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by LeanderK 4y ago
In germany, in my smaller city, there's the usual bigger van handing out parcels but it is complemented by a fleet of smaller vehicles (e-bikes, those super small vans etc.) handing out letters and smaller packages. They probably sort
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by LeanderK 4y ago
are other smartphones/laptops doing this?
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by LeanderK 4y ago
What I don't get, maybe someone can explain, is why the USB-C hardware status is not communicated more. As I understood it, the phone should have all the information it needs to communicate to the user why the iPhone is not charging as
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by LeanderK 4y ago
I bet that getting the right prompts won't be easy so it will probably fly under the radar and not immediately be detected. You can't search these weights with command-f. Fun times ahead...
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by LeanderK 4y ago
This is hard to take seriously with such a policy. I think this is just somebody playing around with the OpenAI API. I expect serious competitors to have a better policy that is actually usable for corporations, it might take a year but I s
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by LeanderK 4y ago
I would love to upgrade, the short battery life is just really immensely frustrating because I need my laptop a lot outside the house too. And it is often slow, especially with too many tabs open. But it's way too much money for me rig
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by LeanderK 4y ago
I find VSCode to be responsive and snappy and I am on older hardware (Mid 2014 macbook pro). I don't go overboard with thousands of extensions though, but I like the flexibility and use a few "more heavy" extensions like the
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by LeanderK 4y ago
I use a mid 2014 MacBook pro. I spend my days in vscode, a terminal and safari. So far it's still going strong. It's sometimes laggy, of course, and the battery life is really bad, but in general it's still a machine that can
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by LeanderK 4y ago
While this is true for the individual I was still thinking a bit in the stanford-context. It is a world-leading, exceptional university where academic ideals should be lived and passed on. It's fine if you just want to pass some course
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by LeanderK 4y ago
In Germany it's called "Informatics" (Informatik in german). I would have loved a name without computer in it, to set it more apart from things like computer/software engineering.
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by LeanderK 4y ago
Also fair but a bit heartbreaking for me. Is this the product of mass academization? The motto of stanford is "The wind of freedom blows", not "mass produce uncritical engineers". A freedom to learn, to develop freely, t
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by LeanderK 4y ago
> Modern day emojis being part of unicode implies that they're somehow universally understood, and that it's fine to sprinkle them around in any kind of social context. Quite horrifying, really. This just reads a bit like someo
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by LeanderK 4y ago
I don't get why apple does not take a similiar path on mac. Some websites are really apps for me (stuff like overleaf). I would gladly add them as apps and use this to unlock all those advanced functionality. But so far, at least on sa
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by LeanderK 4y ago
yes! Smart App Banners are really great and I just wished they would be available for PWAs
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by LeanderK 4y ago
lol, this was a project I did for a friendly event free of charge. I choose PWA because it's only useful for three days and nobody is going to install an app for this, you want it working right away. I was getting good results but the
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by LeanderK 4y ago
I have been waiting for this for years! Now the only thing that's really missing is an install prompt. I wonder how long we have to wait, the install prompt is crucial, but I view Apples reluctance to implement the install prompt as po
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by LeanderK 4y ago
I was also asking myself the same. I think it's a vacuum especially designed to handle pet hair, they do exist. But I've also seen extensions to directly vacuum pets, so maybe they do? I am really confused about people vacuuming t
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by LeanderK 4y ago
neural networks are vaguely inspired by the human brain but have as much in common with the humans brain as planes have with birds
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by LeanderK 4y ago
> Personally, I'm more interested in analyzing those black boxes than tinkering ones that "seems to work", would it be with graph theory, analysis, etc. It's not that nobody is doing this, it's that we are making
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by LeanderK 4y ago
I think with this comment perhaps it comes to a transfiguration of the past. In germany, especially in its government, but also in smaller, very conservative companies with old bosses there are still some hold outs working purely paper base
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by LeanderK 4y ago
Well, maybe some adjustment is needed. The calculator changed the curriculum but the creation of wolfram alpha did not. We can maybe revise how we do it but essays are still important I think. They also lie at the heart of so many universit
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by LeanderK 4y ago
because it's not about the essay but the skills you need to write an essay. Many topics in school are not strictly needed, but important, either for your intellectual maturity or because they are used in other contexts.
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by LeanderK 4y ago
I don't think the view that just because we can automate the creation of a simple essay makes writing essays for students obsolete. It's not what Chomsky said but I've heard the argument a lot in the context. We are not requi
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by LeanderK 4y ago
In europe, you often have mid to normal-sized supermarkets near public transit since a lot want to grab a few groceries after work. I wonder what "chain convenience stores" are...are they more geared towards snacks? Mid-sized supe
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by LeanderK 4y ago
or with a well designed bike infrastructure a 15 minute walk would become a 5 minute bike ride :) I wouldn't want to bike 30 minutes just to buy a few groceries.
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by LeanderK 4y ago
> or plop down a grocery store in a neighborhood ... that sounds both super expensive and politically difficult, and for some good reasons. Heck I'd be annoyed if someone decides "Sorry we're rezoning / creating an in
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by LeanderK 4y ago
> It's pretty hard to imagine any answer that is useful, no matter how trivial, if it's wrong 20% of the time But that means that the error is independent of the search term. That's not my experience. Of course you can&#x2
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by LeanderK 4y ago
The fact that Google has an honestly enormous investment into AI for years invalidates this statement, probably the biggest of all players. Google has the skill to quickly produce a competitor, they have a lot of experience and capabilities
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by LeanderK 4y ago
While I get where you are coming from, when observing people around me they just want a query answered and don't care. We will see, I don't think the answer is a well curated wikipedia article because that's just too much inf
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by LeanderK 4y ago
I can't take an article seriously that starts like this: > The greenies’ dream of “clean” (except for millions of dead birds) energy from wind farms is dying in the face of the poor economics (even with tax subsidies) and unreliable

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