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by shadowfacts 3mo ago
Then you overpaid a year ago. A 2x16GB DDR5 kit was around $90 a year ago and is over $400 today.
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by shadowfacts 4mo ago
When people write blog posts about how LLMs failed for some particular task, the responses from boosters invariably fall along the lines of "just use this other model/just tweak your prompt like so/you're just not skille
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by shadowfacts 7mo ago
It’s listed on the agenda here as “Automated License Plate Reader Contract.” https://mountainview.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1352...
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by shadowfacts 1y ago
> The Constitution of the United States was a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-constituti... The Supreme Court is not the ultimate decider of
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by shadowfacts 1y ago
... yes, that's the complaint. The prompt engineering they did made it spew neo-Nazi vitriol. They either did not adequately test it beforehand and didn't know what would happen, or they did test and knew the outcome—either way, i
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by shadowfacts 1y ago
The big digital music stores are DRM-free these days (iTunes and Amazon both are). There's also Qobuz if you want to avoid the tech giants (though most of your money ends up going to record labels, so does it really matter?).
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by shadowfacts 1y ago
Four characters counting the pound sign.
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by shadowfacts 1y ago
The Verge has been publishing non-tech related stories for ages. Technology still seems to be their main focus, but this isn't new.
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by shadowfacts 1y ago
They did not have "every right to remove him." As the article you linked says, Abrego Garcia was specifically granted a withholding of removal order.
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by shadowfacts 1y ago
A beanbag is a chair? Perhaps a chair should be something on which one can comfortably sit without breaking that has a back and four legs. I suppose then a horse would be a chair.
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by shadowfacts 1y ago
In my case, no small fraction of the traffic was from OpenAI and Anthropic. There were also other user agents that literally said "AI".
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
> He straight-up ate someone else's salad? ... no, it's clearly a joke.
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
Soulver has indeed been doing this without large language models (so far as I know) for many years: https://soulver.app/
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
It is not directly accessible from user-space. Making it so requires kernel support. Apple published a set of patches for doing this on Linux: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/acc... Withou
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
There is a separate, ongoing antitrust lawsuit over Google’s adtech business. Closing arguments in that case are scheduled for Nov. 25, next week: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/technology/google-anti
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
> When you run a mastadon instance you're not mirroring the entire network, so its a bad comparison. That's the point, though. You don't need (nor, I imagine, would most people want) to mirror the entire network. If not ne
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
Yes. This is how, for example, Tailscale implements bring-your-own identity provider: https://tailscale.com/blog/custom-oidc It is, to date, the only non-selfhosted service with which I can use my self-hosted SSO setup
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
If you genuinely believe that number, you have fallen for the propaganda. Ten million people did not enter the country in such a short time. DHS estimates the _total_ unauthorized immigrant population at around 11 million as of 2022. https
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
> Can you name a policy of today's republican party that is further right than the republican party of 20 years ago? Sure I can: "mass deportation now"
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
In principle, that is true. But that is simply not the reality on the ground. States ban abortion with such exceedingly narrow exceptions that doctors and hospitals delay until the point of actively endangering women. Four deaths, reported
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
The police following one person’s car isn’t unconstitutional, but following everyone’s cars very much is. The IJ press release mentions this: the 4th Circuit (which covers Virginia) ruled several years ago that Baltimore’s near-continuous a
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
It's not a random blog making some conjectures, Rick Hasen is a law professor who is an expert in this area and, moreover, he cites specifics statutes and DOJ information that's not all that ambiguous.
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
I'm a little bit sympathetic, but they've also kinda tried to have it both ways. They spent ages inventing a new protocol for decentralized microblogging, and then ages more before you could actually use a server other than theirs
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
Not only are they not end-to-end encrypted, Bluesky's DMs seem like they're entirely centralized. From their 2024 roadmap: > We looked closely at alternatives like linking to external services, re-using an existing protocol lik
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
Yes, it does matter. While there are plenty of situations where it's foolish to forbid calculators, that's not universally true. Forbidding calculators and requiring students to do mental math for absolutely everything is unnecess
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by shadowfacts 2y ago
The article says, "However, Peer noted Section 6 states health risks should be weighed “without consideration of costs or other non-risk factors”." Peer is not the court, it's a non-profit involved in the litigation. You can
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by shadowfacts 3y ago
It is permitted on the App Store. The developer had a thread on the fediverse several days ago.
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by shadowfacts 3y ago
You may believe it's the future and be happy to be included, but that's certainly not for everyone. > I don't get the complaint here. > Sure their ability to choose whether or not their art was commercialized was taken
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by shadowfacts 3y ago
That's not surprising at all? The M3 Pro has 2 fewer performance cores than the M2 Pro.
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by shadowfacts 3y ago
The whole document is good, but in particular, my favorite part (that I reference not infrequently in conversations) is the priority of constituencies: > In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers

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