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by a3w 1y ago
For clarity, you cannot call north up: North is not up. That would make left west. When standing in front of a building, with map in hand, and asking people to go start going to the street in the south, then left, I mean left in direction o
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by a3w 1y ago
North is not up. That would make left west. When standing in front of a building, with map in hand, and asking people to go start going to the street in the south, then left, I mean left, which is east. In school, everyone learns that north
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by a3w 1y ago
Are error messages, e.g. when trying to connect wifi, as expressive and case-complete?
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by a3w 1y ago
I saw the game using this rendering weeks ago, looked okay. Now I saw a font and tried to hold on to the edges while reading it, and yes, somehow this made me more (sea) sick. Strange. Perhaps faces would be strongest in terms of reaction.
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by a3w 1y ago
TIL I can distinguish the OpenAI logo from the other logos. But cannot distinguish Al Pacino and Robert De Niro by face alone. Why do friends claim I have autism? That started two years ago, and 35 years long, nobody mentioned it.
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by a3w 1y ago
This Gemini protocol discussed back in 2021, and had 3 points, but no comments on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005442 Also, they should rename it to bard:// (just kidding)
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by a3w 1y ago
Observation: Braille is 3 px in height. But only 2 px wide and monospaced, while this font is variable width. Oh, and several characters share representation in this, say other threads here.
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by a3w 1y ago
I thought a naked singularity was a white hole, one without an event horizon. And physicists hate that idea, but expect to never find one anyway.
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by a3w 1y ago
"Wrong wedding < leaves >" could have removed the tension of most weddings?
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by a3w 1y ago
Doe LLMs write valid Gleam programs? Trying with ChatGPT three years ago, it did not. Workarounds, like "here is the syntax as a system prompt", put into the prompt I would not consider understanding, as Gleam idioms and patterns
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by a3w 1y ago
AI means actual indians, did we not learn that from the initial OpenAI GPT 3.0 training? It made it to HN.
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by a3w 1y ago
Clean, mostly. With future? No, it creates primary heat. Wind and solar do not. Water power also does not, but power from damns is not clean if you want an eco-friendly power source. Wind currently also has a bigger environment impact than
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by a3w 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor states that the 1960 reactors are most used, today. In the west. Contradicting that western reactors are safe, while eastern designs are not.
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by a3w 1y ago
Japan is very in the east, they said western designs. The reactor knows where it is, by knowing where it is not. Just kidding.
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by a3w 1y ago
Form 38a, but you have to be a teapot to qualify for tax cuts, except on the sixth sunday each month.
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by a3w 1y ago
> I’ll remind you that biologists do not, in the year 2025, know memory’s physical substrate in the brain! Plenty of hypotheses — no agreement. Is there any more central mystery in human biology, maybe even human existence? Did they not
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by a3w 1y ago
THIS IS MADNESS. Krieger, is that you? You went too far with it. I am all for catgirl holograms, so good science by Archer's Krieger on that. But SQL should not run Doom. The limits of science have been pushed beyond madness! Well okay
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by a3w 1y ago
At work, we had video content with "ai generated" now shown in an eponymous Teams channel. Now no one viewing the video knows if just the image, or the project logo, and/or the voiceover was AI generated but is very confused
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by a3w 1y ago
So by that logic: Google is not an US AI company, since they have the same rules, requiring ppl to come into offices?
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by a3w 1y ago
I always see this claim repeated, and the same for Wiesbaden and Heidelberg in Germany. But no sources give credibility to both claims.
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by a3w 1y ago
> The bombers had been built by hand because the factory was also making other aircraft on the assembly line, and the B-29s differed in hundreds of tiny details. No B-29 in those first batches weighed exactly the same, a worrying state f
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by a3w 1y ago
Meta Language is shortened to ML. Great language, and even fathered further ML dialects. Machine Learning is shortened to ML, too. This posting is about "Why ML needed Mojo", but does not tell us why the license of Mojo is garbage
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by a3w 1y ago
Becomes intuitive if you ask "nth one is a girl. What is nth+1 one likely to be?", for any arbitrary number
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by a3w 1y ago
The manufacturing process they use for memory is not a good choice, actually. It is a tradeoff.
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by a3w 1y ago
Most, if not all, medication would carry a poisonous symbol, if it were not taken out of regulation for that. Mostly, you kill organs by any overdose. Roughly: - Paracetamol overdose can cause severe liver damage and may be fatal. - Ibuprof
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by a3w 1y ago
I do not care if my CPU is 10 years old. Everything is instant anyway.
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by a3w 1y ago
Will a manager that acknowledges his/her/their mistakes get promoted as frequently, as if when downplaying them?
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by a3w 1y ago
Yupp, plus the fact that I unwillingly send prompts out by visiting a website that now has a chatbot nag me; Among other annoyances in the economy of scale that say "if it is cheap, just use more of it".
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by a3w 1y ago
If this i VB based, we need a Clippy addon!
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by a3w 1y ago
In Germany, we had a private company that offered a service no one needed to pay the household bill on public broadcasting. If their SEO ranking beats the official site, they could confuse the hell out of people. (And I am told people do no

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