ponco

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by ponco 24d ago
Yeah down in Australia. For a few hours since 4am UTC or so. Only seems to be Fable and Opus. Sonnet is still working fine.
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by ponco 2mo ago
I was being a bit cheeky, but I’m not really arguing that individual inventions can be determined as good or bad. My point is it comes from the same underlying mode of production. "Claude is useful" and "the way we have organ
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by ponco 2mo ago
Darn, I tried this and the lithium battery kicked in.
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by ponco 2mo ago
The benefits of modernity (electricity, cars, iPhone, Claude) are good, but they come bundled with potentially terminal ecological costs which is bad.
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by ponco 3mo ago
Writing a custom solver seems kind of absurd to me. There are 10s(/100s?) of open source ones out there. HiGHS in particular seems to be challenging the paid solvers with its LP improvements of late. But now I want to write my own.
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by ponco 4mo ago
I disagree with the analysis, although I liked the opening paragraph. Why separate the economics of interest rates from the economics of AI productivity?
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by ponco 5mo ago
Always good to challenge the narrative - but I don't pay for RDS Postgres because of the WAL, replication, all the beauty of pg etc. I pay RDS because it's largely set and forget. I am gladly paying AWS to think about it for me. I
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Can AI Think?(medium.com)
3 points by ponco 5mo ago|2 comments
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by ponco 5mo ago
(disclosure: I wrote this)
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by ponco 6mo ago
more throughput WITHOUT huge tail latency is my understanding. A user above posted this link https://lwn.net/Articles/994322/ which goes into the background. My mental model is "give the kernel more explicit
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by ponco 7mo ago
I've speculated about this myself, but haven't heard anyone actually discuss it or reveal/leak this is the case. Do you have a source for this?
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by ponco 7mo ago
`peon --pack peasant` This was my first thought too, thankfully they thought of it!
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by ponco 7mo ago
This was a very bitter pill to swallow! It took me more than one mistake to learn this - "you are not the user".
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by ponco 8mo ago
Not OP, but I think that without some creative impetus like 'agency', how useful is an AGI going to be?
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by ponco 8mo ago
I agree. I'm imagining a large software team with hundreds of tickets "ready to be worked on" might support this workflow - but even then, surely you're going to start running into unnecessary conflicts. The max Claude i
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by ponco 10mo ago
The privatisation of the commons will endure as our generations' greatest folly. I look at the Australian NBN as a great example of a project that is not economical for a private business to entertain - it requires "The Governmen
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by ponco 11mo ago
Respectfully, I don't think that piece adds anything of material substance. It's a list of hollow platitudes (vapid writing listing inactionable truisms).
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by ponco 11mo ago
I reflect on university, and one of the most interesting projects I did was an 'essay on the history of <operating system of your choice>' as part of an OS course. I chose OS X (Snow Leopard) and digging into the history gav
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by ponco 1y ago
A simple Google tells me (as I was curious) it's between 6 months to 20 years, with the average being 2 years. https://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+payback+time+solar+pa... Hard to imagine a large scale rollout like
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by ponco 1y ago
I had an old colleague who had a favourite lunch room trick - if challenged to Scissors, Paper, Rock then he would win every single time. I presumed it was some kind of behavioural psychology trick, but it didn't occur to me it's
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The dark side of account bans(madelinemiller.dev)
127 points by ponco 1y ago|113 comments
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by ponco 2y ago
For a time, we did not have an “R” rating for video games and this sort of content called for this rating, which legislation said could not be given. Fortunately saner heads prevailed and they created an “R” rating for video games and this
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by ponco 2y ago
Our family VCR had the "EZ Rewind" setting which would automatically rewind it to the beginning once the movie ended. Saved a lot of hassle.
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by ponco 2y ago
Can anyone explain why this isn’t a discrete optimisation problem? I don’t understand what aspects of problem would require a non convex approach
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by ponco 2y ago
oh my goodness, TIL nonce has a technical meaning. It has a very different meaning in Australia.
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by ponco 2y ago
I feel like far too much attention is given to `[[]] * n`. In the grand scheme of things, no serious python programmer is using multiply on a sequence outside of the string construction convenience. It's also remarkebly easy to diagnos
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by ponco 3y ago
In my experience, 'oi' has a few usages: - Drawn out "oiiiiiii" and a pointed finger when someone makes a witty remark or has some kind of success. As in, "oiiii, nice one". - "OI!" as a generic &quot
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by ponco 3y ago
The security/cheating arguments are good cover for MS simply enforcing their IP rights.
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by ponco 3y ago
For those of us who have never played a Zelda game...how does this compare to Pokemon, Fallout or Knights of the Old Republic?
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by ponco 4y ago
Is there an existential threat looming? Could Spotify make an API change that would completely break libespot and Spotifyd? Any insights as to why/why not that might be likely? Also, any plans to add the ability to save the tracks that

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