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by a3w 2y ago
Exactly: Like `ew`, but worse.
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by a3w 2y ago
First of april is not now. So I will seriously discuss the idea: IMHO, some level of linting should be required. I would often have to reject lengthy and excellent pull requests (PRs), just because autoformat was not pressed and three inste
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by a3w 2y ago
You have checked -464 (-4-26-30-3) boxes
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by a3w 2y ago
Might be a criminal or state behaviour, to chose exposure to germs as a method to hurt or kill someone. But that as far as we know is not corporate style. A car bomb, to deter other would-be whistleblowers, is more like the typical MO. As h
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by a3w 2y ago
Bacterial infection, grammatical inflection, both natural causes of death [According to uncyclopedia Wiki probably? Don't ask me, I am not germ-anist here in germ-any]
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by a3w 2y ago
It helped some COVID patients to survive. Great technology.
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by a3w 2y ago
Go is less complex than rust? Really? I thought that was disputed.
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by a3w 2y ago
Arguments are like "In OOP, every programming task is solved in a distributed system, adding a layer of complexity". So for the simplest of problems, avoid OOP patterns. Or, if having a complex problem, think about whether adding
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by a3w 2y ago
hypertext (1963) seems to be missing?
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by a3w 2y ago
No AI is involved, it is about community written notes. On theoretically any topics, mostly AI topics initially. Author said so, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40208511
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by a3w 2y ago
x% of Startups in the US were founded by foreign workers statistics is needed to show that this is lower or higher than average. Also, capital per startup or other factors could show why the percentage of success is plausibly higher or lowe
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by a3w 2y ago
Do LLMs actually store and reproduce facts? The longer I use LLMs, the lesser i trust facts as complex as "capital of australia" to be answered, truthfully.
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by a3w 2y ago
Perfect thread detection was mathematically proven to be impossible. So why install antivirus software? It is just one more layer app that should run with elevated privileges, increasing both attack surface and trying to increase defense de
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by a3w 2y ago
I have no clue what the original buildings look like. But if we need to run a campaign about how to build, it should be "build like in africa - low resource investments, heat-resistant living spaces"
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by a3w 3y ago
Apples did not fall from trees before Newton. That time was confusing.
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by a3w 3y ago
And we have the owners of corporations with an influence in mass media, and to a lesser extent the internet, to thank for that.
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by a3w 3y ago
Scrolling up and down on this website, the top "progressive blur" was annoying: too strong in the vertical expansion, on too small an area in the height used.
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by a3w 3y ago
Some people still get pregnant with 14, and the next generation makes the same "mistake", as that led to not an ideal family situation and wise parenting. (German here, so no foul play / illegal intercourse happening in most
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by a3w 3y ago
For those unaware, spotify is not a podcast player. Most podcasters get no money from spotify. Podcasts are a wild ecosystem, spotify is a business that feeds of that. Some audio productions are labeled spotify exclusive podcasts. Well, the
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by a3w 3y ago
So the ideal tank buster is a carnivorous unicorn: penetrate that armor, then schlorp out the crew! Genetics will go too far, if we ever get these.
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by a3w 3y ago
Need banana for scale.
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by a3w 3y ago
The fuel needed to get two small capsules to the moon is expensive, since you start on earth. The fuel required for all of the ISS is way too much. Also, if you pick a random place on earth, there are no humans there. You might find roads,
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by a3w 3y ago
correction: 175 persons have 350 feet, if no handicapable person is included. But how did they fit in a small double decker plane?
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by a3w 3y ago
Whose 350 feet? Instructions for unclear jumped out of the plane.
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by a3w 3y ago
Categories are a little mixed up. Huggingface is not an LLM. And it does not only run LLMs.
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by a3w 3y ago
When using a PC, isn't one supposed to use a hardware RFID reader[^1] with a physical numpad to enter the key? Then, the PC never gets a hold of the PIN. Ideally, the hardware reader has a display to show 1. which data is sent to 2. wh
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by a3w 3y ago
Shouldn't the HN title be *Deno in 2023 (2024)*, so we know:: - it is not about a discussion of deno being new, relevant or modern in 2023, and - avoid thinking that the article is from 2023?
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by a3w 3y ago
... or "curl calls to python webscraping". Although having to look for the right version of libraries with different number names and therefore different feature sets was tedious to do manually, AI might just guess fast and someti
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by a3w 3y ago
Not our problem, we just need to write the feature request ;) But yes, perhaps as a follow-up, we would need to ask for 1. a speed-up of the process or 2. find a way to look up and redistribute existing conversion flows
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by a3w 3y ago
"We examine 4 years worth of data" then they extrapolate (using two data points?!) to get five data points. Can you call this data science? Yes. Can you call this stupid? I would argue for yes.

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