Balinares

joined 3 years ago
[–] Balinares@pawb.social 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

You better start believing in furry stories on the Internet. You're in one. The joke that furries run the Internet is only a joke until you discover that it's, in fact, largely true.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Hey, so who are you? What kind of person?

Loyal to your people? Introverted but faithful in friendship? Curious and playful? Are you more dignified, or carefree? Given to hoarding, or full of wanderlust? Drawn to the forest, the sky, the sea, or your den? Single-minded or scatterbrained? A mix of all that? Something else entirely?

Gee, that's a lot of options. If only there was a way to put some kind of symbolic label on the many little traits that make up the identity of the person that is you... :)

Also, it so turns out that if you come hang out with those who chose to self-label thus as wolf-like or fox-like or dragon-like or deer-like, you may find they're chill and welcoming people, throw great parties, and don't mind one bit if, ultimately, the you that makes sense to you is in the end human-like.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They invented a hybrid attention design that drastically reduces the amount of memory needed for the KV cache at inference time. Like, dividing it by 10. And memory is a large part of the cost of inference.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once would definitely also be my recommendation. Because a kung fu comedy that's also a sci fi thriller, a bilingual family drama that can switch languages multiple times per sentence, a Ratatouille parody, and a 10 minute silent shot of two rocks in a desert, that just SHOULD NOT WORK. The fact it does, and does brilliantly, with ten new directing ideas every minute and a climax that leaves me in tears every time, borders on genius.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

All Your Base is the granddaddy of Internet memes and yet I can't help feeling that its specific subgenre was sublimated a bit later on, with this, the legend, the joyful, the unforgettable: Yatta!

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Moroccanoil, the ESC sponsor, is despite what its name suggests an Israeli company. So the overall incentive structure there might be a tad skewed.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

10 kg mylar bags of rice.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

Neat! Thanks for the explanation. :)

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

CapyReader (synced to FreshRSS)

Oooh, what does that look like in practice?

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, that'd be a major GDPR breach, be hard to extract any signal from because queries will usually be coming from a relay or from behind a NAT so you can't tell who the query even originates from, and DNS is cached heavily too so you only get a small fraction of the queries anyway. I'm not seeing a way the calculus work in favor, basically.

OTOH the question of why they'd even run a public DNS is interesting, yeah. Running a public DNS is cheap and helps the Internet work better, and they make more money when the Internet works better since that adds up to more page views. Less charitably, though, it's possibly just a thing from back when they were an engineering company first and foremost and did that kind of stuff, and now they can't turn it off without breaking a lot of things and causing a lot of costly anger.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'll admit I'm not sure what the threat model is with 8.8.8.8.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago

And incredible direction. It's the first time in decades, since perhaps The Matrix, that I saw this many new direction ideas in a single flick.

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