sidpatil

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Comment · 4 days ago
> Well, there is no concept of "the current directory" in the UI of explorer.exe the way there is in CMD.EXE or Bash. You can have multiple directories open and none of them are privileged over the others.

Wouldn't you just have multiple explorer.exe windows open, each with a different folder open? Wouldn't that be similar to having multiple cmd.exe or Bash processes open, each with a different current directory?

Comment · 1 month ago
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Comment · 2 months ago
How much RAM does your system have?
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Comment · 3 months ago
Further, they may change the behavior of the existing model without providing clear notice. E.g. existing models start to behave worse shortly after new model releases, due to resource reallocation away from the older models toward the newly-released ones.
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Comment · 4 months ago
I'm pretty sure Coursera or edX was using this same approach a while back — they'd make you type in a paragraph of text, then they'd use the timing information as a fingerprint or signature, to authenticate you as the actual student.
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Comment · 6 months ago
> There's also the weirdness of tunneling protocols like PPPoE which only exist to tunnel Ethernet through non-Ethernet systems.

Isn't PPPoE the opposite — carrying a non-Ethernet protocol over Ethernet?

Comment · 6 months ago
Original title: 'Rubens Menin's "Very Very Old" Port wine'
Comment · 6 months ago
Someone here mentioned a whole ago that the labs deliberately haven't tried to train these characteristics out of their models, because leaving them in makes it easier to identify, and therefore exclude, LLM-generated text from their training corpus.
Comment · 6 months ago
Why?

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