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eeegnu

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    Comment #38704702

    Because a poorly implemented chatbot using someone else's LLM API is comparable to what you can accomplish with 10^n rounds of inference in a clever way. Computers are useless with…

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    Comment #36916271

    Hmm, in theory what if I used a dedicated GPU just for the VM that was disabled on the host. I don't know the space of these exploits well enough to know if there's an obvious atta…

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    Comment #36915866

    I believe this opens up the host device to vulnerabilities if the VM gets infected: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/162122/gpu-pass...

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    Ask HN: Is it possible to get a graphically smooth Windows VM?

    I've been trying with little avail to get a Windows 10 VM running on Windows 10 which isn't graphically jittery. I plan to use this VM to download random games without having to wo…

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    Comment #36912504

    This one? https://web.archive.org/web/20020926204023/http://www.bombhi...

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    Comment #36848747

    I would guess that they did the calculations, but interpreted it as "5 nines after the decimal point", when it's really "5 nines in total".

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    Comment #36363671

    Time to use an LLM to sandwich my actual domain name searches between thousands of other similar sounding ones. Let them pay for all of those.

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    Comment #35146553

    I wish I still believed this.

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    Comment #35112783

    Charging a small amount is more optimal since it mitigates API spam without having to set a low rate limit. It also ties your users to a financial id, which is (probably) harder to…

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    Searching for an old blog post on bootstraping compilation

    I'm struggling to find a great post I saw here a few months (years) back on what I think was a very technical dive into the exact details of attaining the ability to compile comple…

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    Comment #30992200

    It seems your first attempt to post this was flagged because the domain name sounds like it'll act like a redirect, and the page itself only had an image with no elaboration and ju…

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    Ask HN: Why is chromes typo suggestions much worse than searches autocorrect?

    Just now I was trying to spell "manipulable" and I typed in "manipuble". It gave three options to fix this: "manipulee", "maniple", and "manipulees". But if you just try to google …

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    Comment #30603692

    Possibly related, discord is not loading anything for me right now.

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    Ask HN: Curious about vercel password protection pricing

    I was browsing through vercels docs when I noticed that password protecting [1] a project (so that anyone previewing a deployment needs a password) is an optional add on feature fo…

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    Ask HN: Is there a name for this behavioral phenomenon?

    I'm working on a project and i'm at a step where there are several options for accomplishing the task, any of them working will do. And because I really don't care which of them I …

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    GCP Bucket Name Restrictions

    I was creating a bucket on GCP and noticed what I thought was an odd restriction[0]: > Bucket names cannot begin with the "goog" prefix. > Bucket names cannot contain "google" or c…

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    Comment #28984629

    It would be funny to place fake data behind the removable bars for tech savvy people to find.

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    Comment #28970641

    It's always worth examining the other perspective, it makes for actual discussion. If I want to see everyone in agreeance with no room for these opinions I'll use reddit.

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    Comment #28966112

    Looking through the source where the tests are conducted, for (double x = 1; x counter++; int64_t tmp; if (to_int64_simple(x, &tmp)) { sum += tmp; } } The fractional part is always…

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    Comment #28951872

    I've also found that in emails there's a surprisingly large number of people that think "yes" is a valid response to: "Should I do A or B"? They interpret the or like an interprete…

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    Comment #28899679

    Probably would be the same as playing against alpha zero without knowing and wondering how every good move you play seems to leave you worse off.

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    Comment #28854888

    I think that's an interesting perspective, you're right that this is a post praising moderation (a form of censorship.) I don't find it dystopian/thoughtless however, because the o…

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    Comment #28815544

    Your right in principal, bad grammar effects us all, theirs allot we can do too keep content here peek quality.

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    Comment #28814301

    I found this article[1] answered allot of the questions I was left with after reading the linked article. > “What we normally do is put a satellite transmitter on any animal that w…