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by ComputerGuru 8d ago
That’s if you have disparate prompts and don’t want to actively select a model. If you’re developing a pipeline, it’s a terrible idea. You want to choose a model, validate it, then stick to it.
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by ComputerGuru 8d ago
Your sensors need calibration, then! This one is as obvious as they come.
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by ComputerGuru 11d ago
How do your path-only rules handle the many approaches for loading a file but making it appear to have a different path, such as bind mounts for one example?
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by ComputerGuru 11d ago
Nice work! I wonder if you could (or did?) choose a more median shade for each color, especially blue? It seems, going by the comparison page, that most flags actually call for a less royal, more sky shade of blue, so you could use the medi
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by ComputerGuru 11d ago
If you're on Windows (where Microsoft famously chose they would not get involved with flags and show country codes instead), execute this in dev tools or save it as a javascript bookmarklet to make the emoji flags show up: javasc
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by ComputerGuru 12d ago
It sounds like you lossily re-encoded lossy JPEGs to AVIF, am I reading that right? If so, you're automatically suffering from generational loss there, it can't be the basis of any coherent argument.
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by ComputerGuru 13d ago
Damn bots copy and pasting a single sentence from the article as a comment.
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by ComputerGuru 13d ago
That mostly doesn’t count, since humans still regularly have kids of their own in their forties (so the direct link to natural selection would overshadow any lower-pressure grandmotherly effects), so you’d have to push the window out to t
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by ComputerGuru 14d ago
> I wonder if whales survive to an equivalent of human old age (where we can be pretty fragile and still survive for decades). They do and this is well-documented. They're one of the few (only?) other species where we can directly s
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by ComputerGuru 14d ago
Maybe. But whales don’t get cancer either, and whale metabolism is… impressive (well their resting heart rate is lower than ours but they grow orders of magnitude faster, to a point, and sustain themselves gorging on literal tons of food).
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by ComputerGuru 16d ago
So when will we get tier 1 debugging support in Visual Studio?
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by ComputerGuru 17d ago
Already available via the API as deepseek-v4.1-flash-expires-on-0910, with vision.
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by ComputerGuru 17d ago
It’s very much an embodiment of the law that says to monitor a system is to interfere with it; it would be very hard to say they “predicted” general suicide attempts vs they set up a scenario that allowed them to nudge people into such acti
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by ComputerGuru 21d ago
Instagram is actively hostile to good ui. They constantly go out of their way to break extensions that add a video scrubber.
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by ComputerGuru 23d ago
No easy answer! You’d have to have a myriad of different test suites that as closely resemble your real world usage as possible. Or ship it behind a gate and let your users give you real world feedback if you’re at SQLite (not turso) scale
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by ComputerGuru 25d ago
> Mostly true but as someone else pointed out it’s still better to issue a single large multi-page contiguous read than the same read broken down into separate requests That’s the point I was ultimately making.
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by ComputerGuru 25d ago
OpenAI has separate dials for verbosity and reasoning_effort (but could still do a better job).
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by ComputerGuru 25d ago
Interesting article but it gave me a bit of a panic attack. Benchmarking (with TPC or otherwise) is NOT the way to determine the correct approach here; that is strictly only to be used for databases (typically RDBMS) effectively “owning” th
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by ComputerGuru 25d ago
I think that’s only true on paper; in practice it’ll be true only when you have competing reads (at a thousand-foot view) and it might be possible to algorithmically bundle a portion thereof. It originally let SCSI controllers attached to s
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by ComputerGuru 27d ago
FYI/fwiw Fish shell autocompletes branches sorted by last commit date when writing out git commands. It also provides completions for commitish objects grouped by class, giving precedence to the usual targets first, with each group sor
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by ComputerGuru 1mo ago
I am merely pointing out additional revenue streams for Apple here. They make money off the hardware and again off the financing. Car manufacturers and have much lower margins and finance via their financial arms with much less predatory t
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by ComputerGuru 1mo ago
Not even. They log the IP and your ISP (or VPN provider!) knows the name/address of the person using that ip at that time.
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by ComputerGuru 1mo ago
The guardrails that prevent generating adult/explicit/whatever content are a completely separate step. This has nothing to do with that.
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by ComputerGuru 1mo ago
My friend, the same way everyone else does. It goes from 0% to 28% interest when you miss a payment. Those are rates normal lenders fall asleep dreaming of.
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by ComputerGuru 1mo ago
Not to knock on RISC-V, which I’ve been following from the embedded side of things for many years now, but I feel I must question the value of a license-free ISA in this specific market segment at this time. Surely between the squeeze on RA
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by ComputerGuru 1mo ago
0% APR for 12 months (24 for iPhones only?) from Apple Financial Services for a device that can approach or even exceed what we were paying for new cars just a few years ago. Apple is definitely making bank off these financing offers, and w
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by ComputerGuru 1mo ago
Neither is the right alternative to compare to. You aren’t going to hit 100% utilization (if you are, ignore me, this doesn’t some to you, and write a blogpost for me to read and share). The comparison should be against renting in the cloud
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by ComputerGuru 1mo ago
I can totally see how this feature would upend most architectures. Great work, I am adding a todo list action item up see if the performance can’t work out in favor of using this in place of the browser APIs we currently run to maybe adopt
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by ComputerGuru 1mo ago
I love your editor/comparison tool. Would you be open to adding browser WebP? Is the JpegXL lossless options the "transparent JPEG recompression" or the actual lossless profile? I'm presuming the latter because it more t
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by ComputerGuru 1mo ago
I'm a fan of JpegXL and happy to see support finally begin to coalesce around it on the browser scene, but I was wondering if anyone knew what goes into the decision of whether or not to consider adding encode support, e.g. via offscre

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