jlawer

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by jlawer 3mo ago
Purely observed correlation between catastrophic error reports. So now I carry a “tiger rock” with me. I figure there wasn’t much of a downside to avoiding swearing in my agent instructions.
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by jlawer 3mo ago
I have a theory that swearing actually results is less comprehension of instructions by the model due to lack of training data over more conventional MUST. We were reviewing reports of situations where the models failed to follow directions
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by jlawer 5mo ago
> the average person in a post-work future needs to have a genuine ownership stake in the AI compute that's making things happen, not just welfare funded from the profits of the billionaires who own it So nationalise the AI companie
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by jlawer 6mo ago
I wonder if we end up with z series running on arm long term. The value in z series is in the system design and ecosystem, IBM could engineer an architecture migration to custom CPUs based on ARM cores. They would still be mainframe process
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by jlawer 7mo ago
For Grok’s sake you hope this is data that was public, something that was buried deep that it has surfaced. It’s a shame transparency is so poor here. A simple grep of the training data would likely give a clear explanation of where this ha
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by jlawer 9mo ago
I would think the comparison would be the BYD ATTO 3 premium vs Tesla Y premium. Australian sticker price for the atto 3 is under $45,000 AUD, a smidgen over $30K usd. With a wife with a mobility scooter and working 30-90 mins away from the
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by jlawer 1y ago
Job / Position description means something more... It means that your expected to do the task and perform well at it or you will be let go. Generally you don't put those skills in a Junior PD, but you would expect a Junior to take
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by jlawer 2y ago
Guess we need to do a follow on study, what a way to use the R&D budget. I don't think I will be short of volunteers. I look forward to publishing the differing effects of XXXX Gold vs Stone & Wood in order for us to optimise t
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by jlawer 2y ago
My understanding is that they were tracking significantly fewer parts in Excel as many of what they are now tracking as separate parts were previously tracked as a single part (kind of an assembly). I think they were previously tracking som
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by jlawer 3y ago
> She cut them off after 21 seconds and then went into a heated complaint, including calling what they're doing "bullshit" It was Bullshit, textbook bullshit : https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcov
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by jlawer 3y ago
Confirmed, the successor to Starship will be SkyRanger, later to be replaced by the Avenger once they master Elerium-115
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by jlawer 3y ago
I know Nested Virtualisation is a thing on both KVM and hyper-v, what is different about what you could do on "big iron"
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by jlawer 3y ago
I believe its traditional to reply that NSW was 8 points behind in the only yard stick those north of the border care about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Origin_series
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by jlawer 3y ago
The obvious question is how effective at carrying small improvised explosives is it?
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by jlawer 3y ago
Yes, we have a single tickets repo seperate from the code, and use GitHub projects collect tickets from multiple repos into one board. Team of 8 devs + other supporting roles. Devs are happy with it, PM and portfolio management not so much,
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by jlawer 3y ago
G4 ibooks were crazy good for battery life, I often did a whole day of uni on my little white beast.
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by jlawer 4y ago
I am really glad in Australia companies aren't typically allowed to advertise prices ex taxes / fees. They are allowed to mention the costs as a line item, but can't advertise only part of the cost (i.e. if they advertise its
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by jlawer 4y ago
How long until half the subjects in an IT degree are provided by the faculty of law?
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by jlawer 4y ago
I assume he did it without a lawyer. I know in Australia we have forums where you can represent yourself in these low level workers rights cases. He spent time himself researching the law and going through the process, but he can't cla
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by jlawer 4y ago
High performance datacenter cores will likely remain a niche for the best chip design companies. Architecture mostly matters in that your workload / ecosystem is supported. I can't see this being a place where an open source RISC-
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by jlawer 4y ago
For consumers in some jurisdictions they may be able to get refunds on the product if it can be argued that this feature was a core reason the application was purchased. However once you are a business many of those protections aren’t prese
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by jlawer 4y ago
If this has sufficient range, I could imagine it being a no brainer for a lot of businesses that have to stand up quickly (Resources, Warehousing, Tourism). This would give massive flexibility to stand up a new location. The real question i
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by jlawer 4y ago
bhyve (a lightweight virtualization tech) vs kvm (really kvm/qemu) isn't really a like for like fight. If your looking for something lightweight on the linux side you would go with Firecracker (AWS developed for Lambda and Fargate
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by jlawer 4y ago
It makes we wonder if something like the Australia-Asia power link would make sense. 2.2GW would be enough to cover current Gas, Coal and Diesel generation for NZ. With sufficient storage (Batteries, Pumped Hydro), you could recharge in the
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by jlawer 4y ago
I believe the monetary policy of Erdoğan is somewhat Unique. Türkiye has dropped / resisted raising interest rates, and pretty much done the opposite to what few things economists agree on. This has caused the Lira to drop in value in
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by jlawer 4y ago
Apple is disruptive with these products, but won't ever dominate with their offerings, simply because they will lock things to an apple ecosystem and they generally have a history of loosing focus. Freeform isn't really a competit
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by jlawer 4y ago
Not to mention a CEO who is more interested in activities outside the company like the green energy transition and politics. As an Aussie I always wanted Atlassian to succeed as we have so few tech companies at that scale or larger. Now I v
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by jlawer 4y ago
My understanding that this clustering is more to handle external factors. It allows mainframes to be placed in different buildings anywhere from the same campus to up to 200kms away ideally providing enough distance to deal with natural dis
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by jlawer 4y ago
No, but if you read the original article, it describes the policies by companies. Obviously a company has many different type of roles, however when you describe office workers, comparatively there are a significant proportion who work for
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by jlawer 4y ago
The companies behind the supermarkets have large back office complexes. The size of the back office tends to be proportional to the turnover of the companies. I’m Australia retail and primary industries make a substantial proportion of that

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