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phanimahesh

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About phanimahesh

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #47640049

    A powertool that needs discretion and good judgement to be used well is being restricted to people with a track record of displaying good judgement. I see nothing wrong here. AI en…

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    Comment #47378436

    Me too. This is funny

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    Comment #47284181

    Wait dbus isn't considered modern? What's the alternative these days?

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    Comment #47134108

    The issuer knows everything and can help track if the wish to. The issue here is lack of trust in any corporate or government entity.

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    Comment #47121428

    Crontab entry to read a file and run a prompt?

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    Comment #47030437

    The long list of domain names that vercel deployed to is interesting

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    Comment #46970854

    Am I the only one who found the terminal more interesting?

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    Comment #46958301

    Excuse me what? Fonts? How do fonts signal LLM usage now

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    Comment #46923029

    That blog post is very light on details can be condensed to a single line/paragraph. LSM trees are more efficient for SSDs and modern databases use them. I don't know enough to com…

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    Comment #46909872

    But that has no moat. Anyone can generate a database of natural numbers using SOTA models.

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    Comment #46909484

    How would that help in this case?

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    Comment #46908933

    Can you share examples of new database architectures and products using them that are built for SSDs? I'm sure we have different capabilities and constraints, but I am unaware of a…

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    Comment #46903401

    I only see ** . Must be the security. When you type your password it gets converted to ** .

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    Comment #46754790

    Before commenting water is cheap and plentiful please read the proposed definition. > Water bankruptcy refers to “a state in which a human-water system has spent beyond its hydrolo…

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    Comment #46754781

    > Water bankruptcy refers to “a state in which a human-water system has spent beyond its hydrological means for so long that it can no longer satisfy the claims upon it without inf…

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    Comment #46735830

    That is a strange viewpoint. Are we calling everyone who wants some control over their computers enemies of the state?

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    Comment #46732575

    An unenforced threat is toothless. Publicly stating we do not appreciate XYZ pr that was ai generated, low effort and in bad faith is perfectly acceptable.

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    Comment #46732542

    Very little, until it stops being stupid in many ways. We don't need smart, we need tools to not be stupid. An unreliable tool is more dangerous and more useless than having no too…

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    Comment #46714489

    When digital content can be duplicated with ease, it is difficult to guarantee verified voter but untraceable vote.

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    Comment #46714403

    Very. Every voter is guaranteed a booth nearby ( https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/5/8/an-election-booth... Also https://www.reuters.com/world/india/family-remote-himalayas-..…

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    Comment #46679095

    https://ondc.bajajfinservmarkets.in/ https://www.mystore.in/en/ Listing of apps at https://www.ondc.org/ondc-buyer-apps/

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    Comment #46654782

    Love this. Classic microsoft.

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    Comment #46485672

    Now people can articulate bullshit better with LLMs.

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    Comment #46417120

    There are different kinds of mocks. Check function XYZ is called, return abc when XYZ is called etc are the bad kind that people were bit badly by. The good kind are a minimally co…