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by Insanity 1y ago
It's really slow for me, messages are coming in late.
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by Insanity 1y ago
I don't think this is entirely accurate. If you look at this: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt... , it shows that search engines do engage your brain _more_ than LLM usage. So you'l
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by Insanity 1y ago
I remember back when I was in secondary school, something commonly heard was "Don't just trust wikipedia, check it's resources, because it's crowdsourced and can be wrong". Now, almost 2 decades later, I rarely hear
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by Insanity 1y ago
This is potentially not going to be the advise you want to hear. As I got older, I noticed eye strain more and more, up to the point that I also eliminated screen time after work for some time. There are things that help - regular breaks, b
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by Insanity 1y ago
I am in a similar boat as you. I go bouldering twice a week for about 2h per session, I swim once a week for 45 minutes, and I walk an hour each day during my commute. But I would be interested to know how much this contributes to keeping m
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by Insanity 1y ago
But how do you know if you exercise enough?
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by Insanity 1y ago
I somehow forgot about this! But yes matching subtitle timings with video playback is a distinct “VLC thing” that I remember doing in the early 2000s
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by Insanity 1y ago
I’m one of those who hate it. I’m trilingual, but when watching something in any foreign language I just want to read subtitles instead of “dubs”. It is of course worse when it tries to do so on a language I already speak.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Because “China”. Also because the people in charge of that in the government won’t understand the technology, and only listen to the PR.
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by Insanity 1y ago
It makes sense to me, as the article also points out, being more optimistic might indicate lower levels of stress. And (prolonged) stress has been known for a long time to be detrimental to health.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Why? The numbers don’t make sense for the expected revenue.. they are significantly disconnected. And I have yet to see a “killer app” that can be monetized.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Ah that's true, I missed that AMD announcement.
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by Insanity 1y ago
And so the bubble grows. I'd be happy if the industry/stock market proves me wrong, but I can't see this ending any other way than with a major crash that makes the dot-com boom seem like a minor blimp.
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by Insanity 1y ago
I don't think that's super surprising though. Nvidia has deals with OpenAI as well, so not using Trainium might have as much to do with OpenAI keeping Nvidia happy, as with Trainium not being on-par.
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by Insanity 1y ago
My partner is Chinese and so we get Chinese (and bread-like products from other Asian countries) quite often. In my opinion, it’s tasty but also not quite what I would expect bread to be like, mainly because it’s so soft. It is a running jo
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by Insanity 1y ago
Huh, I never really thought deeply about this. My mother tongue is Dutch which has the word “Wetenschap” which maps directly to Wissenschaft. But I don’t consciously distinguish that from the English “science”. Although obviously the connot
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by Insanity 1y ago
Yeah, I was like that. It’s been almost 5 years so complaining is to a minimum, I got used to a lot of the food, but bread is one of those “staple foods” to me that still has me complaining every now and then haha
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by Insanity 1y ago
Honest question.. where? Most bread seems to be high in additives and promoted as a “healthy food”, like additional vitamines etc. And even when buying natural bread without these added “benefits”, it often has high levels of sodium (up to
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by Insanity 1y ago
Who are you guys talking about lol
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by Insanity 1y ago
Phew, this post single handedly made me feel old this morning. I started dabbling with the web just over 20 years ago but have mainly been working on the backend the past 10-15 years. I had no clue that nowadays programmers don’t know about
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by Insanity 1y ago
Culture is driven down so… guess they need to start looking there. :)
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by Insanity 1y ago
I read it as, across the board a 1% performance improvement. Not that only 1% of packages get a significant improvement.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Lol, I asked ChatGPT to identify the towering mushroom you mentioned.. and it made a sexual innuendo joke instead.. The response: === Summary answer • The fossil in question: Prototaxites. • Evidence: large fossil trunks, isotope analysis s
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by Insanity 1y ago
Maybe the “go buy a bag of chips” is a way to force the walk to happen. I tend to do the same though, walk away for a bit and then return to the problem. Sometimes longer breaks are needed though so I might pivot to a different problem for
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by Insanity 1y ago
Because it’s not meaningfully hurting their bottom line.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Not sure what to imagine with this given I didn't use Azure at the time. Is this like the Windows XP style task menu?
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by Insanity 1y ago
It's true now as in the past. Technology or science aren't inherently good or bad, just a matter of how you use it. Personally I enjoyed much more working on medical devices at a university than typical commercial software, simply
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by Insanity 1y ago
Multi cloud is really hard to get right at scale, and honestly not worth the effort for the majority of companies and use-case.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Maybe they are and no one realized yet.. :P That said, I don't hear about GCP outages all that often. I do think AWS might be leading in outages, but that's a gut feeling, I didn't look up numbers.
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by Insanity 1y ago
It's pretty unlikely. AWS published a public 'RCA' https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ . A race condition in a DNS 'record allocator' causing all DNS records for DDB to be wiped out. I&#

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