velox_neb

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by velox_neb 14d ago
> the naive logic that because LLM execution speeds or benchmarks marginally improved over the last 24 months, (...) "Marginally improved"? Are you really going to sit there tell me that an appropriate way to sum up the differe
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by velox_neb 29d ago
> you should not run code you don't trust, period. This reduces to "you should not use a computer, period." No-one can audit all the code they run daily.
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by velox_neb 8mo ago
> It wasn't AI generated. You're lying: https://www.pangram.com/history/94678f26-4898-496f-9559-8c4c... Not that I needed pangram to tell me that, it's obvious slop.
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by velox_neb 8mo ago
I bet some guy just told Claude Code to archive all of LWN for him on a whim.
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by velox_neb 10mo ago
My crackpot theory is that what stops newcomers is how unergonomic "(" and ")" are to type on typical keyboards. If mainstream lisp dialects used square brackets instead, we'd all be programming in it!
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by velox_neb 2y ago
One does not "simply" use Emacs.
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by velox_neb 2y ago
I do, for over a decade. Hope it doesn't die. Can't fathom how people live with these tiny qwerty keyboards on a touchscreen.
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by velox_neb 3y ago
Still, most people who have a crypto wallet on their desktop computer don't get hacked. I always found this interesting because it puts an upper bound to how many machines out there are compromised (at least by an agency that's
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by velox_neb 3y ago
Reading these wikis makes me feel we need to invent some visual convention to indicate AI-generated text. Like a particular color or font. This would make it so people don't feel cheated after they realize they just spent several minut
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by velox_neb 3y ago
You sound like ChatGPT.
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by velox_neb 3y ago
Looks like the Emacs developer community needs a Linus to talk some sense into these Mauros Referring of course to https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
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by velox_neb 3y ago
> Microsoft should just buy Everything off Voidtools Don't give them ideas, they'd find some way to ruin it.
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by velox_neb 3y ago
Errata: In the table under "How many bytes are in UTF-8?", bottom row, "10000" should be "100000".
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by velox_neb 3y ago
I get "The model: `gpt-4-0314` does not exist".
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by velox_neb 3y ago
I'm an emacs fan but there's no excuse. It's insane that an editor from the 1970's is perceptibly laggy on the latest Macbook Pro. This is a good article about the problem https://discourse.doomemacs.org/
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by velox_neb 3y ago
Surely at this point half the content on /pol/ is from professional propagandists and LLM-powered bots, trying to create the impression of a "4chan consensus" to sway anyone stupid enough to be taken in by that.
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by velox_neb 4y ago
How well can you use this as utility from your current shell, without replacing it? Something like "nu <command>" to execute nu commands from inside bash?
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by velox_neb 4y ago
Similarly, the best source for nutrition information used to be whfoods.org. Unfortunately it's been down for a while now, and while there are some imperfect archives, you can't easily search through the site anymore.
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by velox_neb 4y ago
A middle ground would be to offer public searchable logs, but strip the usernames. I would be fine with that.
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by velox_neb 4y ago
Rather than a GPT-3 generated email, I would rather receive the prompt that the sender would have used to generate the email. We could even come up with a conventional shorthand for this. Imagine you send me a message that just says [[perso
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by velox_neb 4y ago
ok gpt
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by velox_neb 4y ago
> I seem to recall Dell saying that you should never store a suspended laptop in a laptop bag, because there are situations where it might wake up and overheat. Which is the stupidest thing ever. I want to see Apple use this to shame Del
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by velox_neb 4y ago
> they're often connecting from public IPs that are "suspicious" which causes automated systems to treat them more harshly. What's worse is that the the error messages never explain the problem. It's just an endl
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by velox_neb 4y ago
Depressing to think that, even if you find a way to make this work, it'll be deprecated in a few years as most distros move to Wayland. Then if you figure it out in Wayland, it'll probably break again when they come up with some n
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by velox_neb 4y ago
The very fact that Emacs is so ancient makes me feel comfortable investing in it. If I extend and reconfigure it heavily, my setup will probably be usable for the rest of my life. Emacs will always be around. Meanwhile, VSCode will be repla
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by velox_neb 4y ago
This post is why I believe the Apple Magic Keyboard is actually the best gaming keyboard currently available. I noticed it when I tried gaming on traditional mechanical keyboard, and then on an AMK. The Apple keyboard feels distinctly snapp
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by velox_neb 4y ago
Who doesn't love a bit of smoothed brown noise to drown out the outside world. No need to diagnose yourself with ADHD over it.
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by velox_neb 4y ago
> And a funny anecdote: a few months ago, Instagram started pitching ads about very high end, luxury items, probably thinking I had hit a jackpot or something. Simultaneously, I was thrown into a new cohort on dating apps. As if I was no
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by velox_neb 4y ago
Clicking "Save Image As..." did nothing, no file dialog appeared. Had similar problems before, so I guessed it was some snap bullshit. This page seemed to confirm it https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions
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by velox_neb 4y ago
> Out of curiosity, how did you do it? https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-d...

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