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by alex_duf 2y ago
I'm not sure about the title "nobody knows why" I recently watched a conference by Prof. Rahmstorf, it was eye opening, and a little bit grim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNNW8c_FaA
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by alex_duf 2y ago
This is true for any software though, so if we push that reasoning to its extreme, no one should ever use any free and open source software, which I find a little bonkers.
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by alex_duf 2y ago
Yes it will get cold, but paradoxically it will also get much warmer. Mote extreme weather is what's going to happen. I know this was probably sarcasm, but more co2 means more energy in the system, and more extremes.
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by alex_duf 2y ago
Doctors burning-out is probably the worse red-flag you could have for a health system. It's frightening to think the person diagnosing my parents and children might not be in full possession of their capacity or make rash decisions. I&
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by alex_duf 2y ago
I also lived in two of the richest countries with a social medical system My experience is that GPs are over-worked, under paid (given their responsibilities), and can only afford to do shallow diagnostic in the 5-10 minutes they've go
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by alex_duf 2y ago
I'm just saying that the domain that hosts the page and the domain that hosts the image are often not the same. Wikipedia hosts the articles, wikimedia hosts the images. If a browser wants to be strict about what it loads, most of the
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by alex_duf 2y ago
By this logic wikipedia wouldn't be able to load any image
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by alex_duf 2y ago
You can also get 666 in a quid for what it's worth
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by alex_duf 2y ago
It's still bothering me that Y is a vowel in french but not in English. Can we all agree on something for once?
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by alex_duf 2y ago
My SO and I were raised respectively in the UK and France. We both speak fluent French and English. Our plan has been: we each speak our mother-tongue (French for me, English for her), and see what happens. My first child understands englis
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by alex_duf 2y ago
I was facing the same issue when I learned English (I'm French), and I found that watching TV Shows with the subtitles helped a lot. So you get to hear that wall of sounds, but you get the words spelled out under the picture.
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by alex_duf 2y ago
I hope both Ladybird and Servo succeed in creating a new browser engine. Though I do have a slight preference for Servo as it's using Rust. Not that Rust is magical, but given how much attack surface there is in a browser, it seems pic
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by alex_duf 2y ago
I thought this was part of wifi 7?
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by alex_duf 2y ago
This article is more than one year old, any reason this is popping up now?
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by alex_duf 2y ago
I'm afraid this is factually wrong, my computer had a public IP until the early 2010s as around these days modems were just models and not routers too. And with IPv6 all my devices could be publicly addressed but I've enabled a fi
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by alex_duf 2y ago
or is it cheaper to optimize a model to crush the competition on price?
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by alex_duf 2y ago
I don't know if territory captures the entirety of the meaning. There's a notion of culture and tradition that isn't captured by the kinda geographic meaning of territory
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by alex_duf 2y ago
Surely you can see the difference between giving away a significant portion of your income to your landlord, or paying towards your mortgage. In one case you can sell your property and get your money back, so you can decide to do whatever y
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by alex_duf 2y ago
what if the spider dies shortly after? You'll have no way of knowing if the worm was the cause of the death. what if the spider doesn't die shortly after? You'll have no way of knowing if the spider would have died of hunger
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by alex_duf 2y ago
I see! I had failed to parse the sentence!
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by alex_duf 2y ago
If you never have done it, how can you have learned the hard way that it's not worth it?
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by alex_duf 2y ago
Something tells me the bag might change its mind about the whole operation once the upload is finished and it realises what's up next. So yeah not sure I like the idea.
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by alex_duf 2y ago
please explain how #3 is a non-threat?
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by alex_duf 2y ago
>these sample videos are underwhelming wow the speed at which we can be blasé is terrifying. 6 months ago this was not possible, and felt this was years away! They're not underwhelming to me, they're beyond anything I thought w
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by alex_duf 2y ago
I think we need to accept there's no"safe" publishing once the weights are released. So either we want safe AI and it's behind gated services held by private companies, or it's the complete wild west with open model
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by alex_duf 2y ago
What storage did you go for, and what search approach?
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by alex_duf 3y ago
if you store the merkle tree that was used to download it, you'll be able to know exactly which chunk of the file got a bit flip.
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by alex_duf 3y ago
Completely selfish plug, but it's not very hard to implement, so here's my implementation using p5js: https://editor.p5js.org/alexduf/full/c-iSj_b4p you can play around with the code. Clicking generate a
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by alex_duf 3y ago
I was attempting a joke, but clearly that didn't convey, and isn't really in the hacker news spirit.
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by alex_duf 3y ago
Theoretically? Yes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_computing

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