wolfd

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by wolfd 27d ago
Could be a neat post, but it was too obviously LLM-generated for me to care about reading it deeply. I’m really fine with people using LLMs to write code and understand stuff, but at least drop a disclaimer when you’re blogging straight Cla
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by wolfd 29d ago
I think that it’s fine, and good, to critique the way that corporations do their business. That’s kinda one of the core tenets of capitalism, no?
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by wolfd 2mo ago
This is free software.
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by wolfd 4mo ago
I wish there were more human written articles posted here. The ending of this is so obviously an LLM being prompted to connect this news back to the site’s purpose. There just isn’t a link, so it makes something up.
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by wolfd 4mo ago
This seems wrong to me? I use it to do so every day.
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by wolfd 7mo ago
I hope you and I never get the opportunity to learn how this would end. We’ve had nukes on Earth for less than 100 years, do you expect the next few thousand to go that well? Do you think in that time, nobody will ever roll a nat 1 on a wis
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by wolfd 10mo ago
I think it’s possible that there’s a technical reason for monochrome cameras. For example, to let in the maximum amount of IR light for tracking. Bayer filters reduce the amount of light getting in, so it might help the IR LEDs be visible o
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by wolfd 11mo ago
I would assume that this was a carrier request/demand that got filtered down to some poor employee that had to implement it. There’s a linked bug, but the bug is restricted.
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by wolfd 11mo ago
I don’t know if this was one of the intended outcomes, but this will probably cause some struggling college and universities to shut down. International students raise quite a lot of money for higher-ed institutions because they pay full pr
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by wolfd 1y ago
Are you talking about the 3D rendering in the article? The source is linked, and it was uploaded to Wikimedia in 2013. Edit: Oh! I see, the article URL was changed after you made your comment and before I made mine.
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by wolfd 1y ago
The gates are extremely fast, and you don’t need to wait at all when you tap your card. In practice, this ends up being a pretty big deal for the number of passengers going through some of those gates. The whole experience is noticeably fas
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by wolfd 1y ago
I believe it was this https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale
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by wolfd 1y ago
How are these levels actually encoded? Do they use special unwritable tokens to wrap instructions?
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by wolfd 2y ago
I think the goal is to not antagonize the administration but convince them that they're making a mistake and to reverse it.
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by wolfd 2y ago
Good question, I always wonder the same thing. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-Linker-2024-Performance seems to show that that the newer linkers still outperform their predecessors, even after maturing. But of cours
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by wolfd 2y ago
I’m not sure if you’re intending to leave a negative or positive remark, or just a brief history, but the fact that people are still managing to squeeze better performance into linkers is very encouraging to me.
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by wolfd 2y ago
Could you explain why you think that Linux created more problems than it solved? In my eyes it is the backbone of most of what I do as a developer and I can’t imagine trying to work without it.
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by wolfd 2y ago
It’s absurd but LLMs for military targets is absolutely something that some companies are trying to sell regardless of the many known failure modes. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-07-05/the-us
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by wolfd 3y ago
This document was referenced by Smarter Every Day in his latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU
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by wolfd 3y ago
What do you mean by “tearing”? Like, VSync-off tearing or a different effect?
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by wolfd 3y ago
A major issue with motion interpolation is that it can’t be perfect, and is often far from it. The implementation on many TVs is jarring, you’ll see super-smooth motion while an object is moving a slow or medium speed, but as soon as the pa
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by wolfd 3y ago
I would be _shocked_ if Zuck wasn't thinking 24/7 about how to capitalize on LLMs. I'm sure there are a thousand ideas (maybe even a few good ones?) being thrown around Meta at how to use LLMs to beat Google/Microsoft+Op
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by wolfd 3y ago
I find it interesting that they haven't rebranded "CNC" as something in Korean.
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by wolfd 3y ago
When I was in uni, the computer science school actually did occasionally check these reports. Specifically, a guy named Chris checked them. Some friends of mine apparently used this to send him messages. `sudo hi chris`
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by wolfd 4y ago
The implementation as it stands is actually easier the way they do it. They replace the image by scaling Rick to the image size. That means that they can still automatically put your output images in a grid without any extra code. They co
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by wolfd 4y ago
I made this page (posted in another thread yesterday) because I was rather underwhelmed by the .gif. I think the page shows in much better detail the difference between the telescopes' capabilities. https://blog.wolfd.me&#x2
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by wolfd 4y ago
Thanks for finding those images! I threw together a page that lets you compare them via a slider. You should be able to zoom in on mobile! https://blog.wolfd.me/hubble-jwst/ The .gif comparison was a bit... upsetting s
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by wolfd 4y ago
I think that that idiom is perhaps overstated, it can be good, but it can also be an excuse to be morally corrupt.
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by wolfd 4y ago
I am fond of Starlark, the Python-like configuration language of Bazel. It's code, but they've removed most of the footguns that you encounter when using Python as configuration (e.g. you can't mutate global state). I think i
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by wolfd 4y ago
The free market is really only able to be efficient when consumers have choice. With healthcare, choice is usually not an option (e.g. you get charged for the cost of your care even if you are unconscious when they bring you to the hospital

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