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Yes, That Hideous Strength despite being written probably 60 years ago seems dead on as a criticism of many of the things being pushed today.

I have not, but you can verify for yourself - https://github.com/nika-skybytska/fa/tree/master/books has a copy of Komogorov/Fomin's text that's well known vs Introductory Real Analysis available on the Internet Archive. A cursory glance at the respective TOCs shows that there is reordering.

First couple of chapters match up, then it diverges heavily.


sunshine + moonlight + wakeonlan is quite good if you actually set up the black magic that is wol

> I have it on good authority that it is a handwritten notebook.

I'm suspicious. Didn't Mozart use a word processor?

I mean, not a PC program, that would be ridiculous, but one of those dedicated stand-alone word processor systems that they used in ancient times.


But why is anti-cheat so hard to build for Linux then? Because it needs kernel-level access?

If you had a large stock of stolen CCs you could use this to pay a buck or two on everyone's bill and verify that the cards are valid.

Is claiming that the year when the orange man first came into office a mistake, or a hallucination? Does the answer change based on whether it came from a human or an LLM?

How about citing legal cases that don't exist? I would say this is maybe closer to hallucination if an LLM is doing it. Maybe less so if a human is and is not experience some mental instability. What creates that distinction?


I have a PO Box (I do not have a mailbox so the city gives me a PO box for free). A kind human gets my packages from the back and hands them to me. It's great and efficient. The only inconvenience is the hours are a little narrow.

hello mr tech tips

The entire point is that being "informed" is of negative value. Trying to find a different avenue through which to be informed defeats the purpose. Ask your friends and family how they are doing and you will be much better informed than listening to the ravings of publicists.

A Master's thesis is not for somebody aiming for academia. It is a requirement for graduation. Rather different from a PhD.

"Freedom" is and always has incoherent. Rights and protections require enforcement by society. Every right creates a countervailing obligation and social function. Property rights require a state apparatus to enforce them (or they aren't really "rights" at all). Free speech, collective bargaining, privacy, free exercise of religion, etc. require state intervention for preservation of those rights.

Libertarians tell a story about their ideology that assumes power and coercion can only be performed by the government (often in a slippery way, conceding a government that has lots of ability to secure property rights) and that power exerted by the wealthy or by organized communities of interest without a manifest government cannot be coercive or unfree in some sense. It just makes no sense.


Comparing side-by-side is always easier. The question is never that (should not be). The question is, would you approach a random coworker's desktop and really, sincerely, notice if they have a 120 vs a 144 Hz (or 240) monitor?

I'd say maybe if you are a professional in the sector of multimedia processing, you would be so accostumed to the smoothness of high FPS that a meager 60 fps monitor would be obviously noticeable. But for the untrained eye, I feel most people wouldn't even notice in a random scenario like that, whether the screen is 60 or 120 (and that's the range with highest ROI on FPS increments!)


That's a tiny drop in the bucket of the value these AI companies have appropriated from society.

Just to give an idea of the scale of it:

Let's say a modern SOTA LLM has 1T params and is therefore trained on 100T tokens

1000 tokens of text = 750 words of prose, which may take 15 min to 3hr to write (Gemini's estimate)

1000 tokens of code = 50-70 lines of code, which may take 15min to 5hr to write

We just want a rough estimate of the value of this, so let's say that 1000 tokens took 1hr of human labor to generate at an average wage of $50/hr

So, if 1000 tokens cost $50 of human labor, then that 100T of training data cost $5T.

So, the value of what the AI companies took from society might better be estimated in the trillions of dollars, not billions.


Ah yes, personal computing was also supposed to come to an end. Yet here I am, on the best Linux ever with the most beautiful desktop being productive with all my favorite tools, not worrying about drivers or compatibility or anything. All for free, freedom included.

Well it means nobody can avoid their extortionate upgrade pricing anymore so I think that decision paid off well for them.

The first thing I used to do when getting a Mac Mini was ripping out the memory and sticking in the max I could get. For a fraction of Apple's price. Some of them even had more memory than Apple offered itself.

I know there are also benefits to the soldered memory like the huge bandwidth but still. That matters mainly for very specific workloads like LLM inference.


According to the authors numbers it'll take at least 20,000 launched to put a million satellite's in orbit

And that's before you consider the issues of operating a DC in space

It's just a a load of nonsense


Ethernet is duplex though. 20Gb/s is the max throughput a 10Gb NIC can achieve.

I glanced at D.O the other day and was depressed to find they're reporting 400k active installs. I remember when that was 16M and growing. So yeah pretty dead. And yeah I blame the Drupal Association by way of Aquia and Microsoft. I left the project with a clear conscience after explaining in detail to an entire roomful of core developers that objectifying the codebase a la Laravel would kill the project stone dead within 5 years. Predictably they offered the typical "community developers are bad and don't want to learn" sneer as their primary defense of the decision. RIP.

re: wired dualsense features, try https://github.com/awalol/DS5Dongle

> Lehrer did [sic] 97

Most people speak the vast majority of their quotes before the day they die.


Interestingly, playing around with this (asking google search "Is Louis Rossman sponsored by ground news?"), it generated a different response each time, and 2/25 times it said he was sponsored.

So it seems like Google doesn't have any kind of "lock in" for facts, where they can detect these outlier responses and kill them. It seems a meta-analysis of responses would allow them to cull many false replies.


some people want to implement this DRM support and some others want to use this support.

freedom in this scenario is more akin to "you are free to choose" above "you should pick one of the free choices".

some people will decide for paid products and some people will consume closed source "evil corporation" software.

... while it IS "anti ethical" to some of its founders, it should be an individual choice of each user, after all its my machine, and i don’t have to care about what Stallman/whatever says I should or shouldn’t do with my stuff, the same way they have their right to tell me to go fuck myself for my choices.


https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-th...

Did you look at the OKF repo from Google? Open Knowledge seems to be a common term these days for similar solutions. I think OKF is more of the protocol for wiki-for-llm while you have more of the bells and whistles


Thanks for the follow up. It is nice to know that Claude is as horrible a writer for everyone else as it is for me. God it even slipped in load-bearing, hell have mercy on us. I did read (skim) the whole thing.

> Do you have a use case in mind?

Two, 1) upgrading Lua code on a module by module basis 2) Using a newer library on an older codebase. I know those are really two takes on the same problem. I understand why your system doesn't, but at least yours is more flexible than mlua.

I understand why this hard and why it just doesn't work like this out of the box. Lua minor versions are really major and the semantics really does change.

I also don't think what I am asking for is all that necessary, more of a cute language and runtime flex. If the Lua total addressable market was 100x what it is with lots of code on older versions that needed to run side by side then maybe.


Capitalize those sentences.

it certainly has the tells... I could be charitable and say maybe since it's a bilingual blog it was generated as a type of translation from the original source, but that post itself seems only available in English

Thanks for the precision.

Some projects , like Godot are MIT so contributors can use it for their own commercial projects.

Occasionally, EA for example, a big corp will donate some money to. Apple has created PRS to add support for Vision Pro.

If Godot was GPL it would be useless for most commercial game devs.


Local news is pretty much dead, approximately nobody is reading local newspapers or watching the local news at 6.

The only news that's still viable / widely consumed are national and international news, and they generally don't cover crime less severe than mass murder.

So I suggest that the main evidence in the article, the disconnect between crime perception and reality is not caused by news consumption. People were more aware of local murders, muggings etc in the past when local media was a regular part of people's lives.

IMO it's caused by social media consumption.


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