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by vl 12d ago
Also for traditional fuel you don’t have to carry half of the fuel - oxidizer comes from air. And then when you spend fuel, you have less weight to carry (which becomes noticeable on the plane).
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by vl 25d ago
” But he will not receive a royal allowance, nor will he be expected to take on official duties, and he has no rights to the Belgian throne.” So it seems nothing will change for him.
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by vl 2mo ago
I trained to play insane, usually a just bit slower than average, after using hints for couple times. I suggest larger levels (yes, scrolling and zooming might be required). After all, minesweeper is the most interesting on the largest leve
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by vl 2mo ago
The simple fact is that economy can’t be 100% services. Who is going to pay these baristas if nobody else earns anything?
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by vl 2mo ago
The only reason you can figure it out is because of the system prompt which is designed to make model “useful”, safe and compliant. Raw modern LLM with different pre-prompt will easily fool anyone.
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by vl 2mo ago
Or another way to see it is that current models are AGI as it was defined before, and the goal post is being moved.
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by vl 2mo ago
Does market closing and not trading continuously affects this? If market opens at significantly different price, you may be forced to liquidate and loose more than expected.
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by vl 2mo ago
Frontier labs release frontier models to the public only if there is market pressure to do so. Anthropic is not even hiding that they have been using Mythos internally for months now. I wouldn’t be surprised if OpenAI (so much for “open”) i
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by vl 2mo ago
This is strategy by Chinese government, so much of US economy is invested in AI. Releasing free or cheap versions of the models undermines US economic growth. It’s asymmetric strategy that makes sense if you are close second in AI race. If
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by vl 2mo ago
France’s football team is second only to England’s and Argentina’s. It’s a miracle that in language same words have different meanings depending on context. If this wouldn’t be the case we could have hardcoded NLP algorithmically without in
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by vl 2mo ago
While you are technically correct, in English it’s perfectly fine to say it this way as well. “Second only” here has meaning “next after”, not “number two”.
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by vl 2mo ago
Bespoke solutions are better in many cases. They do exact things required for the project without taking extra dependency. Reducing dependencies is beneficial, because dependencies require management. So with llms economy of taking dependen
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by vl 2mo ago
I uploaded my blood test results and prompted pedestrian medical question. I shut it down because it's "bio research".
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by vl 3mo ago
I really don’t understand what SD card reader on MacBook Pro is for. All small cameras and devices use micro SD. Professional cameras don’t use SD since forever now. Basically I always need an adapter now.
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by vl 3mo ago
So for new Ghost in the Shell is it a good idea to watch previous ones before watching the new one? If so, it what order? Is movie worth watching at all?
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by vl 3mo ago
Usually the grants are restructured. Ie instead of what was vested and unvested rank-and-file gets new 4 year grants. And then it works exactly the way you would expect: everyone works for 4 years and then leaves.
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by vl 3mo ago
What people don’t get that traditional software jobs are gone. There is no need for developers, testers, PMs, TPMs, devops, leads anymore. Communication burden and structure imposed by these roles is too high when you have AI. It doesn’t ma
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by vl 4mo ago
What transmitters? Now calls happen over WiFi which companies sell.
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by vl 4mo ago
Now wait for manufactures introducing mandatory flight mode on devices (with Apple leading the way) that “trusted partners”, like airlines will be able to force-activate themselves.
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by vl 4mo ago
Because they knew it’s not a real threat and they wanted to land at United hub for cost saving reasons.
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by vl 4mo ago
What is even better now phone calls are prohibited, but all these airlines had actual credit card phones installed in every seat just 20-15 years ago and really wanted you to do phone calls for $1 a minute. And some people did, and it was
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by vl 4mo ago
They are going to do what movie industry is already doing: create shell company for release of each game. Then they will shut down the company when they want, and there will be nobody to come for.
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by vl 4mo ago
Because for awhile they had access to infinite money printing press (search ads), and in the situation like this it’s impossible to focus and seriously compete in other areas. Essentially all Google efforts were in protection of search ad r
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by vl 4mo ago
And amazingly free version is very usable as well. It’s same BBEdit package, and without license it doesn’t activate extra features, which I don’t need anyway. They used to ship it as free separate editor TextWrangler and now rolled it in i
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by vl 4mo ago
This is surprising about COBRA - I thought it’s always 18 months. Moreover it doesn’t make much sense to limit cobra - you are paying full price out of pocket anyway.
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by vl 4mo ago
I started with x86 assembler and Turbo Pascal (I still remember when I got documentation for Turbo Vision - this was groundbreaking!). The simple truth is that I had to constantly learn something new and this is how it is in this profession
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by vl 5mo ago
Grok has the most useful voice mode (ChatGPT voice mode is very dumb, grok seems to use same model as main chat), so if I want to use voice this is the AI I use. Also I use it for all uncomplicated topics because it gives precise short answ
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by vl 5mo ago
These tractors are not new, they are rebuilt.
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by vl 5mo ago
I have mold problem in one of the bathrooms. What would be your recommendation? Seal off bathroom and run UV, then vent? Or do I need to do entire house? I can also seal off bathroom and bedroom. Thanks!
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by vl 5mo ago
Or get a Dremel.

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