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Comment · 21 hours ago
Why does a village of 772 people need a mayor, a "city" manager, a police chief and 5 police officers?
Comment · 3 months ago
Darling is written in a different language so I don't think the LLM would copy paste code from it directly. But it is the main (only?) prior art, so it could be argued that everything the LLM knows about how to do this came because it read and understood Darling, i.e. if Darling didn't exist it may still be able to do this but it would have to figure it out from first principles.

Not saying it happened here, but it's an interesting thought experiment: what if you order an LLm to achieve the same goal as a popular open source project, using all the lessons learned and pitfalls faced by that project, but not to copy the code. Indeed, LLM code is now often better than human code, so direct code copying would be a disadvantage. Humans are certainly inspired by other projects like this all the time and it isn't considered plagiarism.

Comment · 4 months ago
I can tell when my CPU usage spikes because it causes a hum through my speakers, so this does not seem that far-fetched.
Comment · 4 months ago
> can't be asked

What you heard wasn't what they were saying.

Comment · 4 months ago
This is great but sails far too close to Poe's Law that I predict downvotes.
Comment · 7 months ago
Probably due to the movie "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan".

People missed the joke that it was poor English on purpose.

Comment · 8 months ago
I recall a post recently that suggested rather than a fixed contact interval ("message this friend every 2 weeks") it was better to use a Fibonacci spiral (2 weeks, 3 weeks, 5 weeks, etc). Perhaps you could implement that?
Comment · 8 months ago
The "hardware" section is really cool, and then you get to the "software" section and it's just webslop.
Comment · 8 months ago
Sometimes it works if you install an old version of the cryptography package from before they introduced Rust.
Comment · 9 months ago
My ISP added IPv6 support and my router began handing out IPv6 addresses. How did I know this?

1. My AppleTV began stuttering during playback.

2. My old iMac began crashing every time it connected to the wifi.

At least the iMac has an option to disable IPv6. The AppleTV has no such option so I had to do it in the router.

Comment · 9 months ago
If you send the full 200k tokens on every request you will get very few requests before you hit the token limit. Caching reduces the number sent but I don't know how much they can cache?
Comment · 10 months ago
Lookup "wake-on-lan".
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Why is Steam even operating in Russia? Isn’t Russia under sanction so rest of the world doesn’t do business there?
Comment · 1 year ago
The fact that the UK doesn’t allow “impromptu checks”, otherwise known as “Papers please!” is not a bug, it’s a feature that distinguishes our democracy from other states and we are pretty proud of it.

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