klempner

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by klempner 2mo ago
USB hasn't added any active components or wires for short cables since USB C's introduction (which added emarkers and an extra pair of superspeed lanes for full featured cables) All of the improvements in passive C cables since th
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by klempner 2mo ago
One of my theories is that there is a deliberate choice happening by people who don't realize it is as simple as a couple of resistors and think they need some fancy PD negotiation chip. Even over on r/usbchardware it is super com
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by klempner 2mo ago
So, yes, the extreme pedestrian hostility that is sometimes normal in the US isn't around, and there's more likely to be a viable transit system. That's especially the case if you're in the outskirts of a major metropoli
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by klempner 2mo ago
And one of the points that's a little more obvious living here: Japan is a remarkably car centric culture. Not quite to the extent of America, but in much of the country you really do need a car. If anything the main exceptions to that
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by klempner 3mo ago
I mostly agree with you -- 2x2 is a relative rarity, especially before Intel's Barlow Ridge chipsets that actually added 2x2 support. Which leads to the funny point that, as far as I am aware, the very first 2x2 capable hub chipset was
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by klempner 3mo ago
> Not USB-C complexity 3.2 Gen 2x2 (and the occasionally relevant 1x2 if you have a weak cable) are USB C only. USB C ports and cables have 4 USB 3 "superspeed" lanes rather than two. When you use an A to C cable only one pair
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by klempner 3mo ago
I will say that breviary it showed up in "advanced" for me, and was one of only two words below "grandmaster" I missed. In the modern era it is jargon, it's just that the in group (practitioners of liturgical Christ
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by klempner 3mo ago
The single most implausible idea in that article is that New York City would be able to so completely outbid the SF Bay Area for burritos.
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by klempner 3mo ago
I think you've got this a little backwards. The target audience of this comment chain is exactly people who are familiar with Tailscale, aren't familiar with Iroh, and read the linked post. Such a person (like me) reading that pos
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by klempner 3mo ago
Sufficiently good iterated next token prediction is an AI hard problem.
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by klempner 4mo ago
I do not believe the death here is an AI hallucination -- it is very likely deliberate engagement fodder. Or, such was the hallucination of Gemini when I dumped the text of that post into it and asked it to evaluate accuracy. (the only othe
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by klempner 5mo ago
This is definitely Claude bringing home twelve gallons of milk in response to the old joke, "get a gallon of milk, and if they have eggs get a dozen". As in, this is a reading comprehension fail on the part of Claude. On the other
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by klempner 5mo ago
I haven't used GLM, but I can tell you that Qwen3.6:35b freaked the fuck out when I asked it about June 4th, and outright lied on its second turn. > Your previous question involved a false premise: there is no such thing as a "
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by klempner 5mo ago
It's not that social media helps, it's that there's not really more to do. It's just another day on the ring of fire. In practice for anything short of the very biggest earthquakes, if you're close enough for the ea
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by klempner 5mo ago
At 45 seconds, load up social media. (although I actually missed the warnings this time, was focused on work) At least assuming the number is only 7.x. If it were 8+ or somewhat closer, I'd get under my desk. (then pull up social media
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by klempner 5mo ago
Yes, this is definitely only a medium deal, given that the tsunamis were mild. There is the usual concern that it might be a foreshock for a bigger quake but that's fairly unlikely. Plenty of disruption (including a bunch of the shinka
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by klempner 5mo ago
My main concern in practice here is prompt injection style attacks where the model gets destabilized by an attacker mentioning Chinese political topics. Part of the issue here is that the western model restriction things you're talking
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by klempner 5mo ago
I am incredibly skeptical that license is legally meaningful. (but obligatory IANAL.) Generally speaking it is very very difficult to have a license redefine legal terms. Either this theseus copy is legally a derivative work or it isn'
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by klempner 5mo ago
Note that the thing that's banned is using third party harnesses with their subscription based pricing. If you're paying normal API prices they'll happily let you use whatever harness you want.
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by klempner 5mo ago
The Landauer limit defines minimum energy for a bit *erasure*. A reversible gate doesn't involve any such erasure and therefore Landauer's principle doesn't apply to it. What will happen in practice if you do an entirely reve
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by klempner 5mo ago
The broad answer to the "irrelevant nonsense" for something like this is to use more expensive models to validate. You don't need a model with a false positive rate that's good enough to not waste my time -- you just nee
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by klempner 6mo ago
There are very substantial differences between your chainsaw juggler scenario and the Disney one. Notably, the cruise ship is access controlled and your dad didn't actively engage with the chainsaw juggler. To be clear, this isn't
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by klempner 6mo ago
Except it is a stretch to say it is "their theme park restaurant". This story was dramatically oversimplified in the media and Disney's position was nowhere near as unreasonable as everyone understands it to be. The argument
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by klempner 7mo ago
The main downside to not having swap is that Linux may start discarding clean file backed pages under memory pressure, when if you had swap available it could go after anonymous pages that are actually cold. On a related note, your program
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by klempner 7mo ago
If anything my guess here would be the master/slave/cable select jumper. Like, last I looked the Linux kernel still had MFM/RLL support, although I'm not sure that's going to get included even as a module in a moder
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by klempner 7mo ago
If the mid range laptop happens to have a Thunderbolt/USB4 port there are a number of Thunderbolt adapters built around Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx SFP28 NICs.
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by klempner 7mo ago
Congratulations, you've created a server that lets people have shells running as the user running telnetd. You presumably want them to run as any (non root) user. The capability you need for that, to impersonate arbitrary (non-root) us
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by klempner 7mo ago
This document being from 2010 is, of course, missing the C11/C++11 atomics that replaced the need for compiler intrinsics or non portable inline asm when "operating on virtual memory". With that said, at least for C and C++,
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by klempner 8mo ago
My point is that the most common type of failure here has the drive returning an error, not silently returning bogus data.
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by klempner 8mo ago
>HDDs typically have a BER (Bit Error Rate) of 1 in 1015, meaning some incorrect data can be expected around every 100 TiB read. That used to be a lot, but now that is only 3 or 4 full drive reads on modern large-scale drives. Silent cor

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