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by alentred 3y ago
As a layman in photography, I agree with you. But it is easy to understand the artists. It is said that in art everyone needs to master the technique first, the tool of the trade, but true works of art are the expressions that are created w
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by alentred 3y ago
I live in Europe. As far as I remember, the proposal to abolish DST was already voted in the European parliament some time before the COVID pandemic, and the next steps were for the countries to chose their time zones and implement the chan
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by alentred 3y ago
I don't think they promote the "Hang a screen over there and stare at it" approach. In our company we use both, but Promteheus has an Alertmanager and I only ever open the UI for debug when the alert is raised. In fact, I tru
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by alentred 3y ago
Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. — Melvin E. Conway
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by alentred 3y ago
And if it continues to repeat itself, penalize him again when he generates the text, and if it continues to repeat itself, penalize him again, and if it continues to repeat itself, penalize him again, and if it continues to repeat itself, p
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by alentred 3y ago
> Fossil fuels can't just run out because they are produced continuously They can if your rate of consumption is higher than the rate or production. Also this is irrelevant as the objective is to reduce their consumption. > Carbo
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by alentred 3y ago
In the context of Linux adoption on the desktop it is not big news, unfortunately. To my mind, overall end-user experience is already better in Linux compared to Windows where similar tasks are more complicated, even before the raw perfo
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by alentred 3y ago
Yep, outplayed like in chess. Started with a handicap, led the game to the stalemate, won the match.
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by alentred 3y ago
> treating Sam like some hero Recent OpenAI CEOs found themselves on the protagonist side not for their actions, but for the way they have been seemingly treated by the board. Regardless of actual actions on either side, "heroic&quo
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by alentred 3y ago
> we witnessed a disturbing pattern of deceit and manipulation ... Hard to know how authentic this comment is, but worth noting that none of these were mentioned or hinted in the recent explanation(s) presented to OpenAI employees: http
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by alentred 3y ago
Interesting. The second web site cites a number of advantages of the sodium-ion battery: > Sodium is 10 times faster to charge than lithium, and safer because of its low operating temperature. The number of recharging cycles is up to 5 t
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by alentred 3y ago
I don't know, is it about being loved by the employees, or the employees being desperate about the alternative?
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by alentred 3y ago
So, all this happens over Meet, in Twitter, and by email. What is the possibility of an AGI having took over the control of the board members' accounts? It would be consistent with the feeling of a hallucination here.
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by alentred 3y ago
Hm, it does not correspond to my observations. I'm using Firefox and the videos load and start just as they usually do. A/B testing? :)
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by alentred 3y ago
What kind of cargo may be worth paying $4M to skip the line? I assume it should either be something that perishes if not delivered on time, or something extremely critical overall.
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by alentred 3y ago
> caps lock to be control when held, and escape when tapped Ooh, nice! How do you map it in Vim? Or in MacOS? I always remap caps lock to control because, Vim or not, I still need control-something all the time. But I always wanted to
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by alentred 3y ago
Oh, this does sound odd indeed. I can only assume this is very slow, and voluminous on the storage side. In a similar vein, the only "tricky" solution I saw once was a financial system that stored rational numbers as fractions, an
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by alentred 3y ago
Inevitably a later regulation will allow the quotas to be sold as a kind of coupons.
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by alentred 3y ago
Oh, I am not saying I threw out mine, I wouldn't do such a thing. It is just hard to imagine that all of it ever produced is not.
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by alentred 3y ago
Hard to not to have a cognitive dissonance on this one. As a kid I loved Lego, and my kids have plenty too. But thinking of all that plastic that eventually makes its way to a dumpster... Lego is brining so much joy, but you can't igno
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Starship is ready for its 2nd test flight(arstechnica.com)
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by alentred 3y ago
Well, allegedly, it was a UK Prime Minister who once said [1] that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. I personally disagree, but can't ignore the fun fact. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by alentred 3y ago
I have the same first reaction. Google's progress and impact on the society are very impressive, independently of how we feel about it. But come to think of it, advancements in technology catch up quickly. Looking back into history: Fo
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by alentred 3y ago
Isn't it a bit too early to reason about it? We are not sure yet of the extent of its impact, there is a lot of hype around it recently. I'm not diminishing it, just saying we will be able to tell better once things settle down.
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by alentred 3y ago
This reminds me about the "Life After People" television series [1]. In several episodes it presents possible or imagined scenarios in case of a sudden human removal, in various areas: cities, animal life, oceans, etc. Every singl
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by alentred 3y ago
This reminds me of this part of the "Death to 2020": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yUW9iiU6R8
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by alentred 3y ago
Not suggesting it for the UX, more of a curiosity: in France, a somewhat common convention is to put the family name in uppercase. This is well known by everyone, but not everyone does that. Sometimes you would receive an email from "R
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by alentred 3y ago
If this is why a website or a form asks for it, and there is no way around it, better just ask for it directly ("How would you prefer to be addressed? He/him, she/her, or neutral?") instead of a choice of 25 historical t
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by alentred 3y ago
Not the first time I see a post here about how terrible Goodreads is. I, for my part have always found it doing exactly its job. I am not an avid reader - around one book a month - and I use it to manage my bookshelves, review the comments
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by alentred 3y ago
The thing is, they would need experience to tell which of the best practices apply best in what situations.

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