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by GuB-42 1y ago
I think another example of "compression" is car maintenance. Either you learn all there is to your engine, or you follow the manufacturer recommendations and follow the schedule. Sure, it is better to really know your engine, and
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It is, and unfortunately, game devs and artists took advantages of it to get lazy instead of making things genuinely look better. The way it goes is: use high resolution models and textures, always, rely on the engine to render everything i
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Looking at it, it is literally a thrill ride: "The Suspended Catch Air Device (SCAD) diving tower at the Zero Gravity amusement park in Dallas, Texas" Unfortunately for those of you who want to try for yourselves, it closed down i
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I am not sure that no-name batteries are that more dangerous. A common reason batteries catch fire is when things are too densely packed, causing shorts. A famous case is the Galaxy Note 7, which is Samsung, not Chinese tech. No-name batter
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Much lower population, and you had to see the king in person, travelling at walking speed. It means the king could afford to listen to the comparatively few people who get to him. Among these people are probably a good number of what would
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The EU is not a single country, every member is a sovereign country and there is no "EU jurisdiction". The EU only provide directives that each member state adapt to their legal framework. Each country decides on their own policy
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Probably AI something. The name "dynamic programming" was chosen to impress bureaucrats, and AI is where it is at today. "Subtask training" maybe, as the idea is to train the algorithm on smaller tasks to to make it more
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> Still, Peltiers are super cool I'd say they are super hot, but it depends from which side you look at it.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Is there anything that is proved to be "immunity boosting" apart from vaccines? Well, and germs of course. Germs will cause an immune response, but that's probably not the kind of "boost" you are interested in. As f
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Dinosaurs are birds. Birds are reptiles. Also, reptiles are technically fishes, and so are we, but we are not reptiles.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Most likely an emergent property. Psychedelics affect serotonin pathways, I don't think that cone cells and the first layers of neurons behind them have serotonin receptors.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Kiwix (what the author used) uses "zim" files, which are compressed. I don't know where the difference come from, but Kiwix is a website image, which may include some things the raw Wikipedia dump doesn't. And 57 GB to 2
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The downloads are (presumably) already compressed. And there are strong ties between LLMs and compression. LLMs work by predicting the next token. The best compression algorithms work by predicting the next token and encoding the difference
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by GuB-42 1y ago
This is not the same, the airline can set whatever price they want, AI or not, but I see the prices and then can decide whether I want to buy or not. Maybe more relevant would be oversize/overweight baggage fees. Where there is some fi
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by GuB-42 1y ago
If France, fair use doesn't even exist! We have exceptions, which are similar, but the important difference is that courts decide what is fair and what is not, whereas exceptions are written in law. It is a more rigid system that tend
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Two people are cited as example. Linus Torvalds has a master degree in computer science Margaret Hamilton studied mathematics than proceeded to work at MIT, computer science wasn't really a thing back then, but she had a close enough e
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Mistral has been there for quite a while (2 years is "a while" in this field). They are very good at making smaller models, not the smartest or the most knowledgeable, but you generally get pretty clean results quickly. Also, in m
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Cats are domestic animals, and dogs are even more. You probably didn't adapt to understanding cats as much as cats have adapted over millennia to be understood by humans. Working with and being understood by the dominant specie that is
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by GuB-42 1y ago
As I understand it, the thing with "click the number" codes is that it is a protection against keyloggers. The numbers are usually scrambled and when you click on it, you don't send the code but the position of the numbers yo
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> Where do I put my vegetable garden and fruit trees? Some cities provide shared gardens, but it is a niche thing. > How can I relax on my back porch listening to the birds and creek? Most cities have parks. > How do I get away fro
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It is ridiculous, but it is what you get when you have conflicting interests and broken legislation. The rule is that tracking has to be opt-in, so websites do it the way they are more likely to get people to opt in, and it is a cookie bann
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It reminds me of an ad campaign for a travel agency a while ago, I can't remember the details. But one of them depicted a large city labeled "hell" and next to it, some place in the middle of nowhere labeled "heaven&quot
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I don't think you get what living in a busy city is. The "pod" is where you sleep, the city is your home. You don't need half an acre to sleep. Maybe it is not the lifestyle for you, but I don't find it "insane
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by GuB-42 1y ago
For me, it would be the Samsung Galaxy S5 but with modern hardware. In addition to being small, with SD card and 3.5mm jack, it is water resistant and has a removable battery. It is also one of the most robust non-hardened phones. It has
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I am sure that it is because the porn industry settled on Git :) Anyways, I started on Mercurial, and I think it has a better UX, but technically I now prefer Git. The success of Mercurial over Git surprised me a little because of that, Git
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> I don't think I've written any production code in years where I gave up because it was intrinsically not possible. What I meant by "not possible" is writing both sides of the API at the same time. For example, you w
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by GuB-42 1y ago
So Notepad quickly went from decades of not having the most basic features, like support for UNIX like endings and files larger than a few kBs, to a 25 MB monstrosity... As if they tried to avoid the sweet spot the best they could.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I wonder if this is a coincidence too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver,_the_Last_Dinosaur
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by GuB-42 1y ago
How did it get that big? On my Windows 10, notepad.exe is 196 kB, I remembered it being under 100 kB, but it did get a few more features in the last years. Anyways, hard to judge considering that a good part of the original Notepad is likel
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by GuB-42 1y ago
These look like kludges more than anything. X11 may be a dead end but Wayland sucks as a replacement, so for now, I see no other option than supporting them both. It may be technically possible to do the equivalent do X11 forwarding with Wa

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