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Comment · 1 month ago
What on Earth is a “greco-roman Markdown editor” and if I’m not someone who writes RETVRN posts on X, the everything app, why is that a desirable attribute?
Comment · 4 months ago
Then you overpaid a year ago. A 2x16GB DDR5 kit was around $90 a year ago and is over $400 today.
Comment · 5 months ago
When people write blog posts about how LLMs failed for some particular task, the responses from boosters invariably fall along the lines of "just use this other model/just tweak your prompt like so/you're just not skilled enough—you can't make fundamental arguments about AI by citing specific examples."
So we can't make arguments by citing specific examples, and also can't make arguments by not citing specific examples. Whelp, I guess that's the ball game.
(yes yes, I'm committing a group attribution error, but still)
Comment · 8 months ago
It’s listed on the agenda here as “Automated License Plate Reader Contract.”
https://mountainview.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1352...
Comment · 1 year ago
> The Constitution of the United States was a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-constituti...
The Supreme Court is not the ultimate decider of what the layman's document means. It was wrong when it decided, for instance, Plessy v. Ferguson. The law that the Court upheld patently violated the Fourteenth Amendment and was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court was simply wrong.
Comment · 1 year ago
... yes, that's the complaint. The prompt engineering they did made it spew neo-Nazi vitriol. They either did not adequately test it beforehand and didn't know what would happen, or they did test and knew the outcome—either way, it's bad.
Comment · 1 year ago
The big digital music stores are DRM-free these days (iTunes and Amazon both are). There's also Qobuz if you want to avoid the tech giants (though most of your money ends up going to record labels, so does it really matter?).
Comment · 1 year ago
Four characters counting the pound sign.
Comment · 1 year ago
The Verge has been publishing non-tech related stories for ages. Technology still seems to be their main focus, but this isn't new.
Comment · 1 year ago
They did not have "every right to remove him." As the article you linked says, Abrego Garcia was specifically granted a withholding of removal order.
Comment · 1 year ago
A beanbag is a chair? Perhaps a chair should be something on which one can comfortably sit without breaking that has a back and four legs. I suppose then a horse would be a chair.
Comment · 1 year ago
In my case, no small fraction of the traffic was from OpenAI and Anthropic. There were also other user agents that literally said "AI".
Comment · 1 year ago
> He straight-up ate someone else's salad?
... no, it's clearly a joke.
Comment · 1 year ago
Soulver has indeed been doing this without large language models (so far as I know) for many years: https://soulver.app/
Comment · 1 year ago
It is not directly accessible from user-space. Making it so requires kernel support. Apple published a set of patches for doing this on Linux: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/acc...
Without that kernel support, all processes in the VM (not just Rosetta-translated ones) are opted-in to TSO:
> Without selective enablement, the system opts all processes into this memory mode [TSO], which degrades performance for native ARM processes that don’t need it.