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Re:Breaking "Provably Correct" Leftpad on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @03:54PM (#45597588)
To be fair, you'd have to also import this crate to get the result he wanted:

https://docs.rs/unicode-segmentation/latest/unicode_segmenta...

'girl math'? really? It's literally a bunch of old men and always has been.
Re:I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits on Saturday June 07, 2025 @09:22AM (#44209495)
Isn't it quite possible they replaced that Flash model with a distilled version, saving money rather than increasing quality? This just speaks to the value of open-weights more than anything.
Who says you need to use a top model to produce cybersecurity slop? Did this person use o3?

https://hackerone.com/reports/3125832

Re:Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster on Monday April 28, 2025 @11:57PM (#43828567)
Running the 3 bit quant of https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GGUF now on a 128GB macbook.
Those sound like the sort of issues which could be caused by your server silently truncating the middle of your prompts.

By default, Ollama uses a context window size of 2048 tokens.

Evidently they simply aren't respecting the .gitignore when choosing which file contents to post to their servers, https://forum.cursor.com/t/env-file-question/60165/9

Regardless of whether it actually makes a commit with the secret, it's still being leaked.

Re:AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:45PM (#42715202)
> As someone who is actually friends with Brad Pitt on Facebook and have given him money

Are you telling us you fell for the same pig butchering scam?

Is there a difference anymore?
really makes you wonder what Babbage was trying to achieve with his Difference Machine...
I doubt all the tracked job titles are in the example, but they do aggregate job titles to the category of 'Software Development':

https://github.com/hiring-lab/job_postings_tracker/blob/mast...

And they do aggregate from other sources:

https://www.hiringlab.org/indeed-data-faq-2/

There are even some benchmarks which have caught 'lazy coding' regressions with their latest models[1]. I recall my best experience with their models was last year with an early version of the advanced data analysis feature where it would write a script, write tests for it, run the tests, update the code and/or tests, and re-run them. Presumably that was too expensive, and now it feels like pulling teeth to get the same result.

[1] https://aider.chat/2024/04/09/gpt-4-turbo.html

Re:A contribution to the wild-bug-hunt-story genre on Friday August 09, 2024 @07:26PM (#41206239)
Why make it a link if you aren't linking to anything?
> Would you not agree that a game like this is ideal in terms of what can be done with photography, videography and storytelling?

Nope, that would have to be boxing—just go watch Raging Bull, Rocky or Muhammad Ali dancing in the ring.

Re:Seamless: Meta's New Speech Models on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:21AM (#38488469)
Can anyone help demystify the licensing?

Besides the ACCEPTABLE_USE_POLICY, there's a CC BY-NC 4.0 (NonCommercial) license, a 'SEAMLESS_LICENSE' (NonCommercial), but also an MIT license? It would seem these other licenses contradict the MIT license, could somebody help clarify how these all interact in practice?

Since it's a normal distribution with a mean of 7500, and a standard deviation of 3000 multiplied by daily volume—it would only cause a negative change less than 1% of the time. This "PublicInsuranceFund" truly embodies their culture of "number go up".
Re:Spotify's podcast bet went wrong on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @03:10PM (#34795257)
> But like okay, if you are so great why can I only watch at 1x playback speed for video?

Maybe they updated this recently since you last tried, but you can most certainly change the playback speed for podcast videos (0.5x–3.5x). I just did it. Of course, the UX could definitely be improved in other ways, such as providing a more organized & easily filterable feed rather than a somewhat random assortment of 'Your shows' and 'Episodes for you'.

Re:Twitter suffers major outage, leaving users unable to log on on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:55PM (#34168554)
Seems that their api for their web app is currently returning a 503 from POST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/onboarding/sso_init.json

Response payload: {"errors":[{"message":"Over capacity","code":130}]}

And then it redirects to https://twitter.com/logout/error

Re:Should You Kill the Fat Man? on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:46PM (#30318642)
> Utilitarians think morality lies in outcomes - the whats. But whatever I am is completely orthogonal - I believe it lies in the story surrounding the outcome, the hows and the whys.

Reminds me of virtue ethics, and understanding the complex story of the hows and the whys is called practical wisdom. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/

Probably no more labor than any other organic farm, which is to say, far more than most people expect but tolerable. And upstate New York is quite agreeable even in the height of summertime.

Winter is a different story.

I'm more curious about what sort of social responsibilities are required. Do you have to engage in all that `frog`, `song`, `tree` triteness or is it truly an open and accepting community?

Re:AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules on Saturday September 25, 2021 @05:19PM (#28656273)
No need to speculate, how about crows trained to pick up cigarette butts?

It's probably up to the bank, and of course rather challenging for them to pay their income taxes as we all must ...

Re:Principles of Green Software Engineering on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:33AM (#28616118)
That simply reflects the fact that 5.5 billion is 55,000 times larger than 100,000.

Anything you do to have even the tiniest effect on the consumption of nearly the entire world's population is going to have a large impact.

It's theirs to host the videos themselves if they deem them worthy of being hosted.
It's not theirs to take.

And anyhow, the GDR dissolved over 30 years ago, I should think their economic policies died with them.

Even if you start with the assumption of incompetence over malice—this is the same guy who paid Duke $750,000 to admit his son, and has well documented conflicts of interests in his role as postmaster general. He's a political appointee for a party interested in undermining USPS while he funnels contracts to XPO, a company of which he still holds $75 million in shares. Simple unadorned corruption, that's all.
Re:AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:26AM (#26968134)
It's free and open-source.
Re:The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997) on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:50PM (#25898848)
Both analogs bear aspects of truth since software has the characteristics of being both a machine (crafted precision tool), as well as being information itself (freely spread & adaptable). Its future is probably some superposition of both.
Hyper-threading (along with some forms of speculative execution which become subject to side channel attacks) is another example of a performance enabling technology with unforeseen security vulnerabilities which are nowadays required to be disabled.

With the death of Moore's law [1], it's not too surprising that newer CPUs (or at least x86 ones) are still recoiling from Spectre and Meltdown et al.

[1] https://youtu.be/MtrZJ4UqSn8?t=1327

Re:WebAssembly Studio on Thursday December 31, 2020 @09:17PM (#25600153)
javascript is required, you probably have it disabled (3rd party scripts).
Re:The future of electricity is local on Sunday December 27, 2020 @12:55PM (#25552799)
[citation needed]

If anything, the cause of the most recent real estate crash (and subsequent rise) was the overwhelming covariance of real estate trends throughout the country/developed world.

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