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by abra0 4y ago
Take a snapshot of your skepticism and revisit it in a year. Things might get _weird_ soon.
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by abra0 4y ago
I have a growing pile of very different theories concerning the layoffs (actual cost cutting, irrational investor pressure, copycat behavior, systemic risk, AI risk, etc.etc.). The article wasn't particularly interesting, it basically
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by abra0 4y ago
Great link, and a superlatively germaine usance of the locution "apposite"! :)
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by abra0 4y ago
GPT only got a good placement on Day 3 Part 1. It seems to not have been very useful in any other days (except for people maybe using Copilot).
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by abra0 4y ago
>The same is true of most modern smartphones. If you wrote an app for an early version of iOS or Android, it simply won't run on modern hardware or software. APIs have changed, SDKs weren't designed with forward compatibility,
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by abra0 4y ago
>They are the best search engine by far for politically controversial topics. This is an interesting take given the political censorship in Russia (for some ineffable reason much harsher now than it used to be 4 months ago) and cases lik
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by abra0 4y ago
>Turned out that urban warfare didn't really happen much. Siege of Mariupol is ongoing since the start of the war. It has seen very brutal urban fighting.
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by abra0 4y ago
Javelin rockets are $80k-$100k a piece, $170k figure is the launcher and the rocket together. Unlike NLAW the launcher is reusable (and even useful on its own because the targeting unit is detachable and has thermal vision)
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by abra0 5y ago
Because only people with a high enough conviction of benefits of moderate drinking are commenting here and arguing for. However I have no idea how they do become so strongly convinced in that, given the low quality of the data that exists,
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by abra0 5y ago
Sorry, what does "bake a request for records" mean?
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by abra0 5y ago
https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/techno...
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by abra0 5y ago
Do I understand correctly that it does not do hole-punching, and e.g. unlike with a VPN a host behind NAT will not be able to accept incoming connections?
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by abra0 5y ago
>The Autoverse is an artificial life simulator based on a cellular automaton complex enough to represent the substratum of an artificial chemistry. It is deterministic, internally consistent and vaguely resembles real chemistry. Tiny env
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by abra0 6y ago
Quite insightful, thanks for writing this.
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by abra0 7y ago
Move slowly and be unable to fix things fast.
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by abra0 7y ago
In competitive programming circles I've heard the basic idea called root or sqrt decomposition.
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by abra0 9y ago
A great read, thank you!
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by abra0 11y ago
BTW, is there any way to get the chat archive from the original marathon? Is it saved at all somewhere? rechat.org does a similar thing, but its retention period is only one week.
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by abra0 11y ago
No, never heard of it. What's this 'malware'? Also, you use the squire on your own volition.
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by abra0 11y ago
Squire dev here. We were DDoSed, infiltrated about 4 times and had an author of another similar extension turn on us. But we will persevere. All hail the great and glorious Button! Long may we serve, long may it live.