kristov

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by kristov 2mo ago
It's nice to hear tradespeople getting paid well with lots of work. I'm happy for them :-)
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by kristov 3mo ago
We kinda ended up with terminals connected to mainframes anyway. The terminal being the web browser, and the mainframe being SaS. So it wasn't that far off.
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by kristov 4mo ago
But what is the shape of the algorithm of the human brain? It has a complex physical structure. We know the folds on the surface are important, but why is that shape specifically important? The brain is made up of two hemispheres - why, wha
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by kristov 4mo ago
I think the truth lies somewhere between these two extremes. An LLM is not a human brain, and does not try to emulate one. It should not be a surprise that an LLM does not behave like a human brain. So we can not infer things either way. Th
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by kristov 8mo ago
Why use shedlock and select-for-update-skip-locked? Shedlock stops things running in parallel (sort-of), but the other thing makes parallel processing possible.
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by kristov 11mo ago
Oh I agree with you. I don't live in the US, but in a country that has a very high progressive tax rate. I am taxed about 50% of my income currently. But I gladly pay it because I like to live in a safe country with strong government p
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by kristov 11mo ago
If your a billionaire and you invest in index funds, the risk of becoming homeless is really low, sure. The system works in such a way that the more money you have the easier it is to make more money. So if your stuck at the bottom, your re
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by kristov 11mo ago
I agree with your sentiment, but the reason for the imbalance is risk. As an employee you don't have financial risk tied to the company, you get a regular paycheck. But if you are an investor you take a risk that the money you invest c
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by kristov 11mo ago
If there is water ice there, as suspected, it is the most realistic path to a self sustaining space economy. If you can earn money in space, there is a reason for people to work in space, and you can extend the economy into space.
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by kristov 1y ago
I think the conversation needs to change from "can't run software of our choice" to "can't participate in society without an apple or google account". I have been living with a de-googled android phone for a nu
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by kristov 2y ago
That's fair from the discovery side. I was referring to the "supply side": how do we get more people creating content for the web, where they fully own that content? I used the web a fair amount before Google, and I don'
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by kristov 2y ago
The barrier to entry for running your own site (something dynamic, as opposed to static hosting) is essentially the same in 2024 as it was in 2004. Gotta get a domain (and keep it registered). Gotta have an SSL cert (letsencrypt makes it be
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by kristov 3y ago
I think the Turing test is subjective, because the result depends on who was giving the test and for how long.
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by kristov 3y ago
It's not just about seeing people. It's about having deep connections and shared experiences. Eg: one of his friends has a life crisis and just needs to talk to someone. Are they going to hop on a train and track this guy down, or
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by kristov 3y ago
Brave move, but I wonder how he keeps or makes new friendships and deeper relationships. Maybe this is fine for a while, but people need people (not just text in a chatroom), and I hope he has an exit strategy from this lifestyle, for this
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by kristov 3y ago
The Droidian team had a really nice demo at fosdem this year. Maybe worth a look?
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by kristov 3y ago
Been happily running lineageos for a couple of years now. No microg and no play store. F-droid for the apps. Interestingly, meta make WhatsApp available via a direct apk download, which helps a lot because before that I was using a play sto
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by kristov 3y ago
That's a really great point. General Artificial Intelligence doesn't look like human intelligence. I guess that's the fear: we have never met another general intelligence before. We may as well be about to meet alien intellig
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by kristov 3y ago
Assuming old stuff is more durable than new stuff: I wonder why older stuff was made to a higher standard? If people had less disposable income back then, why wasnt there an incentive to make low quality cheaper things? One possible reason
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by kristov 3y ago
Thank you!
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by kristov 3y ago
I wonder: does this theory explain any currently unexplained phenomenon? It may be testable, but that doesn't guarantee it to be correct. There could be another undescovered theory that also passes these tests. It feels weird to make u
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by kristov 3y ago
I'd say a big part of it (aside from the valid "framework" comments) is that game engines abstract over a large and complex mess related to graphics card APIs on different platforms. That abstraction is of the type that basic
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by kristov 3y ago
Abstraction is not just about hiding code - its about reducing options. You purposefully reduce options to make the system easier to reason about. A "function" in a programming language is an abstraction over machine code. It look
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by kristov 3y ago
A chunk of the money created was by lenders, to charge borrowers for the risk of default. If you print more money then you remove the incentive to assess risk. I don't know if this is good or bad, but economics says risk assessment is
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by kristov 3y ago
Doesn't prompting "think step by step" simply increase the probability the model will generate its output in the style of places where it saw "step by step" before (eg: tutorial content)? It's not really "
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by kristov 4y ago
I think FCGI is what you want.
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by kristov 4y ago
Is there a practical reason to do this in a real-world program?
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by kristov 4y ago
Curious! I don't know of any culture that deified gravity. Plenty that deified the sun, wind, sea, etc. It seems like a glaring omission! This mysterious force that pulls everything down and causes so much mischief, and no one in the a
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by kristov 4y ago
I think it would be neat if columns of a resultset could contain other resultsets (relvars?) as values. This would be the natural outcome of a join operation, and give greater flexibility on how you want to reduce those sub-relvars down. It
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by kristov 4y ago
A mate of mine used to work in a place that manufactured segments of regular wood framed houses. They had painted outlines on the floor, so they could cut and assemble 2x4 frames at great speed. I think you would need to make a truly massiv

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