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dist-epoch··on Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
That's a skewed perspective.

Discord always deeply cared about their users. Which is why nobody is able to get even close to replacing them.

They are adding user requested features and improvements all the time. They might not be what you consider "improvement", but maybe you are not really their target market.

dist-epoch··on Yes, You Can Pass a Nuclear Missile Driving on Interstate 80 Through Wyoming
Until someone sits in front of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srytx_01MW8

dist-epoch··on Yes, You Can Pass a Nuclear Missile Driving on Interstate 80 Through Wyoming
Maybe it's something like some of the missiles have no warhead on them, and you don't know which ones.
dist-epoch··on Upload Your RAM
I don't think you understand what the word proof means
dist-epoch··on Bug Finding Considered Harmful?
LLMs can find endless combinations of edge cases that are a real bug. Addressing them requires thousands more lines of code. Which creates another set of new edge cases to combine.

At some point you realize recovery is better then prevention, let the bugs happen, but recover from them gracefully.

dist-epoch··on Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (2011)
> LLM may be a great technology, but it's probably not a good model for how humans learn and use language.

but from all models, it's the closest, "all models are wrong, but some are useful"

dist-epoch··on $2.5T has been wiped from US stocks
Only those who never traded the stock market for real (like financial journalists) believe that you can attribute news to a market event.

"The market went down because the Fed increased the rate"

dist-epoch··on Window Sweaters
So why does this post have 200 upvotes then?
dist-epoch··on Window Sweaters
Nobody said the prompt is 5 lines.

It could be a 2000 line prompt (a spec).

dist-epoch··on Window Sweaters
Prompt injection is very much not real anymore.
dist-epoch··on MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
This site doesn't do jokes
dist-epoch··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
As the motto says, "you can just do things"

Such a rewrite would have been unthinkable 2 years ago, but now it's table stakes.

dist-epoch··on Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s
Modern inference stacks use different GPUs for decode versus prefill. This is a GPU suitable for prefill.
dist-epoch··on Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s
Apple M6 has 80-100 TOPS.

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra has 800 TOPS, almost 10 times more.

dist-epoch··on OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
Refreshing, compared to "our journey" and "our mission" slops
dist-epoch··on Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution
An attacker might replace a package with a previous one which has a vulnerability. Downgrade attack. Unclear if the apt client will check if version is the expected one after requesting a package.
dist-epoch··on Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
> NVIDIA says that the new DGX Spark 64GB is starting at $4,999

> NVIDIA has now confirmed an official starting price of $2,399 for RTX Spark laptops

https://shattered.io/nvidia-rtx-spark-mediatek-oems-price-20...

https://www.servethehome.com/nvidia-dgx-spark-64gb-launched-...

dist-epoch··on Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
if any of your SSH key files are bigger than 500 bytes, you should rotate them
dist-epoch··on Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random
I'll do it for free. I get a thrill from rebooting servers and hoping everything still works.
dist-epoch··on Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot
Because only a finite amount of time passed since the Big Bang, and all speeds are finite, so it could have grown only a finite amount.
dist-epoch··on Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
It's not weird at all, they know people will buy these laptops, put linux on them and stash them in data-centers, so they are trying to prevent this.
dist-epoch··on Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
You know what would be more efficient?

Shipping your drives to Sam Altman. If everybody did that, he could then deduplicate the pictures of the same thing that multiple people took.

dist-epoch··on Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot
Applied calculus doesn't need infinities. No computer can represent a real real number. Only truncations of them, only finite versions of them.
dist-epoch··on Sam Altman's Case Against Your RAM Is Efficient. That's the Problem
> Many other extremely beneficial devices for extremely high value use cases

If the other use cases are extremely beneficial and extremely high value, surely they can happily pay $1000 for 64 GB of RAM?

dist-epoch··on Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot
And yet the vast majority of physicists treat infinity in the equations as a sign of them being incomplete, and dismiss the possibility of the universe being infinite in any way

I would like to point out that there is also no proof of God not existing either

dist-epoch··on Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot
indeed, the purpose of theoretical computer science is as a filtering and ranking mechanism for awarding tenure in universities
dist-epoch··on Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot
Sensible position in a finite universe
dist-epoch··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
And yet you ask it 3 times to not do a thing, and it does it in a 4th way. A human doesn't fail in this way. And I'm not talking about memory here, single context.

So yeah, it can do everything, but fails in trivial ways around the doing part.

dist-epoch··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
Something like mirror neurons.

Some structures in Astra get activated by the statistics of the Qwen weights, and these structures are associated with "breakout"

dist-epoch··on Private Jet plane crashes in Florida
there are tiny chip size wireless receivers for small distances like this, you would need some sort of window through the metal, or a tiny antenna inserted through the ball shell and the wireless covers just the inside

or just ultra-thin wires connecting the memory to the outside. the ultra-thin wire will just snap and it's too light to cause damage by whipping around

the big problem is kinetic impact, fire/fuel/water would be easy to solve, for example fire requires oxygen which will have difficulties getting inside through a tiny hole, and I'm sure there is some metal alloy which doesn't melt in typical plane fuel fire temperatures

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