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by a3w 2y ago
Yes, but supposedly a laser needs a medium like air to stay coherent. So a weakly powered laser has shorter range in space than (clear) air.
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by a3w 2y ago
BetaMax is better than VHS, the latter won. Rkt is better than Docker, later won. ${TBD} is better than MCP, my bet is on MCP.
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by a3w 2y ago
Or Hillary Clintons green scaly skin
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by a3w 2y ago
Opened it. Skimmed it. Got to the conclusion, that it sells a "how to build something like the Amazon UI as a tutorial" course. Not just my predecessor was confused by the wording and categories put on the page.
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by a3w 2y ago
I read 'most excellent' in the Bill and Ted voice
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by a3w 2y ago
Why is the Share button greyed out, but clickable? Did you vibe code this? (Those are two distinct questions, but yes, I was low-balling the effort that went into this web app.)
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by a3w 2y ago
For three years now, my experience with LLMs has been "mostly useless, prefer ELIZA". Which is software written 1966, but the web version is a little newer. Does occasional psychotherapy assistance/brainstorming just as well,
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by a3w 2y ago
88 x 31 pixels ? I had a hard time grasping, what the author is talking about. Especially since he shows large banners, not smaller buttons.
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by a3w 2y ago
Looking at what science tells us about the world, the left seems to be correct, while the right seems to often believe things that violate observations about the world for the sake of doctrine. Calling facts "playing into the leftists&
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by a3w 2y ago
Yes, I clicked details. It told me, again, that this is a chef distribution. What is chef, I asked after reading the details page, again. (Only then did I originally post my question to Hackernews. I can read. The info just is not there.)
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by a3w 2y ago
What is Chef? This website fails to answer that.
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by a3w 2y ago
How so? Spoiler: US dooms mankind, China is the saviour in the two endings.
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by a3w 2y ago
And subscription service free is high on my wishlist, too. I could perhaps live with subscription terms that are still variable amount / mount (currently 0) as servers do cost money. Even if their quasi-monopoly would allow them to ext
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by a3w 2y ago
> I can pull down a 20 year old exe and still run it today on Windows Barely - most bigger programs did not adhere to all standards, but got custom fixes under the hood in follow-up windows versions. Also, around 2001 was the big archite
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by a3w 2y ago
After reading the article, I propose this gist / title: "In high level programmming languages, you expect subtyping as a given", since we expect a lot of features to work as if subtyping was the way it was implemented?
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by a3w 2y ago
The west is now split, I have the same trust in China, as in US based companies.
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by a3w 2y ago
copy/paste, "print", paste in from page, to to page Result: > print pages in range from: 1, 003 > print pages in range to 4 Now have I have two errors to fix: page 1003 to page 1004. Not nice. Who formats like this?! --
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by a3w 2y ago
"one does not simply rewrite vim" is prior evidence to suggest: no, usually you brake of a rewrite unless you have a very good reason and made much better choices the second time around.
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by a3w 2y ago
Isn't the hard part of programming the requirements engineering and support after the initial release to customers? Which of the unpaid 60+ workhours/week youths that Elon is sending in will stay on the project after shipping 1.0
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by a3w 2y ago
TIL US and A has SSA. *had. Doge will make short work of it.
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by a3w 2y ago
Up to 16k tokens. Or a million tokens of a code base. After that, effiency goes down to... zero-ish?
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by a3w 2y ago
Protomolecule. Allows for Protozombies [as seen on TV]?
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by a3w 2y ago
> spans pages 128–34. Who omits the 1 from the second number?! That is aweful!
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by a3w 2y ago
Article and papers looks good. Video seems misleading, since I can use optimization pressure and local minima to explain the model behaviour. No "thinking" required, which the video claims is proven.
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by a3w 2y ago
For some side projects, I would like use XML, but cannot read the spec, as that costs money. So I cannot trust XML in depth, and depend on using a library that bought the spec and hopefully adheres to it.
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by a3w 2y ago
Yes, or as full way to calculate: * 1 / 100 % is calculation of percentage, * 100 % / 1 is calculation of absolute amount. And, as stated in a different comment, remember that the commutative property applies to these numbers.
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by a3w 2y ago
Wäre cool, wenn man die Boxen klicken könnte, ohne gegen das Popup der Box eins drunter zu kämpfen.
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by a3w 2y ago
> This project is designed to showcase the first known photographs of living specimens of any species. Where does it say they need to be rare?
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by a3w 2y ago
Is homo sapiens in there?
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by a3w 2y ago
P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

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