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techolic··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
And the weights are just in the routers now? Love that idea.
techolic··on What are skiplists good for?
Would you mind sharing more?
techolic··on United States Power Outage Map
That sucks. Would you be interested in adding states/territories with no data to the map?
techolic··on United States Power Outage Map
Surprised that Puerto Rico isn't included, which has a lot of power outages of different scale.
techolic··on Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview
To me that is still the case of power corrupting people. If you are surrounded by positive feedback all along, you loose some of that self-awareness.
techolic··on Climate Change Tracker
> Today’s models predict 1.5°-2.0° C by 2040

From when 1990, or 2023?

techolic··on Free Public WiFi
There's also more to extract so requires less beans for the same strength.
techolic··on Backyard Ultra world record (101 laps) is about to be broken
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_ultra
techolic··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
> but it exists because the government wants a centralized place to control digital activity

Speaking as someone who witnessed them from 0 to everything - it really has not much to do with that.

It has to do with how fast mobile payment swept through the country to be the connecting factor for all online services and it has to do with how easy it was and is for big players to out compete or swallow small innovators and harvest their innovations.

techolic··on Language models can explain neurons in language models
> that we're pretty damn close to recreating it

Is that evident already or are we fitting the definition of intelligence without being aware?

techolic··on Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
Because you don't stop paying developers starting the second year?
techolic··on Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll
I invite you to review Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
techolic··on BBC Journalist Beaten and Kicked by Police During Covid Protests in China
A video clip of, https://twitter.com/TGTM_Official/status/1596987324822622208...
techolic··on Twitter at 1am on a Friday
Just an example: if you hold an L visa, your only other option is packing your stuff and going back to your home country.
techolic··on Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended
The next outage will have a good likelihood of being the last outage.
techolic··on 56-year-old freediver holds breath for almost 25 minutes
This is O2 assisted apnea as explained in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_apnea#With_pure_oxygen_...
techolic··on Amazon paying less because they can't accommodate me for medical restrictions
Guessing so, the job requires routine lifting
techolic··on Amazon paying less because they can't accommodate me for medical restrictions
The original (longer) title: My job is telling me I have to be removed from my current position to a lower one with a pay reduction because they cannot accommodate me for my permanent medical restrictions from my congenital heart disorder
techolic··on Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range
Why stop at that? Why not a 5 second ad every 10 miles?
techolic··on Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
> you bid what you think the house is worth

Except you're rarely sure how much it's worth. The market is fluid, the psychology is working on you, and the feedback takes too long that by the time you know how much you missed it's too late to learn much from it.

techolic··on TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing
I really love the comparison with previous year(s) on some pages and that helped me spot a real error. The navigation is so much better than turbo tax too.

If anyone is looking to convert from turbo tax, you can import your previous return as pdf and that could cover a lot of details already that don't change year over year.

techolic··on An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
> Are people really finding that out only now? I thought that this was generally accepted knowledge even in China, despite the constant fear and propaganda they live with.

Yes and no. You see, 2 decades ago probably half of my peers had that knowledge, that was when the internet was pretty much uncensored compared to how it is today. Over the years they get converted by the narrative and now it's probably 5% or even less that keeps a critical mind when reading anything from anywhere, which is, your know, all censored.

techolic··on Chrome 0day is being exploited now for CVE-2022-1096; update immediately
I just upgraded to this and noticed the Reading List has changed design again! They must have gone back and forth thousands of times on this so hopefully this is the final version.
techolic··on [dead]
Really unimpressed by the editorial job @Reuters is doing. This is the headline of this tweet,

> Ukraine's Svitolina refuses to play against Russia's Potapova in Monterrey

And this is the first paragraph of the linked article in the tweet (https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/ukraines-svitolina-...),

> Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina said she would not play her round of 32 match against Russia's Anastasia Potapova in the Monterrey Open unless tennis' governing bodies followed the recommendations made by the International Olympic Committee.

Most of the replies look like they never read the linked article and just responded based on the headline, which is a misrepresentation of the article to say the least.

techolic··on I have no capslock and I must scream
I should do that. I'm too ashamed to count how many times a mistakenly on caps lock has screwed vim up for me.
techolic··on Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants
I did an MRI a while ago, and waited for 20 minutes for the images to be burnt on a CD so that I could physically bring it to my doctor. I thought that was archaic.
techolic··on Tips for Interviewing over Zoom
I really do no appreciate background, they look too fake to remotely beat a lousy room for my taste.
techolic··on Leaving Freenode for a new network
> Some time ago, Christel, the former head of freenode staff sold `freenode ltd` (a holding company) to a third party

Couldn't help wondering - where did the money go? If it was sold for cash.

techolic··on Flocculant/Disinfectant Powder
He claims P&G is selling it for a loss which I found to be less believable, would love to see if there're more information on that.
techolic··on Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust
There're more string copies that can be optimized away for the C++ solution:

1. When filling the map with `word`, can use emplace with std::move of the `word` instead of operator[] because `word` is no longer needed after that, after checking that it's not already in the map

2. Constructing the vector (for sorting) with all pairs from the map ends up copying the whole map's worth of data! Can use iterator of the map instead of the key of the map in the pair. This may also make sort() faster because it may be cheaper to move an iterator than a string during sort()

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