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orbital-decay

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About orbital-decay

Don't blindly believe any comment that looks competent; use your damn sense.

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    Comment #49218508

    That's the kind of thing I learned actual programming for, at the same age.

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    Comment #49214679

    It's an excellent metric, the amount of applications not viable now due to cost/latency/throughput is vastly bigger than the amount of current use cases. Even current ones do benef…

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    Comment #49207725

    TA and its huge maps looked like id's take on Tribes without understanding what made Tribes good

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    Comment #49206895

    That's a problem of every commercial competitive game. Endless tweaking and new content kills most games, they never reach their potential skill ceiling. Sometimes it comes out goo…

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    Comment #49205862

    It doesn't fit their own definition of AGI, although it's inevitably vague [0]: >artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform hu…

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    Comment #49205811

    That's an ad. There's a lot of cable testers around, most of them are crap. Cheap testers like this one are based on generic chips reading e-markers and aren't even guaranteed to s…

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    Comment #49162794

    >I recognize that Russia is making this change for MitM spying Not really, banks do this. FSB would love to spy on everyone of course, but all was working fine until the CAs starte…

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    Comment #49154777

    It's a more or less solved problem (e.g. DeepSeek has batch-invariant kernels, vLLM also has reproducible outputs etc), with an obvious caveat that you need to lock your hardware s…

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    Comment #49144632

    The model does it in this case, not "we". Classic SEO does influence it because it relies on traditional search, but then it estimates the best according to whatever cognitive capa…

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    Comment #49144480

    >But if I ask an LLM 'who are the best commercial roofers in Houston?', there isn't one right answer. When an LLM answers that roofing question, it typically cites 3 to 5 businesse…

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    Comment #49140033

    It has improved a lot, but these demo reels still have all AI video issues. Flash cut salad (including the scenes that should have longer cuts), unnatural motion that looks animate…

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    Comment #49131756

    It can write anything, but that's not a guarantee it can easily read and comprehend it later

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    Comment #49127339

    This works both ways, if the detection rate is low then nobody would press a "lose $10" button.

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    Comment #49127270

    Infeasible. Fraud or spam is usually pretty hard to confirm from one recording without additional context. Many scammers have plausible deniability or are just checking whether the…

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    Comment #49126844

    Please calm down, I had no intention of offending you! I agree, of course that's AI, just a pretty... commoditized? kind in 2026 and a long-winded explanation of word2vec or even m…

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    Comment #49104211

    Late 19th early 20th century job replacement by engine-powered machinery led to the rise of ideologies, two world wars, and reshaping of the entire world. If AI replacement would a…

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    Comment #49103390

    I'm sorry but how exactly is this new? If you want the model to be useful you also need it to be dangerous. You can already tell the model to do anything you want. If it refuses du…

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    Comment #49102926

    HF postmortem tells us very little about OpenAI's part. The problem is that ExploitGym is a purposeful hacking benchmark, not a cake baking one. The model had a whole bunch of expl…

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    Comment #49102262

    The capabilities of gpt-5.6-sol were well known and believable, and the next snapshot they've been testing is obviously better at that. This has been repeated over and over. What's…

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    Comment #49101374

    There's a ton of low-latency proxy hardware meant for cheating that does exactly that, out of the box, for those too lazy to do it themselves on any devboard. It's not an excuse fo…

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    Comment #49099944

    Proprietary software doesn't have any problem with embedded code, for example TTF does exactly that with fonts and they're still being licensed. Code embedding has been considered …

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    Comment #49098869

    It's just an ordinary search engine for the specialized topic. Aurelien Pierre is being overly dramatic here, it's in his character.

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    Comment #49098610

    >How do the FOSS alternatives handle this? In the same way, because there's no other way. Darktable in particular contains previous versions of the color pipeline. Every RAW softwa…

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    Comment #49098094

    Using a 0-100 scale is a pretty bad idea in general. Neither humans not models know what to do with it. Split your metric into several concrete variables with discrete values well …