mrfinn

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by mrfinn 5mo ago
The "right to copy" is a made up concept. Just sayin'...
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by mrfinn 1y ago
we would be elephants or whales? (sorry couldn't resist)
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by mrfinn 1y ago
Loyalty is one of the strongest qualities of Spaniards. Or curses. Depends on the occasion I guess. But the saying "ser más papista que el papa" (to be more pro-pope than the pope himself) is not said by chance in Spain.
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by mrfinn 1y ago
In the age of spaghetti-mixed Web Components, remember kids you can still be good with yourselves and properly split your Web Apps into individual CSS, JS, and HTML templates files, even going framework-less. Keep the Zen Torch on.
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by mrfinn 2y ago
If? never been married, right? PS. You may think of your credit card as your "venom", so you won't get eat alive in a divorce process lol
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Hope this law doesn't become into a peasant-trap. But my gut is telling me that... that's exactly what it is. ("This and that is forbidden EXCEPT to us because blah blah blah")
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Great example, a two bytes reboot utility. From the times when we could turn off the computer with a push of a button without fearing a global catastrophe...
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by mrfinn 2y ago
INT 13h... uff chills
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by mrfinn 2y ago
These challenges are funny - they remind me of the old days. Back in the DOS/Windows days, we used to have the .com format, which was perfect for tiny programs. One could even write a program of less than 10 bytes that could actually d
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by mrfinn 2y ago
2023: Our tiny model blah blah blah beats GPT4! 2024: Our tiny model blah blah blah beats Claude! 2025: Our tiny model blah blah blah beats ???
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by mrfinn 2y ago
We are not in control either of the nukeclear power which is available for quite a few nations, since a lot of decades now, as well. Soo... c'mon cheer up most probably is some kind of simulation anyway.
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Disagreed. 1/0 should be infinity, and computers should be able to handle these concepts. Just look into what is 1/0.00000000000[etc]1. And no is not an error, you find out with a very real and tangible example, when you are devel
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Yet another chapter of Nintendo's wrath against the people? How long the world is going to be dominated by absurd copy(made up)right laws? PS. Even if that wouldn't be the case here, my POV stands. Current copy(made up)right laws
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by mrfinn 2y ago
How can it be possible that we are in 2024 a no one seems to be proposing the most obvious improvement to the web, which is to create a new standard designed for web applications and let the HTML alone serving it's original purpose, wh
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Pity, it's over. We'll never ever be able to download those ten gigabytes files, at the other side of the fence.
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by mrfinn 2y ago
It's kinda funny how nowadays an AI with 8 billion parameters is something "small". Specially when just two years back entire racks were needed to run something giving way worst performance.
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by mrfinn 2y ago
I did something similar and to my surprise effectively made the LLM in my tests admit when they don't know something. Not always but worked sometimes. I don't prompt "don't hallucinate" but "admit when you don
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by mrfinn 2y ago
I followed a very similar process a couple of years ago (time flies!) and I'm very happy with the results. I'm not even using Arch but Artix Linux but the system runs very smoothly, almost not a single problem updating in years, u
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by mrfinn 2y ago
If you are trying to convince me that systemd happened out of the creativity of Mr. Poettering and Red Hat just followed him... well I have to say I don't believe that. But anyway, for me it really doesn't matter. It's the be
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Yes, it's massively sponsored as well. So it went heavily imposed almost everywhere even when a quite big chunk of the Linux community deeply disagreed about the imposition.
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Last time I checked a GPT is not something simple at all... I'm not the weakest person understanding maths (coded a kinda advanced 3D engine from scratch myself a long time ago) and still it looks to me something really complex. And we
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by mrfinn 2y ago
they’re simply statistical systems predicting the likeliest next words in a sentence They are far from "simply", as for that "miracle" to happen (we still don't understand why this approach works so well I think a
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Well then I guess you won't have a thing for political parties
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by mrfinn 2y ago
You guys really need to get over your bellicose POV of the world. Actually, before it destroys you. Really, is not necessary. Most people in the world just want to leave in peace, and see their children grow happily. For each data center NK
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Please explain me how meritocracy works for some orphan kid born in some nameless random village, in a country devastated by war and hunger vs a rich kid born in an extremely wealthy family. I agree that both of them deserve a worthy life a
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Disappointed for the same reason. A device with physical buttons and even led based panels would be the real deal.
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by mrfinn 2y ago
To be kind is one of my specialties. I firmly believe that it's a requirement of any human group so people collaborate at heart. Yes people can be productive anyway without any kindness, but if people really collaborate then they actua
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Honesty doesn't conflict in any way with kindness, but with being "nice". Actually I think is a requirement of being genuinely kind.
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by mrfinn 2y ago
I agree with his description of the Arch forums, I've been using them for years as a source of info for solving problems along those provided by Gentoo, and never felt in the mood to write anything there because the community seems pre
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by mrfinn 2y ago
Am I the only one automatically thinking about LLMs here? Very wild speculation, but what if we accidentally tapped on a phenomena we actually didn't know before, some kind of "event horizon", related with the arise of consci

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