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ibeckermayer

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    Comment #49155486

    Trusting the output of an abstraction explicitly designed, engineered, and tested by other humans with an actual understanding of the layer beneath you is not comparable to trustin…

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    Comment #47699021

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    Comment #47210647

    Good thought... I think you're wrong because the dominant factor is bandwidth over the interconnect. In this case they're using 5Gbps over Ethernet; compare that to 80-120 Gbps for…

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    Comment #47210552

    Your workflow is unusual, oftentimes there is a vigorous back and forth, or a desired output like code generation, etc where a low tk/s drastically effects ux and user productivity…

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    Comment #47202879

    Cool that it's possible but basically unusable performance characteristics. For an 8192 token prompt they report a ~1.5 minute time-to-first-token and then 8.30tk/s from there. For…

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    Comment #47188892

    > Isn't that basically the same as me giving you $80? I don't see at all how that's me "basically getting that investment back". It's a good question, what I think you're missing i…

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    Comment #46969886

    Utterly brainwashed take only deserving of mockery.

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    Comment #46941596

    Just flat out false, and embarrassingly so, but spoken with the unearned authority of an LLM. See: The Pirate Bay.

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    Comment #46941385

    1. Equality under the law is important in its own right. Even if a law is wrong, it isn’t right to allow particular corporations to flaunt it in a way that individuals would go to …

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    Comment #46812700

    Pure ad hominem FUD. “This guy sometimes disagrees with scientists employed by the government, don’t listen to him!”. The technical details are beyond my understanding but I’ve hea…

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    Comment #46810960

    There are tests out there like https://www.chrismasterjohn-phd.com/mitome (No affiliation, just have been subscribed to the founder’s substack for a while)

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    Comment #40641176

    I’m not quite understanding: you’re saying you deploy your site one way, then crawl it, then redeploy it via the zipfile you created? And why is SSR relevant to the discussion?

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    Comment #40087851

    “What’s the hazard ratio for seed oils? Oh we don’t have one? Ok just completely ignore the potential problem then.”

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    Comment #39886104

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    Comment #39839078

    The financialization of management at Boeing has been an issue since well before 2019. See: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=213075

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    Comment #39035608

    Comprehensive argument for why this is a red herring: https://reasonandliberty.com/articles/newtons_bucket

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    Comment #38613561

    You’re probably discounting how much “everything” actually meant blank check subsidies for addicts, which obviously leads nowhere good.

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    Comment #38602854

    That’s how standard Beeper does it, or at least used to do it: https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/21/pebble-founder-launches-be...

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    Comment #38155240

    If LLMs can't find the answer then people will go ask it on SO. If SO is liable to shut down because the majority of their business got wiped out then somebody with a vested intere…

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    Comment #36172726

    This idea that the "homeless problem in SF" is primarily a problem of "people being unable to afford homes in SF" is just laughable. All you need to do is walk down almost any stre…

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    Comment #35904093

    “Spam spamifications” as in, notifications? Good luck building a competitive direct messaging client without “spam spamifications”. PWAs aren’t ideal, but building to a single plat…

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    Comment #34728731

    I work on the Desktop Access feature for Teleport: https://goteleport.com/docs/desktop-access/getting-started/ The tool itself is open core: https://github.com/gravitational/telepo…

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    Comment #34190977

    Bingo. The fact that the law even allows for such a protection racket is an indictment of the law.

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    Comment #34134552

    > larger orgs currently building on Matrix would feel victim of a rug-pull or a bait & switch Fair. The bait and switch could be avoided by grandfathering in current orgs. A more h…