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by Affric 3y ago
Definitely more powerful but well crafted GUIs can enforce constraints on inputs and preview what changes would look like. Agree that I have never seen a GIS tool where I thought the GUI was top notch.
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by Affric 3y ago
This is pretty parsimonious. Smart, capable, ambitious people often engage in wishful thinking when it comes to analysing systems they are a part of. When looking at a system from the outside it’s easier to realise the boundary between your
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by Affric 3y ago
I think to a large extent this is correct but, being the devils advocate, perhaps if the GIS tool were better then your friend wouldn’t have had quite as big a gain in free time? Answering my own question somewhat, I think that LLMs are bec
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by Affric 3y ago
Only not tapped out in the Congo and New Guinea from memory.
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by Affric 3y ago
So, the government does something unlawful and then the government pay the legal fees that the citizens have incurred to stop the government from taking unlawful actions? What is the problem exactly? Costs are often awarded in many jurisdic
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by Affric 3y ago
Bingo. There are real profits in the chip space and considering that there are 3 fabs and one clear leader who will make anything for anyone this is a sign that NVIDIA are doing a great job.
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by Affric 3y ago
I received my first piece of spam on iMessage last week (used it since 2011) and it was deleted instantly by Apple. I presume because they identified and removed the account's iMessage privileges. Any messaging app that permits spam is
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by Affric 3y ago
Cowards. But more seriously interesting to see that the New Jersey Style wins again.
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by Affric 3y ago
PDF warning: https://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/3113... The commons were well managed by local people and enclosure was a land grab by the rich.
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by Affric 3y ago
The comment you’re replying to is making that point: that people who earn a decent wage from the knowledge economy are threatened by AI and oppose it because of their interest in the current system’s inequality. It follows that if it is unj
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by Affric 3y ago
Sure but X had loads of tech debt and a pretty big architectural flaw that was a security risk. Two birds and one stone.
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by Affric 3y ago
Well said. I am not a GUI programmer but I have watched heaps of talks from the X11/Wayland devs to get a handle on the arguments and it seems to me that while Wayland has some actual architectural issues (screensharing is hard) they p
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by Affric 3y ago
I haven’t installed Windows outside of DosBox since XP but there is a similar problem with MacOS occasionally. I know its easier with other distros but I would wager that the vast majority of humans on Earth would give up before they finish
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by Affric 3y ago
Thanks for clarifying, I was intrigued by your comment and it seemed you’d know.
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by Affric 3y ago
When I was in Borneo (the only island in the region with three countries occupying parts of it), unless what we were doing was related to a national government, we said Borneo. When my colleagues who were working in Sulawesi referred to the
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by Affric 3y ago
I agree to an extent. If you are in tech the Linux process shouldn’t be too bad. Installing Arch is a good lesson in learning what you’re doing. Totally doable but you’re spoken to like an adult. I think it’s pretty contrary to most expecta
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by Affric 3y ago
Strange to see West Papua plainly described as Indonesia. It’s a great video. The feeling of euphoria is very real and in the vast and in the isolated jungles of Maritime South East Asia there is a little thrill knowing just how isolated yo
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by Affric 3y ago
Are the often used in the big linear algebra libraries?
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by Affric 3y ago
Similar to the change in stress for "perfect" and "to perfect".
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by Affric 3y ago
Thank you for this clever trick.
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by Affric 3y ago
rg is massive “The UNIX programming environment” vibes. Lightning fast. Sane defaults. Obviously rust too. Most used tool on my computer.
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by Affric 3y ago
I have been sitting on this for a couple of days because I didn't want to react too quickly. One word: Craft. People like their craft. People wish to hone and refine. Become better. Find themselves with some level of mastery. Speed is
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by Affric 3y ago
The point of the original review is actually that it's his tik tok fame and video format that is what creates the audience and not the art itself. His fans have little interest in the actual art, it's the vicarious and voyeuristic
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by Affric 3y ago
This is a fascinating story. HN is (very deliberately) my only social media other than what my friends send me. I am not saying anything you don't already know by saying that parasocial relationships are so evil because they get the ti
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by Affric 3y ago
Kinda the point of the two articles.
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by Affric 3y ago
Grug express simple and clear. Grug no make small problem big. Grug humble.
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by Affric 3y ago
I agree with you but nativised nouns are an edge case that you likely can never stamp out without a huge amount of context that would neuter any usefulness the tool has. Like any tool for language learning its big limitation is the fact tha
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by Affric 3y ago
I have never used a phone calculator I didn’t hate
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by Affric 3y ago
By that token the amount of energy for neural networks will be bound to some extent by the development of the biosphere and the creators of neural networks.
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by Affric 3y ago
Interesting. I do think one of the most interesting things about diet is that so much of it is time. When we feel like we can dedicate ourselves to doing it right it's a lot better.

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