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Instructions are not guardrails. Best case, that just makes it less likely to do it
Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:42AM (#50058059)
Possible idea: tag them with AI, and leave them aside for 6 months and review them with 2027 AI
Re:McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:31PM (#49902296)
The only winning move is not to play
Re:Creepy Crawlies on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:41AM (#49499680)
Because they suspect that, sometimes, different content will be served by HTML vs alternate APIs
French text is somewhere around 10-30% longer than the corresponding English text. I would guess much of what you save on smaller vocabulary is lost on the lengthened text.
A solution to this is apptainer: you configure it to not see any of the host files by default, and mount the repo you want to work on at runtime.
A mitm does not redirect your ssh login to their machine
This could unlock a new chapter of Venus exploration!
Re:AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures on Friday May 08, 2026 @08:36PM (#48070528)
On the other hand, any source code leak could be catastrophic
Well it won't be 'non-mainstream' for one
Re:You can beat the binary search on Thursday April 30, 2026 @11:27AM (#47963971)
So is the SIMD the magic piece here, or is it the interpolation search? If the data is evenly distributed, that is pretty optimal for the interpolation search..
Re:ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @09:14PM (#47943029)
> Once the ads are injected directly into the main response is when things get interesting.

This would be where you post-process the LLM response with a second LLM to remove the ad..

If sharing all of your code with the closed providers is OK then it works. If that is a blocker, open weights becomes much more compelling...
Re:Everything old is new again: memory optimization on Friday March 27, 2026 @03:10PM (#47546945)
There is probably some low hanging fruit to be harvested in terms of memory optimizations, and it could be a selling point for the next while as the memory shortage persists
Does this get tripped up on zip bombs?
Re:A Note on Fil-C on Friday November 07, 2025 @01:23PM (#45849299)
> it might lower the need for devs to actually fix the code and they might start just relying on Fil-C.

Well, the program would still halt upon memory flaw, so there would still be a need to fix it

Re:A Note on Fil-C on Thursday November 06, 2025 @09:40PM (#45843026)
I suppose /some/ performance loss is inevitable. But this could be quite a game changer. As more folks play with it, performing benchmarks, etc -- it should reveal which C idioms incur the most/least performance hits under Fil-C. So with some targetted patching of C code, we may end up with a rather modest price for the memory safety
It seems they are using zstd now for .conda packages, eg, bzip is obsoleted, so that should be faster.
It would be nice indeed if there was a good solution to multi-gigabyte conda directories. Conda has been reproducible in my experience with pinned dependencies in the environment YAML... slow to build, sure, but reproducible.
> because new poetry releases would stall trying to resolve dependencies.

> uv is much faster than both of these tools

conda is also (in)famous for being slow at this, although the new mamba solver is much faster. What does uv do in order to resolve dependencies much faster?

> uv will magically install and use the specified modules.

As long as you have internet access, and whatever repository it's drawing from is online, and you may get different version of python each time, ...

Re:Ads are inevitable in AI, and that's okay on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @08:04PM (#44729664)
Sounds like a great use for a local LLM to strip ads from the output of the ad-infested LLM.
Well, heat capacity and thermal conductivity are not the same thing
Re:Mistral Code on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @04:12PM (#44184975)
ecause it's a much better experience than copy-pasting into a webapp
Re:Mistral Code on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @04:09PM (#44184942)
I'd like to try it, but enterprise only?
Re:Vertical Sharding Sucks on Sunday April 13, 2025 @08:15PM (#43676898)
Surely there must be a way to do the joins in software, without doing it by hand, eg a SQL-like library? Pandas or equivalent?
Indeed. KYC has a purpose though -- prevention of fraud, money laundering, etc. Getting rid of KYC without a similarly-effective solution for those things seems unlikely. Ideas?
Re:Why rents are still rising too fast on Monday March 17, 2025 @02:05PM (#43391130)
Things like this juice the anti-landlord sentiment: https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-sues-l...
Re:Deep Research on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:53AM (#42919415)
The Gell-Mann amnesia effect applies to LLMs as well!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

Re:Wol: Wake up your devices with a single command or click on Thursday January 23, 2025 @05:40PM (#42808818)
> Having a whole other device constantly running just to wake up my main device feels like a waste.

Indeed, my first thought is the best place to run this is on an OpenWRT router. Perhaps as a package, or a builtin feature?

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