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There's plenty of arguments that mass scrapers have compute to spare but it seems to me that if Anubis makes it 100x more expensive to scrape then, for any given scraping budget, that means you get scraped 100x less. Which is the difference between your server buckling under the load or continuing to serve reliably.

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I've mostly been running LLMs on my own hardware so the phrase "been at it for about 20 minutes" gave me pause. My first instinct was to ask "but on what hardware?" but I suppose one advantage of closed models is that there's a somewhat-consistent cognitive-effort-to-time ratio.

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I've usually been more annoyed at the surprise dissonance of "was that an anime girl on kernel.org?" than annoyed at the delay.

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I'm picturing something like RUST servers, where the admins get to set their own rules and resource multipliers to facilitate the particular part of gameplay that they want.

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On one hand, sure, the entire point of a programming language is to make complex ideas able to be expressed in simpler abstractions. On the other hand, we can damn well try.

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In the USA you'll get buttloads of mail urging you to do things such as confirm your home warranty at risk of not being covered. With addresses that says "RE: (your mortgage provider)" to make it look like it's from them.

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You'll see some scripting languages (ab)use this. Where the native "number" type is a 64 bit float and only one NaN bit pattern is a real NaN. The others smuggle a pointer to an object in the lower bits. This way you don't spend any memory overhead indicating if a given variable contains a primitive or an object.

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Vaguely reminds me of that planet in Hitchhiker's Guide that started to lose too much mass to tourists leaving. So,

> Thus today the net balance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave; so every time you go to the lavatory there, it is vitally important to get a receipt.

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On a metal as soft as copper I imagine that texture'll last about 30 minutes after it's issued to the soldier.

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One of my favorite clips to give a sense of scale for rockets is this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70u748VALt4

I show someone and then I tell them, that's not the rocket exhaust. That's the exhaust for the engine that runs the fuel pump for the rocket.

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This road seems to lead to the exclusion of third party app stores and/or the ability to load apps that aren't signed by Google/Apple.

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Going by Fabien Sanglard's cheat sheet (who I trust uncritically) https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html it looks like 3.2 actually is a broader term than expected. Maybe there was some awful attempt at backwards compatibility? Or forwards?

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It reminds me of how vinyl records are fairly lossy, but they provide a superior experience in some cases because those limitations have been accounted for during the mastering process.

It's an entire pipeline from photomultiplier to recording medium to the inverse process and everything is optimized not for any particular mathematical truth but for the subjective experience.

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The term I've seen a lot is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place

So I'd probably rewrite that code to first find the ulp of the larger of the abs of a and b and then assert that their difference is less than or equal to that.

Edit: Or maybe the smaller of the abs of the two, I haven't totally thought through the consequences. It might not matter, because the ulps will only differ when the numbers are significantly apart and then it doesn't matter which one you pick. Perhaps you can just always pick the first number and get its ULP.

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There should be an opposite thruster for each axis. I wonder if the short bursts were due to heating limits.

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The space shuttle, too, was able to communicate. I imagine the smaller the craft the smaller the angle you can "speak" out of and, below a certain size, it just doesn't work.

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You can't do software updates securely, but it strikes me that compromising the revocation process is a good thing. Suppose you can use a key to sign a message saying "stop using this". If someone else breaks that key and falsely signs that message, what are the downsides?

You revoke a cert because you lose control of it; if someone else can falsely revoke that cert, doesn't that truthfully send the exact same signal? That you lose control of it?

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This reminds me of Magicore Anomala, a side scrolling game being made for the 1985 Atari. I wish there was a way to know how people contemporary to the release of the Atari or the N64 would react to seeing these modern engines.

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Wouldn't that be the play, though? Get a buttload of bitcoin, turn it into real money, then destroy bitcoin. If you found a break in bitcoin you wouldn't rely on keeping your wealth in bitcoin and then hoping nobody else discovers it.

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I think translation should be the only exception. It might even need to be, given how all automated translators use LLMs these days. The only alternative I see is to have people post in whatever language they're most comfortable in and then everyone else has to translate for them which just feels inefficient.

And of course, a more limited exception for posts about LLM behavior. It might be necessary for people to share prompts and outputs to discuss the topic.

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