GrantZvolsky

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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Some do, surely. But it is more likely that at a population level the effect is akin to food advertising, and it is not difficult to prove that food advertising does not just shift consumption from one source to another, but also increases
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
There is a sense of injustice that the anti-food waste campaign affects ordinary people while the rich engage in gluttony.[1] At least this law doesn't risk triggering such sentiment. It would be interesting to know whether someone cal
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
> But then again, you are free to upload 8TB of your data to an anonymous website that was created this morning. Even if the provider registered a limited company to their name and used that, how would it help? Who would trust such a sma
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
You're probably talking about Neo Vim[1] by Alexey Svetliakov. I can't recommend this one enough for a (neo)vim experience in VS Code. It is relatively new and deserves a lot more attention. [1]: https://marketplace.vis
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I share your experience, but it should only be a matter of time until the vim LSP clients[1] mature . One notable exception is Go with its [vim-go]( https://github.com/fatih/vim-go ) plugin, which feels very mature to
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. YouTube et al gave me what I can only describe as recommendation anxiety , where I opt not to engage with content solely because I don't want similar content recommended in the future.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
The volume of ads is lower if you're logged in, even without a subscription.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
> I would be very surprised if this were true. At the very least there must be some kind of a trajectory model which implies that multiple observations of the same object are analyzed as a sequence. How would it work without object perma
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I understand that you are being sarcastic, but I'll pretend that you're not ;) There was a video showing the pattern recognition layer of a car 'forget' about objects it had previously correctly identified. There clearly
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Object permanence isn't even defined in the stateless world of the GPT-3 API. My comment was merely a jab at Yann's poor argument. I don't find humans to be trivial at all, but neither do I believe that they are infinitely co
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
> GPT-3 doesn't have any knowledge of how the world actually works. It only appears to have some level of background knowledge, to the extent that this knowledge is present in the statistics of text. But this knowledge is very shal
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
For anyone wondering, pass refers to this[1] project. [1]: https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/README
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
This is a fantastic source, thank you for the link!
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I also digitized some VHS tapes recently. Here's what I learnt: Video capture: 1. there seems to be no capture device on the market that has a linux driver 2. some capture devices only provide their drivers on a CD/DVD 3. elgato v
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I thought it's because Google isn't allowed to promote Google Maps in its search results, but a cursory search didn't yield any evidence. Presumably if Search did link to Google Maps, other geographic information systems woul
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I used vimium before switching to Surfingkeys for its editor. Turning any text input into a vim box is one of these features that you can't do without once you're used to their convenience. Note that these extensions have access t
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I'm not an expert, but it certainly gave the amblyopic eye an advantage for close range which is where the nonamblyopic eye was struggling after a day of study/work. The base value in my calculation is a regular prescription, so a
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
> There's some research claiming that sight is almost useless if you get it past the age of five. For what it's worth, here's my story with amblyopia. My paediatrician failed to diagnose congenital hyperopia which resulted
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
This is how I started! 2 months in a tiny village with no internet. My journey began with a book titled 'The secrets and mysteries of the command line'.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
To me it signals that it's a platform for the everyday user rather than a small set of pixel-perfect influencers.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
The question of whether part of UK's governance should come from Brussels is one that can only be answered by a referendum. To rule otherwise would be a breach of the peoples' right to self-determination.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I would argue that it just makes learning easier. But that's not the point. The point is to make the repair process more efficient for everyone, including those sharing their knowledge.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Thanks for the links, I may find these communities useful in the future, but it isn't what I had in mind. Apart from a SE-like platform, I can imagine a site where repair engineers collaboratively build an akinator-like problem classif
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
If right to repair takes off, it will make room for a Stack Exchange-like site dedicated to debugging and fixing hardware. That in turn will accelerate repair just like SO and github accelerate SW development.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Case in point: Pontefract* The advantage of descriptive names is that the more you know, the more you can infer despite them being far removed from current language. On the other hand if there isn't a good candidate for a descriptive n
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
That's a good point, it was an overstatement to say I was forced to switch. The reason I did is because I naturally rest my right hand with my index finger at the gap between the i/o/9 or o/p/0 keys and the rest of
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I've been typing without any signs of RSI until I started using vim. Vim forced me to switch from my 'custom/natural' hand position* , which uses just 3-4 fingers of the right hand, to the home row position, which uses a
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
If you don't trust your team not to paste privileged production tokens to third party services, security training might be a better course of action than defining vague rules.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I recently decided not to use GA on my site in favour of server logs for all the reasons you mention plus one that I see as the most important: it would require me to annoy users with a cookie consent banner.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
If you can't find the answer with a search engine and your question is too specific for a Q&A site, dive into the source code.

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