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Funny enough, I literally looked at the top sellers list last night, for the first time in probably years. I decided to look after I saw Palworld topping the charts, which I thought was interesting since it released early access 2 years ago. Turns out it just released v1.0.

As long as our voting system is "first past the post", it will be nigh impossible for a third party to make any significant headway. IMO Citizens United and first past the post are the two main issues holding the US back from any kind of significant overhaul or change.

Keep Android Open 5 months ago

I've been flashing phones for over 2 decades and have never bricked a phone. How did you manage that?

I personally believe the ultimate work of Christianity in humanity is to turn us all to repentance and bring us closer to God, not to reject the sinners.

I'm Native American (indigenous, or whatever other moniker you've heard). Both of my paternal grandparents were subjected to the horror of boarding schools. So forgive me if I'm a bit cynical when it comes to the methods deemed appropriate by Christianity to "turn us all to repentance and bring us closer to God."

I would argue that instead of being a tool to try and convince more people that the Abrahamic god is the "right one", maybe think about using LLMs to challenge your own biases regarding religion and to question the myriad of moral and logical issues presented within your holy book.

Just a suggestion from someone also looking at the idea of utilizing LLMs to preserve and explore indigenous language, culture, and wisdom without becoming a slave to the technology.

They are all part of "context", yes... But there is a separation in how system prompts vs user/data prompts are sent and ideally parsed on the backend. One would hope that sanitizing system/user prompts would help with this somewhat.

Eat Real Food 7 months ago

They were referencing the last paragraph of the OP, about being able to safely sunset a large portion of beef production.

It depends on the person. I lived alone in my last year of undergrad and it sent me into a deep depression. I figured out that living alone was too much isolation for me and moved back in with a roommate. That helped to pull me out of my depression and be able to finish my degree.

It depends on the game, but for those with some kind of marketplace or transferable currency, I'm guessing market manipulation is one possible reason.

For other games, maybe trying to interrupt some time limited event or tournament. Going all the way down the rabbit hole, if you're not already familiar take a look at how crazy things get in a game like EVE: Online.

Then of course there are the bored trolls and/or people who feel wronged by the game's developers or other players.

Why no synthetic underwear? I feel like I would be miserable with only cotton boxer-briefs... I sweat entirely too much even in moderate weather to be comfortable in cotton. I am partial to Pair of Thieves extra long boxer-briefs, they don't ride up at all since I have big thighs. When travelling I can wash them in a sink, and they dry way more quickly than cotton.

It doesn't completely solve this problem but definitely helps to have something like context7 MCP server running that `Copilot et al.` can reach dramatically reduces hallucinations for most tools. And additionally I've used Continue.dev VSCode along with manually specified docs and guides that you can selectively inject into your context. Both of those tactics make a huge difference in answer quality.

Harris would have had an uphill battle even if she had a full campaign cycle. After quizzing many conservatives, I unfortunately heard entirely too many responses of, "women leaders are unstable", "wouldn't be respected on the world stage", "she fakes her accent(s)", "I don't even know what she campaigned on", and other mind-boggling reasons they wouldn't vote for her.

At this point, I have lost all faith in the American electorate to rise above bigotry and see past social media propaganda.

The same reason that anyone does any risky activity... Adrenaline and dopamine boosts. Riding motorcycles are a calculated risk, one that can make you feel absolutely amazing. You can greatly reduce the risk by riding safely and defensibly. Give yourself space, assume everyone is out to murder you, avoid riding at night, absolutely do not ride inebriated, wear visible gear, etc.

Here is a short from a doctor who rides, explaining his rationale https://youtube.com/shorts/r53eHYCF6Sc

And a video breaking down accident stats https://youtu.be/uZm8Kj0fC88

The dissolution and dismantling of US gov institutions that we are witnessing is unprecedented in modern times. Hell, a few of the agencies being attacked were created with bipartisan support.

I would say it isn't that our institutions were built on sand, more that its hard to stop a madman who broke into your house with a chainsaw (a la Musk) from knocking down a few load-bearing walls.

It is easier to destroy almost anything than it is to create it in the first place.

As an admin and advocate for Posit Teams, Connect and Server filled a niche where a single admin could spin up infra and allow for anything deployable by end users without having to worry about scaling.

It paid for itself in terms of scientists spinning up their own projects without having to provision server hardware, VMs, or anything else.

I don't think OP meant "arrogant" in terms of more prestigious, but in the sense of any native US-English speaker using British English spellings as a way to seem fancier or more formal.

Non-native US-English speakers are not viewed in the same light (in my opinion).

About AI Evals 1 year ago

I've used and liked Promptfoo a lot, but I've run into issues when trying to do evaluations with too many independent variables. Works great for `models * prompts * variables`, but broke down when we wanted `models * prompts * variables^x`.

I think that from a research/academic view of the landscape, building off a mutable API is much less preferred than building of a set of open weights. It would be even better if we had the training data, along with all code and open weights. However, I would take open weights over almost anything else in the current landscape.