jacinabox

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by jacinabox 1mo ago
"Feign vulnerability" -GPT4 in one of its many glitches
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by jacinabox 3mo ago
There was an article a while back on HN about why web designers choose light grey on white background. Basically, it looks fine on their own monitor which has the contrast turned way up
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by jacinabox 4mo ago
Ah yes, the good old "one sided-electrode."
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by jacinabox 7mo ago
Could be, if you can set up a millions of dollars regulatory apparatus to keep online some really old MMOs for the 100 people worldwide who want to play them, there's really nothing you can't regulate.
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by jacinabox 7mo ago
If you think about it, those who shape mainstream opinion on operating systems were always mostly bought off, and invested in the mainstream operating systems. That investment meant that a niche operating system like Plan9 or BeOS was never
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by jacinabox 8mo ago
Remember the time when the former members of the Siri team demoed a prototype for a more capable version of Siri and Apple didn't even use it
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by jacinabox 9mo ago
They let them speak with Gill Bates instead
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by jacinabox 1y ago
I just did a captcha the other day that asked the user to select which items can fit inside the sample item (which was a handbag). You'd think that a multimodal deep learning model could figure out what objects fit inside other objects
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by jacinabox 1y ago
Do you cache data on the client and write buffer it on the way back to the server? I made a key value store as a hobby project, that also kind of streamed the data and it was convenient to do that .
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by jacinabox 1y ago
Oh dang, so the others do walk among us?
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by jacinabox 1y ago
The problem with natural keys is that nobody ever says, "My bad, I should have spelled my name the same way on this form as I did when I registered for the service, I promise not to do it again." Instead they say, "No matter
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by jacinabox 2y ago
that's nice, but the US digital asset stockpile is not the strategic bitcoin reserve. The sentence that controls acquisition in the strategic bitcoin reserve is the one before it: 'The Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary o
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by jacinabox 2y ago
One would think that the difficulty of making a company profitable when it's training larger and larger LLMs, combined with the diminishing returns and model collapse phenomenon, would make it so that companies don't wish to stop
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by jacinabox 2y ago
frigging ...what?
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by jacinabox 2y ago
It’s a case of rugged individualism, the search for the elusive use case: cryptid currencies, beware of geeks bearing grifts.
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by jacinabox 2y ago
Yes routers learn details about the destination of the packets they carry, but this is not a problem for most purposes. The author goes on to make some vague insinuation that tls implementations are insecure but if they are the solution is
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by jacinabox 2y ago
Actually a lot of people are saying that Linux is the best platform for developing GUIs.
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by jacinabox 2y ago
The C language has rules around 'effective type' which determine what object type a block of memory can have, while the C++ language has rules around object model which does basically this AND requires that a constructor is called
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by jacinabox 4y ago
cringe and seethe
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by jacinabox 4y ago
Back in 2021 I guessed that Shopify was overvalued because it didn't benefit from the same network effect that Amazon benefits from. (Also I preregistered this prediction so you know I'm telling the truth lol no I didn't.) S
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by jacinabox 4y ago
Decentraland uses a peer to peer-user connection model, which needs 'number of users' connections per client and will never scale. The intent is to not have to trust catalyst server with user data, but that's silly; you are a
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by jacinabox 4y ago
Most bitcoin have never been sold. Bitcoin is a commodity that is intended to serve as a store of value, and other commodities like gold and silver do their work as a store of value without an appreciable fraction of them ever being sold. S
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by jacinabox 4y ago
The fees for buying using credit or debit card are still 2.5% (5% round trip). I always assume that savvy users use coinbase pro by moving crypto in from other exchanges where trade fees are better; but then an exchange where you have to do
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by jacinabox 5y ago
If I remembered correctly Rails originated the concept of an opinionated framework, and everybody else copied it to some extent. Yet it's the only platform that the author disses. Maybe this has something to do with the suspicious stuf
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by jacinabox 5y ago
It's a joke.
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by jacinabox 5y ago
Jeff Hawkins work on predictive memory models the cerebral cortex and works based on comparing input signals that are close in time, which absolutely could be described as "spike timing."
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by jacinabox 5y ago
Why did Theranos insist on using 'a single drop of blood.' Why not be able to run a normal blood sample through an unprecedentedly compact form factor testing unit. Wouldn't that be good enough?
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by jacinabox 5y ago
Matter from pure light huh, today's job market is getting competitive for sure.
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by jacinabox 5y ago
What we need is more federal laws that make it a crime to continue spamming someone once of course they hit that unsubscribe button -- and of course the spammers themselves keep the rolls of who tried to unsubscribe.
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by jacinabox 5y ago
Relief check's fat, don't stack any sats / Work at McDonald's but I wear different hats / They said, the risk is all here / We could be jacked up, levered up better for here / I can't count the dollar

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