epihelix

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by epihelix 3d ago
> If it works for you, great! Just keep going. I only have the nagging question that if it’s so easy, why would the clients not do it by themselves? Because it's not (yet) that easy, especially if we're talking a complex and ge
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by epihelix 4d ago
> At what point do we stop engaging with Anthropic’s leadership in good faith About two years ago? I would also note that Dario's post appears to be LLM written. Maybe... maybe ... he's read so much Claudeish that it's a
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by epihelix 5d ago
Yep :) The first thing that came to my mind also. Nice to see someone else remembers...
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by epihelix 5d ago
I would love to see a speed comparison with R incorporated into this.
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by epihelix 5d ago
But HN simply ranks posts by upvotes. I know you don't intend it this way, but you're effectively suggesting that HN should not pay attention to what its userbase are upvoting, but instead curate posts by your personal opinion in
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by epihelix 8d ago
Yes, but the really weird thing is that they seem to: a) believe that what they're creating is a basilisk, and b) keep trying harder to do this while staring right at it I think they're very deluded about (a) -- but if they do ac
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by epihelix 8d ago
Not in my family or extended family. But you can see examples of this all the time when eating out. So many young couples sit at a table at a restaurant, get out their phones and scroll away, occasionally showing their partner something t
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by epihelix 9d ago
Companies don't really care about rules per se. They care about their risk appetite, and whether the consequences of their actions create risk above that appetite level. The simple calculus is: will it cost me more to comply, or more
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by epihelix 9d ago
I don't want to necessarily claim that Altman is worse than Holmes, but I don't think the rank order is entirely clear either. An AI CEO was absolutely Holmes' calling. You can only imagine.
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by epihelix 10d ago
I'd argue that the novels the TFA author reads are boring to the TFA author -- until they're not. If you are reading a novel that works for you, it's often not boring from the opening line. Example: Anna Karenina. Grippin
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by epihelix 10d ago
Well, someone is clearly giving Graphene money, and quite a lot of it, as per TFA: > We recently hired a bunch of new people and will be hiring more so our progress will be accelerating.
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by epihelix 10d ago
FUTO Keyboard or Heliboard (both FOSS) will give you key symbols without shifting, as will likely several other FOSS keyboards.
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by epihelix 11d ago
Well, the joke by itself was enough to write an article about. Simple, hilarious, and we need a lot more of this. A bit sad that it's a strip club sticking it to the man, but perhaps that's appropriate too. But as for claiming t
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by epihelix 11d ago
Has anyone else found NextCloud to be slow and unreliable? I've been using it for the last three years (switching over from OwnCloud before that), and it's never missed a beat. Straightforward to set up, decent linux desktop cli
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by epihelix 12d ago
Yes, the curve of the front fork on the max pelican was what I noticed also. It's impressive (if not an accident), and a remarkably accurate bike overall. The pelican just needs to raise their seat a little.
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by epihelix 12d ago
Even distros often provide a kernel mainline branch to let you install the latest and greatest kernel in a click. But there's also nothing to stop you simply building the latest kernel from source and using that - it's pretty easy
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by epihelix 16d ago
This scientific experiment escalated quickly...
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by epihelix 16d ago
... and no company ever broke backwards-compatible support.
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by epihelix 17d ago
You actually don't root a GrapheneOS device (sadly, imo, but this is one of GrapheneOS's peculiarities. If you want root, Lineage is your friend.)
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by epihelix 19d ago
I use this for MFA that's forced upon me, rather than MFA I request and want. (It still protects against a password leak, though, so doesn't entirely defeat the purpose of MFA.)
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by epihelix 26d ago
I think it depends on the ratio of vibe to code. I've used agenetic coding on a very short leash to build things, and I've still felt in control, still familiar with the codebase, still able to code fixes quickly by hand, and it&
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by epihelix 26d ago
That's not a null hypothesis, that's a strawman. Regardless -- if we don't know jack shit about consciousness (your words), then any claims of LLMs being conscious are by definition untestable, pure speculation and based on n
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by epihelix 26d ago
I wouldn't classify the median human as intelligent.
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by epihelix 27d ago
Well, "[Romeo], why are you Romeo?" would not work, as it's not iambic pentameter. It is literally not poetic, no matter whose ears are hearing it. Much of Shakespeare is written in poetry, not prose, and that format engender
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by epihelix 27d ago
You think that researchers lack passion and cannot push frontiers?? Research and passion are not dichotomous, they are (or at least should be) synonymous. (I am genuinely sorry for whatever bad experience that's led to this bitterness
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by epihelix 27d ago
> Another interesting question is - what is the value of a PhD when someone uninterested in the field and not-that-thought-out about it can get one? The value of a PhD is what it brings to you. It will cost vast amounts of unpaid toil a
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by epihelix 28d ago
Not a fan of Zoom by any stretch - but I have to use it all the time for work, regularly use it on three different machines and over some questionable network connections, and it's never crashed on me once that I can recall. All on X,
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by epihelix 28d ago
Do you mean to say that all these services require strong device integrity to function in Sweden?? In Australia, no local app that I'm aware of (banking, finance, government, medical) requires any form of device integrity - otherwise
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by epihelix 29d ago
Data science is a broad church, but my own branch of it (molecular biology, genomics and epigenetics, bioinformatics) and my partner's (ecology) are still very much R-based and entrenched. If you primarily care about statistical model
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by epihelix 29d ago
Myst was the CD-ROM killer game for me. And yes, I think we both lived through the most rapid period of technological change (so far). Moore's law was real, the improvements each year were both felt and needed, and the software was co

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