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einpoklum
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About einpoklum
Software developer, researcher (well, sometimes), semi-retired union organizer and potpourri political activist, sucker for roller-coasters, Anarchist :-)
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Comment #49220729
Instead of the department of energy striving to promote energy conservation and sustainable, non-polluting electricity generation, it is feeding the LLM craze. New department motto…
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Comment #49208993
I believe you may be basing your figure on current Data Center power consumption. But - it's estimately to grow significantly: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/doe-data-c…
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Comment #49208948
> don't have a real justification. Oh, but the ju$tifi¢ation is all too real for having that kind of "common sense".
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Comment #49179955
This seems fascinating, and I am only sad I haven't the time to actually get into a full treatise like that. The style of writing - at least initially - is quite approachable, even…
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Comment #49134910
The actual quote: > Our full-featured agent autonomously solved 9 Erdős problems out of 353 attempted, including two questions that had been open for 56 years Note _had_ been open,…
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Comment #49132290
Also, have there been examples of researchers not affiliated with OpenAI (or another LLM creator), who have done something similar? Another question I have is whether or not OpenAI…
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Comment #49104380
Quick, before the bubble bursts and everybody gets fired.
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Comment #49098216
That page was overwhelming and visually tiring for me, especially with the animation, so I gave up on it, sorry.
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Comment #49066646
You mostly don't sync any such data. Prepare some file (or a few files, including an .ics for itinerary or what-not) with information about your trip, a few days in advance, and co…
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Comment #49066468
Too bad you could not bring that judge up on charges of judicial misconduct - if he indeed told you that the charge against you had no merit, but decided to punish you anyway becau…
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Comment #49051473
> If you want to use non-systemd tools, use a non-systemd distro, that is your choice. No, it is not my choice, because I'm not talking about my PC at home, but rather what organiz…
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Comment #49049624
We moan about Microsoft's horrid choices with its operating choices, already for, what, let's say 40 years now? 45? When they cut it out, start using standards, stop forcing crap o…
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Comment #49049551
You're the one who brought up init systems. Like you said, systemd is a huge project; an init system is just one of its components. > he systemd project has many different componen…
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Comment #49048551
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Comment #49045483
It's not even "max security". We are talking about those big tech corps which are infamous for sharing all of your private information with the government, and analyzing it so as t…
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Comment #49039549
Ok, well, you have a point, in that you might see the old way of doing things and you might see the new way. This is, however, one of the detriments of the language's commitment to…
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Comment #49032983
D: "I want to be free" by Milton Schulman. H: Milton Friedman. D: Why are they all called Milton? Anyway, I've only got as far as Milton Keynes. H: Maynard Keynes. D: I'm sure ther…
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Comment #49032949
> But many people don't have that much time to learn the new features Because they spend so much of their time struggling with the pain points of the older code. > but can't intuit…
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Comment #49032912
You need to remember _less_, rather than more, when you use this kind of vocabulary types. Think about std::optional. Before that (and if you didn't write something like it yoursel…
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Comment #49032888
The example is problematic, in that: 1. click() should not be a member of the widget. A widget does not click; a user clicks a widget. A click can change a widget's state, but the …
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Comment #49032771
My approach to reducing the compile time of code which uses a class is moving the functionality out of the class and into standalone functions; or at least moving the method defini…
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Comment #48983924
Waste of computing resources, and mildly distracting. This reminds me of compiz.
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Comment #48977776
I got 1.