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by Insanity 1y ago
Ah that’s good to know. Yeah I frankly haven’t looked into them. Might have to give them a shot ;)
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by Insanity 1y ago
Ha, I just read about the Bathhouses in Baiae yesterday in “Rubicon: triumph and tragedy of the Roman Empire”. Sadly link seems broken :(
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by Insanity 1y ago
I haven’t read Discworld. Although funnily enough I worked in a team where our services were named after Discworld characters, so I’m aware of _some_ lore lol. That said.. it’s kind of daunting to start a series with so many books, and I co
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by Insanity 1y ago
That can still be an expensive costing hundreds to thousands of dollars once you add additional lenses etc. Even hundreds of dollars for a camera is not “throw away money” for a lot of people..
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by Insanity 1y ago
Oof. The initial media report might actually have caused material (financial) damage to Kodak. If someone was shopping around for a Kodak product, saw that original article, they likely decided against Kodak. I personally wouldn't feel
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by Insanity 1y ago
Ah, I can't recall the last time I uploaded an image to the web, so I guess I wouldn't run into this. Interesting if reproducible.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Appreciate this comment! The fact that despite these issues you still recommend it is quite telling. I'll see if I can get one for my M1 iPad. Typing with the on-screen keyboard just isn't that convenient for longer sessions.
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by Insanity 1y ago
I use chrome on my work machine and Firefox on my personal machine. Haven’t ran into breaking bugs with FF (that I can remember), and I don’t notice a meaningful performance difference. Have been using FF for probably 10-15 years now.
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by Insanity 1y ago
I wrote a programming book fully on my iPad, including the coding examples, often while traveling abroad. But, I usually had it hooked up to a 60% keyboard and mouse, and I SSHd into an EC2 instance for the programming parts. Still, pretty
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by Insanity 1y ago
I’ve been considering getting the folio, because I can no longer find the Magic Keyboard for my generation iPad (m1). Kinda annoying that they don’t continue peripherals for their older devices
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by Insanity 1y ago
We're experimenting with Lakebase now (Databricks' name for Neon). Initial results are actually pretty cool when using the UI to spin it up. The API leaves some things to be desired (bad error messages that obfuscate the actual er
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by Insanity 1y ago
Good luck with the startup. TBH, I think going for as much managed solutions as possible while you bootstrap makes sense. Something more tailor-made often doesn't make sense until you start scaling.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Ha, you might have better memory than me. From the opening of the books - I remember more vividly Arthur meeting Ford Prefect and his house being demolished. And vaguely something about a pub? So I think I remember the gist of the first ch
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by Insanity 1y ago
Someone explain to me why this matters please. The emails (passively) stored on HDD/SSDs in a data centre wouldn't be the main contributor to heat generation and the needs for cooling. What would probably increase heat and the nee
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by Insanity 1y ago
Link to the talk?
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by Insanity 1y ago
The results from a smaller model are still viable if the paradigm is identical. Unless you believe that larger volumes of data leads to more (unexplained) emergent properties of the AI. i.e, if you think that a larger volume of training dat
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by Insanity 1y ago
Same here! Last time I read the books is about 17 years ago, and definitely didn’t remember that.
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by Insanity 1y ago
One of my reports was a hardcore HHGG fan, including carrying a towel on towel day. He signed off with the "so long and thanks for all the fish", and I don't think anyone read anything negative into this. In fact, while that
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by Insanity 1y ago
I kind of wish I had that. The closest thing I have to this is my Steam screenshot library, which is just memories of games - or social interactions. on games. I just checked and the oldest one is back from 2011. Prior to Steam they would h
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by Insanity 1y ago
I don’t blame them, they aren’t actors. And yes, it’s clearly not impromptu, but I am trying to not let that take away from the message they are communicating. :)
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by Insanity 1y ago
That actually looks pretty cool. Might have to play around a bit with Caelestia as well.
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by Insanity 1y ago
I actually resonate with this as well, but similarly can't really explain why. I have my own set of dotfiles (one set for my 'home setup' and one set for my 'work setup'). They are versioned and stored on GitHub, an
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by Insanity 1y ago
Yup, think it's just a poorly chosen example. Although Alice in Wonderland does relate to Mathematics, so maybe it's a better chosen example than we realize!
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by Insanity 1y ago
I guess it’s better for non-fiction books in that case. Similarly I would be upset if the LLM spoiled a fiction book somehow.. like figuring out which characters will die in GoT before reading it.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Ah I see. Tbh, I don’t miss it
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by Insanity 1y ago
Which city is an hour long drive at 50km/h? It’s city centre driving that the article talks about.
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by Insanity 1y ago
As a Belgian, sad to see this. I rarely follow any news from Belgium (not living there anymore) so I'm somewhat unaware of what's happening in the tech landscape, but this does surprise me. Curiously - I tried to find any news on
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by Insanity 1y ago
I actually really enjoyed reading this write-up, and kudos to the author for doing the deep dive. But as someone who has been modding games since the early 2000s, whenever performance issues come up, disabling the mods is usually my first s
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by Insanity 1y ago
Always fascinating to me how we are brains, trying to understand how we work. Cool research!
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by Insanity 1y ago
I've only seen two episodes of The Expanse after reading the books, but I will 100% upvote the book series. It's one of the best sci-fi series I've read in years. I kind of want to give the series another go, I just rarely wa

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