ineptech

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by ineptech 2mo ago
In my dream version of this: a) the timer would be cumulative, so that solving the early words faster gives more time for the harder words, b) going negative wouldn't end the game, it would just turn the time red or something, with the
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by ineptech 2mo ago
> Prohibiting a user of your software from modifying it and using it to run their business I don't think it does that, it prohibits them from modifying it and then using that mod to fork users away from the original software, aka h
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by ineptech 3mo ago
Whoops thanks, was going from memory. At any rate, the effect is that it's somewhat slower than the 3090, when using a model small enough to fit entirely in nvram, but can fit models the 3090 can't.
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by ineptech 3mo ago
Might as well add my own experience since I just set up a local llm this week. I went with a 32GB card made by Intel called Arc B70, which is cheaper than a 3090 and more has ram, at the cost of a slower memory bus. edited to remove somet
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by ineptech 4mo ago
Always a pleasure to hear capital explain to labor why taxing capital is bad, but this seems like a giant red herring. I don't want a wealth tax so I can cut my income tax, I want a wealth tax to address inequality. Our existing poli
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by ineptech 5mo ago
How can they ever see a dollar of profit without a rug pull, license change or hosted moat? This is a neat idea - besides just replacing github, a network of loosely-federated git servers seems like a promising base for distributed social
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by ineptech 5mo ago
It also doubles as a way to verify that someone is a real person using their real identity, which is starting to become pretty important these days. If Alice and Bob are both on this platform, the confidence Alice can have in the propositi
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by ineptech 7mo ago
I am on board with basically everything this article is arguing, but I think it covers the easy part (that "people run their own servers" is the only solution to the problems caused by relying on giant ad corps to provide the serv
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by ineptech 7mo ago
> Usually getting an AI to act badly requires extensive “jailbreaking” to get around safety guardrails. There are no signs of conventional jailbreaking here. Unless explicitly instructed otherwise, why would the llm think this blog post
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by ineptech 7mo ago
Agreed, but I'm not nearly so worried about people blaming their bad behavior on rogue AIs as I am about corporations doing it...
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by ineptech 7mo ago
It feels like you're missing the whole point of the whole article, which is that treating public pensions like a bunch of 401ks misses the opportunity to invest all that money in something that benefits the retirees collectively. I&#x
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by ineptech 7mo ago
The depositors were using SVB because SVB was willing to hand out loans to startups with no revenue that other creditors wouldn't fund, right? Using a less reliable vendor to get a better rate is a risk, whether that vendor is supplyi
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by ineptech 7mo ago
> However, they recently switched to investing in private equity funds and now they are getting much better returns TFA says otherwise, in detail and with a lot of supporting data. If you're going to contradict it you ought to cite
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by ineptech 8mo ago
https://ineptech.com is sort of my personal site and sort of a software site parody, which may or may not be what you're looking for, but I'll throw it on the pile.
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by ineptech 9mo ago
The lede IMO is near the end: > The federal government responded to the 2008 crisis by limiting the ability of traditional banks to take on big, risky loans. Since then, however, private-equity firms, which aren’t subject to the same reg
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by ineptech 10mo ago
I feel like we've always been living on borrowed time, due to the historical accident of the internet being built by academics and public institution employees. If internet protocols had been built by for-profits, HTTP requests would
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by ineptech 10mo ago
The #1 thing I want from Firefox is for it to keep existing in the long term, as a hedge against Google's monopoly. Burning capital on hardware-intensive AI features to get FF from 1% market share to 2% market share would endanger tha
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by ineptech 10mo ago
People like getting more money, but they don't die without it. You can get a job that pays just enough to pay your bills and work at it until you die. Companies can't do that under capitalism. They take on debt and require grow
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by ineptech 11mo ago
The u-turn came long before that acronym existed, as I remember it. The Dems had been trying to build consensus for some kind of single payer plan for almost twenty years by that point, and practically the first thing Obama said after bein
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by ineptech 11mo ago
The issue isn't people going too fast, it's people turning left. 26 basically connects Portland on one end and Mt Hood recreation stuff on the other, and it used to be that there wasn't that much in between. Over the last f
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by ineptech 1y ago
The realistic path off looks like this, I think: * I use Bluesky to chat as a Twitter replacement, which gets me into the Fediverse and gets me a PDS * I use my PDS to store my payment details, giving me a (at first client-side) way to subm
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by ineptech 1y ago
Sorry to have missed this, been traveling (naturally). You can see it yourself if you like, ineptech.com/flash. It is absolutely the bare minimum, but it worked fine for me.
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by ineptech 1y ago
Last week I wanted to quiz myself on German vocab words, and after searching in vain for a simple "flashcard" site without subscriptions or bullshit I ended up just making one myself. Very barebones, a single index.htm file with
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by ineptech 1y ago
This has nothing to do with search engines, it substitutes the argument from the search bar into the destination url. "wp XYZ" -> " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ "
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by ineptech 1y ago
Another FF feature I love that I believe Chrome lacks: text replacement in bookmarks. Add a bookmark with url " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%s " and keyword "wp" and typing &quo
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by ineptech 1y ago
Very interesting, I hope you do. Anything new and weird is always fun to learn about the design, and I'm curious just how much of the text is LLM how much is hand-written. (Fair warning people will assume the worst if you are not expl
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by ineptech 1y ago
Does the game "spoil" the movie? Like, is the movie's entire plot included or is it more of a prologue? And were you involved with the movie? It's a neat idea with beautiful execution and I hope it gets more attention
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by ineptech 1y ago
As interactive fiction this is very well executed. I'm some part of the way through the story from one character's perspective so I don't know how far it goes, but is this a (for lack of a better word) novelization of the en
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by ineptech 1y ago
Unless I'm missing something, what I'm describing satisfies both of these (unless one or both parties are malicious).
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by ineptech 1y ago
I'm not suggesting that people actually authenticate to Pornhub using Login.gov's oauth, they would continue to auth (or not) as they do now. Login.gov can issue a token saying, in essence, "A user authenticated to me, and t

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