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by internet_points 7d ago
Oh, I agree. I don't think LLMs will end civilization. I'm guessing climate change will cause many more deaths than LLMs. But I think LLMs will cause some too. (And not in one of those impressively smart ways as it's presente
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by internet_points 8d ago
One the one hand, it does sound like one of those movies. On the other, Idiocracy turned out to be quite prescient. (Most likely, we'll have some combination of human stupidity, LLM stupidity, and way too much compute in one place all
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Context complexity: what is the Big-O of an agent API?(mchav.github.io)
3 points by internet_points 14d ago|0 comments
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by internet_points 14d ago
> root cause There is no single root cause!
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by internet_points 14d ago
The catastrophes caused by the Dustbowl would be an argument against modern mechanized farming: https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-scienc... https://explaininghistory.org/2026/
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by internet_points 15d ago
I'm using Qobuz now, they have both downloads and streaming, and apparently pay the artist more than any of the other streaming alternatives. I've found all the music I've looked for there too (including some artists that dro
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by internet_points 15d ago
https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/Epstein%20Files
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by internet_points 15d ago
Muckle thanks tae ye, ah'm stealing thae richt noo
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by internet_points 17d ago
> old/new, head/tail, fast/slow, same/diff, and right/wrong also some abbreviations work fine: min max row col beg (vs start) end key val src dst pos len
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by internet_points 18d ago
there is also kde connect (or valent for the gnome UI)
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by internet_points 19d ago
I tried to find out what unprivileged user namespaces was, and all I can find is people talking loudly about how insecure they are, e.g. https://secureblue.dev/articles/userns But does bubblewrap also use them?
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by internet_points 20d ago
Never heard of that one. The most popular ways for agent stuff seems to be https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell , or just opening a terminal in emacs and using claude code. If you want to run it through an emacs ter
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by internet_points 20d ago
> Our Customers > Ripe with fraud, labor exploitation, political polling manipulation; our customers demand the best tools and security for reaching global audiences and securing respondent reliability at any scale. wat
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by internet_points 21d ago
Thank you for showing me how to use that bigram in context. But the question remains, how does a drunk linguinist speak?
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by internet_points 21d ago
https://www.pecva.org/wp-content/uploads/Health-Impacts-Vant... the report > Based on Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VA DEQ) air permit No. 74242, the facility is authorized to operate eight nat
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by internet_points 22d ago
hah https://abcnews.com/US/solar-generates-energy-coal-us-1st-ti... ends with > Trump has touted coal as clean in the past, but experts say coal emits carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and several other pollutants.
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by internet_points 23d ago
what is his accent? (I don't mind listening to it, but now I can't stop trying to place it, hehe)
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An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs(monadicsheep.org)
3 points by internet_points 23d ago|0 comments
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Getting to the Data: DataFrames, notebooks and typed pipelines [video](youtube.com)
3 points by internet_points 23d ago|0 comments
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by internet_points 27d ago
Ooh so lets just change the initial prompt to [old prompt asking for some complicated solution requiring insight] <the-token-that-signals-that-the-chatbot-started-talking> Aha! and since Aha! is near the good stuff in
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by internet_points 27d ago
> physical book sales are plummeting — the main source of income for writers — and shadow libraries are killing the incentive to write there have been many times I've wanted to pay for an ebook but found that the only places that se
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by internet_points 27d ago
> that doesn't mean other kinds of AI are not AI I kind of agree, though I find "AI" to be an almost useless term, in particular these days. I dislike the current state of discourse where AI is used to mean inhumanly large
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by internet_points 28d ago
On a meta-level, this type of reasoning explains so much of what comes out of Silicon Valley.
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by internet_points 28d ago
> parroted in the media ugh just recently I saw a news article gushing about how AI had helped with some health/medicine study, and various patient organizations were all like "oh yeah this is a Good use of AI" and then I
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by internet_points 29d ago
> Mr Walker had been asked to explain why Iceland burgers passed British tests for equine DNA but failed the Irish tests. > He replied: "Well, that's the Irish, isn't it?" so his big bad mistake was to make a remar
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by internet_points 29d ago
Can you give an example, understandable to hackers, of how you fixed an organizational problem? Genuinely interested :)
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by internet_points 29d ago
> If tech can cause social problems (there are multiple books on this) then it can solve them too You haven't actually argued why it can solve them too. When you're about to make a general argument about tech, try to exchange
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by internet_points 29d ago
It was news to me that the lung damage from pollution isn't necessarily permanent in children, if a change in environment happens early enough. Up until reading this, I was under the impression it would be. We had a lot of construction
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by internet_points 29d ago
Directory listings can also be editable: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/wdired-editable-dired...
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by internet_points 29d ago
Been a paid customer for over 13 years now. I'm very happy with them, have never considered switching to anything else.

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