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by acka 2y ago
This is why I hope open-source model fine-tuners will try and make models 'ad averse', to make them as resistant to being influenced by marketing as possible. Maybe the knowledge gained while doing this can be used to minimize oth
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by acka 2y ago
According[0] to Perplexity.ai, you could use std::optional<std::monostate> to get a C++ approximation of your Rust type. I am neither an expert in modern C++ nor in Rust, but I have witnessed enough of C++'s evolution over time t
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by acka 2y ago
Directly booting Linux kernels on EFI has been possible for quite a while thanks to the EFI stub[0], which is maintained by the kernel developers. I'm not sure if having yet another implementation of EFI booting Linux kernels, such as
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by acka 2y ago
I think the point that ipsum2 is trying to make is that Copilot's chat service and its code completion service could be using different models, which is not uncommon for coding assistants. Continue[0] for example can use up to 3 differ
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by acka 2y ago
> In older NVidia cards this could be done through a faster link called NVLink but the hardware for that was ripped out of consumer grade cards and is only in data center grade cards now. NVLink is still very much available in both RTX 3
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by acka 2y ago
Don't forget Syslinux[0], available for both legacy BIOS systems as well as EFI. All binaries except for the really low level stuff are in ELF format, so can be generated, linked and manipulated by tools which support this. [0]: https
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by acka 2y ago
This. All you do when you download a game is perform the initial cache update of its binary and asset files.
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by acka 3y ago
There is no need to install Docker Desktop just to run nvidia-smi in WSL; the Windows directory containing the nvidia-smi binary is mounted inside a WSL instance and added to PATH automatically by WSL on instance startup. As an aside: ther
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by acka 3y ago
Sadly some of us (including me) have forcibly unlearned this method after discovering that too many combinations of browsers and webpages don't support this reliably. Having to manually scroll or search back to where one was reading af
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by acka 3y ago
> ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything > Padlock icon > Subscribe to unlock this article This. I couldn't have written a better exemplifying summary. Anyway, guess it's off to the depaywallification serv
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by acka 3y ago
> Is whoever wrote that post, specifically, hiring? Only those applicants who are from Korea.
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by acka 3y ago
There is hope. The European Union's Digital Markets Act allows new messaging platforms to demand interoperability with the existing walled gardens. All it takes is for other jurisdictions to follow suit.
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by acka 3y ago
Depending on one's technical background or interests, reading about ICE can refer to many things. in my case Internal Combustion Engine and In-Circuit Emulator.
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by acka 3y ago
> A question for you then, if this is "completely inexcusable": How else do you propose that companies monitor their sales and marketing efforts? By simply asking users how and where they found out about a service? Sure there
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by acka 3y ago
I'm getting a 404 on the linked page[0], there appears to be a typo in the URL, maybe it was corrected on the server after being posted on HN. When I remove the 'p' at the end[1], it works. @dang, could you please look into t
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by acka 3y ago
SeatGuru[1] is a godsend, especially if you are plus size or have special needs and need to choose comfortable or practical seats in advance. (Make sure to select the Seat Maps tab.) EDIT: Added AeroLOPA[2] for good measure. [1]: https:&#x
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by acka 3y ago
> git bisect please forgive me for reading this as 'gut bisect' the first time around :)
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by acka 3y ago
Many (most?) mobile devices still support connecting HID devices such as keyboards and sometimes also mice without confirmation. Emulate one of those, navigate through settings and change things to your liking, then optionally initiate a
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by acka 3y ago
> [...] I wouldn't normally publish this information because it increases the chances of workarounds being discovered in case my solution isn't bullet proof. I'd say the same goes for OpenAI. This is commonly known as &quo
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by acka 3y ago
> Android has had built in OCR for a few releases. You can copy and paste text from any image/app you can display on the screen. AFAIK this is a feature only available on Google Pixel devices. so not on 'Android' in genera
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by acka 3y ago
To all of you extolling the virtues of combo locks, I guess you live in pretty secluded houses in safe neighborhoods with zero visibility of the keypad from across the street. If I had a combo lock, I'd be more worried about someone wi
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by acka 3y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/freedom_units
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by acka 3y ago
Thanks for the link, looks interesting.
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by acka 3y ago
Obvious answer: because, contrary to popular belief, not everyone uses macOS.
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by acka 3y ago
Great unless you happen to be using a Home edition of Windows, which doesn't have the Group Policy Editor.
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by acka 3y ago
"Oh no, not again..." quoted from (not stolen, not infringing any copyright because of fair use) from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. This nonsense has to stop. Copying a movie, or using the internet on
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by acka 3y ago
AFAICT the core of Fig isn't open source. (Why else would there be a waiting list for Linux users if they could just grab the code for Fig and build it themselves?) What you are looking at seems to be a repository of autocompletion spe
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by acka 3y ago
Current OpenWRT uses musl libc[1] which can be optimized to have a tiny footprint and supports full static linking, before that it used ucLibc which was similarly optimized. You can still build software for OpenWRT that requires the much bi
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by acka 3y ago
I'm not sure this will fly, or at least I think it depends on the issuer and the law in the particular jurisdiction of the buyer. I remember reading in the fine print of one issuer of BNPL in my country a statement that the buyer does
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by acka 3y ago
> Name another institution where inmates have to ask for permission to go to the toilet, besides school and jail. Busy call centers, fast food restaurants. Factories: assembly line workers. Chemical plants: process operators. I don'

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