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by ahmedfromtunis 7mo ago
Thanks for your report. It's back now to business as usual. To answer your questions, I use Google's own DNS at home with full control over the stack. För a minute I wasn't able to access Google at all while the rest of the i
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Ask HN: Is Google down or is it just me?
3 points by ahmedfromtunis 7mo ago|2 comments
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by ahmedfromtunis 7mo ago
I use qwerty and azerty, and in both I never felt typing the sequence was any harder than typing any other regular word. Generally speaking, I prefer sequential "shortcuts" then multikey bindings.
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by ahmedfromtunis 7mo ago
The vim version is much easier, if you ask me: 3 strokes, 2 keys and 0 combinations. The one you suggest however requires 4 strokes (ctrl then o then shift then s), 4 keys (ctrl, o, shift, s) and 2 combinations. The "cc" sequence
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by ahmedfromtunis 7mo ago
Using the terminal becomes much more cozy and comfortable after I activate vim-mode. A mistake 3 words earlier? No problem: <esc>3bcw and I'm good to go. Want to delete the whole thing? Even easier: <esc>cc I can even use &
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by ahmedfromtunis 7mo ago
Poor TSMC (and ASML)! They were already struggling with capacity to fulfill orders from their established customers. With ARM now joining the party, I don't know how they're going to cope. Edit: The new CPU will be built with the
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by ahmedfromtunis 7mo ago
I liked digg v2 (I guess), when it relaunched as a sort of curator of interesting articles (and videos). For years it was my go-to place when bored and wanted something interesting to read. I guess that in an ocean of upvote-based platforms
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by ahmedfromtunis 7mo ago
As a (former) reporter, site monitoring is a big part of what I do on a daily basis and I used many, many such services. I can attest that, at least from the landing page, this seems to be a very good execution of the concept, especially th
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by ahmedfromtunis 8mo ago
Funnily enough, I had to pass a captcha before gaining access to the destination page. No LLMs will be visiting that page.
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by ahmedfromtunis 8mo ago
> You might not even be their target, and yet you will be pillaged. Isn't this how Rome was sacked way back when it was just a city among many others in the Italian peninsula? If I recall correctly, this was a wake-up call for the c
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by ahmedfromtunis 10mo ago
Sometimes I wish some kind of weird disaster would strike that somehow only erases the protocols and styling/markup languages invented in the last 60 years -- without losing any data -- to force us to start over, but with the benefit o
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by ahmedfromtunis 10mo ago
This reminded of a CK Lewis bit about how modern humans deploy a lot of resources trying to save "weak" babies, and thus undoing evolution's natural selection process.
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by ahmedfromtunis 10mo ago
I don't use TikTok but spend some time on Instagram. Despite the format, I enjoy a lot of intellectually stimulating content (and, sometimes, conversations) on the platform. Sometimes a friend would show me their feed and I'd be s
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Ask HN: 2026 books recommendation for deeper insights into niche crucial topics
2 points by ahmedfromtunis 10mo ago|1 comments
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by ahmedfromtunis 10mo ago
Even the concerted effort of a competent administration wouldn't be enough to cancel a system that's a century in the making. Keyword: competent.
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by ahmedfromtunis 10mo ago
I get it. But what I'm saying is that the impact of a single misguided administration, while can be very devastating, is not enough to write off american super power status in research. With appropriate planning and funding, the next a
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by ahmedfromtunis 10mo ago
I recently read "Chip War" and it talked about an era (around the 80s and 90s) were american dominance on electronics (and economy) seemed in deep decline. Japan was the next big thing. But the collective efforts of some governmen
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by ahmedfromtunis 10mo ago
The problem is that not all governments constrain themselves to only use requests and/or allow companies to challenge said requests. And that's at least what you get dealing with Apple and the USA (most of the time).
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by ahmedfromtunis 10mo ago
That's exactly the kind of situation I had in mind when I wrote that. Goodstein’s theory would take more symbols than there are atoms in the observable universe to write down in "classic" maths. To "fix" this, mathe
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by ahmedfromtunis 10mo ago
This is a fairly new question; from the early 20th century, iirc. There were many questions with no answers for literal centuries and thousands trying, and failing, to crack them. A solution was ultimately found despite that. A new "ma
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by ahmedfromtunis 10mo ago
Apparently there are multiple studies that show a link between listening to heavy metal and being 'happier' and/or 'less angry': - What Makes Metalheads Happy? A Phenomenological Analysis of Flow Experiences in
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by ahmedfromtunis 11mo ago
I suspect that coming up with a set of rules as to who would and wouldn't be honored in such a manner would inevitably lead to some real-world violence at some point in the future. Let's leave this out of our commonly used code.
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by ahmedfromtunis 11mo ago
That's a valid point but I'd argue the new test would be then interesting to couple with the original one, not to replace it. Do you think it would be reasonable to include both in future reviews, at least for the sake of back-com
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by ahmedfromtunis 11mo ago
Yeah. The new challenge seems easier to solve since it basically is hand-holding the LLMs into what the result should look like. I think a more challenging, well, challenge, would be to offer an even more absurd scenario and see how the mod
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by ahmedfromtunis 11mo ago
I don't think it would be a good idea to publish it on a prime source of training data.
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by ahmedfromtunis 11mo ago
I only delete spam and such useless emails. Other than that, I just mark email as either read or unread. I never archived an email. I also maintain an always zero inbox and everything is neatly classified thanks to the power of automation.
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by ahmedfromtunis 1y ago
Where do you run a trillion-param model?
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by ahmedfromtunis 1y ago
When I was trying to learn to code as a kid, I struggled for days trying to wrap my head around the concept of a variable. I the concluded that programming isn't for me and left the bloodshed ide untouched. Two weeks later, I was watch
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by ahmedfromtunis 1y ago
How cool is it that, as a species, we developed tools to allow us to continue watching an interstellar object zapping the void on the other side of the sun !!! Seeing how everything is going, though, I strongly feel like we peaked as a spe
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by ahmedfromtunis 1y ago
No matter how many videos or articles I've read, I still can't wrap my head around the rules of baseball. Is there any guide for us non-americans to help us gain enough grasp on the rules to, at least, understand the dynamics of t

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