Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
A note on OrganicMaps: at present you are better off using the fork CoMaps. OrganicMaps is tainted by governance issues and a lack of financial transparency: https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
The science here is also perfectly backed by empiric evidence. Just measure the kWh used in a year and compare. It doesn't really matter how a chest fridge is more efficient, it just is. The convenience is not as easy to quantify, but
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
The door of a fridge is usually used for a lot of frequently used items. Eggs, milk, butter, and what have you. You would have to address losing that in terms of convenience and storage space.
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
The idea is nice, but one thing I use a refrigerator for constantly is putting rectangular things in there. A box of cake, half of the lasagne left over in its oven dish, various containers, et cetera. Even cartons of milk and yoghurt have
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Like apples to oranges. LLMs are (apparently) massively used to get information about topics in the real world. Novels aren't going to be much help there. Journalism, particularly in written form, provides a fount of facts presented fr
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
How do you think those models get trained? You can only get so far with Wikipedia, Reddit, and non-fiction works like books and academic papers.
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
How is learning only the length of the password better than watching someone type it? Besides, observe that several times and you might get close. Look at the stars several times and learn nothing beyond what you learned the first time. Thi
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
That wasn't part of the show? The popup (no idea what was on it, no one reads those of course) shows up and you think 'Ah. Yes, that would be very annoying if that happened while interacting with a volume slider.'
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Yes… We're in the same room as the target… Let's look at their screen and see how long their password is. Or, we could just look at the keyboard as they type and gain a lot more information. In an absolute sense not showing anythi
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
This has nothing to do with being within the jurisdiction of the GDPR or not. There are a variety of national laws worldwide which effectively overlap with or subset the GDPR (because most governments do seem to find protection of personal
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
> He mumbled something about GDPR, which is nonsense, because we're on the opposite side of the planet from Europe. It was also nonsense because the GDPR is crystal clear about where PII may be used. Audit logs are one of those exce
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
The FSFE justly drew the line at providing private information of supporters. How many other customers of Nexi simply handed over such data 'because audit'?
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Basically the level where you've progressed from user to customer.
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Good idea for a unit test for this: if you put the lyrics to "Weird Al" Yankovic's Mission Statement in, it should return the exact same text as output. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
> If you order from your local bookstore a book which is being sold on Amazon as a PoD copy by a major publisher, what do you think happens? Nothing. Local bookstores (not just 'mom-and-pop', but national chains or cooperatives
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Often local booksellers will have the ability to order pretty much anything in print too. Here in the Netherlands there are only a few exceptions I can't order¹ locally, and even then I can usually find them on the national Amazon alte
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Weird you got downvoted for that. This is exactly the thing which has been bothering me about all of this. Pre-LLM there are paid products and licenced stuff, but for the most part you could code in any language using free or community edit
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
In terms of toys which my son got from my childhood, Duplo and Lego stick out. We kept everything; booklets and parts. We built the classic town square (set 1592) recently, and we've got all the parts, including the statue bits! Only t
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
All normal sets still come with a booklet don't they? They offer the option sometimes though. Plastic parts bags are getting replaced by paper ones, but the booklets aren't going anywhere.
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
My son inherited (well, we're co-owning it I guess) my Lego, and that includes two sets of Technic aimed at educational use (1030 and 1032) which come with a stack of instructions for fairly simple mechanical models to build — each dem
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
The 3-in-1 sets (where the set numbers actually begin with 31) should really be the first thing you look at when choosing a set for a child, and they deserve more praise. There are a lot of cool 3-in-1 sets out there. That castle (31168) is
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Why exempt people who use English as a second language? Anyone with a level of proficiency sufficient for reading the comments here can manage writing English at a passable level. If that takes effort and requires looking up idioms or words
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
You do touch upon something which causes a lot of confusion when people start messing with timezones. For tz database a name like 'US/Pacific' is just a label which points to a current and historical set of rules, but for act
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
This community has no malicious actors? :)
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
If you are targetting a list of well-known authors I guess outsourcing the writing of a couple of hundred handwritten letters shouldn't be too hard. I'm sure they they can find a school class in Nigeria or Kenya who would gladly d
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
> If you’re a scammer who uses “AI” to try to defraud actual humans, please die in a fucking fire, thanks. Refreshingly direct and unfiltered, despite Scalzi being a well-established writer. If you are looking for a refreshingly fun ligh
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Not value produced, but easily quantifiable value produced, I would say. There are lots of cases where some perfectly tweaked internal tool saves hours of work every week, or some mostly invisible (but crucial) project, application, or mo
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Of course it is a big place. It is also a big place where credit cards just aren't a thing for most people: https://n26.com/en-eu/blog/taboo-of-credit That article lists some reasons why using a credit card d
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
In Europe? Debit cards. Hardly anyone uses a credit card in a supermarket. If I'm going out I'll have both a debit card and cash in my wallet. Given that large scale outages of payment networks are no longer theoretical but to be
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
We're certainly devo(lving).

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