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by GuB-42 1y ago
What laws Google (and Cloudflare) does not abide with? It seems like Lieferando is the problem here. How comes that company is still in business? It seems like obvious identity theft to me, if anything Google is only guilty of trusting Lief
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by GuB-42 1y ago
There is definitely some "more research is needed here". Some fabrics (like silk) are clearly marked "hand wash" but I wonder how much of it is backed by actual research. Washing has several components, like detergent, t
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Another "fun fact" somewhat more relevant to the article is the gradient (aka. grad, or gon), it is a unit of angle equal to 1/400 of a turn, slightly smaller than a degree. It goes well with the metre because 1 km is 1/
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Humans brains are animal brains and their primary function is to keep their owner alive, healthy and pass their genes. For that they developed abilities to recognize danger and react to it, among many other things. Language came later. For
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by GuB-42 1y ago
When I see stories like this, I think that people tend to forget what LLMs really are. LLM just complete your prompt in a way that match their training data. They do not have a plan, they do not have thoughts of their own. They just write t
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> I suspect the future of video compression will also include frame generation That's how most video codecs work already. They try to "guess" what the next frame will be, based on past (for P-frames) and future (for B-fram
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> Below a certain point you can get legionnaires. I know you mean legionnaires' disease, but the idea of a bunch of soldiers getting to your house because you turned your boiler too low made me chuckle. Good thing the US have the th
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Not sure about understanding, but anyone can use a LLM. That is the most intuitive way to interact with a computer and that's the entire point. It may even work on animals. There is serious research on how LLMs could interpret animal l
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> WSL is more powerful than Linux This is the kind of statement that makes you pay the karma tax. WSL is great, I use it on a day to day basis. I also use Linux on a day to day basis. And as great as WSL is, for running Linux software on
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It is just how we express ourselves. We French are known internationally for complaining a lot, we know it and we even joke about it. It doesn't mean that nothing gets done (and when it doesn't, it is not usually the reason). We a
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I suspect that many people who deal with languages only speak English and never left the US. They have been told that other languages exist and that foreign countries exist, and they have to do something about it, and they did... something.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I second that. A more accurate title would be "Only black holes emit Hawking radiation". AFAIK everything above above absolute zero radiates, which effectively means that everything radiates. Black holes would be an exception if i
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The banking system in Japan is homogeneously terrible ;) One reason for the success of IC cards as electronic wallets is because what banks offer is so inconvenient. But really, what works in Japan is cash. You are the odd one for paying el
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It shows that this document is not meant for end users. People who want to sell their apps or indirectly by having people watch the included ads want users to connect on an emotional level. Publishers don't want you to go back to the &
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Integer division (and modulo) is not cheap on most CPUs. Along with memory access and branch prediction, it is something worth optimizing for. And since you are talking about memory. Code also goes in memory. Shorter code is more cache frie
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by GuB-42 1y ago
PDF is effectively digital paper, and it works really well for this. When I made PDFs 20 years ago, I knew they will always look the same on every device, including on paper, and they did, and they still do. In addition, a document is a sin
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by GuB-42 1y ago
This recommendation dates back from 2017. > Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Clever. It doesn't have to be about focus, any "constant reminder" could go there. For example "give back that pen", "unload the washing machine", "call mom" or whatever needs be done as soon as
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I would say that using GitHub only for a public git repository is pretty good value. It is free and robust, and there is not much bad Microsoft can do to you. Because it is standard git, there is no lockdown. If they make a decision you don
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by GuB-42 1y ago
That intellectual property is non exclusive doesn't change the inheritance problem. If you consider it right to get value from the work of your family, and you consider that intellectual work (such as writing a book) to be valuable, th
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The issue with lifetime (vs something like lifetime + X years) is that of inheritance. Assuming you agree with the idea of inheritance, which is another topic, then it is unfair to deny inheritance of intellectual property. For example if y
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Just go there without an ad-blocker and see for yourself. It is pretty bad even with an ad-blocker. The worst part is that it wasn't always like that. When it started of as wikicities and then wikia, it was pretty good, very Wikipedia-
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> the contents of the picture definitely existed No it didn't, according to the article, 3 year olds weren't chimney sweeps and the tools the child carries are not the appropriate size. It is as much as a reenactment as a kid i
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I guess that if that's optional, including the "Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode" part, then why not. I guess it can prevent some accidental leaks, like with someone hit
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by GuB-42 1y ago
This one in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_90
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Maybe you should look at Epicureanism. If you only had a glance at it and reduced it to "YOLO!", then take a closer look, as it is not about ignoring the consequences of your actions, in fact, it is the opposite of that. But the o
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by GuB-42 1y ago
An audio CD is a very inefficient way of storing information. I think a more apt comparison would be that of a LLM of that size. qwen:0.5b is about 400MB, its abilities are laughable compared to the likes of ChatGPT, but it can write cohere
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The (terrible) solution that we are seeing now is generative AI. Instead of importing a library, you ask an AI to write the code for you, the AI most likely has ingested a library that implements the features you need and will essentially c
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Funny how I read the title as "slow software is burning the world", as in: slow/unoptimized software wastes energy, a good portion of that energy comes from fossil fuels, so it is literally burning the world. But anyways, it
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by GuB-42 1y ago
And if that's not enough, mercury-203 decays into thallium-203 (stable) with a half-life of 46.6 days. Thallium is even more toxic than mercury. You really don't want that gold-203.

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