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Armand1

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  • Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

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  • I guess my point is for the problems it causes its probably not worth doing, balancing the two?

    Making websites that no one needs to visit but poison or trap AI scrappers would likely be a better way to fight back.

  • Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

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  • TLDR; It fucks up accessibility for blind people (amongst others).

    Its also pretty futile imo. AI is reading billions of words from books and posts. A handful of users obfuscating their posts is not going to do anything.

  • Simpler times

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  • What's that bottom panel crossed shape one?

  • 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten

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  • I love having to use 4 words to describe the number 99 (cope)

  • Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th.

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  • So if I remember correctly, what happens with auto mode is they run a second smaller LLM called the "classifier" to evaluate the tool uses of the main one.

    I've used auto mode at work now for many months, and it approves most things because most things Claude does are reasonable.

    Once or twice I have seen it reject Claude. I can't remember the exact scenario, but I had asked Claude to diagnose an issue but not fix it yet, and when later on it tried to make the change the classifier rejected it, giving the reason that what it was trying to do did not match my request.

    In my opinion, the trick to using auto mode safely here is to:

    • Commit and push your changes before handing over the reins (it rarely commits or pushes without you telling it to, especially if you have never asked in that session).
    • Don't give it access to things it shouldn't have access to or that can do significant damage
    • Don't give ambiguous prompts.
    • Never use LLMs against untrusted code or files, as it may contain prompt injections.

  • I have heard enough, make them pay taxes

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  • Emphasis, most likely

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    Astronauts can only use MacBook in space

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  • Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters: That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model.

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  • Having run models locally, RAM use seems to be almost directly proportional to number of parameters. 8 Billion parameters requires approx 8GB of VRAM at 1/4 precision.

    Therefore, if this pattern holds you somehow need 10 Terabytes of VRAM at 4K and 40 Terabytes at full precision.

    I think I saw some estimates that Claude's Opus models may be and Opus model equivalents may be at around 100B parameters (100-400GB VRAM).

    TLDR its clear why RAM is so expensive.

  • OpenAI pays $3.2M to settle a US DOJ claim it favoured visa workers over Americans

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  • Thanks. That's very helpful.

  • OpenAI pays $3.2M to settle a US DOJ claim it favoured visa workers over Americans

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  • Why is it supposedly illegal to do this? Being American is not a protected characteristic, no?

  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    Burnham to unveil £8.4bn nuclear submarine investment in major boost for UK defence

    www.independent.co.uk /news/uk/politics/burnham-nuclear-submarines-hms-dreadnought-defence-jobs-apprenticeships-b3024190.html

  • Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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  • They do. I have had their M6 mouse for a few years.

    It's fairly good but after some time the side-ways scroll wheel failed for me. It also doesn't track as well on some surfaces as my previous Logitech, but otherwise it's good.

  • Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI

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  • Sure enough, 32 out of the 35 students across two classes simply copied the question, pasted it into a chatbot, then copy and pasted its output into the answer window.

    That's an insanely high proportion. I don't think I've ever cheated on an exam or assignment, so the concept seems kind of weird to me.

    I wonder if some of the remaining people used AI but then reviewed the output and removed the weird stuff, or if they wrote it themselves.

  • Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'

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  • If you're looking for declarations, some languages use const, let or var followed by the name of said variable. That's a little easier to find than having a type name at the start, so I don't think what you're saying gives the other approach an advantage. The indentation is also more consistent with these keywords, which helps.

    I realise some languages (like Python) don't use these sorts of keywords during declaration. For those languages it could indeed be a disadvantage.

  • Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'

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  • As other users have said, we aren't compilers.

    Types are important for type safety, so you don't access properties that don't exist, can use polymorphism etc. However, having worked in both duck-typing and hard typing languages, I believe the most important part of a type is it's name.

    Classes are are arbitrary constructs we create to help us understand and manage code. They are inherently organisational structures.

    That may sound like an argument FOR putting the name of the class first. "If I know it's a ConnectionCredentialsQuery, I don't need to know it's name, the use-case is evident!" Classes often get reused though, like a CartesianPoint. You may create several instances of them. Which of the name and type below are more indicative of use?

     
        
CartesianPoint PlayerPosition;

    Types are, to some extent, implementation detail. The name tells you what the variable is for, which is more important.

    Another point: You will always need to name variables well, because after declaration, whenever you see a variable, you will only see its name. You want to be able to fully understand what you are looking at without having to mouse over or go back to the declaration of a variable.

    Additionally, many typed languages will allow you to use a syntax to altogether avoid declaring the type of a variable if derived from somewhere else.

     csharp
        
var result = a + b;

var customer = new Customer();

    Given that the type can be inferred, and therefore specifying it explicitly is optional, why make it the first thing you see? That means you need to move your eye back and forth when looking for the names of things. Which of these two are better for legibility:

     csharp
        
var result = a + b;
CartesianCoordinate playerPosition;

  

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const result = a + b;
let playerPosition: CartesianCoordinate;

    Finally, you say that types are more important because they are important to the compiler, but compilers don't care about the order of these definitions. Compilers exist to allow us to write easier to read code. They exist to convert high level languages to low level byte code. They exist to enable more readable code.

    Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

  • Old fridges am I right?

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  • I bought a Hisense fridge and Hisense washer dryer a little under 5 years ago and they've been working flawlessly ever since.

  • I'm in!!!!

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  • Damn it I'm not in there

  • Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

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  • With EU customers, not reporting a breach within 72 hours of learning about it is actually illegal under GDPR.

    https://gdpr-info.eu/art-33-gdpr/

    Not sure how much trouble that can get you into though.

  • Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off: Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away'

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  • Yeah, it is effectively subsidized by VC right now.

    I expect what will happen after the bubble bursts is that the only affordable models will be quite small ones, not the energy chugging behemoths we have now.

    They've already started cranking up prices in enterprise.

  • Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off: Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away'

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  • This seems to be his view:

    In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.

    He doesn't seem to subscribe to the idea that everything you use MUST be open source, as some more radical open source advocates do, but instead that more software SHOULD be open source.

    I would definitely prefer if AI was open source and self-hosted (or at least E2EE if cloud hosted). Sometimes though the best tool for the job as things stand is closed source.

    Aa for the legally dubious output, while AI can exactly replicate training data, it rarely does nowadays. It's usually an amalgam of stuff.

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    Cuddles, the family cat

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    Comparing x265 to AV1 with Grain Synthesis

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    The largest of yawns

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    Reform local media ban is a glimpse of what may happen with Farage in power

    www.independent.co.uk /news/uk/politics/reform-media-ban-nottinghamshire-live-farage-free-speech-b2817293.html
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    Picture of Poppy, my brother's cat ❤️

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    GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked

    www.404media.co /globalx-airline-for-trumps-deportations-hacked/
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    The UK government is planning massive cuts to disability welfare.

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    Why are Google's Assistant(s) so bad nowadays?

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    Photosphere and all cameras now work on Pixel 9 devices via AGC9.2.14 V14

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    I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Caption this

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    Handbrake custom LapSharp values