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by linuxftw 5mo ago
John Deere has had a terrible reputation for over a decade now. They've always used proprietary parts for the tractors. Do 5 minutes of research.
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by linuxftw 7mo ago
In the days of yore, Windows had telnet installed. Most hackers used telnet in the 90's and early 2000's.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
I mean, I don't disagree that these are basic skills that most anyone should be able to perform. But most people are not capable to do them safely. Whether that's aptitude or motivation, doesn't matter. Ask your average per
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Ironically, many cars don't have radiator caps, only reservoirs. Modern cars, for the most part, do not leak coolant unless there's a problem. They operate a high pressure. Most people, for their own safety, should not pop the h
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
The prompts for this are pretty sparse. This could 100% be accomplished with better prompting. Even with the current prompts, it's likely I could complete the task with a follow up request specifying what it did correctly and incorre
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
It's really only in the last year the LLM's have gotten great and can output massive blocks of code that are functional. LLM's are at least a 10x speed up on the 'producing code' portion of the job, but that's
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Plenty of people wanted the Cybertruck, it's just that price is too high. It was originally announced to be under $40k, and with incentives, could have been in the $30k's. The F-150 Lightening had the same problem.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Well, not all fish and shrimp are produced in fresh water, many are produced in salt water (aka, the ocean). But, It's also likely that most of these farmed fresh water foods are in areas with highly renewable freshwater resources (SE
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
The US has plenty of examples of censorship that's politically motivated, particularly around certain medical products.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
It's too broad of a brush to say 'agriculture.' Clearly, some withdrawals have a greater impact than others. Withdrawing from aquifers in arid areas has a greater long-term impact than water from rivers in wet areas. Wiscon
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Is arxiv.org the new medium.com now? Seems like recently there has been a plethora of blog-level submissions from there to HN recently.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
There are plenty of PaaS components that run on k8s if you want to use them. I'm not a fan, because I think giving developers direct access to k8s is the better pattern. Managed k8s services like EKS have been super reliable the last
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Well, the market will decide if dropping it in favor of a subscription-based upgrade is worth it or not. Not sure why anyone would be upset, this all seems perfectly reasonable.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
I don't see what the issue is. No one is forced to buy a tesla, no pay for the subscription. It seems likely that self-driving features will require ongoing maintenance and updates for the next several years, it's not like it&#x
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Comparing the free tier of Gemini to the latest premium coding models will give you drastically different results.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Many people are exclaiming that the title is baity, but I disagree. It seems like a perfectly fine title in the context of this blog, which is about a specific product. It's unlikely they wrote the blog with a HN submission in mind.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
I think hallucination is grossly overstated as a problem at this point, most models will actively search the web and reason about the results. You're much more likely to get the incorrect solution browsing stack overflow than you are
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Things AI is already better at than (many/most) humans: Customer service (chat, phone), writing software, writing docs about software, computer graphics (animation, images), driving cars. There are plenty of uses for AI. Right now, th
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
You're overestimating the mean person's ability to search the web effectively.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
I think the story is less about the GPUs themselves, and more about the interconnects for building massive GPU clusters. Nvidia just announced a massive switch for linking GPUs inside a rack. So the next couple of generations of GPU cluste
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
> Been working on a derviative which hooks the VFS to allow dynamically remapping file paths on a per process basis so I can force badly behaved apps to load custom TLS certificates (looking at you Bazil builds in nixpkgs). chroot or nam
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
I actually use chatgpt for creating recipes from time to time. I wouldn't be too offended if there's an 'add to amazon' cart button or similar type of add. What I'm not okay with is being served adds using codex cl
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Revenue isn't profits. Their free cash flow has been negative billions for the last few years. A major capital project like this can only result in a bailout.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
What changed my whole perspective on this a few months ago was Google's Genie 3 demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDKhUknuQDg They have really advanced the coherency of real-time AI generation.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Based on conversations I've had with some people managing GPU's at scale in the datacenters, inference is an after thought. There is a gold rush for training right now, and that's where these massive clusters are being used.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
White collar immigration, outsourcing, lots of layoffs. Terrible time to be in the job market.
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Yeah, those are some of the programs I was referring to. The 'loophole' aspect that was mentioned on the podcast is that when the FHA does the 'loss mitigation' (aka, refi's the loan), there is not any kind of qual
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
So, the basic process is 1) Borrow stops making payments. 2) Borrow goes into forbearance for 12 months just prior to foreclosure start. 3) Forbearance ends, borrower cannot make current. 4) FHA steps in to do loan modification. Essentia
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
Wages and energy have not increased. Tariffs on food are basically non existent for most items. It's 100% purely supply side pricing, propped up by government spending and credit (which is largely backstopped by the government as well
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by linuxftw 8mo ago
1. Just no. Unless you are some sort of Windows shop.

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