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by niam 20d ago
And I "use" dead bodies for sustenance, without qualifying whether that relationship implies eating or necromancy. If the imprecision is because of a misunderstanding about what an op ed or guest essay is for: it's maybe not
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by niam 20d ago
The President is an example (and actual) enforcement mechanism for the State. Not the argument. We want to ban independent political expenditure past a certain dollar threshold. Great. How do we do that without torching legitimate civic and
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by niam 20d ago
It's an op ed. Hardly a conspiracy.
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by niam 20d ago
"Money is speech" is a reddit-ism. The argument is closer to "limiting spending can be tantamount to limiting speech." Should the president of the US (regardless of party) be able to restrict your ability to spend money
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by niam 2mo ago
Interesting that the distinction between phones and boats was not enough to dissuade whatever point it is that you're trying to make. From Chief Justice Roberts in Riley v. California : "One of the most notable distinguishing fea
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by niam 2mo ago
It's not just resolve, either. The org must recognize the problem in the first place, which isn't a given. Especially in smaller/govt orgs. Often, recognition of the problem is wrongly tied to how difficult the foremost sugge
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by niam 2mo ago
This title is easy to misinterpret. If I understand correctly: Codex now encrypts sub-agent prompts and hides those prompts from the user. edit: originally was "Codex starts encrypting prompts, uses cyphertext for inference instead&q
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by niam 2mo ago
I'm sympathetic to Logseq here. My guess is that many things are true but do not sum attractively to an audience right now. The db probably is the cleaner place for Logseq's note storage, but invites comparison to Obsidian, whos
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by niam 2mo ago
Arguing that "at least John is doing [clown thing] in the open" just dilutes whatever leverage John's supporters had against John on that thing. I find myself unwanting to be on the side of people who willingly give up levera
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by niam 2mo ago
One similarly egregious UX issue on the latest Android is that pressing buttons in the dropdown tray doesn't give any feedback until the action is complete. I can press the "turn on WiFi" button and receive zero haptics or vi
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by niam 3mo ago
They're rigorously sourced in that some set of underpaid clerks is tasked with surfacing their best guess as to what material is most relevant to the court, with optional fact checking competing for their time. https://www.p
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by niam 3mo ago
Zooming out to the original complaint that "A is B" doesn't imply "B is A" in common English, and then further -- to the goal of having an LLM predict tokens that map closely to truth/logic/helpfulness: I
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by niam 3mo ago
Your question arguably doesn't have multiple answers. There's one answer: the set of children (discounting different orders of the set). The question "Who is her child" has multiple answers because it asks you to deliv
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by niam 3mo ago
"AMD, with nary antecedent aforenotice, has elected to excise"...
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by niam 3mo ago
> practically they work together frequently Are the originators of these investigations the same? Might that matter? > Crime shouldn't suddenly be ok if you pay taxes on it Cool. Nobody is making that argument.
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by niam 4mo ago
Calling an entity that's forbidden from acting on your behalf an "agent" seems funny but maybe it's meant as a catch-all term. Their use of "assistant" seems better for that purpose.
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by niam 4mo ago
Would you suggest that white blood cells are "not all that good for the body" because they're amped up during a bout of sickness? Maybe they aren't! But you can't infer that from the mere correlation. Hence that phr
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by niam 4mo ago
I'm not sure that your definition of "throwing money away" corresponds to the OP's. OP uses that phrase to imply the (un)worthiness of spend. You're using it to mean that it doesn't build or maintain equity, wh
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by niam 4mo ago
I like the React model of components being (ideally) a function of state, but I don't touch hooks where possible. And I don't use React itself when I can use the lighter Preact library instead, which provides signals as an escape
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by niam 4mo ago
Interesting. Many times I find the opposite case, where my long tail search on Kagi will turn up SOME stuff that's kind of pertinent to the subject, and I'll swap to Google to see if the results are better there, only for it to ba
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by niam 4mo ago
On the presumption that this isn't a joke: em dashes appear in LLM outputs because LLMs were trained on human text which included them organically. It's not as unordinary as memes suggest.
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by niam 4mo ago
Python does have a huge training set, but I figure lots of that training comes from disciplines where maintainability or system design isn't as heavily incented. Reports, notebooks, dashboards, etc. My early experiments with LLM Python
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by niam 4mo ago
I don't understand what makes these "datacenters" if they're distributed across satellites with WAN-esque interconnect. Are we overloading the term "datacenter"? Or is it not overloaded but somehow able to achi
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by niam 4mo ago
> At some point the metaphor becomes an encumbrance, rather than something helpful Well put. Pop science is what it is, but I'm bewildered when the rhetoric around plants "screaming in pain" weasels its way into my convers
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by niam 5mo ago
Was just reading that headline the other day. Economic darling Japan emerges from the Lost Decades with perfect banking policy.
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by niam 5mo ago
I incline myself to be more annoyed at the problem than the folks reporting that the problem still exists.
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by niam 5mo ago
Coincidentally I started toying around with it this week. It's pretty cool. I've known about it at least since Snowden namedropped it, but the main reasons I hadn't tried it before: - I already isolate workloads between VMs o
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by niam 6mo ago
When have Proton turned their data over to law enforcement without a Swiss court order?
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by niam 6mo ago
I considered that but I don't see it being very impactful. It presumes a user who cares enough about "their" ChatGPT that they can't move from a particular model provider, but simultaneously does not care enough that mod
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by niam 6mo ago
It's my understanding that they predate llms, and internet snivel.

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