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by thbb123 14d ago
Wtf, I have been using my x.y.name domain for everything, haven't been notified of this. Should I rush to reserve y.name so my email address and personal website can stay online?
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by thbb123 27d ago
More to the point it's that the server has to retrieve and massage data from several docker services to retrieve the full context needed to process the request
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by thbb123 4mo ago
Very similar story, in 1982: got paid at 15 to create a prospect database for a small business. What now would be called a CRM. The enterprise had to declare me as an apprentice for 'trade jobs', as it was against the law to give
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by thbb123 5mo ago
Pretty much all tech companies and universities had a drop-in ftp server where anyone could, anonymously, put and retrieve files. It was a collective 'pastebin' useful to exchange information with clients and partners. On the ftp
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by thbb123 6mo ago
Or I guess the kid can set it if they're smart enough to reinstall the OS or spawn a VM. I'm sure there will be online resources to help them that kids know how to share
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by thbb123 6mo ago
Or, as I like to put it: I need to activate my personal transformers on my inner embeddings space to figure what is it I really want. And still, quite often, I think in terms of the programming language I'm used to and the library I&#
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by thbb123 6mo ago
But in this occurrence, they are public services, under the public administration's control. Successful socialism if you want.
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by thbb123 6mo ago
In Europe, more and more public transportation is free, or at least very heavily subsidized The costs are covered by local taxes, to curb on individual vehicle use and reduce congestion. After some hiccups, some cities manage good economies
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by thbb123 7mo ago
In my vision, it's the opposite of ad blocker, it's something that generates non existent traffic and views beyond what I would have done.
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by thbb123 7mo ago
It is not entirely true that no one cares about quality. I'd like to stay optimistic and believe that those who are demanding on the quality of their production will acquire sufficient market differentiation to prevail. After all, this
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by thbb123 7mo ago
I disagree. Giving fake info adds noise to the mechanism, makes it useless. Ultimately I'm inclined to believe that privacy through noise generation is a solution. If I ever find some idle time, I'd like to make an agent that surf
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by thbb123 7mo ago
My way of phrasing this: I need to activate my personal transformers on my inner embeddings space to really figure what is it that I truly want to write.
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by thbb123 7mo ago
I'm more and more convinced top execs are most likely to be advantageously replaced by LLM. They navigate such complex decision spaces, full of compromises, tensions, political knots, that ultimately their important decisions are just
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by thbb123 7mo ago
If anything, they'd want something like Mossadegh back, which is not to please Trump at all
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by thbb123 7mo ago
Even Knuth, in TAOP, acknowledges that using O(n) asymptotic behavior as a measure of performance is just a heuristic and not an absolute. Cache-awareness and structure discovery are 2 important tools of the engineer to optimize practical p
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by thbb123 1y ago
My numbers come from conversations I recall with René Amalberti, a notable specialist in the area, having advised, among others, Airbus. The conversations were around 1993-96, when I was doing my PhD, and thus may be a bit blurry by now. Al
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by thbb123 1y ago
Fun fact: in the 90's, the reference gauge for aircraft safety was 1 accidental fatality per 100 million hours of passenger flight. Which is amazingly safe, far better than car and on a par with train. Now, facing the growth of air tra
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by thbb123 1y ago
The problem I see with decentralized protocols is that node owners can easily be spotted, and then crushed under legal constraints that will make them more insecure than a strong multinational who's there just for profit and can balanc
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by thbb123 1y ago
How comes US celebrities have to create their foundation in Sweden instead of the US?
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by thbb123 1y ago
Or simply yelling "fire" for no reason in a crowded space must be a sin, pretty much like it's a limit of free speech.
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by thbb123 1y ago
> keep a human in the loop before executing the kill chain, or to reduce Skynet-like tail risks in line with Paul Christiano's arms race doom scenario. It is a little known secret that plenty of defense systems are already set up to
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by thbb123 1y ago
I disagree that you need a lot of space for self hosting. Unless you want to host streaming content for thousands of users, Intel NUC or raspberry PI on top of your router is plenty enough to host nextcloud, some webservers with decent traf
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by thbb123 1y ago
Thinking of something like APL or J?
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by thbb123 1y ago
CEOs like to brag about how AI is going to replace skilled workers. Yet, it should be obvious to anyone having experience in LLMs that top executives are the jobs that are most likely replaceable by AI. Just keep smooth talking everyone int
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by thbb123 1y ago
Algorithm aversion and automation biases have been thoroughly studied over the past 70 years of human factors for industrial security. All in all, the thought processes of humans are not always compatible with the evidence on which automati
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by thbb123 1y ago
In the late 90's, I attended a talk by Ted Nelson, the guy who coined the term Hypertext. To him, things started going downhill with HTML, and the URL. The gist of his complain is that he wanted links to be bi-directional. In the 80&#x
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by thbb123 1y ago
I maintain my land line so that when a website or business asks for my phone number, I don't give them my mobile. Lots of funny stories with this one.
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by thbb123 2y ago
This is starting to feel like Manna, the Marshall Brain novel: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 > Depending on how you want to think about it, it was funny or inevitable or symbolic that the robotic takeover did not star
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by thbb123 2y ago
I don't know about go, but java is pathetic. I have 30 years old c++ programs that work just fine. However, an application that I had written to be backward compatible with java 1.4, 15 years ago, cannot be compiled today. And I had to
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by thbb123 2y ago
Interestingly, the censorship can be somewhat bypassed in other languages than English (and, I presume, Chinese).

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