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  1. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I have been reading old stuff off Project Gutenberg. Right now I’m working my way through all of Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, and for the next couple months my plan is to just read...

    I have been reading old stuff off Project Gutenberg. Right now I’m working my way through all of Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, and for the next couple months my plan is to just read “classics”.

  2. Comment on 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' TV series lands at Peacock in ~tv

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    i hope the series gets finished before they film anything and we don't end up with a game of thrones shitshow at the end

    i hope the series gets finished before they film anything and we don't end up with a game of thrones shitshow at the end

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp

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    This is mostly whining about publishing priority. The most important part, which is massive savings on KV-cache, which at long contexts becomes several multiples larger than the model footprint,...

    This is mostly whining about publishing priority. The most important part, which is massive savings on KV-cache, which at long contexts becomes several multiples larger than the model footprint, is a huge improvement. It doesn’t matter whether it’s attributed to TurboQuant or RaBitQ.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security in ~tech

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    They just had to stick blockchain payments in there huh🙄

    They just had to stick blockchain payments in there huh🙄

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp

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    It will be more useful in an agent framework where it can do web searches for actual facts. It isn’t large enough to have facts encoded but it is large enough to form queries and parse and extract...

    It will be more useful in an agent framework where it can do web searches for actual facts. It isn’t large enough to have facts encoded but it is large enough to form queries and parse and extract facts from text.

    6 votes

  6. Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp

  7. Comment on TV series suggestions in ~tv

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    Man on the inside — same writer as the good place, some of the same people, if you like Ted Danson you’ll love this Our flag means death — Taika Waititi of what we do in shadows made an amazing...

    Man on the inside — same writer as the good place, some of the same people, if you like Ted Danson you’ll love this

    Our flag means death — Taika Waititi of what we do in shadows made an amazing and hilarious version of the Blackbeard story

    Slow horses — clever spy drama with a lot of humour, might skew more to your tastes than hers but it’s great.

    Someone else mentioned Silo, and I agree. Good books too.

    18 votes

  8. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

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    I’m getting paid in the real 1kg XXL chocolate eggs.

    I’m getting paid in the real 1kg XXL chocolate eggs.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

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    It’s not hard to set a gun up to capture spent brass, so the weather balloon would indeed take away the casings. Eg. https://a.co/d/08Lri44n

    It’s not hard to set a gun up to capture spent brass, so the weather balloon would indeed take away the casings.

    Eg. https://a.co/d/08Lri44n

    3 votes

  10. Comment on A.T.L.A.S: outperform Claude Sonnet with a 14B local model and RTX 5060 Ti in ~tech

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    It’s easy to start hitting limits if you run things in parallel. My weekly code audit getting this territory, as I have it create GitHub issues for all the things it finds and then it runs through...

    It’s easy to start hitting limits if you run things in parallel. My weekly code audit getting this territory, as I have it create GitHub issues for all the things it finds and then it runs through them all in parallel to have fully tested pull requests that I can sift through afterwards.

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Ottawa's big bet on world's largest cricket farm ran into a simple problem: the 'yuck factor' in ~food

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    Somewhat disappointing but I get it. I’m not going to pay premium prices like that to eat crickets. I’m not really sure where crickets fit in my dietary plan, or if they even do unless it’s a very...

    Somewhat disappointing but I get it. I’m not going to pay premium prices like that to eat crickets. I’m not really sure where crickets fit in my dietary plan, or if they even do unless it’s a very odd scenario — maybe in a first wave settler Mars colony where it somehow is the most efficient form of generating protein from extremely limited resources?

    7 votes

  13. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

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    Complaining that 496g of chocolate should not be considered “XL”. My guy, half a kilogram of chocolate is XL.

    Complaining that 496g of chocolate should not be considered “XL”. My guy, half a kilogram of chocolate is XL.

    2 votes

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  15. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    I don’t know how more direct you could be about specifying what the correct belief is than by promoting charities. I don’t know if you read the locked thread, but people weren’t even being...

    That’s not quite what I’m saying. It would be more of a message which makes it’s clear it’s controversial, links to a page about the controversy and links to program charity list.

    I don’t know how more direct you could be about specifying what the correct belief is than by promoting charities.

    disagreeing with protrans points

    I don’t know if you read the locked thread, but people weren’t even being anti-trans, they were simply questioning how much effect there would be from an existing HBO subscriber choosing to watch the content. There’s a lot of distance between discussing the economics of viewer metrics and promoting trans hate.

    Don’t get me wrong here, I’m generally pro-trans on almost all issues. But I would oppose this kind of thing for all topics that I have strong opinions on. I wouldn’t like automated pushing of pro-choice, pro-Ukraine, pro-Democrat, pro-Liberal/NDP, and so on either.

    7 votes

  16. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    I can’t say I like the idea of actually codifying the set of correct beliefs on topics right into the site’s software.

    I can’t say I like the idea of actually codifying the set of correct beliefs on topics right into the site’s software.

    10 votes

  17. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    Was it The Good Place where nobody went to heaven since the industrial era began because every action had at least a bit of unforgivable sin by proxy in it?

    I venture to say that if we cracked open everyone's financials in here and followed where the money they spent goes to

    Was it The Good Place where nobody went to heaven since the industrial era began because every action had at least a bit of unforgivable sin by proxy in it?

    9 votes

  18. Comment on Everything we just learned about the new Stargate series in ~tv

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    Yeah, I got the sense that they understood why Universe was bad. I’m hoping for something closer to Atlantis, which sounds (perhaps only to my optimistic ears) like where they want to go.

    Yeah, I got the sense that they understood why Universe was bad. I’m hoping for something closer to Atlantis, which sounds (perhaps only to my optimistic ears) like where they want to go.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Everything we just learned about the new Stargate series in ~tv

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    I very much appreciate that.

    “I’m heartened by the fact that Martin is very respectful of what came before,” Mallozzi said. “We’ll build stories … [and] it’s very easy to find solutions that run counter to canon. And there will be times when we’ll go a certain way and then I’ll point out, ‘Actually, SG-1 established this.’ And rather than hand-wave and say, ‘This is a new show,’ Martin has said, ‘OK, we have to consider this,’ and found a way to work around it or incorporate it.”

    I very much appreciate that.

    14 votes

  20. Comment on US Army ups maximum enlistment age to 42, relaxes rules on marijuana in ~society

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    This is one way that AI will respond if you naively prompt it to “humanize” the text so that it beats GPT detectors. Not saying that’s what happened here, but don’t rely on typos as a good signal.

    This is one way that AI will respond if you naively prompt it to “humanize” the text so that it beats GPT detectors. Not saying that’s what happened here, but don’t rely on typos as a good signal.

    5 votes