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Comment · 4 days ago
> 2 vCores per node, a 300-node cluster can only store about 2.4 TB of data.

Haven't seen anything more "hyperscaler-brained" in a while.

Comment · 4 months ago
At some point in the transistor scaling, the electrons started leaking across the gate, we've switched from 2D design to 3D structures to prevent that, so the actual physical gate pitch for like the TSMC 3nm is around 45 nm in distance.

Currently thrown around numbers mean the "equivalent performance/density" or something like that.

Comment · 4 months ago
1. People give the information to the government under the expectation that this data is to be kept private or used in such a way that individual targeting is made impossible, you break that expectation and people will lie or won't give you this data.

2. Without noise injection it's rather simple to do statistical attacks to reverse engineer individual entities.

3. This data is and has already been used in the past to undermine democratic systems by targeting and disenfranchising minorities, as well as gerrymandering the US to hell.

4. "Too dangerous to make public, too dangerous to collect" - this is a false dichotomy. To govern effectively you need sensitive data, but it should be collected and used in a way that's safe for the individuals.

5. Macro level aggregates don't need individual exposure, that's why noise, anonymization and statistical functions are fine.

Comment · 4 months ago
With 10x improvement in per capita code output I'm sure they will get there one day.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Yep, sadly the case, been using Codex CLI a lot lately and it somehow feels more... refined. Gemini is just tragic.
Comment · 5 months ago
1. Best harness? It ranks the worst with Opus in terminalbench: https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0?models=...

2. Mixed for the entire bun ecosystem, especially with the Rust, Anthropic-focused rewrite

3. Good, because Anthropic's SDK was one of the worst ones to use.

4. Deal with the guy that has a shit ton of compute around wasting money because no-one uses Grok and was frequently calling Anthropic "Misanthropic".

https://i.redd.it/kp4uy1egspjg1.png

5. Glorified marketer whose probably greatest achievement in pushing AI forward was instructing on CS 231n and coining the term vibe coding.

Yeah, on a roll.

Comment · 6 months ago
"What comes after Git" looks inside

Git CLI with flowers and unicorns.

Is this what gets funded nowadays? I really hope for a gigantic mega crash of all the IT companies. This industry deserves it like none other.

Comment · 8 months ago
So.. like any other Graphics/Compute API when it was actively developed.
Comment · 8 months ago
Gotta switch to ZGC
Comment · 9 months ago
WD-40 is not really that great at anything, people buy the brand name, that's it. The formule being public probably wouldn't change much
Comment · 9 months ago
I think it would be worth it to investigate cyanobacteria toxins in water over there as they can cause similar symptoms. Next thing to check would be local sea food. I feel like glyphosate is a red herring here. Heavy metals could come from frequently eating local fish/shellfish.
Comment · 9 months ago
Kate/Kwrite will ask to escalate to root if permissions are not sufficient. If it's not available to you, that's because your distro patched it out.

For ssh - sshpass.

Comment · 10 months ago
Sun also emits infrared which seems to cause positive effects counteracting some of the UV related problems.
Comment · 10 months ago
Let's spend years plugging holes in V8, splitting browser components to separate processes and improving sandboxing and then just plug in LLM with debugging enabled into Chrome. Great idea. Last time we had such a great idea it was lead in gasoline.

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