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541.
by Suppafly 2y ago
nah, it's just that many projects are canceled or fail because of poor business decisions despite being perfectly usable platforms. Those business decisions are rarely made by one guy, and those sorts also aren't the types that gi
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Neither in (German) high school nor in the many math courses of a physics B.Sc. have I ever used the secant function I think we used it in geometry in US high school, but only to complete an assignment or two to show we could use trig f
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Mine randomly reboots semi-periodically already, even when it hasn't been shown as having downloaded an update. That said, I think this is a fairly good idea, although with the encryption stuff they do, this will cause people who rarel
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>It’s one thing to claim cameras only and find that won’t work and pivot, but they are so dug in that they can’t admit they were wrong and won’t do so. So it’s asinine now. Didn't they start with lidar or radar or similar and then g
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>The author quotes a cost of over $30,000 to build a half-mile drop. I find that an insane amount of money that a government would pay to connect just one subscriber. That's not much different than what it costs to connect them to p
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>local telecomms even gathered funds locally earlier to build it Nationwide telecomms did that with funds for fiber to the premises as well. I have no idea why these telecomms can take the money and just refuse to provide the services.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Xfinity's website is like that, it barely loads even using their service. I've had it time out several times, and had to start over, just trying to help my mom pay her bill.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
A guy in my city did something like this, except he started back in the dialup internet days and then transitioned to fiber over the years. I don't think it was specifically to take on comcast, more just to be in the ISP business in ge
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>you never encounter anyone who says "yeah, I was the guy who made the whole thing fail" Because that was usually a business decision and not a technical one.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>That beautiful application was on the wrong decade. Today it'd be worth millions if not more, for absolutely no reason at all. Honestly, I'm surprised the author hasn't monetized it better by stealing back the features th
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Undernet on the #zeraw I totally forgot about warez being backwards sometimes. I still visit #bookz but don't really pirate games and other media much anymore. Piracy really is a service issue and not a pricing problem once you&#x2
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>In ~2016 though that changed and they expired all previous lifetime licenses. Now you get a license only for a year. That almost alleviates my guilt over having used it forever without paying for it.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Sometimes old things don’t need a rewrite just for the sake of language-based advertising. "X but in Rust" seems like the primary purpose for Rust to exist as far as I can tell.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
I started feeling bad about having used mIRC for 20ish years without paying for it so I switched to HexChat. It does everything I need and has a simpler interface, but I do sometimes miss the hacked up pirated copies of mIRC that were custo
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>The examples here were of someone doing the latter. Most of those examples are totally normal, it's a bit of a stretch to have them all coming from one person, but they are hardly strange or incomprehensible.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Well, the original purpose was to do OCR for things like the NYTs archives and other libraries. The part where you identify road signs & traffic lights was supposedly to train self driving cars. Now, it's apparently just more a
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by Suppafly 2y ago
I like when people use a really abbreviated "six one half dozen another" because it's basically incomprehensible if you don't know the actual phrase.
558.
by Suppafly 2y ago
>"Coming down the pipe." instead of "Coming down the pike." I'd honestly expect the former to be used far more often since pipes are used everywhere and things flow down them and pike is an antiquated term for ro
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Honestly, without context of the legal system or such, I'd assume procurator was a typo for procreator.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>“I have autism” is a better statement than “I’m autistic” because autism doesn’t define me. If that sort of thing is useful for you, go for it, but I'm also leery of these attempts to redefine language when they involve larger camp
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>It makes me think of the how "I have thirst" is the literal translation from the French for "I'm thirsty." That's how those sorts of phrases work in German too.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Do you just hate business jargon and lingo in general? A lot of those phrases are useful and easily understood ways to describe processes. Most of them are fairly common in business and office contexts as well.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
With chatgpt, for noncoding things, it has rails to avoid things like copyrighted art, violence, adult topics, etc. For coding LLMs, I suspect they have things like preferences for certain data structures, avoiding directly returning traini
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>I won’t pretend to know the technical details (as the other replies do) but I want to make a point for the “pedagogical” effect here, which I agree with the author. The way I interpret the article, it’s not supposed to be a deep, theore
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>But a good chunk of the time, it does seem like there is a status game going on when people use that word. I find that's basically never the case and generally if they are playing some sort of status game, the entire conversation i
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by Suppafly 2y ago
A team I was on onetime had some French workers and one of them was very helpful, but every sentence had him struggling to think of at least one English word or phrase and he did this weird guttural clearing throat uh-uh-uh-uh-uh sound, lik
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>That's trivially false given we're the second-largest manufacturer in the world. Sure, but we don't manufacture the things that are typically made in 3rd world countries and the lead time to build that infrastructure is y
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Betteridge's Law Is that the one that says if an article title ends in a question that means the answer is no?
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by Suppafly 2y ago
I haven't really messed with Claude or other programming AIs much, but when using chatgpt for random stuff, it seems like the safety rails end up blocking a lot of stuff and rephrasing to get around them is necessary. I wonder if some
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Give it a shot. The project you linked to, despite being old seems like it'd get you most of the way there.

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