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dpe82

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About dpe82

Hacking the AIs.

Previously: - YouTube: - Shorts: founding engineer and infrastructure lead - Stories: infrastructure engineer - Uploads: Android TL - Vidmaker (acquired): founder/engineer (browser-based video editor) - Sony Vegas: engineer (desktop video editor) - WI state senate: legislative staffer - Various: LAMP stack hacker back when P was for Perl

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49214494

    > even the MON navaids are having maintenance issues resulting in outages Which is exactly why we previously had such a dense network: to provide redundancy in the face of inevitab…

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    Comment #49188976

    Another thing to add to all this is FAA has been steadily removing from service non-GPS navigation aids.

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    Comment #49039276

    `claude update`

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    Comment #48943422

    Humans (exhibiting "general intelligence") are tool builders; virtually all our capabilities stem from our ability to create and use tools - often extremely specialized to a task. …

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    Comment #48900068

    Seems roughly in line with UCSF's entry-level post-doc compensation: https://postdocs.ucsf.edu/pay-and-benefits That too, of course, is too low to live comfortably on your own in S…

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    Comment #48683260

    After 2000 years everything mixes together at least somewhat so trying to draw hard lines is an exercise in pointless semantics, but it's worth acknowledging that as a system, comm…

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    Comment #48680070

    > *English Common Law* has entered the chat

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    Comment #48663986

    I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. I've used GPT-5.5 and Opus both for FPGA design with good results. We built a lot of tooling around it to help the models, but even…

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    Comment #48651072

    They won't all be fulfilled. I would imagine this is part of the price-discovery process.

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    Comment #48613246

    Seems like a fairly neutral term to me.

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    Comment #48546938

    Nit: at some point you start getting metal fatigue issues (see Aloha Airlines Flight 243) but in general yes: fuel efficiency and fleet standardization. Also airliners usually just…

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    Comment #48537666

    That wouldn't stop their development and use in the rest of the world...

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    Comment #48514637

    Why would foreign (relative to the US) models suddenly sit still? There's enormous incentive to improve; surely they'll be able to figure out how just like their American counterpa…

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    Comment #48514605

    As we learned with export restrictions on crypto in the 90s, that disadvantage will be short-lived and backfire in the long-run.

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    Comment #48486498

    Also known as: supply and demand.

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    Comment #48441773

    And there were a bunch of WYSIWYG editors in the mid-late 90s. It seems like everyone had one, including Netscape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Composer

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    Comment #48250264

    Oh don't worry, the enforcement is extremely selective.

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    Comment #48140047

    Thinking about it as a system: If every university were subject to similar constraints, the average "quality" of research proposals would go down (everybody would have less time to…

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    Comment #48130828

    The press release states it clearly.

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    Comment #48069537

    In a proper 2-loop cooling system, the primary loop (with direct electronics contact) and secondary loop (with seawater/external cooling source) are hydraulically isolated by a hea…

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    Comment #48027792

    Forgejo is just the one I landed on, but like I said - there are options!

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    Comment #48013220

    I recently moved all my projects to a self-hosted forgejo instance and have found it quite satisfactory so far. And it's fast! If you're in the market for a github alternative, tak…

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    Comment #48005574

    TUIs, apparently. :)

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    Comment #48001262

    A year ago I would have agreed with you, but now anyone can build a perfectly reasonable native app.

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    Comment #47942417

    If someone expects to be compensated for their work they should be upfront about it. IMHO it's dishonest/immoral to freely give something away with no expressed expectation of reci…