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stefs

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About stefs

mostly kotlin

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    Comment #48716973

    > My hope is that in a couple of model generations, we'll trust AI to review MRIs the way we trust it to proofread our emails. the doctors may have financial motives to suggest unn…

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    Comment #48698331

    somewhat funny to the immature mind: "fut" - the name of the compiler binary - is austrian slang for vagina, but in the most obscene, vulgar way possible. a bit like "cunt", but wo…

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    Comment #48368221

    i think what they're talking about is an attacker poisoning the data the agent is trained upon to include functionality/a backdoor that can later, after training and when the agent…

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    Comment #48348207

    that study is widely regarded as unreliable and outdated.

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    Comment #48348193

    increased testosterone from working out is probably around 10-30% long time, which is a far lower variance than natural level variance in healthy adults. i think i heard from sever…

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    Comment #48009061

    unrelated: https://fossil-scm.org/

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    Comment #47799656

    yeah, but if you really really wanted to and/or your livelyhood depended on it, you probably could afford it.

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    Comment #47763755

    good catch

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    Comment #47763724

    one example i come back to is multithreaded layouting/rendering browser engines. it was mentioned in the servo blog post back then when mozilla worked on it: "we tried it in c++ bu…

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    Comment #47748464

    which balance? orban was a parasite, trying to embezzle as much money from the EU without getting the boot (hungary as the biggest per-head receiver of EU funds), while probably al…

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    Comment #47748332

    His options were limited. Aside from his tirades against the EU, he was completely dependent on it, as it financed half the country – Hungary was the largest per capita recipient o…

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    Comment #47745010

    yes - i am so relieved. this was a real conundrum for the EU - booting hungary out would have been a huge problem (i.e. opening the door for a russian stronghold right in its mid),…

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    Comment #47716975

    But that's also a fee that's trivial for well funded criminal malicious parties shipping harmful trash but too high for serious open source developers shipping free software.

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    Comment #47653070

    As always. But it's a first step.

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    Comment #47621169

    i get a lot of tool call errors with gemma-4-26b-a4b, because the tokens don't seem to match up.

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    Comment #47472984

    i kinda seem to remember that this is a bit misleading and the rates are surprisingly different than expected. i'm too lazy to check the sources right now, but gemini gives me a 15…

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    Comment #47472895

    while i don't agree with your general sentiment you're right that bicycles should have their own dedicated cycle lanes. too often drivers get their dedicated lanes while pedestrian…

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    Comment #47472865

    > Less successfully, the road redesign has also seen a reported increase in hospitalizations among cyclists and pedestrians. well, with a lot more people walking and cycling this i…

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    Comment #47219912

    in my area, one of the biggest groups using those vehicles were food delivery riders. for those guys, those electric mopeds were a gamechanger, as they were able to make many more …

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    Comment #46898183

    > The dems are just as corrupt that's just simply not true and arguing like this publicily increases acceptance of corruption.

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    Comment #46844876

    yes, but that's just one part of the equation. machine code from compiler and/or language A is not necessarily the same as the machine code from compiler and/or language B. the rea…

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    Comment #46844833

    in my opinion, this assertion suffers from the "sufficiently smart compiler" fallacy somewhat. https://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler

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    Comment #46840506

    That would still be very close to educated mind reading

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    Comment #46717776

    i would love to hear Farm-To-Taber answering this. she, a farmer and farm worker, ran as a democrat. i really like and recommend her podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber s…