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danukeron Pull request limits are cutting down the noise

Really it should be a "report as spam" option

danukeron The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks

> I should be running my own LLM

I approve of this, but in your place I'd wait for hardware to become cheaper when the bubble blows over. I have a i9-10900, and bought an M.2 SSD and 64GB of RAM in july for it, and get useful results with Qwen3-30B-A3B (some 4-bit quant from unsloth running on llama.cpp).

It's much slower than an online service (~5-10 t/s), and lower quality, but it still offers me value for my use cases (many small prototypes and tests).

In the mean time, check out LLM service prices on https://artificialanalysis.ai/ Open source ones are cheap! Lower on the homepage there's a Cost Efficiency section with a Cost vs Intelligence chart.

danukeron The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks

Some services have the down thumb

danukeron Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks

Placebo and nocebo are strong effects. Even when the people taking placebos knows it, they still work.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83148-6

danukeron Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb

Perhaps JetBrains should reconsider AppCode, since Xcode only got this crappy recently. Apparently they didn't get the market share they had hoped for.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/appcode/2022/12/appcode-2022-3-re...

danukeron Kaizen

The consequence of efficiency is inflexibility.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794

danukeron The Legend of Holy Sword: An Immersive Experience for Concentration Enhancement

Bit of a tangent, but I recently learned of "quiet eye" and how it is studied to improve aiming in sports.

danukeron How economical is your local Taco Bell?

Maybe Numbeo is more to your liking.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

danukeron Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights

> I sure as hell wouldn't go there.

Don't even go close:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/belarus-divert...

danukeron MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec

I don't think they made up for it. They are training AIs off of personal data. The open stuff are a desperate red herring.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/10/meta_ai_training/

danukeron "No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

> only the baggage a project needs

What projects need manual memory management? Those where the hardware costs are comparable to development/maintenance costs. That is much rarer than people think.

RAM is cheap, and few applications really need bespoke allocation. And it's not just a question of skill; even the most disciplined make mistakes. It's one of how much brainpower you want to allocate to... memory allocation.

danukeron Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle

Do you also consider Bitcoin a pyramid scheme?

danukeron Car insurance in America is too cheap

That is when you realize "free market" means "our buddies at the top can charge whatever they want, and you may not compete". Same with healthcare, telecom, financial services...

danukeron How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days

Hell, even reading the policies and responding whether I'm covered (and where it says so/hints towards) would be a worthwhile service.

danukeron I'm Done Punching Trees and Grabbing Rocks in Video Games

I remember being most productive at work when I was also indulging in Factorio. Maybe I should get back to both.

danukeron Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says

If there is no way to tell, then reasonable doubt will become much more prevalent.

danukeron Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands

And yet, there still are illegal immigrants.

danukeron A writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura

I am particularly salty about HBO's Chernobyl.

Thunderfoot showed how misleading it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsdLDFtbdrA

danukeron Tech world won't have long to fall in line when EU signs off on AI Act

No! I meant Cuba.

danukeron Tech world won't have long to fall in line when EU signs off on AI Act

Still has a higher life expectancy than the US, though their GDP per capita is less than 14% that of the US.

danukeron Sony facing $7.9B mass lawsuit over Playstation Store prices

If I've got a laptop and am looking for "normal" gaming experiences, rather than the latest AAA games, I'll load up an old or light game on it.

Why would I buy a separate piece of hardware taking up more space in my home and life? More money down the drain.

Sure, it's nice that it "just works", but so does `pacman -Sy xonotic`.

danukeron Sony facing $7.9B mass lawsuit over Playstation Store prices

Which begs the question: why do people buy consoles at all? Why don't they buy PCs? I have never owned nor seen the attraction of a gaming console as opposed to a general PC.

danukeron New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy

> they would be laughed off by the judge.

Still useful for taking advantage of employees not in the know.

danukeron Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022

maybe it was "steel manning": pick a particularly hard-to-beat baseline

danukeron Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022

Looks like VFINX returned 8.8% since 2022-05-01. How did you get to 18%?

https://totalrealreturns.com/n/VFINX,VBMFX,USDOLLAR?start=20...

danukeron EU's concealment of secret 'expert list' on CSAM regulation is maladministration

My guess is induced demand. A CSAM user will want more, the more they get. Same as any addiction.

danukeron Big landlords are colluding to raise rents, D.C. lawsuit alleges

Maybe they're not ignoring it. They're just not attracting attention to the fact that they're pushing down the price of supremacy on human attention.