thomasingalls

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by thomasingalls 24d ago
The title really undersells how awesome this is
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by thomasingalls 2mo ago
I've seen opus 5 give hallucinated user responses in the middle of a workflow that's supposed to grill a user about their understanding of a topic. Pretty inconvenient to have the model giving out quiz answers as the quiz giver. O
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by thomasingalls 2mo ago
Do they have to
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by thomasingalls 3mo ago
Does this mean I'm not going to be able to store stuff for cheap on backblaze anymore?
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by thomasingalls 3mo ago
Yeah, labor law is bad. You tell em
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by thomasingalls 4mo ago
Gross
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by thomasingalls 4mo ago
Yes actually. After zirp ended, cloud costs got materially more expensive for enough enterprises that there was a good year or so of celebrated "we're moving back on-prem" stories on hn, where companies were announcing saving
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by thomasingalls 4mo ago
what i personally don't like about privacy-preserving age verification is the single subsequent law change that would criminalize individuals for "improperly" doing age verification. it'd be so easy to do, and would im
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by thomasingalls 5mo ago
The more specific the better
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by thomasingalls 5mo ago
Not having a choice is not the same as consent
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by thomasingalls 5mo ago
Are you kidding right now? Have you seen what's happening with ICE in the US? EU countries are just one effective social media campaign cycle away from the same policies. "It can't happen here" is foolish thinking. See a
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by thomasingalls 5mo ago
Just because the government is not out to get you at this exact moment doesn't mean that a future government won't be. Surveillance capacity seems to be a one way ratchet.
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by thomasingalls 6mo ago
Europe needs a private European identity provider. Until this happens, Europe will remain a technological vassal state of the US. These are expensive products, you need depth of expertise and experience to create a system that could compe
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by thomasingalls 6mo ago
Need a proper mobile os alternative
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by thomasingalls 6mo ago
Oh my god, what are we doing
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by thomasingalls 7mo ago
Touch this grass to prove you're not a robot
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by thomasingalls 7mo ago
let's try to keep to credible sources here eh
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by thomasingalls 7mo ago
"can the bot army push average opinion x% in this innocuous topic?" it could very easily be a/b testing a propaganda system.
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by thomasingalls 7mo ago
I'm not convinced that this whole discussion section isn't astroturf... some real out there opinions popping up in here
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by thomasingalls 7mo ago
https://arxiv.org/html/2601.19897v1 Direct link to the paper for those who don't want to wade through the ads
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by thomasingalls 8mo ago
Bad teeth also harbor bacteria that have been shown to exacerbate cardiovascular disease, at the very least. Not saying this article is claiming that as a casual mechanism, but diseased teeth are known to cause other systems to also become
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by thomasingalls 9mo ago
Everyone is saying LLMs did this site in, but what if we just asked all the questions already? We should be celebrating how we solved programming!
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by thomasingalls 11mo ago
if you have a server that's overloaded, then a request comes in that requires fractionally more memory use than the average request, do you blame the single request for crashing your servers or do you acknowledge that the load on the s
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by thomasingalls 1y ago
Doesn't France still do oral exams?
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by thomasingalls 1y ago
What do people do to curate/version /transform their raw datasets these days? I am vaguely aware of the "chuck it all into s3" strategy for hanging onto raw data, and related strategies where instead of s3 it's a db
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by thomasingalls 1y ago
Ah thank you, I was looking for that in the v2 release notes and couldn't find it
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by thomasingalls 1y ago
Do you have to upgrade across all your syncthing instances at once, or will 1.x be able to talk to 2.x for a while without breaking? It seems like a pretty big update and I'm not sure what I need to think about if I'm upgrading
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by thomasingalls 1y ago
Wasn't it online ads, ie Google, that decimated newspapers?
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by thomasingalls 1y ago
It baffles me that I can't give it feedback by commenting on the pr. If it's bothering to offer a create PR workflow, I should be able to course correct targeted bits of code using GitHub's UI, no?
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by thomasingalls 1y ago
If a key gets compromised, the encrypted secrets are compromised forever, since you can't be sure all the git clones everywhere can be updated with a new encryption key. Not to mention how fiddly it is to edit git history.

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