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by acka 2y ago
Moreover, if you have an issue with OSS software and have competent people in your own IT team, they could attempt to fix the problem and get results faster than going through the whole incident-report-blame-the-victim-finally-have-them-con
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by acka 2y ago
Recording phone calls is possible in principle. The reason that it is not available on some devices or in some regions is that there are legal requirements which manufacturers have to adhere to in order to get their devices certified, i.e.
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by acka 2y ago
Exactly. Without models being truly open source, (training data, training procedures, alignment etc.), there is no way for auditors to assess, for example, whether a model was trained on data exhibiting certain forms of selection bias (anyt
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by acka 2y ago
I believe there are several important points missing from this discussion. Firstly, there is the issue of hindsight bias. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we had limited knowledge about the potential impact of the virus. Our understan
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by acka 2y ago
> Looks like one of them is Pyne Pod: https://www.pynepod.com/uploads/bd58c18e.png Is that a USB port on the underside? A rechargeable, non-refillable vape, oh my...
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by acka 2y ago
It seems you are assuming that all child prodigies are polymaths (no pun intended). There are children with exceptional mental abilities in a limited range of topics or even a single topic, such as math, music or drawing, They may struggle
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by acka 2y ago
Interesting, nice to know!
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by acka 2y ago
Ah, that explains it. Thanks for pointing this out.
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by acka 2y ago
OP, are you sure that your printer has a serial port? That would be somewhat unusual I think, back in the day when I used many dot matrix printers, they all had parallel (Centronics) ports. The same model printer in the one eBay listing I f
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by acka 2y ago
IMO nothing can ever be as bad as having to deal with Broadcom's Support Portal (after finding out that this is the place you 're supposed to get VMware software). An hour fighting the account registration process because it refus
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by acka 2y ago
I am not an Aussie but I asked an AI and it told me that weekly and fortnightly rent payments are common in Australia. Also see the ABC news story and the post on X which seem to confirm this is rent due weekly.
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by acka 2y ago
JAWS isn't free[1]. Using the trial version for accessibility testing goes against its EULA[2]. [1] https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/ [2] https://webaim.org/blog&#
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by acka 2y ago
Too bad that deserializing DNA is rather time consuming and sometimes lossy.
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by acka 2y ago
Why not have a system where students and staff have actual email inboxes but alumni have their email forwarded? Most universities use a portal of some sort for easy access to personal information and preferences anyway, so it shouldn't
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by acka 2y ago
That is easy to solve. Just use a model capable of function/tool calling, implement a tool which terminates the chat, then add instructions to the system prompt telling the model what tool to use if it wants to end the conversation. If
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by acka 2y ago
Debian has a Social Contract[1] as well as guidelines {the DFSG}[2] regarding the commitment to only distribute free and open source software that all package maintainers must adhere to. This means that package maintainers must check the li
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by acka 2y ago
Please note! Modern versions of Android will passively scan for Wi-Fi networks and use them for location tracking even if Wi-Fi is turned off* by the user. I don't know if turning off location tracking also stops the passive Wi-Fi scan
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by acka 2y ago
Somewhat off topic but still highly relevant for people who actually want to use projects like this: why oh why do so many build recipes such as Dockerfiles insist on pulling random stuff off the internet as part of the build process? For e
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by acka 2y ago
I think that the point was that Julia isn't APL-like at all while J and K are, very much so in fact.
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Don't forget the website cookie popup tomfoolery, where you must study each and every popup carefully lest you click the wrong button to opt out.
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https://websim.ai/ would like a word with you.
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by acka 2y ago
Please don't distract Y_Y, they may be well on their way to Lisp NILvana: realizing that everything else is impermanent and unsatisfactory. NIL is ultimate bliss.
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by acka 2y ago
> eMacs This made me chuckle. Apple influencing the way Emacs is capitalized (pun intended) versus RMS's stance on Free Software couldn't be further apart I think.
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Interesting! Thanks for the pointer.
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There's a cool VR demo experience showcasing this on Steam: Welcome to Light Fields[0]. [0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/771310/Welcome_to_Light_F...
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by acka 2y ago
Having movies in a library is definitely not a US only thing. Here in my European country, most if not all libraries carry movies on DVD and Blu-Ray, including the very latest releases. I'm pretty sure the same goes for most Europea
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by acka 2y ago
Fond memories of uni, standing in front of a dorm with dozens of students using ICQ inside. Sounds as if someone had just unloaded a truckload of Teletubbies in the yard, "Uh-Oh"'s coming from every direction in a hilarious c
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This. There is no point in arguing amongst ourselves when we're all wearing blindfolds and it is the zookeeper who decides what parts of the proprietary elephant we're allowed to touch.
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From [3]: > Further, in developing these models, we took great care to optimize helpfulness and safety. The model you linked to isn't a base model (those are rarely if ever made available to the general public nowadays), it is alrea
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by acka 2y ago
It could be a case of classic market segmentation. The lower tier customers get the incomplete or error-ridden documentation, and the upper tier trusted customers^W'partners' get access to the juicy stuff: complete and mostly corr

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