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by trollbridge 5d ago
Suspending licences doesn't stop people from driving anymore than not having insurance doesn't.
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by trollbridge 5d ago
This particular page succeeded at being cached.
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by trollbridge 5d ago
It's worse than that: a default macOS install with Safari will re-open Safari, complete with re-opening the tab that was open upon a hard power off and power back on. So to get it to stop doing this on restart, I had to be very quick t
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by trollbridge 15d ago
10 minute walk or swim.
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by trollbridge 15d ago
Well, yeah. Retention eventually means leaking. I deliberately throw away logs, customer data, etc once it ages last a certain amount simply so I can stop being responsible for it.
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by trollbridge 15d ago
One of the more absurd things these ID verification services do is ask for a front and back scan of your licence and then use an app that has you tilt your head around in camera. They obviously do not have actual access to the original phot
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by trollbridge 15d ago
With much higher energy costs + consumption of consumables like battery packs than just driving a truck loaded full of building materials.
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by trollbridge 15d ago
What kind of nonsense is this? Matrix math is entirely deterministic.
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by trollbridge 15d ago
Anything smaller than a 16” runs into serious thermal problems; even an identically equipped 14” just can’t dissipate enough heat.
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by trollbridge 15d ago
32GB is simply too tight; you need 8 minimum for the OS and you need about 4-8 more for the LLM you’re visiting and kv cache.
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by trollbridge 15d ago
I don’t want to be a cranky codger, but I dont get why 5 minutes of work cleaning up the README can’t be done before posting to HN.
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by trollbridge 15d ago
Every slop website would then repeatedly try to pop up and install button.
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by trollbridge 17d ago
I could use my brain to run a set weights, given enough time (on the order of millions of years).
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by trollbridge 17d ago
I’d recommend starting with llamafile due to its simplicity and then move up to llamacpp and Unsloth.
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by trollbridge 17d ago
Sure. Take the inputs and run it through the model. You now have the output which will be perfectly reproduced with the same inputs.
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by trollbridge 17d ago
Floating point math is entirely deterministic. For a given set of inputs, the same outputs come out, every time.
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by trollbridge 17d ago
This sounds suspiciously like a prompt of “make an AI agent that goes rogue in such a fashion as to be really good marketing copy that competes well with Anthropic doing the same thing.” It’s analogous to taking a governor off a cruise cont
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by trollbridge 17d ago
“Why does my lawnmower keep on moving when I hop off of it after ratchet-strapping the seat and the pedal down?”
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by trollbridge 17d ago
Microsoft QuickC came with LIFE.C as a sample program. For DOS, although it would obviously run under Windows.
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by trollbridge 17d ago
LLMs are notoriously non-deterministic, and even at temperature zero you still can't predict exactly where the weights will take you next. An LLM can be made to be completely deterministic. I use them in this mode so I can repr
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by trollbridge 17d ago
In the US we also have tech companies going out of their way to make their devices have strong encryption and be unbreakable.
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by trollbridge 17d ago
I think you’re failing to understand copyright law. Without a licence you can’t wget -r a website and make copies of the materials on it, alter them, and so forth.
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by trollbridge 17d ago
Someone’s account is sending the messages and will use a particular way to sign in / send the messages. Apple will simply start to ban accounts that match that pattern. The nice thing about Tether is that it’s read only so won’t be att
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by trollbridge 18d ago
The 11 is a complete turd. Less RAM than the 10. Sticking with a 9 Pro or 10 Pro is the smart move right now. I’m actually considering spending $400 to get a broken 9 Pro XL fixed…
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by trollbridge 18d ago
As a general rule, Apple will shut down an operator of such service once it gets used to pump out spam. Of course, every spammer dreams of their spam texts coming through as a blue bubble.
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by trollbridge 18d ago
It’s a terrible pattern, but one that is simply entrenched. Pretty much everything treats .env as if it’s /etc/shadow now. I would prefer to see secrets from .env not actually splattered in the environment but processed/read
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by trollbridge 18d ago
86Box is like that and I like it. You’re also responsibility not to write crap PRs.
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by trollbridge 18d ago
Indeed. SIMD type code used to be too hard for me to write very often, but now it’s easy to crank out tons of it.
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by trollbridge 18d ago
The content of the site is subject to licence for making copies. So you’re saying licences don’t matter? The GPL established this rather clearly. Copyright law doesn’t require consideration. (The licence itself is a basic BSD licence, so it
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by trollbridge 18d ago
Interesting. So what makes theirs not “optional text nobody reads or understands”?

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