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jdsully
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About jdsully
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Comment #49076636
Its an open question if model weights are even copyrightable. So the license may not mean anything.
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Comment #48719379
Phased arrays are their own lense.
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Comment #48613240
Physical hardware products shouldn't lose features after launch. If this was a "mistaken" feature which they suggested it was they should have disabled it on future chips.
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Comment #46884133
"consumers don’t shop based on the endurance metrics even if they should" Its been well over a decade now and neither I nor anyone I know has ever had an SSD endurance issue. So it…
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Comment #46759244
But surely you see the core LLM innovation is that computers can now TALK to you.
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Comment #46737346
I sign up if I want to do a long road trip and cancel after. Worked great for that.
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Comment #46695866
They hadn't bothered to add ipv6 support to most of their services and the ones that did have it usually were only dual stack - still requiring an ipv4 address.
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Comment #46688172
Wickard V Filburn is simply bad law... The federal government has way too much power and MUCH more than was ever intended. Its not a feature it is indeed a bug. One caused by the S…
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Comment #46687880
Excel needed the x87 as well as they cared about maintaining the 80-bit precision in some places to get exactly the same recalc results. So they would have fixed it eventually most…
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Comment #46673643
Ah but see the most important piece of information is not what the manufacturer specifies. Most mechanic friends would tell you manufacturers are over-extending the interval to mak…
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Comment #46673426
Ask a mechanic friend how often to do an oil change and they will 9 times out of 10 give you an answer without asking what model of car.
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Comment #46651943
You'd still want in transit encryption. There are other methods than centralized trust like fingerprinting to detect forgeries.
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Comment #46650004
At some point it makes sense to just let us use self signed certs. Nobody believes SSL is providing attestation anyways.
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Comment #46582114
The most likely culprit was talking to other nodes via their public IP instead of their local ones. That gets billed as interent traffic (most expensive). The second culprit is you…
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Comment #46445883
It looks like your writing a letter. Want help?
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Comment #46439482
I wrote Sum Buddy using a variety of AIs. Its a full featured AI spreadsheet. It started in Gemini's web interface and moved over to claude (which was a huge increase in capability…
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Comment #46408188
To be fair they had to lift the plane off the bottom of the Hudson river. It was literally under water. I'm not sure what your expecting in that case.
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Comment #46406998
I was a bit surprised by this take, because I never questioned you would get the luggage back if it survived. Having looked into it more I was pleasantly surprised that even in cas…
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Comment #46201141
Anecdotally I’m starting to see a more people switch to my spreadsheet app. Not something that should be possible if the MS ecosystem was healthy. https://www.sumbuddy.net
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Comment #45891507
It was different where you were but the billG and early Ballmer years devs had a lot of power. Like to the point where PMs had training on "soft power" or more bluntly how to get a…
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Comment #45878571
AWS is degrading on all fronts. If your a large scale business you almost certainly hit stock-outs during peak periods - the elasticity is a lie. If you are a mid scale its high pr…
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Comment #45877091
I'm working on Sum Buddy an AI spreadsheet. I didn't like the way Microsoft and Google were integrating their AI by essentially tacking on a chatbox and I wanted to explore more na…
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Comment #45752425
Even if you have that you'll find AWS is "out of stock" and wants you to create reservations that essentially cost the same as just having the machine 24/7.
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Comment #45704954
One word: Ads