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connicpu··on When 2+2=5
One difference is you usually only get one shot to manipulate a human before they get suspicious. If the LLM's context resets you can try all over as if your first failed attempt didn't even happen.
connicpu··on A native graphical shell for SSH
It was more that IT considered the college-hosted git instance "experimental" still, in multiple project courses we were required to use college hosted version control as part of the class, but those who wanted to use git were on their own to figure it out.
connicpu··on A native graphical shell for SSH
When I went to college (early 2010s) professors were still encouraging students to use SVN, so I probably have a fair number of peers who didn't learn git until they got out into the real world
connicpu··on What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?
If you're big enough you can get direct access to Nvidia engineers, and they are usually transparent when they find out the bug was in their software and send you a patched version to try to resolve the issue
connicpu··on What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?
When you run CUDA at scale dealing with nvidia driver and library bugs takes up a disgustingly large percentage of engineer time, I don't know a lot of people who would be looking forward to rely on more nvidia libraries.
connicpu··on Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers
If you make over $130k then you make enough that you can be worked 24/7 without violating a $15 minimum wage + 1.5x over 40 hours per week.
connicpu··on Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
Hard to compete there when most of the margin is going to NVIDIA, pretty much impossible if you don't have the scale of Dell/Supermicro/etc
connicpu··on FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
Interesting, I just tried it and it got server-side the first try, although it wants to insert a hyphen. I did download the larger dictionary from their site.
connicpu··on Epidurals are a miracle technology
But in Europe the state also tends to cover their schooling to become a doctor.
connicpu··on Steam Machine launches today
I'm somewhat lucky in that I didn't have to be the one to force that issue, another friend in my gaming group already made the decision that he would switch to Linux and no longer play any games that did not work on Linux/Proton. So it was pretty easy for me to just switch last year.
connicpu··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Not sure how much data they retained but it's possible they also have the _input_ tokens, and in the "early" days (how far everything moves in just a couple years...) more of those input tokens would have been non-AI-generated
connicpu··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
They have a giant pile of data from every customer that didn't disable data retention
connicpu··on Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2
I've been burned by this outside games as well. Computation heavy process, in production it writes the inputs into the output as well for reproducibility, but some of them used unordered maps so it would slightly differ when you loaded it back up. Long term solution was to stop using unordered maps in general, but short term we had to make sure the inputs got sorted before being inserted so they would have the same insertion order every time...
connicpu··on Apple Foundation Models
The Nvidia GB300 DGX Station, which isn't even going to hit 1TB total memory, is expected to launch at almost $100k. Bit of a pipe dream with memory prices where they're at.
connicpu··on CrankGPT
If you live in most places in the US other than the urban heart of a few very large cities you have to take a huge hit to your ability to get places in a reasonable time frame without a car. I have hope some more cities other than NYC are improving the situation, but as it is the closest I got to using public transit for a commute was when I was going to one of our other offices in a different downtown area I would drive my car to the park n ride to take the train the rest of the way. The train saves time and sanity because traffic downtown is a nightmare, but that drive takes 5 minutes, and it would add 20+ minutes if I had to walk to the closest bus stop so I could take the bus up to the train station.
connicpu··on Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin
The same could be said for a lot of drugs that have strong side effects, just one difference here is the main "side effects" are something some people consider fun. Though you could still do double-blind for comparing the effectiveness of different psychedelics, e.g comparing LSD to Psilocybin.
connicpu··on AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
Only a problem if you're trying to use AI to forgo creating a user interface for untrusted users (probably the worst idea that's seeing widespread use right now)
connicpu··on A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
Make it GB300s and now you're cooking with gas (specifically the gas in the supplemental methane turbine generators that will be on site for when the grid is overwhelmed)
connicpu··on A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent
I don't know what compiler you're using but our C/C++ builds are definitely deterministic given the same source files. We have CI tests to ensure this remains the case.
connicpu··on A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent
XML isn't stochastic
connicpu··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
Even in the US, game developer positions tend to pay much lower than the same skills can get you at a "big tech" company.
connicpu··on Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion
Probably not yet, so far all I've done as an owner was generate an API key and set it up in an integration in Home Assistant so I can track my state of charge over time. I'm sure more software will come!
connicpu··on Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion
Yes it also has android auto and carplay
connicpu··on Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion
Volvo is also doing pretty good with offering an official API
connicpu··on Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug
The fatigue from sleep apnea makes it more difficult to have productive workouts.
connicpu··on The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention
Can't speak to how everyone else is using it but at my job we run all of our unit tests under Fil-C as part of CI, in addition to the UBASAN, TSAN, and Valgrind pipelines we already had for them.
connicpu··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
Nuclear is high capex low opex. It needs such a miniscule amount of fissile material per year, whereas purchasing coal is an eternal ongoing cost.

Just to put some numbers on it, a 1GW conventional reactor consumes about 25 tonnes of enriched uranium per year, while a 1GW coal plant goes through 3.3 million tonnes of coal.

connicpu··on Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
Doesn't take long until someone has the bright idea to pipe customer tickets directly into the poorly written internal tool
connicpu··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
Essentially yes. I'm not gonna pretend it's better or even equivalent but it's not terrible. If you want a car with incredible audio there's plenty of options, but some people don't care and just want the cheapest car possible and they'll listen to music through a bluetooth speaker during their commute.
connicpu··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
Slate are trying to cut cost everywhere they can to provide the cheapest barebones EV truck possible. My Volvo EX30 also lacks door speakers and while it's not top tier it's fine tbh. Volvo just put a giant speaker bar across the base of the windshield.
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