chaorace

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by chaorace 11mo ago
Sometimes, I just wanna remind myself how to use xargs for some command text replacement in a random one-liner on the terminal. If I tried to do that with man... I'd have to read (in alphabetical order) the documentation for 6 differen
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by chaorace 1y ago
Yes, of course. We're all reasonable adults who are capable of acknowledging that services of value cost money. It just so happens that weather is a phenomenon which affects all people and requires large, distributed, passive infrastru
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by chaorace 1y ago
I rarely feel this way about someone of Pope Francis' age and social position, but I've genuinely admired Francis as a thinker. He was a bona fide Jesuit, through and through. The next pope has big shoes to fill.
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by chaorace 1y ago
The "Experts" in MoE is less like a panel of doctors and more like having different brain regions with interlinked yet specialized functions. The models get trained largely the same way as non-MoE models, except with specific part
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by chaorace 2y ago
There actually is an outcome worse than a missed click: if too many viewers are abandoning your video within the first few minutes (i.e. before midrolls), you'll experience substantial downranking. More or less, the art of making a s
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by chaorace 2y ago
Gaming was becoming less and less the domain of the tech-savvy crowd, strongly curbing the public's appetite for such host-it-yourself services. Teamspeak/Mumble were already dying at the hands of (inferior) free/easy chat pl
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by chaorace 2y ago
It's funny that you mention eggs because there's actually been a recent paper regarding sous vide, soft-boiling, and achieving the "ideal" egg texture through a novel boiling process ( novel to me, anyway ) which they&#x
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by chaorace 2y ago
> Kids are almost teens now, but she gets zero support from them or her husband This is a good analogy. Children are the people who they've been raised to become, so it stands to reason that people will give money and appreciation i
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by chaorace 2y ago
Not what people are asking for. What you're ruling out is the equivalent of expecting cryostasis subscribers to sue if there's ever a service interruption. Conventional business models as currently implemented are fundamentally mi
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by chaorace 2y ago
Neither solution is really tenable. People vote where their money is and non-homeowners -- a minority in the U.S. -- are subject to externalities which prevent them from forming efficient voting blocks. The most realistic path out of this s
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by chaorace 2y ago
Whoa... I might've actually tinkered with some of this guy's code back in my modding days. What a strange contradiction it is to think that we can unknowingly interact with so many different people and never once get to know any o
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by chaorace 2y ago
A rich person certainly does not. Rich people as a collective class, however? You're kidding yourself if you claim that the people who make the laws and run our institutions aren't a nearly exclusive subset of the rich class. Ne
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by chaorace 2y ago
It's the legal equivalent of a firing squad. No execution requires a squad, but you'll certainly need one if you value the health and safety of your executioners.
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by chaorace 2y ago
How does a king existing affect you if you live in a monarchy? One does not need begrudge the king his power to live in fear of it.
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by chaorace 2y ago
And how would you say that these two solutions are incompatible? How does delaying the replacement rate issue with immigration prevent solving the core problem, or are you just advocating for accelerationism?
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by chaorace 2y ago
Many are arguing the case for the net economic value of immigrant labor which I agree is a fairly compelling case. I'd like to offer an alternate avenue of attack, however: population trends. Without immigration, U.S. population growth
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by chaorace 2y ago
The current U.S. position towards Cuba continues to puzzle me. Their geopolitical stance is nowhere near being on the same level as North Korea or Iran. Given Cuba's proximity and relative productive capacity you'd think that we&#
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by chaorace 2y ago
I don't have any data. I'm speaking strictly with the knowledge that Tegra X1 powers the Nintendo Switch and that the Nintendo Switch has a broad base of engine support. Normally, if it were a bad platform to work on, I expect tha
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by chaorace 2y ago
I'm not surprised the Adreno numbers didn't hold up as well as the rest of the Snapdragon benchmarks. Back in 2013 the Dolphin team blogged about their terrible experiences with the Adreno drivers and vendor support[1]. Ten years
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by chaorace 2y ago
I think what the parent comment meant was that you could force the model to divert its attention elsewhere if you removed race as a variable by making the training data uniform in terms of race. I think it's a smart thought, though I d
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by chaorace 2y ago
Rumor has it that Sony axed OtherOS in response to Geohot using it to exploit & compromise the PS3 hypervisor.
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by chaorace 2y ago
> Economic "models" make assumptions like markets being efficient. Meanwhile in the business classes next door they teach how to avoid competition because it's a race to the bottom You've more-or-less verbatim describ
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by chaorace 2y ago
Fun fact: Mitch McConnell was born in 1942
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by chaorace 2y ago
A not insignificant number of keyboard enthusiasts prefer to use blank keycaps. It's often merely an aesthetic choice, but those who like to tinker with custom layouts also favor them because that lets them skip shuffling keycaps aroun
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by chaorace 2y ago
Well, actually... you can only successfully launch an ARP poisoning attack if you're on the same network segment as the impersonated host. (Yes, I am indeed being pedantic on purpose to prove a point. I offer this parenthetical to yo
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by chaorace 2y ago
I'm speaking in the context of the parent conversation ("unencrypted WiFi packets"). On wireless networks, all devices share the same "wire", so to speak. Normally that traffic is useless when captured due to encryp
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by chaorace 2y ago
It's just semantics... but I'll throw my hat into the ring nevertheless: The "eavesdropping" attack happens when you capture unecrypted packets. From there, you could either try to hijack the session by inserting yoursel
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by chaorace 2y ago
> Is there any business benefit to constantly updating major Windows versions that I’m not seeing? Well sure! Remember that whole kerfuffle over Windows 11 requiring TPM? A new major version means new hardware requirements and new hardwa
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by chaorace 2y ago
Today's Windows 12 is tomorrow's Windows 11. Even if the teams change, the environment that produced the current team will remain -- it was game over the moment Windows OS fell from money maker to cost-center. With that being said
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by chaorace 2y ago
It doesn't help that they were caught with their pants down back when GPT-3 first entered the zeitgeist ( and thus also the radar of Google's institutional stakeholders ). Haste made waste, corners got cut, cargo went overboard.

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