Findecanor

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by Findecanor 6mo ago
That does look a little suspicious. There do exist AI-based tools now that can take other people's blogs and rewrite them with other words. Those are all the rage over on Reddit subs on blogging for ad revenue ...
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
The "Dragon Book" is big on parsing but I wouldn't recommend it if you want to make many optimisation passes or a back-end. The first edition was my first CS textbook, back in the '90s and as a young programmer I learned
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
I used to do cosplay. Many costumes from movies, TV-series and anime are of characters that wield guns, often unique or at least quite distinctive guns. Carrying the correct gun is sometimes a thing that identifies the character, and theref
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
How about blasting caps? Those are integrated into modern brass cartridges, and I think making them that way would require more precision than you'd be able to achieve with simple hand tools and an anvil. 19th century revolvers tended
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
Douglas Adams formulated how it would be possible for a human to fly continuously, though. http://extremelysmart.com/humor/howtofly.php
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
And Sweden. And probably lots of other countries too. It's a world standard, and there are very few places that use hyphens in dates that are not ISO dates.
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
That can get messy and confusing if the user's locale is different from the language of the web page. When I write in English, I of course also want to edit dates and numbers using English conventions. But instead, I am forced to use d
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
How about: It's too easy for users to use the product wrong, leading to unnecessary tech support calls, and doing tech support costs us money.
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
That was the convention on many older computing platforms. A "Backspace" key on a typewriter did not actually delete: It merely moved the typing position back one space.
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
Ilya Sutskever and Dario Amodei were high up at OpenAI before becoming competitors. They are just two of many people who have known Altman personally who have accused him of being a lying sociopath. I would not call that vague. It is not ju
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
I don't think it is obvious which "far end" of the political spectrum you are referring to. I have seen anti-AI sentiments from people known all over the spectrum.
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
There is a RISC-V Server Platform Spec [0] on the way supposed to standardise SBI, UEFI and ACPI for server chips, and it is expected to be ratified next month. (I have not read it myself yet) [0]: https://github.com/riscv-n
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
Bankman-Fried has already done it.
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
I wonder if not private age verification could not be solved with the right cryptographic protocol. You would have to register using a digital ID with a government agency, to get a age certificate. Most European countries already have digit
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
> “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes I have got 1.1 GB of MP3s with just remixes of the music from the three games, some of which are from a Kickstarter from the composer for the second.
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
What about Japanese hot springs? ("onsen") Those are typically around 40°C but could be up to 60°C. Because it is hot water and not hot air the temperature would be transferred differently to the body though, so I don't thi
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
"Microsoft Surface" ... If had first meant a coffee table form factor PC with touch screen and special software, which was able to sense special objects placed on top of it. Then that was renamed to "PixelSense" [1] an
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
I was thinking of the risk of the crew capsule burning up on reentry, due to a possibly faulty heat shield — and people in charge knowing about the risk beforehand but going on with it anyway. I had forgotten that O.J Simpson had been in th
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
I have a bad feeling about this project. It reminds me of both the movies Capricorn 1 and Iron Sky ... and not in any good way.
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
Demo scene graphics competitions these days tend to include work-in-progress images, as evidence of originality. The Revision demo party is soon. From the competition rules for "Oldskool Graphics" [0]: > Include exactly 10 (ten
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
The reality about the nature of programming does not matter. It is simply the perception among managers that AI could help them save money that causes job loss. It happened to me, personally.
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
Alsup liked to write a lot about his my66000 on Usenet, but does not share documents about it with everyone. (Yes, I've emailed him and been ignored. I have had to piece together what I know about it from multiple posts.) Apparently it
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
In my neighbourhood it has become popular to build "bee hotels" to have in the garden. They are commonly built by cutting logs into lengths, stacking them up and drilling multiple holes in one end of each log, each hole sized just
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by Findecanor 6mo ago
> Tongue in cheek: we urgently need fusion power plants. For the AI and the helium. Whenever I read about fusion, I get reminded of a note in the sci-fi book trilogy The Night's Dawn. In that story, the introduction of cheap fusion
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by Findecanor 7mo ago
BTW. On ARM and RISC-V, integer remainder from division by zero does indeed result in the dividend (and no trap), unless the compiler is doing something unusual.
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by Findecanor 7mo ago
Oder... sie könnten jemanden aus Süd- oder Mittelamerika fragen, was das Wort „Amerika“ für ihn bedeutet.
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by Findecanor 7mo ago
I don't follow EU politics that much, but I know that one of the strongest proponents for it has been from the Swedish Social Democratic party, which has dominated Swedish politics. So, in my view this is not really a "left"
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by Findecanor 7mo ago
Haiku's are even better. They have been remade in a scalable vector graphics format, but one that is still very compact: often smaller than the comparable pixmap. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40196333
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by Findecanor 7mo ago
It is a native windowing system, probably a port from Haiku. There exists at least one rootless X11 server for BeOS/Haiku that would run on top, that shouldn't be too difficult to port (knock on wood ...)
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by Findecanor 7mo ago
There is a blog entry [0] on the web site mentioning that they needed a Linux kernel module for some missing filesystem pieces, and also configure the kernel to be realtime. I wonder what they will do to support BeOS' MediaKit. It has

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