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Lame: Fight the war on general computation by spending decades pushing elaborate technical standards for locking down bootloaders, try to convince society why we need device attest…

> you might effectively kill a whole class of changes, like "small refactor" PRs. Or the changes might be "smuggled through" in an unrelated changeset that has to go through the re…

> No Two Installs Look Alike > Same install. Your imagination is the limit. Here is a set of things that people have added to bb all by just asking it to build it for them: [...] -…

Could someone explain this bit? > many system apps run in the background after being uninstalled, but it's unknown whether they do when disabled. Is this because some real system a…

Update: They really changed it! (in python 3.12) There was a PEP about it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78388333/nested-quotes-i... https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.1…

I mean, we're already ahead of schedule for Elon Musk stuff and BloodDrone, so who knows...

here's a valid f-string: >>> f'{'}'}' '}' Huh? I remember learning the rule that you can't nest quotes inside fstrings if they are the same kind (unlike in bash) - e.g f"{mydict["f…

If token speed doesn't count, you can have 200GB "RAM" in swap space. But I agree, what the OP does is a lot more efficient than this.

Was reminded of SBF and his series of "I can explain everything" blog posts and interviews that somehow always made the thing worse...

They did keep the emoji though

> There's no expert trained to be good at maths, or python, or writing, or whatever. It's an inference optimization. Huh, always thought one would sort of require the other. For a …

You can run any frontier model on your PC if you just wait long enough...

At that point, how does this compare with simply running the model on the CPU?

NPCs are Non-Player-Characters in video games, i.e. "extras". Their programming is usually kept simple, so they're kind of famous for robotically repeating the same lines or doing …

> The opposing view is weirder, why should characters be preserved for consumption by the audience? I don't see how characters are "consumed" by the audience, unless the audience i…

But in this case, the slipping just happened. This thread is about how an app that will be required for using a vast fraction of all websites will require hardware attestation and …

What you're saying is correct - but it's used to push a much more comprehensive lockdown of devices that has absolutely nothing to do with protection of minors. It's as if the gove…

> Linux is not explicitly banned. Desktop Linux users could access a website and scan a QR code using a supported mobile wallet. Considering a significant part of the internet will…

Is that really human input, or just grounded input in general? Most human-written texts on the internet refer in some way to the real world, or at least to things outside the text …

> I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for three js render of it. I think it's interesting that the "Bag's End" interpretation…

Yeah, that was basically the Disney/Spielberg formula, which got overdone. > There are good and bad and good must always win and if bad thing happening is always punishment for mor…

> Barely anyone dies (no Red Weddings here) Can I make a side-rant how since Game of Thrones, it seems to have become an expectation that characters must be killed off? Apparently …

I don't see an audience description in the article. Especially if you're a responsible adult, wouldn't you want to be informed about the downsides?