kmacdough

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by kmacdough 21d ago
It's not the ugly design choices that make it popular. It's just that it was the first that did a decent job of being easy to read/write. Even if you write an objectively better language, you can't replace the ecosystem
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by kmacdough 22d ago
And it's a reality check that we live in a surveillance state. To a degree that most people find appalling, but the government is good enough at suppressing public awareness enough to cause an outcry. It's also not whataboutism,
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by kmacdough 22d ago
No it's not ok, and most people are horrified when they learn. It's just a reality check that we've lived in a surveillance state for quite a while and it's time we take a stand. And a reminder that the government has do
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by kmacdough 22d ago
Your printer has been doing this for decades. There's an invisible-to-human dot matrix pattern that encodes things like model, serial number and i don't remember what else.
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by kmacdough 1mo ago
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377653878_The_benef...
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by kmacdough 1mo ago
I think you probably just don't like to stretch. Can you share the source? This seems dangerously wrong. I see a specific review making the very narrow claim that it can have detrimental effects on power/strength activities immedi
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by kmacdough 2mo ago
Its not about geometry, it's a parallel compute thing thing. CPUs typically don't have more than 10 or 20 cores. GPU have 100s to 1000s. Matmul is very well parallelized. More, lower power cores will always pay off handsomely.
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by kmacdough 2mo ago
The problem is simple: qualified immunity has become a blank check. The officer can simply claim they didn't know the law. They somehow can't be expected to understand basic constitutional protections.
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by kmacdough 2mo ago
The government is not a monolith. Being owned by the city doesn't have to mean the cops are in control. The municipality can determin by law exactly who operates the infrastructure, who has access to what, what process they must follo
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by kmacdough 2mo ago
Sold as learning, but that was a marketing term, not a technical one. From a technical perspective, the LLM is not learning. Only reacting based on its original training. You might argue that the systems we've built around them are lea
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by kmacdough 2mo ago
Context is not the same as learning. It's easy to conflate because they're tightly coupled in our brains. The underlying structure and tuning of the LLM are entirely unchanged by context. It merely affects the attention and activa
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by kmacdough 3mo ago
Unfortunately doesn't cover scrolling HN while the agent toils away.
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by kmacdough 3mo ago
With a striking lack of numbers, I'm not confident. I my experience, everything underspecified in a marketing release is unflattering. They're also not a chip designing company, but they're probably trying to keep up on the e
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by kmacdough 3mo ago
Right, but the entire damn point is privacy protections enable people to be more honest. The entire point is supposed to be good data so we can make informed population wide decisions. And race is a pretty big one under the current administ
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by kmacdough 3mo ago
I believe there is hard evidence that role-playing prompts are effective at leading it towards particular strategies and trains of thought. Not sure that SWE has been specifically studied, but proper science is very slow in the context of r
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by kmacdough 4mo ago
Yeah just watch out, they're trying to eat your 401k and they've got a powerful easily influenced friend.
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by kmacdough 4mo ago
Hate to break it to ya, but this is how most C-suites operate. Their job isn't to run a company well. It's to appear to the board/investors that they're running a good company. It is a better play to do the popular thing
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by kmacdough 4mo ago
> This is a separate issue, I think even Bambu Studio can't connect to printers in LAN mode on a different subnet. Yes, that's the point. The nerworking is broken. The issue isn't unique to a specific slicer, their softwar
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by kmacdough 4mo ago
This formatting is intolerable on mobile.
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by kmacdough 5mo ago
I learned much of what I know about computer and low-level systems engineering from Minecraft. Watched lots of videos making CPUs and built many components myself including a full ALU with a look-ahead adder and hardware multiplication.
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by kmacdough 5mo ago
It's still circular. They will succeed or collapse together. And since they make up such a fraction of global market cap, we're in for the ride together. And the circularity makes the actual investment numbers fairly meaningless.
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by kmacdough 5mo ago
They have to. The device storage is itself encrypted, so the FBI already broke into the phone. When the device is unlocked, notifications are visible by design and therefore available in plain text to the user. The edge case is with disappe
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by kmacdough 5mo ago
I'm confused. What's your point? Obviously economies that rely largely on second hand technology are going to have old technology. Much of Africa is in this bucket. But looking past the extremes, India is at nearly 80% right along
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by kmacdough 5mo ago
Given adherence is a more significant practical barrier, it's probably the better signal. That is, if we decide too look for signal here.
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by kmacdough 5mo ago
Criticizing the government is not hostility. Its wanting to move towards a better country. This is EXACTLY what the 1st amendment is intended to protect. Whether the legal system decides it applies here is one question, but there are heaps
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by kmacdough 5mo ago
Everything in context. This is one of many reasons I'm a proponent of squash-and-merge. If a change really needs more than one permanent commit, it should probably be split up or if absolutely necessary should be on a feature branch ma
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by kmacdough 6mo ago
Two things can be true. And often that's precisely when we lose out with modern engineering that is much more single-minded. > Their only advantage... How are you coming to this conclusion?! Their warmer has very meaningful effects
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by kmacdough 6mo ago
But the discussion is about the safety of systems being actively implemented. For now, people are required to maintain data centers. Right now, these centers are transitioning to high voltage DC. Right now the best attempts at fully automat
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by kmacdough 6mo ago
The concern isn't keeping people out of the facility altogether. It's keeping people safe when they are hot swapping dead or outdated rack units. You could consider a robotized approach, but for now robots aren't very good at
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by kmacdough 6mo ago
I'm all for this. Unobtrusive and just enough to put it in folks mind. I'm not a big fan of the Author though. How come there's no photos of the before/after? That would be much more useful than the condescension. They t

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