sterlind

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by sterlind 4d ago
What's it like using Qubes? How much friction? I wish I could use some Nix-flavored variant of the sandboxing.
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by sterlind 5d ago
What's so difficult about implementing RCS from a technical perspective?
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by sterlind 6d ago
The US/China divide is one thing, but if I'm asked whether I trust OpenAI or Deepseek, as companies, more, I'm not sure how I'd answer. I suppose my default is to distrust whoever is in the lead, since the lead is power,
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by sterlind 6d ago
The code generated by AI is often not maintainable by AI. It's mostly trained on one-shot tasks still, not on growing a small system into a large one. AI is not immune to tech debt.
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by sterlind 6d ago
Do first responders read these guides on the scene? Or do fire departments study them when a new one is released? Seems like a lot to study ahead of time, seems like a lot to read when lives are on the line.
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by sterlind 6d ago
I'm surprised they can post-train a closed model off of K3. Is that the norm for open-weight licenses?
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by sterlind 11d ago
There's plenty of legal gray-hat companies that will buy a bug. Zerodium is a good example though it no longer exists. These companies in turn sell to NSA, etc. maybe even foreign governments for all I know. There's very little re
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by sterlind 14d ago
It's like a form of magical realism. AI feels like straight up magic, like discovering a genie that grants wishes, but we all have bills to pay and projects to do so weeks later there's a magic lantern on every desk and the genie&
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by sterlind 19d ago
DMCA seems like an ideal place to have the winner pay all parties' attorney's fees, plus damages. It's usually pretty objective and easy to see whether something infringes.
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by sterlind 19d ago
This is the reason anti-SLAPP statutes exist in many jurisdictions.
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by sterlind 19d ago
Hoggish Greedly if memory serves. Regardless of one's politics Captain Planet is so campy it's fun to watch MST3K-style. Remember Linka from the Soviet Union? "Imperialist pigs!"
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by sterlind 21d ago
I can't tell, is there a blade attached? Seems like this was a prop rather than a working guillotine.
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by sterlind 1mo ago
alternatively, keep using ad blockers. Facebook may have won this round, but AI tilts the balance overwhelming in favor of ad blockers. consider: you can (in principle) scrape the entire screen, find the ads with machine vision and paste
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by sterlind 1mo ago
> Everybody says Trump should be impeached, nobody says the office of the president should be deprived of the powers Trump used to do the things he should be impeached for. I've been shouting this from the mountaintops.
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by sterlind 1mo ago
interesting. so if you get a bacterial infection, you plan to succumb to it rather than take antibiotics?
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by sterlind 1mo ago
also, you can do a lot to finetune or repurpose an open weight model. much more easily than you can mod closed source binaries.
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by sterlind 1mo ago
llama was only three years ago? holy smokes! the industry is advancing so fast.
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by sterlind 1mo ago
ooh souffle! wonder how they avoid saturation explosion. that's doomed my souffle projects in the past. but obviously they've found a way to partition (maybe by block?)
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by sterlind 1mo ago
seems like: - cop messed up, added an incomplete license plate number (34DTM) into the NCIC database. - Flock cameras found his fancy car, a $155k Range Rover, which had a license plate like 34DTM10, and flagged it. - cops didn't bothe
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by sterlind 2mo ago
bizarrely self-destructive behavior from XBox. they've been shooting themselves in the foot for years; apparently they've decided to exchange the gun for a flamethrower in hopes of cauterizing the stump.
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by sterlind 2mo ago
it depends on your prompting. LLMs can generate beautiful code, or absolute slop.
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by sterlind 2mo ago
again, you can easily prove me wrong by finding a single professional font designer who uses FontForge as their daily driver.
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by sterlind 2mo ago
please find me a single professional font designer who uses FontForge. just one. I use FontForge because I'm a pleb hobbyist without a Mac, but it's like comparing yachts and life rafts.
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by sterlind 2mo ago
as a lean noob but a datalog novice, could you explain how it ties to lean? I thought of lean as a proof language rather than a programming language. don't you have to write out every step yourself? or.. hrm. is lean actually a pure fu
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by sterlind 2mo ago
I think by "update" they mean "re-up," as in you need another depot injection every six months.
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by sterlind 2mo ago
assume you have a population of IV drug users. as a society, would you prefer to spend nothing and see them develop HIV, or to spend some and control the HIV? you don't have to care about the drug users at all. even if you treat them a
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by sterlind 2mo ago
what happens if the defendant pleads not guilty? does the public defender not bother to show up to trial? do they not represent the defendant? what is this charade? I found the verdict here: https://www.canlii.org/en/ns
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by sterlind 2mo ago
does Canada not have public defenders? I know they're overworked but, c'mon, surely they can do better than they did? I want to see the transcripts.
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by sterlind 2mo ago
there's no time machine, but at least the charges are removed from the poor man's record. he should probably try to seek damages from the state for his wrongful conviction (and get his lawyer disbarred for grossly incompetent coun
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by sterlind 2mo ago
wouldn't stop AI companies from continuing to develop using their current infrastructure. the West could retaliate by halting shipments of photoresist and other materials to China. meanwhile, Intel second-sources Nvidia and starts pump

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