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markhahn

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About markhahn

grew up digital in the seventies.

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    Comment #49036474

    devices already do wear management. at most, you should configure your system and OS to give them a chance. for instance, being 100% full all the time is just bad. use TRIM and log…

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    Comment #49024256

    why do you think this is a function of betas? or even of OS or app versions? I guess you've been burned, or are worried about being burned, by some software that generated excessiv…

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    Comment #48915813

    uh-huh. and what source code do you think coding models are trained on?

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    Comment #48915650

    smells of AI-pilled management viewpoint. the kind who think that AI has already changed the whole software landscape.

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    Comment #48895723

    I'm curious what you mean by "violence" here.

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    Comment #48895692

    it wouldn't be a triangle if it meant embracing one of the poles.

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    Comment #48895572

    first, eliminate record-keepers.

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    Comment #48739059

    we call that a shelf.

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    Comment #48737991

    the Executive is required to obtain consent of Congress to appoint principal officers; why not just require consent to fire them?

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    Comment #48737936

    There are lots of executive actions which require consent of congress. I think that would work fine here. Obviously, the point is for congress to have a means of overriding a corru…

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    Comment #48736587

    how about make it round-robin, so all 10k of them get a fair slice of traffic? ;)

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    Comment #48736507

    though shalt not wear garments of mixed pallettes

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    Comment #48700138

    If you can't hack it, you don't own it.

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    Comment #48677839

    has anyone found a paper with details? also, I was expecting to see cfets mentioned.

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    Comment #48676268

    it would be interesting to know apple's true/inside attitude towards people putting linux on their hardware. they don't seem very interested in helping, but donno whether they acti…

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    Comment #48625967

    residents of the universe who recognize the US as a supply-chain risk. no, actually, from the docs it sounds mainly motivated by the country's unique linguistic requirements.

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    Comment #48625956

    why do you say the Swiss have no gpus?

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    Comment #48625854

    these days, even completely mainstream distros (Fedora here) include ollama, which leverages a wide range of hardware and range of models. (it's generally useful to install a more …

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    Comment #48625721

    I'm curious how you test; could you explain? Do you have a set of factoids that should be subject to copyright, but are somehow literally (whole work) generated by the model in que…

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    Comment #48625702

    I guess you mean assuming your data is stored somewhere in the clear (and whole). I'm surprised there isn't a lot more attention to encrypted, distributed, erasure-encoded stores.

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    Comment #48625675

    any US tech? not even for specific purposes? yeah, if there was some kind of forcefield around the US, most of the world would have tech troubles at one level or another. but so wo…

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    Comment #48604421

    what's the problem with everyone knowing how a rep votes? their voting should be a matter of record, not any form of leverage. the dumpsterfire of campaign finance is completely or…

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    Comment #48490788

    consciousness is a behavior. experience is remembering that you had a behavior.

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    Comment #48490742

    this fallacy is called "appeal to authority".