's that the context of being asked a question is itself information that we use to help answer the question. If someone asks "
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by bscphil 7mo ago
I like this article a lot, but if I can put forward one mild criticism, it seems to depend entirely on having exactly the same measure of semantic distance for word pairs as the original generator. In that case, as the post shows, you onl
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by bscphil 7mo ago
This is totally hypothetical, but I wonder if a system whereby your dollars went to the publications you actually read, but you could immediately, at any time read anything else you wanted for free would work. There would be an obvious re
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by bscphil 8mo ago
> TCP tuning I think a lot of file transfer issues that occur outside of the corporate intranet world involve hardware that you don't fully control on (at least) one hand. In science, for example, transferring huge amounts of data o
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by bscphil 8mo ago
It is relevant, though. I have 1.2 Gbps down with a 2 TB monthly cap. I've never hit the monthly cap even once, but by your standard I have "1.2 Gbps down for 3 hours, 42 minutes". But that doesn't change the reality tha
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by bscphil 8mo ago
I do think it's vastly superior to preferential treatment for some traffic, which seems to be the most popular alternative. The one caveat is that ISPs need to be forced to be transparent about this. Often, with cell providers, it&#x27
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by bscphil 10mo ago
I believe they are saying they literally edit the media files to add / change metadata. Cross-seeding is only possible if the files are kept the same.
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by bscphil 1y ago
QSH?
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by bscphil 1y ago
I thought the same, but no doubt pawn promotion rules dramatically increase the depth needed to reach certain positions.
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by bscphil 1y ago
I endorse the view that everyone should use an ad blocker, but for what it's worth I keep seeing this techcrunch article and the original advice offered by the FBI [1] is actually much more limited. > Use an ad blocking extension wh
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by bscphil 1y ago
The promise is especially dangerous when a huge fraction of traffic doesn't use Encrypted Client Hello, [1] so the domain name is sent in the clear with the initial request to the server. A while back I wrote a quick proof-of-concept t
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by bscphil 1y ago
IMO the denoising looks rather unnatural and emphasizes the remaining artifacts, especially color fringe around details. Personally I'd leave that turned off. Also, with respect to the demosaic step, I wonder if it's possible to i
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by bscphil 1y ago
Best phone I've ever owned and it's not close. Every phone since then has been a compromise, to the point that (in a sunk cost fallacy kind of way) I've just quit caring about phones and just buy whatever the cheapest availab
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by bscphil 1y ago
> Mark Rober YouTube of a Tesla plowing into a road-runner style fake tunnel I understand the argument for augmenting your self-driving systems with LIDAR. What I don't really understand is what videos like this tell us. The compari
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by bscphil 1y ago
>> I find that the most common reason I go back to check a variable declaration is to determine the type of the variable, > Hover the mouse cursor over it. Any reasonable editor will show the type. That applies to most of us, obvio
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by bscphil 1y ago
> Like Rust, Zig uses 'name' (':' Type)? syntax for ascribing types, which is better than Type 'name' I'm definitely an outlier on this given the direction all syntactically C-like new languages have ta
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by bscphil 1y ago
I think that's a valid question and I ask it every time someone reports "this LLM said X about itself", but I think there are potential ways to verify it: for example, upthread, someone pointed out that the part about copyrig
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by bscphil 1y ago
The site is comparing this method to plain username + password though. Doesn't that miss the obvious point that evil.example.com could do the exact same thing with the username + password method, except it's even easier to phish b

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