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Was going to say /bin/init but your question was too well scoped. So “apt install htop”.

Must be all the Java bytecode.

I love the keyboard casually hanging off the desk like it’s not 20lbs!

No- and that’s the point. Any open weights model, regardless of the origin can be abliterated. So effectively he’s saying he’s all for open weights models as long as they’re safe, which by the very nature you can’t guarantee.

I’m simply making the point that any model can be abliterated to sidestep guardrails. It’s similar to the argument that open source software like nmap or netcat shouldn’t be allowed because it can be used for evil.

To continue the analogy, he’s basically asking for some magic guardrails in nmap that doesn’t allow it to be used for scanning a network you don’t own. Of course even if you could add that- you could modify the source to bypass it.

It’s basically “open weight models are a public good if you can guarantee safety” .. which you can’t. So the only viable alternative is a hosted nmap that requires you to prove you own a network before scanning it. Which is impossible. So it’s all the right words and sounds nice, but making an impossible ask.

China releasing open weight models, powerful or not, does nothing to prevent their development of models they’ll use for evil. Nor does it stop someone from abliterating a non-Chinese model and using it for evil.

Sorry- I don’t see any other reason aside from Anthropic protecting their own interests.

I’ve been looking at incus, and some aspects are appealing (creating a vm/container via cli). But I think proxmox having better clustering, and built in support for ceph, backups (with proxmox backup server)… proxmox just had a little more maturity behind it. I’ll be watching incus though.

Ha! I do the same thing at about the same time age. That was turbo pascal. I also got suspended for writing a TSR in turbo pascal during library time that used inline assembly. It scrolled “hello there, how are you today?” In the 5 characters of the top-right corner of the screen.

Whatever you choose, make sure you leave enough money in your budget for a second printer. Easiest way to double your print throughput :)

I wonder what would happen if you repeated the test while going into the office constantly for a few months. Would you develop better habits to alleviate the distractions?

I feel like people almost pay that already with pair programming.

I usually buy AppleCare+ for my new products (laptop, etc). I think an awesome use case here is the “hand me downs” that my 8yo gets. All are out of warranty, but he’s a lot tougher and more clumsy with the equipment. Covering all that (Mac, iPad, iPhone) for $20/month seems like a good deal.

Then again, when he breaks something, I don’t get to justify buying myself a new one :)

I’ll often buy a game (esp an Indie game) and just not have time to play it. I don’t have a ton of free time, so if a game doesn’t immediately draw me in and keep my attention, I don’t play it. I think that’s pretty common.

I’ll also buy games on a whim and never get much past the title screen.

I have more money than time these days. But when I was younger I had more time than money. So I’d pirate games. This is kind of my way of atoning.

Yea, it’s too easy. Maybe if it were a “guess the number” but in binary? Hints are just “too high” or “too low”?

…though now that I’m playing it in my head that’s too easy too. (Start at MSB and shift right if too high and add bits if too low)…

Maybe if you reduced the number of guesses to 5 that’d add enough chance to make it fun?

I continue to be happy that Apple continues to enhance and embrace the posix side of osx vs gradually stripping it away in some kind of attempt to make it more like iOS.