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by tacitusarc 14d ago
Posts like this remind me of a story: A young Thomas Carlyle was attending church with his mother. Upon returning home, after a lengthy sermon by the minister, Thomas turned to his mother and exclaimed, “If I were the minister, I would simp
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by tacitusarc 22d ago
Are there any privacy focused, non profit alternatives?
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by tacitusarc 23d ago
There was a noticeable degradation after the introduction of “liquid glass”. Of course I’m still on my 13 mini so I don’t think they really care about how changes impact the performance and battery life of my phone.
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by tacitusarc 23d ago
I feel like a picture of rolling hills with spring wheat and a blue sky wouldn’t go amiss
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by tacitusarc 29d ago
Do proper maintenance so they don’t have engine issues, and carry insurance to compensate passengers in case they do?
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by tacitusarc 1mo ago
I have broadly good feelings about Cloudflare but this warrants a response.
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by tacitusarc 1mo ago
Not affiliated with them, just thought it looks interesting. Wish more smart device companies would do this sort of thing
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Portal, for securing IoT communication(github.com)
2 points by tacitusarc 1mo ago|1 comments
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by tacitusarc 1mo ago
This is wonderful. Does it support complex types of joinery?
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by tacitusarc 2mo ago
I think part of the issue is that they didn’t explain what is gained by adding generics on methods. You’re right that a few examples here are useful. Without generics: ‘’’ type Stream[T any] struct{ ... } func (s Stream[T]) MapInt(f func(T)
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by tacitusarc 2mo ago
I have written Go for the past decade and completely, fundamentally disagree with this take. Go has always had a tendency towards limited exressivity, which created a strong dependence on interface{}, type assertions, and runtime bug’s that
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by tacitusarc 2mo ago
Note that MoE is a sparsification mechanism and doesn’t actually have to do with expertise or what would commonly be considered areas of expertise.
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by tacitusarc 2mo ago
A more concrete example may be useful to explain what I’m thinking. A company has you click to agree to their TOS. They link a doc, which is of course quite long. That doc has a footnote which links to another doc. You do not read the secon
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by tacitusarc 2mo ago
I think that means one of three things: the court system is broken, you are wrong, or I failed to be clear and you misunderstood me. So, to be clear, if a company buries or obscures terms while making it seem like they have presented them,
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by tacitusarc 2mo ago
But it is complicated, no? Even if you click you agree, if the you thought you were agreeing to one thing but actually agreed to another because they buried the lede, “I didn’t read it” is a reasonable defense.
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by tacitusarc 2mo ago
But attention/KV cache is the heavy bit in long context lengths which is what everyone needs…
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by tacitusarc 2mo ago
This is the “eating yogurt with a hammer” argument. Yes, of course you can do that. Yes, the yogurt gets eaten. It’s just… you see someone eating yogurt with a hammer and it’s hard not to wonder wtf is going on.
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by tacitusarc 2mo ago
I thought this was lovely, and was surprised by the date: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/196937/summer-moon-at-miyajim...
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by tacitusarc 4mo ago
I like this construction, but I don’t think you take it far enough. If you have a multi dimensional space, and you are trying to compute which points lie “inside” some boundary, there are large areas that will be bounded by some dimensions
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by tacitusarc 4mo ago
This too is not spec compliant. 204 means the request was successful but no body is being returned in the response.
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by tacitusarc 4mo ago
Of course it is technically possible, but doing so would violate the spec. > The 404 (Not Found) status code indicates that the origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose tha
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by tacitusarc 5mo ago
I wonder if a successful, albeit slower, approach would be to walk the git commit history in lockstep, applying the behavioral intent behind each commit. If they did this, I would be interested in knowing if they were able to skip certain b
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by tacitusarc 5mo ago
These are also two of my primary gripes. There has been substantial improvement, but the search and symbol follow UX is really bad. Hoping the fix that.
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by tacitusarc 5mo ago
For a relatively small set of dimensions this is true. But the more abstractions the code needs to accommodate, the trickier and more prone to leaky abstractions it becomes. Removing one axis of complexity can be incredibly helpful.
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by tacitusarc 6mo ago
I don’t believe Hacker News is social media, it’s news aggregator/message board. Social media requires social network effects, where a large part of the draw is the network effect, and that just isn’t a part of HN.
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by tacitusarc 6mo ago
The Snopes article is useful. For those who don’t want to read it, here is what Grossman says about that quotation: > That clip took my entire, full day presentation, and took it completely out of context. -They left out the part where I
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by tacitusarc 6mo ago
This is absolutely true for many topics. There is a threshold of expertise where opinion that does not meet that threshold has no value. There is also a large gray area where there is sufficient expertise such that the opinion might have va
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by tacitusarc 6mo ago
What can you do? I mentioned the use of AI on another thread, asking essentially the same question. The comment was flagged, presumably as off topic. Fair enough, I guess. But about 80% (maybe more) of posted blogs etc that I see on HN now
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by tacitusarc 6mo ago
No they don’t. Do you really believe that? Maybe on certain niche issues the opinions of a HS student are useful, but mostly they are still growing into some understanding that can contribute in a meaningful way. Which means mostly their op
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by tacitusarc 6mo ago
One proposed strategy to try and deal with this. https://freeasinweekend.org/

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