Tommstein

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by Tommstein 3y ago
I was considering learning Nim. Then I found out about its partial case insensitivity and ignoring of underscores in identifiers. And that was the end of my interest in Nim.
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Play Protect Reactivates Itself on Android
1 points by Tommstein 3y ago|0 comments
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> Subscribe to Premium Membership to read the rest. No.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
I just let it rip on two random LLMs on chat.lmsys.org, drawing claude-2.1 and vicuna-33b. They both confirm that a kilogram of feathers weighs the same as a kilogram of feathers with no mention of any other random materials.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Off the top of my head, code that didn't even run due to syntax errors.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Anyone continuing to use Chrome at this point despite all of Google's shenanigans (outside of forced situations like work) deserves what they get.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> Not sure how someone can write an article on the shift towards more conservative politics and fail to mention that the individual income tax rate for the middle class in the Netherlands ($75k+) is nearly 50% now. And that's just t
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by Tommstein 3y ago
I wouldn't use Newark as a shining example of . . . anything.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
There's also the old story about how memory leaks on missiles don't matter as long as you're leaking slow enough to not run out of memory before they explode.
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Russia's Powerful Invisible Defenses Around Sevastopol Rendered Visible(navalnews.com)
7 points by Tommstein 3y ago|1 comments
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by Tommstein 3y ago
You can also, uh, just try it with a trivial test and see what happens.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
There is a -3% chance that this will be followed.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> If GitHub starts making opinionated decisions about how to “protect” my code . . . They already did. > . . . then I won’t like that. There is no universe in the multiverse where Microsoft or one of its subsidiaries gives a single fl
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> If they are doing this intentionally, then fuck Microsoft. Bunch of assholes as always. They explicitly said that they "had" to require being logged in, so, yeah: https://github.com/orgs/community/di
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> If someone was telling other humans what they were allowed to think, people would be enraged but the public seems to demand exactly this from AI. If "the public" is a bunch of Bay Area assholes trying to build moats and impos
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by Tommstein 3y ago
No they don't, satellite flyovers are predictable, planes can unexpectedly roll up on you and catch you with your pants down whenever they feel like it.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
When you get high on your own supply.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> I don't like that the web added DRM, but given its existence, if Firefox said "you can't watch Netflix / Prime Video / etc in Firefox", they'd lose even more market share than they already have. Firef
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by Tommstein 3y ago
I've been using Bard since it came out. Its trajectory, in my opinion, has been "pretty shitty" → "pretty good" → "completely shitty".
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by Tommstein 3y ago
I especially like how people act like SpaceX invented reusable rockets. These people simultaneously know about SpaceX and yet somehow don't know about the Space Shuttle, whose design started over 50 years ago.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> . . . you're a net negative to them . . . . In a world where people didn't share videos with others, you might be correct. This is not that world.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
But then how would they pay for the free* healthcare and such?
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Hear hear. It would've been one thing if, when they invented Basic Economy, it was "you can get cheaper flights now but you lose all these things you're used to." Instead, as I recall, it was "welcome to Basic Econo
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> When searching for flights, ensure Spirit Airlines is excluded. I don't exclude them initially, but unless the price difference is massive enough to account for the expected huge luggage fee and then some, I ignore them (or if the
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by Tommstein 3y ago
This website manages to both hijack the back button and not show a single picture of any of the blood that the entire article is about. Fuck this website.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> Otherwise, you need to check-in right when it opens. Does that always work? I flew on Southwest a few times recently, and by the last one, I learned to check in right when it opened 24 hours before, and I still ended up in groups B and
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> I stayed at a hotel in NYC relatively recently, and I booked and pre-paid through hotels.com. When I arrived, the hotel sprung me with a $50/night "resort fee", which was apparently required to stay at the hotel (though
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by Tommstein 3y ago
A portion of it is effectively always expiring: it's called inflation.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> . . . some people still have the impression iPhones have an air of exclusivity from being more expensive. iPhones: so exclusive that hordes of unemployed teenagers have them.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> The nuclear option will eventually be to just ban Google accounts for using any ad blocking. The collateral damage from that would probably lead to the mother and father of all class-action lawsuits, literal Acts of Congress, and EU fi

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