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by themafia 3mo ago
Teratomas are insane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratoma
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by themafia 3mo ago
"ALL DEBTS HAVE BEEN ERASED. JUBILEE."
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by themafia 3mo ago
> Pascal style strings were much safer. The limitations were brutal. Initially you could only have 255 bytes in a string. The length of a string and the size of the allocation are now separate and you may need to think about that unuse
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by themafia 3mo ago
That's one of the problems with the lack of diplomacy in the US's position for the past 40 years. We have pushed the envelope beyond our own control: "The U.S. military reverse-engineered Iran’s Shahed-136 loitering munition
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by themafia 3mo ago
The problem with that is if you turn off power to the aircraft then the IMU no longer maintains state and you will need to realign it on startup. The procedures for this are broadly incompatible with military missions.
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by themafia 3mo ago
They're falling back to the C/A (coarse, civilian) signal. Part of the attack is to drown out the frequency where the P (fine, military) signal is so they can more easily attack the civilian signal. There's another frequency
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by themafia 3mo ago
> spoofing I don't understand how "spoof-to" works. If you have to mimic a satellite then isn't everyone going to get a different location? Unless you're tracking a specific target how can you intentionally spo
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by themafia 3mo ago
> You can use a trivial experiment to verify that you can't keep details in your sliding attention window for more than a few seconds or focus on more than a few things simultaneously. I said "context window" not "att
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by themafia 3mo ago
> Human attention is truly ephemeral, with a ridiculously short span. I do not believe this at all. I think you'd have to have a very limited experience working with other human beings to be able to believe this. > and by traini
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by themafia 3mo ago
Okay. Can you take _all_ the data you have out of your mind and put into a computerized format? Is there nothing intangible in your mind? The human context window includes actual _context_ not just _data_.
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by themafia 3mo ago
> that you can't actually reproduce with the software If the vendors of that software are not aware of the failure mode then they may accidentally introduce it by later code changes. Systems evolve. Blind evolution leads to pernic
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by themafia 3mo ago
> That has never happened before like this. You should possibly spend some time reading what people used to say about the invention of Radio and Television. > It is quite extraordinary and breath-taking at times to see the agents in a
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by themafia 3mo ago
> Or are AIs fundamentally different, and if so, why? Literally: the context window. With the human you have a window that possibly extends up to _years_. With your language model you have maybe a few megabytes which is always preceded
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by themafia 3mo ago
So the meaning of what I said was slightly obscured but actually easy to apprehend? oookay.
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by themafia 3mo ago
We baked the snake charmer problem into the law? Good lord.
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by themafia 3mo ago
The results are interesting but the whole project is worth a look. https://people.csail.mit.edu/mengjia/data/2026.SP.fractal.pd...
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by themafia 3mo ago
To be fair Elixir shows you can just use the BEAM if you want. If you need these semantics at this level there's very few reasons not to go this route.
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by themafia 3mo ago
A large portion of DNS is outside of your control. You're relying on at least two third parties you have indirect relationships with in order to work. If you're outside of the standard TLDs you've got additional social fact
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by themafia 3mo ago
You've never read the "errata" section of a CPU manual have you?
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by themafia 3mo ago
> If you've ever built a three-window layout and then wished the editor pane were on the other side, these do the job and keep every buffer in place while they're at it. I built a tmux like buffer manager. So I can just pick a
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by themafia 3mo ago
> To be fair to AMD, there is no clear indication that the company ever publicly advertised TSME as a consumer Ryzen feature. A feature that was possibly accidentally enabled on consumer chips is now being disabled. I would guess that t
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by themafia 3mo ago
It seems like they did all this to please Elon Musk and advantage SpaceX. The people at the top are nihilists. They don't even believe the things they say.
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by themafia 3mo ago
I'm a simple guy and I don't understand the "sales and marketing" cost. I don't like these products. I have several negative opinions on them. To the extent they work and there is a customer base what marketing co
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by themafia 3mo ago
The question is: "Do you want to be holding a Mossberg or a Beretta?"
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by themafia 3mo ago
Fortunately the government has demonstrated that it can regulate the terms of warranties.
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by themafia 3mo ago
I feel like that should be a warranty claim. You sold me one car with a specific set of features and now you've updated it into a different one lacking those features. It's not the same car. You broke it. Fix it or pay me for
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by themafia 3mo ago
My understanding is he works in finance.
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by themafia 3mo ago
So it could be sentient but it's pace of thinking might be absolutely glacial.
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by themafia 3mo ago
It could be 2 to 4 years to build the space. You can also structure the loan so the interest is amortized over a longer period than the loan which simply requires a balloon payment or refinancing of the interest balance at term which can o
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by themafia 3mo ago
That's fair. What I was trying to get at is that Weinstein is also independently successful albeit in a completely unrelated field. There may be small parts of truth in his critique of the field but GU is just so completely batty and

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