gleenn

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by gleenn 4d ago
IMHO, I think Apple is poised extremely well. They didn't blow billions of dollars chasing models that are becoming commoditized. So many interesting models can now be run locally. All the big AI players have to pay even more to run th
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by gleenn 9d ago
Not sure if you're joking. How do you write an OS without these tools that might be compromised? It's the same problem.
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by gleenn 9d ago
Works until AI compromises a bunch of OSes. And wouldn't there be difficulty comparing binaries built from significantly different environments? It sounds like some progress has been made in general for fixed identical builds, but isn&
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by gleenn 10d ago
I don't even think AI has to have physical presence to do significant harm. How many worldwide systems depend on computers. Think of all the planning and deployment and management systems like food shipping; water, gas, and electricity
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by gleenn 13d ago
Google stopped putting so much money into SOTA models. All the hype has migrated. I was also frankly turned off when I got a popup from Gemein said I would either have to pay or have my conversations used for training. This may have always
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by gleenn 13d ago
Everyone is leasing datacenter space from some of Grok, Google, and Amazon aren't they? If it's hardware or DC level disruption I'm not too surprised it can affect multiple providers.
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by gleenn 17d ago
Fedora got a syllable dangling
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by gleenn 20d ago
Yes, she did intervention.
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by gleenn 21d ago
My friend who is a Radiologist said all the older, more seasoned Radiologists don't have any hair that grows on their hands anymore. She said she was glad to get out because even if they provide lead bibs, the doctors doing emergency r
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by gleenn 24d ago
Some people's time is actually worth or even just valued more than others to be bothered doing maintenance tasks such as there. I have a life to live outside preserving every last minute of functionality out of a monitor, I'll buy
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by gleenn 1mo ago
They have some heart-rate and some health tracking an as others have mentioned, so many of the more fringe features are way less useful than a watch that lasts anywhere from a week to a month on a charge versus a daybor two with the ultra
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by gleenn 1mo ago
I end up biting a lot of pills to get around that dose. I definitely always felt groggy until I dialed down the dose to just right, and it works perfectly: I fall asleep far quicker and more assuredly, and I don't feel to groggy. I can
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by gleenn 1mo ago
Bonus security on iPhone - if you long-press on any app, you can click "Require Face ID" and it will make thieves need your face again to open bank or sensitive apps. I did this for all my financial apps amd also email so they can
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by gleenn 1mo ago
I'm sorry but if you need a transpiler to get it to run in a browser, character replacability and runtime semantics don't matter. Typescript doesn't run in the browser, it's obviously a different language.
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by gleenn 1mo ago
Isn't that like saying the Internet is only written in English if you strip out all the non-English. All C-style languages are fully cross compatible if you only use semicolons. I can't write Typescript into a browser without cros
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by gleenn 1mo ago
Clojurescript not ClojureJs, and Typescript doesn't run in the browser, it has the exact same issues/limitations: it must be compiled to JavaScript first.
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by gleenn 2mo ago
It's not, although rules vary by state. Medical professionals can prescribe it even though it's a Schedule III drug. I get ads for these presumably legitimate therapy services online all the time on major social networks.
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by gleenn 2mo ago
Distilling isn't necessarily easy, there is a huge cottage industry of services middle-manning ChatGPT and Claude to collect huge amounts of data. It is still vastly cheaper than training yourself, but it is certainly not easy or feasi
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by gleenn 2mo ago
That particular quote did stand out to me. I think the counter claim is that if everyone uses software everywhere for everything, there is a very real societal cost for damaged data and if it's hard to detect then there is no way to pr
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by gleenn 2mo ago
One of the Mars landers famously failed due to unit conversion errors from metric to standard.
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by gleenn 2mo ago
If someone quits their job, do all their opinions suddenly become suspect? You're kind of damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't. Either you work for the company and you are biased one way, or you quit and now your bias is now sudde
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by gleenn 2mo ago
Listening and responding are likely pretty different mental activities
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by gleenn 2mo ago
I think the fundamental problem is that training current SOTA AI models is very expensive. If a simple "classical" model can detect them, presumably at much lower algorithmic cost, then why wouldn't the model trainers use the
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by gleenn 2mo ago
I think one thing to point out is "everyone" in this context is probably the broader market, but the stock holdings aren't distributed uniformly. A few large investors could actually be sophisticated and unload a fortune and
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by gleenn 2mo ago
"Tilting the windmill" is from Don Qixote who famously fights a windmill (which is a bit absurd) so he is courageous but also a bit foolish.
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by gleenn 2mo ago
Extra props for tilting thw windmill that is tech behemoths funneling data to government agencies without oversight. Aiming at Amazon is certainly something not to be taken lightly.
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by gleenn 2mo ago
Correct, AI will not replathe 3 high-paying watch maker jobs that exist. You are the best kind of correct, technically. But you are distracting from the fact that most people aren't doing anything even remotely physical related in the
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by gleenn 2mo ago
If you are using a mechanical watch to keep time (accurately for long) you are doing it wrong
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by gleenn 3mo ago
A major upside to Costco is you can actually see stuff and you also can walk out of the store same-day. Also I never ever worry about the counterfeit and/or low-quality crap you inevitably get from Amazon. And if Costco sells me somet
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by gleenn 3mo ago
I heard someone argue that because original phones rolled out in the US much earlier and more broadly, we spend all this money on copper wiring. Because Europe didn't have as much, they transitioned to fast cellular quickly. Being firs

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