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Comment Testing the LLMs on their own training data (Score 1) 70

I bet there is a near 100% chance the LLMs had all of these medical journals and the exact cases in their training data... Give a doctor the same "advantage" (re-diagnosing old cases) and I bet he will perform at better than 80%.

This is just a contrived AI "test" from the company that is desperate to sell you copilot. Like p-hacking.

Comment Re: Wayland mostly works for me (Score 1) 134

RDP works fine over broadband and VPNs. Since 2021 I've been working 100% remote, using Remmina to RDP to a Windows VM running on my local server, connect to a customer VPN with their software (it's easier to sandbox it in a VM), and then RDP to the customer's server or servers I'm working on. Two RDP hops, no problems. RDWeb is awful, though. And if you start adding VNC to the mix, it goes downhill fast.

The most convoluted setup I've used so far is VNC to PIKVM on a laptop, RDWeb to a jump host, RDP to an internal network, RDP to another internal network, and then RDP to the final destination. It wasn't great, but almost all of the "bad" was from the RDWeb hop, since it's browser-based only.

Comment Comcast service is just lies (Score 1) 80

I had the 1.2gb comcast service for years. Never once saw anything over 300mbit upstream, and downstream was somewhere around 30-ish on a good day. I spent hundreds of dollars on my own cable modems, which upgrading didn't seem to do squat. Then comcast started sending me emails saying that I should upgrade my cable modem to increase my speed -- which shouldn't have been true, since I had a modem rated for > 1gbit speeds. Then they did what they always do, which is start jacking up prices.

AT&T fiber came to the area. I was a bit hesitant for a while, because previous experience with AT&T DSL was atrocious. When I finally made the switch, and taking advantage of the 8311 project to use my own gateway, I knew I made the right decision from the first time I connected my phone to the wifi and hit refresh. It's a low latency, symmetric fiber connection with ~1.2gb up and down. I routinely see over 120MB/sec transfers over a VPN - upstream and downstream. No caps to worry about. It's almost as good as the first time you went from dialup to broadband.

Comment Re:It's not about the software (Score 2) 60

As much as I support the idea of LibreOffice, "Calc" is just too different from Excel. Word processors are a dime a dozen, no one really cares enough, and I would prefer LaTeX anyway... But spreadsheets basically need to be standard, even down to the keyboard shortcuts... And for what it's worth, Excel is the standard.

(more recent versions of Excel are, sadly, increasingly enshittifying, though, with all the "integrated" features... 2016 was probably the last great version)

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