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by alentred 3y ago
Agree. And there is also actual progress in the rendering engines. Modern AAA games are incomparable with what they were 10 or 20 years ago. Most desktop apps on the other hand... Yes, of course they have more features than their predecesso
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by alentred 3y ago
Ha. I thought that "taler" is a wordplay for "teller" (like a bank teller).
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by alentred 3y ago
If this message finds the author, or the people knowledgeable in the subject matter, I am very much interested in the implementation details. How do you encrypt the flash drive? Do you run QEMU in the host OS or are there more optimal ways
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by alentred 3y ago
Exactly, framing the software removes the accountability from where it belongs - people. Software cannot be responsible for anything, people can, and should assume it.
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by alentred 3y ago
zsh can replace special variables like `!!` and `!:1` inline when you hit Tab. Or, if you hit Enter, it won't execute the command itself but prepare a new prompt pre-filled with the same command and all special variables substituted to
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by alentred 3y ago
Thank you for the link to the FAQ! Unless I blacked it out, I don't think I have read it before. Now that I know it exists I can see it clearly in the page footer, alongside the Guidelines... I will go and read those, but I also wonder
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by alentred 3y ago
I agree with this very much! I learnt it the hard way: my experience with many powerful tools, Vim included, was to learn the basics first, customize it to the point where you can't recognize it anymore, and then finally strip it down
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by alentred 3y ago
> I have been working on a personal project for the last 10 years that replaces every other app I used to use Elon, is it you? ;)
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by alentred 3y ago
This article has a few images that better demonstrate what is meant by "city" or "multiple sites": https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-urban-complex-ec...
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by alentred 3y ago
My unscientific take on this issue: 1. According to the "Pay in the Roman army", Wikipedia [0]: in 235AD, a legionary was paid about 1350 denarii per year. 2. I cannot find the price of salt in Wikipedia, but according to the &quo
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by alentred 3y ago
I am very excited about Iceberg specifically (because open-source), but the last time I looked into it the only implementation was a Spark library, and Trino's (formerly Presto, an SQL engine) Iceberg connector had a hard dependency on
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by alentred 3y ago
Funnily enough, even though vel-cro is a combination of two words in French (velour crochet), most people in France call it just "scratch" (as per the sound it makes).
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Less than 4B If Statements, or Challenge Accepted!(pastebin.com)
3 points by alentred 3y ago|1 comments
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by alentred 3y ago
In response to the "4B If Statements" submission [0], here are some concise alternatives for even number detection. This work must continue! Next level should involve using 3rd-party APIs, asking ChatGPT, and using dedicated hardw
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by alentred 3y ago
I have a colleague who comes from a culture with a T-V distinction and lives in France where it also exists. But the line we would draw between "toi" and "vous" in French is quite different from his culture: he apparentl
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by alentred 3y ago
I remember the time, quite a long ago, when I have visited Leonard Da Vinci's house (museum today), where many of his original drawings and modern replicas where exhibited, and I have discovered many more apparatus than I knew he imagi
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by alentred 3y ago
Remember when Gmail just came to be and was a cool kid on the block? It was a "Perpetual Beta" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_beta
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by alentred 3y ago
What is the alternative? Hide the research papers in a cabinet and never talk about it? How long would it be before another team achieves the same result? Trying to keep it under wraps would only increase the chance of this technology being
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by alentred 3y ago
I am with you on this one. I, for my part, cannot stop unless I finish some logical subset of the work. Leaving the work incomplete or with bugs would make me sleep worse, and I would spend lots of time the next day trying to understand wha
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by alentred 3y ago
A marvelous specimen. A souvenir and a remnant of the yesteryear of the Internet. Okay, I overplayed it a bit. But, honestly, I mean it: it is a great example of what happens when people care about their cause. Words fail me to praise this
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by alentred 3y ago
My heart skipped a beat when I read the headline, in a scare of this being a way of saying that Godot no more because of, you know, "collaboration" with Google. Turns out these are in fact good news. I have to admit that I apparen
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by alentred 3y ago
Good point. I have never considered this argument before, but I agree. In a healthy case, the sphere of responsibility (of a company, individual) should approximately match their sphere influence. And with a sphere of influence this large,
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by alentred 3y ago
OK, I sense the sarcasm, but what do you have against IBM?
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by alentred 3y ago
Worth noting that 100 years is not exactly the hard deadline, but a typical (default) *target* for the calculations made by the engineers planning the construction. What I mean is that this number is defined by design, although they are of
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by alentred 3y ago
> LLMs are ultimately democratic LLMs reflect what they have been trained on, so the question is what they are trained on. In this line of thinking, at best they represent the groupthink, and at worst they are biased one way or another.
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by alentred 3y ago
Are the electric vehicles fundamentally less reliable, or is it the current state of the art? Latter is important to call out, but so is projecting ourselves into the future. Electric Vehicles are being actively (re)introduced in the market
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by alentred 3y ago
A very interesting take, but I am not sure I agree. First, this elaborates the idea on the image generation, but then applies it to all "generative AI", but no argument supports that in the post. As of images, if anything, it was
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by alentred 3y ago
Kudos to the author for actually pointing these out . A lot of those are the patterns that everyone got used to: they can be seen universally across the Internet, and some have been used for so long that it is probable that many users (and
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by alentred 3y ago
Oh, this makes a lot of sense actually. I never use those anyway, but I will try and observe the next time I see one.
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by alentred 3y ago
I don't know about this model, but similar ones in Paris have a physical push-button on the bottom side. Looking at the photo I think maybe there is one in this model too? I don't know the design decision behind this, I heard peop

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