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1propionyl
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2y ago
It's not as uncommon here as tejocotes, but I'm always chuffed to find good looking and not overripe mangosteens at farmers markets or specialty produce suppliers. They're more common to find at Asian markets, where they ofte
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A modest proposal: sell "streamer" licenses for a game that include audio/video watermarking features, or require an active internet connection and redisplay a sequence of numbers like a security key over the corner of the sc
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2y ago
Presumably they meant "never going to back to not including these tools in my daily workflow".
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It would be an interesting use of AI tools to try to flag differences between the two as a means of identifying gaps in coverage or factual mistakes (in either one). And I specifically mean flag. As in, for human review. The last thing Wiki
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2y ago
> Alignment faking occurs in literature: Consider the character of Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello, who acts as if he’s the eponymous character’s loyal friend while subverting and undermining him. There's something about this kind of
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2y ago
This simply isn't true. I see the velocity, but high magnitude doesn't mean that you're going the right direction.
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2y ago
It's not production ready but, Python has had http.server for a long, long, long time. https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html#module-ht...
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2y ago
...sometimes people build things for fun, or as proofs of concept for iterative improvement on existing tools (which can then go on to inspire changes in existing and new mainline tools). What does that have to do with (negative) mental hea
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2y ago
Well, it not being sarcasm at all might be a start, in this particular case.
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2y ago
The solution is to just not try to type LaTeX on your phone. I'm not sure what else to say.
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2y ago
Another good article that discusses the same topic in detail: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
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2y ago
As a counterpoint I type at around 90wpm on a physical keyboard (preference is for low carry), but thumb type over 130wpm on a modestly large touch screen keyboard. The quality of the auto-correction afforded by the operating system matters
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2y ago
It's called Parkinson's Law.
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> Sure, we can do those things in C, but they are easier and faster to do in Rust ...I don't know what to say to this except "no?". I'd have to question what priors someone making that claim is bringing and where they
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> What started as a collaboration tool for developers is now the leading AI-powered DevSecOps platform. Uh...
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> There isn’t really anything commonly “native” as powerful as skia for 2D drawing Cairo?
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It is. And it strikes me as evidence we've lost the plot and a measure has ceased to be a good measure upon being a target. It used to be that more computational power was desirable because it would allow for developers to more fully r
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> upscaling is absolutely vital for a reasonable experience on some games This strikes me as a bit of a sad state of affairs. We've moved beyond a Parkinson's law of computational resources –usage by games expands to fill the a
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2y ago
> Extracting the maximum amount of money possible is the primary purpose of a company. Is it really though?
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2y ago
If you want an extremely fine and even brunoise that's exactly what you do.
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2y ago
Poorly.
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2y ago
Are you referring to the IBM Systems Science claims (likely apocryphal) in the Pressman paper, or Barry Boehm's figure in "Software Engineering" 1976 paper which did include some IBM sourcing (literally drawn on) but was prim
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> you can barely drag objects between applications This works fine on macOS in anything that supports it. For example I can drag assets in and layers out of Pixelmator without any issue, drag emails to the desktop or a Finder to save the
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This is, at least to me, a very strange leap of a conclusion from the sources posted (and general awareness of Valve and TF2 and Varoufakis etc otherwise)
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2y ago
Honest question: what makes them both terrible?
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2y ago
A reminder to everyone: if you want a "legal" copy of a paper you can always just try emailing one of the first authors. They will 99.99% send you back a PDF.
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All of the other child replies are correct that there are ways around this. But the fact remains that the default set of interacting behaviors (the one I described) is crap.
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A bugbear: iOS' default mail client having the "Mark as Read" and "Move to Junk" actions on an all-selection right next to each other (with no undo option) is maddening.
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> hundreds of thousands of RLHF'ers through dozens of third party companies Out of curiosity, what are these companies? And where do they operate. I'm always interested in these sorts of "hidden" industries. See also:
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I actually agree with this. There's a ton that's between the lines in professional recipes and often much that you can't really put on paper you just have to learn at the foot of the master or try enough times you rediscover
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