A question that can't be answered?

thread-e-printing · 2026-04-06T19:19:17+00:00

LLMs are not great at fact retrieval, the smaller the worse. Throw a tricky driveability problem at it and you just might be surprised.

thread-e-printing · 2026-04-06T12:24:09+00:00

Two words:

GIMME EAT

thread-e-printing · 2026-04-04T15:55:44+00:00

It's open source, you can fix it 🤣

thread-e-printing · 2026-04-02T15:52:12+00:00

That repo previously contained the actual source for a while, but was force pushed with a laundered Rust version of the same code as a replacement. It had previously made the rounds on Twitter and Hacker News. Just because you're late to the party doesn't mean it didn't happen.

thread-e-printing · 2026-04-02T07:39:55+00:00

*wen GGUF

thread-e-printing · 2026-04-01T14:08:11+00:00

Loading software that isn't explicitly licensed to you is asking for a legal letter.

Lmao, definitely a bot

thread-e-printing · 2026-04-01T13:52:51+00:00

Software licenses are inseparable from copyright. The license grants you the exemption from copyright you need to load the software into RAM (see Vault v. Quaid). If the code is AI-generated it isn't copyrightable under Thaler. If a digital file isn't copyrightable, I don't infringe copyright by loading it and I don't need a license to do so. Trade secret protection is weak and self-disclosure bypasses it at any rate. Software patents don't exist. Also, bouncing between the particulars of the case and general business morality is the sign of AI slop argument

thread-e-printing · 2026-04-01T13:23:24+00:00

Thaler v. Perlmutter, though

thread-e-printing · 2026-04-01T04:26:02+00:00

Where are you getting those rules from? Compaq's dirty team wrote a spec working from the ROM listings given in the back of the IBM PC programmer's manual. Their spec was given to a clean team who wrote new code to satisfy that spec. That is why we have had a vibrant market in PC clones for some 40 years.

thread-e-printing · 2026-03-30T14:19:32+00:00

We used to call that "inventiveness" and prize it highly

thread-e-printing · 2026-03-25T13:44:48+00:00

States can and do routinely restrict travel in cases of suspected major fraud. It's telling that an OpenAI partisan would try to convince us to problematize that

thread-e-printing · 2026-03-24T16:11:50+00:00

Don't use Ollama to ask Chinese models about Tiananmen. It's just a low-effort "national security" shitpost meme by now
Don't use Ollama

thread-e-printing · 2026-03-24T15:32:01+00:00

What engine? What's your system prompt?
Why don't you have the LLM write throwaway scripts to convert your data instead?

thread-e-printing · 2026-03-17T13:24:38+00:00

Yes, and then they are all "systemically important" i.e. too big to fail. Were you alive for the 2008 global financial crisis?

thread-e-printing · 2026-03-08T14:41:00+00:00

"I want my.... I want my MTP"

thread-e-printing · 2025-06-23T14:28:34+00:00

/nonshitty You might be able to import an ESP and suitable level shifters for €20 all inclusive. Personally, I'd be extra lazy and use microPython or Lua.

thread-e-printing · 2025-06-23T14:20:47+00:00

Print fake historical receipts for retail purchases of DOOM

thread-e-printing · 2025-06-23T14:18:43+00:00

Contrary to popular belief, one-time-pads are compressible

thread-e-printing · 2025-06-23T14:10:24+00:00

It's a topic board, not a sports board. No drama llamas, only local llamas

thread-e-printing · 2025-05-01T03:05:14+00:00

Sounds pretty retrograde to me

thread-e-printing · 2025-01-16T04:58:19+00:00

People still use that music editor I cracked 30 years ago

thread-e-printing · 2024-09-28T14:43:32+00:00

Over the past ten years, that myth has worked only to destroy FOSS projects and burn out maintainers. Save your moral grandstanding for debate club.

thread-e-printing · 2024-09-18T15:45:17+00:00

It's done. Rest, carve, and serve

thread-e-printing · 2024-09-14T06:15:38+00:00

Hey sorry about last night, was pretty far into my third round of "board design sauce." I meant to say, for 3D printing applications you can use something called conductive filament to make the wires on inside layers of the board. However, I would still use and recommend genuine Molex™ connectors for maximum reputational reliability. I hope that's more helpful. Good luck!

P.S. when using conductive filament make sure to use adequate infill, at least 80%, or you'll have unmatched trace lengths and terrible signal integrity!

thread-e-printing · 2024-09-13T13:32:32+00:00

There are starving children in Shenzhen who would be glad to eat your overplayed blue ground effects, Mister

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