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Comment #49223751
> So many audio-to-digital conversions used cheaper anti-aliasing filters, with a narrower pass-band, which could be significantly lower than the 20 kHz promised by the CD technolo…
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Comment #49221334
> Record companies accordingly used sampling rates just dense enough to keep most listeners from complaining, and called it good. It was good for their profits, sure, but it made t…
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Comment #49221064
Until they apply what that did to Github's uptime
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Comment #49213835
Internet walled gardens are all opt-in and still they've made the web a worse place.
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Comment #49212616
Still there's not a single example.
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Comment #49203621
I think it's enough that a single layer fits on each chip if you can daisy-chain them with good interconnects.
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Comment #49189232
Hasn't this been happening for a while now?
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Comment #49189166
Are you saying that Hurd will also kill Google/Linux?
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Comment #49185714
It might also be that the security sandbox was haphazardly vibeslopped together.
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Comment #49183141
There's plenty of tools that can cause harm without having to be creative to use them.
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Comment #49182698
I think it's just regular corporate speech. LLMs do this, because they've learned on this kind of posts.
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Comment #49180815
We'll yet see where the wind blows, but there's a real possibility of copyright issues for machine-generated code down the line.
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Comment #49179876
If I wanted to be uncharitable, the question of "how much slower you'd be without AI" compares against people's AI-less productivity from 2026, which could have become much less th…
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Comment #49173080
Ah, that makes sense, thanks.
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Comment #49168497
But won't your boat displace more water by lowering a bit if you've got additional mass on board?
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Comment #49167231
If you've got X GB of weights in slow access memory (be it RAM vs VRAM or SSD vs RAM) and Y GB of fast memory then no matter what, if you want to use them you'll need to transfer X…
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Comment #49166264
I think it speaks about the current state of github that I had to scroll 12 projects to find the first entry not related to AI.
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Comment #49165488
There is a limit how much you can squeeze out of given hardware. Betting on it being closer to 100t/s than 6t/s is only that, a bet.
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Comment #49147466
Aren't they still bad at understanding how bicycle frame works? Especially the steering part?
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Comment #49137629
And still that requires X to not be particularly large. It could conceivably be in ballpark of BB(40).
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Comment #49120696
I might be an old man yelling at cloud, but for things coming after win98 era this feels demonstrably false in many cases.
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Comment #49113711
Intuitionistic logic can prove less than classical logic, but what you gain is that proofs are constructive. Also you can use it to reason about things for which law of excluded mi…
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Comment #49110756
So that link( https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117002106099986943 ) buried in the comments of comments sounds pretty damning.
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Comment #49107269
I think it's just that we have hard time pinning down what is it that intelligence factor that isn't well-covered by LLMs. Just like we've had trouble with discerning human intelli…
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Comment #49101091
That kind of sounds like a branch predictor in a CPU.