rcxdude

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by rcxdude 3d ago
Do you have any citation for thermal cycling through the range of an AC inside a house affecting the failure rate of any household goods? Based on my experience this does not seem likely to be the case: thermal effects tend to be exponentia
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by rcxdude 4d ago
Eh, areas where there was and is still plenty of scope to just charge for a product have also been heavily enshittified, so I don't think you can lay much blame at open source for this.
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by rcxdude 4d ago
The freedoms that the GPL gives to users in effect means giving your software away for free (because any single one of them is allowed to republish it openly). I do think there is a possible alternative model which gives most of the user fr
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by rcxdude 4d ago
In rust it's a lot closer to optional: you can in principle compile rust without doing any borrow checking at all (and I believe in practice mrustc does not bother to implement it, because it's primarily used for bootstrapping and
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by rcxdude 5d ago
I would argue it's a risk of any process that loops around itself without grounding in reality periodically.
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by rcxdude 5d ago
I think it's only useful as awareness that it's a thing that could happen. evidence for specific instances tends to be tenuous.
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by rcxdude 5d ago
Cool, but that's also not what they're doing. They are claiming the same rights you have, the main inequality is the resources to defend it in court.
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by rcxdude 5d ago
When you talk about this part: >I’m definitely not allowed to scan it and post its pages online and upload them to an archive of scanned PDFs without the authors’ and publishers’ permission. That's explicitly not what they are doing
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by rcxdude 5d ago
Mainly because it's not very helpful for a useful discussion. If it's true, the discussion is already dead, if it's false, all it does is annoy the accused.
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by rcxdude 5d ago
Well, in practice shame is a local effect: it only matters if it's coming from people that you respect. Some people being angry at you in a community is going to affect you most severely when you're a member of that community: oth
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by rcxdude 5d ago
That choice was also made within a framework of another system. It's systems all the way down.
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by rcxdude 5d ago
This sounds like a cool science fair project being blown out of proportion by the media.
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by rcxdude 6d ago
It's about how copyright law was originally conceived. It did not particularly care about what you did with the information, apart from when you copied it. Copyright is only about the right to make more copies of a work (hence the na
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by rcxdude 6d ago
Though it's a little circular, because this is the kinda of thing that goes into the inflation calculation.
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by rcxdude 7d ago
Nethack does procedural generation pretty well, and indeed roguelikes are a pretty good framework for it, because the game design tends to revolve around giving the player different options to solve a given problem and they're also not
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by rcxdude 7d ago
I mean, almost no games have that many meaningful dimensions in the first place. It's more likely that the correlations you add just reduce the potential for interesting combinations to arise in the first place.
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by rcxdude 7d ago
Reminds me of bones files in nethack.
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by rcxdude 7d ago
The advice I've heard is 1) have as many different dimensions of variation as you can manage, and try to have them matter, 2) resist the urge to impart correlations into the generation, since this just reduces variety, and 3) allow you
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by rcxdude 7d ago
I dunno, in my experience it's often overly-narrow, sometimes jumping through all kinds of hoops to preserve some edge-case behaviour that doesn't matter because I didn't mention it could be changed.
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by rcxdude 7d ago
I don't think that's accurate. What I've seen described is actually a surprisingly porous line: The Russians are often behind the Ukrainians and vice-versa, but it doesn't result in a break due to the transparency of t
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by rcxdude 7d ago
The drones are obviously very important but they only work in the context of everything else on and around the battlefield, especially people. You aren't holding the line with drones alone, and on the whole they are not autonomous.
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by rcxdude 8d ago
Eh, it seems like it's pretty necessary for success on such a problem (but obviously not sufficient). These problems gain a reputation, and you either get judged for it or get too much attention for it.
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by rcxdude 8d ago
The solution to misleading reports about your software isn't more opacity, though, quite the opposite. If they were transparent about what they were doing then there would be much less room for speculation and misleading reports. (And
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by rcxdude 8d ago
I think that depends a lot on what density of particles is required, and how they are distributed in the atmosphere. Intuitively actually turning the whole atmosphere into something like smog would also be pretty difficult, so I would not b
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by rcxdude 8d ago
Eh, In my experience this is not a clean distinction. My work is generally described as engineering and it often involves discovering new things about the technology, with a similar level of uncertainty. (and it often needs to be a lot more
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by rcxdude 8d ago
They are pretty infamously overly verbose.
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by rcxdude 8d ago
Exactly. This control-freak nature of manufacturers is sadly what makes me cheer for the security holes much of the time.
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by rcxdude 9d ago
There are techniques to speed up the search for RSA keys quite significantly: they don't scale as with a pure brute force search, nor with a very useful rule of thumb (it's not even the case that doubling the RSA key length double
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by rcxdude 9d ago
If there's evidence they deliberately did this, yes. If they've lied in other cases then it might make their testimony that they didn't intend this less credible, but also OpenAI as a whole is not going to face criminal charg
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by rcxdude 9d ago
You can imagine what you like. I can imagine a million examples of people being judged not guilty because intent could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. There are of course many injustices in the 'justice' system, but I wou

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