KPGv2

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by KPGv2 1mo ago
> Stringed instruments like guitars guitar is a percussion instrument :D
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
> how do you notate 'gradually increase the filter cutoff here'? probably a standalone Italian word would be fine, or some special < like we have for gradually increasing volume
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
The article really glosses over the fact that the kid was 5yo walking to a pond. It mentions it at the very start and then never brings it up again. That's the part that got me: the mom gave her 5yo permission to go to a large body o
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
Here's the dictionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/opt-in > The property of having to choose *explicitly* to join or permit something; a decision having the *default option being exclusion or avoidance*; use
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
> They said "opt in to training on prompts by default," which is coherent English and perfectly fine "Opt in" and "by default" are contradictory phrases. They mean literally the opposite of each other. The o
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
Most people don't want a second job trying to figure out self-hosted AI stuff.
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
The source was just someone on Reddit who said they did that and it improved their pocket numbers significantly. It was mostly a "wow, I never even considered just brushing twice" thing for me. The toothpaste is a prescription one
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
I had some deep-ish gum pockets and switched to this pattern, and many of them resolved over a year without intervention: 0. tongue scraper 1. brush with normal toothpaste 2 min 2. floss 3. mouthwash 4. rinse 5. brush with a dry toothpaste
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
I suppose I read enough books that I've seen this from human writers all the time for decades. It's even an English construction that I was specifically taught Japanese and Spanish equivalents in my foreign language classes decade
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
Possibly because Mistral is a French-based company, so EU companies can cut the American umbilical cord a bit more.
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
> You are "opting in to sharing your prompts for training", by default in this case. The English term for that is "opt out" not "opt in." To opt is to choose. If something is on by default, you have not opte
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
> I think a lot of people here are operating on the assumption that apps have the inherent right to ask for money on a proprietary platform that gives them a monetization path. no one here thinks that there is an "inherent right&quo
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
We Americans collectively voted for this for decades. Virtually everyone who has cast a ballot for a national race has voted for this state of affairs. Especially in the software community, overwhelmingly self-described libertarian, all vot
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
> The bottom line is that Anki's lawyers messed up. Anki and Ankidroid are not the same entity and they have different owners, if you want to call it that. Anki is owned by Nicholas Flint, a physician who sells med school-related de
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
You don't need to write it down to pass the knowledge down to an apprentice. Your bicycle case is a great example. People don't learn to ride a bike from a book. They receive in-person instruction of exactly the type the comment y
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
Stanford has been top three in the US for at least twenty years (the other two are Yale and Harvard), and UCLA hovered in 14–16 range for twenty years as well. The past few years, the rankings went haywire. I think their methodology changed
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
Amazon had these little Dash buttons about 10 years ago. The goal was you would click one, and it would re-order that product from Amazon. Many were branded. Basically just a wifi button. I hacked one so I could, in my brain fog, record the
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
> People steal things from stores which have had cctv for decades. The crime there (shoplifting) doesn't begin until they leave. In the case of a burglary, the crime begins when they enter. Seems to be a pretty important distinction
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by KPGv2 1mo ago
People who break into houses are going for a few obvious high-dollar items. They're not searching for a server closet they don't know exists. They're looking for laptops, pharmaceuticals, jewelry. High dollar, portable items.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
That's like rejecting video games because the CRT was built for displaying live TV streams sent over the public airwaves.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
The last time I made a website about a year ago, Gemini used HTMX. It was actually my first experience with HTMX, so in a way, LLMs led to me adopting it. :D
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> Damaging property for political ends Damaging military equipment is a military end, not a political one. If it were otherwise, then a military attacking a military would definitionally be terrorism. At that point, you've removed t
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
I don't trust the US State Department to tell the truth. At this point, it's like citing a Wikipedia edited entirely by bad faith actors.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Looks like you missed it when the US did this exact thing a year ago https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/desi...
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Here buddy, you dropped this straw.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
RTS is the SMS replacement and is quite old. And as evidence it works, I direct your attention to the ubiquitous iMessage, which only "couldn't" interop with Android because Apple was trying the vendor lock-in approach and ac
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Mastodon instances would be a drop-in replacement, no? Federated instances and as a bonus, it solves the biggest problem of new users not knowing which server to join. Just join your local government's if you don't know of another
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
I do this with a Gemini instance that is connected to my email and calendar and task list. Every morning I get an email with an agenda. A lot isn't explicitly taken from my task list, but is instead inferred from the contents of emails
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Common misconception. They don't franchise in the sense everyone normally means it. They call "managing the store" a franchise. If you "franchise" a CFA, you don't own the store, you don't own the land, th
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> I know with electricity whether you do it per code or not a licensed electrician has to sign off before you can sell your house. In Texas every homeowner is legally entitled to work on their own electrical system without oversight from

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