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voracitude

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  • [Gamers Nexus] The Nvidia AI GPU black market | Investigating smuggling, corruption, & governments

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  • Iiiinteresting. How does it "freak out" - in favour of the video, or against it? I'd guess in favour?

  • Ben Shapiro Calls Eating Meat ‘Barbaric’ — and Can’t Explain Why He Still Does It

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  • If eating meat is barbaric, then he clearly still does it because he is a barbarian. Looking at his political views, that does track, strongly indicative of the model here being consistent with reality.

  • Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver – Dmitry Brant

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  • It can do that for school level stuff because that material is present in it's input dataset in a redundant manner. For anything niche or domain-specific, it will hallucinate or fail.

    I typically don't have an issue getting a grasp on fundamentals, so most of the things I want to ask it about might be beyond school-level. My main way of learning is to ask questions to make sure I understand the material - which means more potential hallucination points, and maybe worse impact because I'll think I get it, but I've just been confidently lied to that I understood.

    For example, I've wondered for a while if patches of space with less gravitational curvature "age" faster than patches that are more heavily distorted by gravity wells, and what the implications of that might be. Makes sense, we know that gravity slows down subjective time. But I can't get a productive answer out of an LLM because I can't trust it, and it's not worth bothering my physicist friends about.

  • Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver – Dmitry Brant

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  • Ah-ha, now there's an interesting use case. I've had occasion in the past to work on PCB design - to be clear I didn't do the design myself, I have no idea wtf I'm doing there, but I'm capable of reading spec sheets and soldering - and when I had to sub in components, I managed to find what I needed by filtering down for specs on DigiKey using their search. I think an LLM could have saved me a bit of time there if I could've just fed it the BOM and asked for alternatives, and over the course of all the subs I had to do for the particular project I'm thinking of (it was during Chinese New Year so it was tough getting answers from suppliers) that would have added up.

  • Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver – Dmitry Brant

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  • "I only ask questions to LLMs if I already know the answer"

    Not a developer here. I've been thinking about this because I hoped LLMs would be able to help me learn things at first, like a patient tutor I can ask all my stupid questions and it'll never get annoyed with me. Since it can't do that though, because it lies all the time, I don't think I have a use case for it at all... About all it can do for me is rewrite or summarise English, and it doesn't even do a particularly good job of that most of the time so I end up saving time by doing that work myself anyway. I suppose it's pretty good at translating, but I haven't tried it for that as I don't have a lot of call to speak foreign languages.

  • What is the most delicious rock?

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  • Well, okay, I understand what you mean and why, but you stated "water is a mineral according to the dictionary" in your post, so I was just clarifying that bit. So yeah, Merriam-Webster is wrong.

    Edit: Again, sorry. This is the internet and pedants like me thrive here 😅

  • What is the most delicious rock?

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  • Sorry, no, water is not a mineral because it doesn't have a characteristic crystalline structure, and if a dictionary says otherwise it's wrong: https://geology.com/articles/water-mineral/

    However ice can be, if it forms naturally - the definition of mineral is:

    A naturally occurring, homogeneous inorganic solid substance having a definite chemical composition and characteristic crystalline structure, color, and hardness.

    And yes, this means that if you grow a crystal like a diamond for example in a lab, technically it's not a mineral (it's just sparkling rock).

  • It's happening! The Canadian Costco cult is showing fractures!

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  • There's a golden business opportunity here, it's a proven model with proven demand. If you can work Boxed.com into the model too (subscription delivery of paper, sanitation, and plastic goods) you'll be rich AF.

    I'm working on my own thing at the moment, but... Anyone know someone with a logistics company?

  • Declawing cats causes them lifelong pain. It’s time to ban the practice

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  • TIL 😱 Poor little kitties, why are humans so thoughtlessly monstrous?

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  • Just here to echo the sentiment that you're still pretty young, so if you decide that's what you want then absolutely go for it. But also I'd like to ask: I know you said the relationship cooled off, but how do you actually feel about her? Would you lose her entirely in the divorce, and would that make you sad/does that really matter (maybe not)? Just trying to get a better picture of your feelings for her and if that's shifted.

    It's pretty telling that she's okay with you having "a woman on the side", that's a pretty big change if it wasn't okay before, and I wonder why that changed. Did you get any clarification on how exactly her "outlook on life has changed"?

  • A joint at night, a coffee in the morning, and two bags under my eyes all the time

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  • "Better living through chemistry!", I call it.

  • Don't worry, it's definitely not genocide, China is just being a little 'authoritarian' towards the Uyghurs

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  • Congratulations, you understood it from the get-go. You're clearly not the target audience for the comment.

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    Do you brag about passing cognitive tests, too?

  • Gaming Laptop Recs?

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  • Framework are standouts in customer service and warranty; I recommend them because their ethos is repairability and re-use. They design their products for maximum interoperability of parts - so for example of you got one of the original laptops, you could upgrade the internals to new framework parts and buy (or build, or 3d-print) an enclosure for the original parts that still work, and turn it into a file server or whatever. You won't run into this situation you have now, where you can't get a part a few years later because the company themselves can't get one. And, it's all open source, so you can build and modify as you like... and equally if not more importantly, so can everyone else. Robust ecosystems are nice to have!

  • Gaming Laptop Recs?

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  • If it's a Razer, it was probably pretty expensive. Is a Framework (https://frame.work/) in the budget? If so, he'll have a great work machine capable of gaming, and upgradeable too.

    Another option is a lower-spec laptop supplemented with a GeForce Now subscription for demanding games. If you have a decent internet connection, the service actually works really well - far better than earlier services which tried to sell gaming on the cloud. You can try it for a day for $4 (or $8, for the top-tier hardware) to see how you go with it on your home connection.

  • The longer you live, the harder it becomes.

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  • I agree, but for sightly different reasons. Life is collecting permanent injuries. No matter how good your diet, no matter how much you exercise, no matter how advanced medical technology gets, nothing that breaks will ever be quite the same.

  • Noem says LA 'would have burned down' without Trump's National Guard deployment

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  • Uh-huh. So it "would have burned to the ground" with fewer than a dozen LEO injuries in the LA protests, even by the most conservative estimates (source)? What does that make January 6th then, with over 140 LEO injuries (source)?

    Keep these numbers handy.

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  • Don't worry, it's definitely not genocide, China is just being a little 'authoritarian' towards the Uyghurs

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  • I think it was a pun, pretending to confuse education with "re-education" by implying that re-education might have similar benefits to education (like upwards economic mobility) that would result in having fewer children, instead of the detrimental reasons reeducation would actually result in lower birthrates e.g. incarceration and other stresses.

  • (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

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  • First of all, I agree entirely. Now: Pounds, so you're in the UK. Have a read about your options with the ombudsman service: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/get-more-help/how-to-use-an-ombudsman-in-england/

    the Financial Ombudsman Service sorts out problems with banks, insurance, PPI, loans, mortgages, pensions and deals with other money and financial complaints - read our advice about getting your money back if you paid by card or PayPal

    If nothing else you're putting them on blast with the government, and that contributes to the paper trail for eventual action. In the meantime it might get your complaint resolved. Did you try tweeting at their official account too? Sometimes that can help get things moving.