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Why does a village of 772 people need a mayor, a "city" manager, a police chief and 5 police officers?
Darling is written in a different language so I don't think the LLM would copy paste code from it directly. But it is the main (only?) prior art, so it could be argued that everything the LLM knows about how to do this came because it read and understood Darling, i.e. if Darling didn't exist it may still be able to do this but it would have to figure it out from first principles.
Not saying it happened here, but it's an interesting thought experiment: what if you order an LLm to achieve the same goal as a popular open source project, using all the lessons learned and pitfalls faced by that project, but not to copy the code. Indeed, LLM code is now often better than human code, so direct code copying would be a disadvantage. Humans are certainly inspired by other projects like this all the time and it isn't considered plagiarism.
I can tell when my CPU usage spikes because it causes a hum through my speakers, so this does not seem that far-fetched.
> can't be asked
What you heard wasn't what they were saying.
This is great but sails far too close to Poe's Law that I predict downvotes.
Probably due to the movie "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan".
People missed the joke that it was poor English on purpose.
I recall a post recently that suggested rather than a fixed contact interval ("message this friend every 2 weeks") it was better to use a Fibonacci spiral (2 weeks, 3 weeks, 5 weeks, etc). Perhaps you could implement that?
The "hardware" section is really cool, and then you get to the "software" section and it's just webslop.
Sometimes it works if you install an old version of the cryptography package from before they introduced Rust.
My ISP added IPv6 support and my router began handing out IPv6 addresses. How did I know this?
1. My AppleTV began stuttering during playback.
2. My old iMac began crashing every time it connected to the wifi.
At least the iMac has an option to disable IPv6. The AppleTV has no such option so I had to do it in the router.
If you send the full 200k tokens on every request you will get very few requests before you hit the token limit. Caching reduces the number sent but I don't know how much they can cache?
Bruce Perens (creator of The Open Source Definition) is attempting to remedy this at
https://postopen.org/
Why is Steam even operating in Russia? Isn’t Russia under sanction so rest of the world doesn’t do business there?
The fact that the UK doesn’t allow “impromptu checks”, otherwise known as “Papers please!” is not a bug, it’s a feature that distinguishes our democracy from other states and we are pretty proud of it.
He says the checksums are different but he doesn’t provide a diff to show how different. It could just be a single flipped bit or something. And that could happen in his own RAM/disk/CPU/router so seems premature to immediately blame Apple.
Doesn’t sound like we have the full story from either side. This blog post from Nate reads like he is continuing to gaslight. But then Jonathan doesn’t explain why he didn’t just buy into the partnership like the other 2 did if he wanted to be a co-owner.
Both of those models have Anthropic API compatible endpoints, so you just set an environmental variable pointing to them before you run Claude Code.
Please don’t use the adjective “free” when describing proprietary software. We know you mean “free as in beer” but those outside our community may not and it may cause confusion over the meaning of free software.
> if Acorn had been based in the US, the world would be using Acorn machines
Is not ARM (the Acorn Risc Machine) the most popular type of machine in the world currently?
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billyjobob on Thursday July 11, 2024 @09:51PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Back in the 90s, I had to teach myself to code solely using books. It wasn't easy, because I never had access to an actual adult coder. So in 2018 I setup a group to teach coding to kids in my neighborhood, giving them an opportunity I never had. It was popular and I enjoyed teaching.We had to shutdown due to the pandemic. I am now considering re-opening, but I am struggling to find...
Turing's boyfriend was 19, therefore not an adult under UK law at the time.
Of course you can have multiple apex A records that point to the same IP address. We are talking about CNAME records here. Are your sites using CNAME records or A records?
Even if you are using CNAMEs, that's only been possible recently due to hacks/workarounds, as bonzini said.
Like most kids in the 80s I would never “exclude gaming” from my evaluation.
The PC was 15x as expensive as the C128 and still wasn’t any good for gaming. While C128 had the entire C64 games library available!
It also had the CP/M software library and could run productivity software in 80 columns. Yes CP/M software wasn’t as good as DOS software, yes your spreadsheets didn’t calculate as quickly, but for a couple of years the C128 was the best option, until the Amiga came along.
The Amiga was certainly the best option in 1988. Arguably it was the best until about 1995.
Apparently a typical PC is 1985 cost upwards of $5000. The C128 was $299. So for rich people yes it may have made sense to pay a 15x premium to get hold of tech “from the future, today”. But you could have easily had both. And for a child, both machines would be entirely obsolete by the time the child grew up and entered the workforce, so I would question how much advantage you were really buying.
Your parents were wrong. Assuming you wanted to play games as well as run productivity software, the C128 was far superior to any PC in 1985. Yes the PC would eventually catch up in the 90s, but the C128 was discontinued by then.
A lot of sites now don't even a "sign in" now. You only have a large "sign up" button, which you have to click, and then in very small text at the bottom of the sign up screen find the link for "already have an account?"