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by alper 8d ago
I had to setup a Passkey recently and wanted to store it in 1Password and the experience was quite absurd. I don't know who designed this or who thinks these are acceptable affordances, but it seem to be part of the same disingenuous p
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by alper 9d ago
It's the same here in the various city libraries of Berlin both in the state library as well in the various branches across town. State: https://www.zlb.de/veranstaltungsuebersicht/ And this is by no means special
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by alper 15d ago
> not claiming that the model wasn't trained on those sessions The math group inside OpenAI may be training or fine tuning their own models which given some reward functions would definitely bias their usage of the training data tow
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by alper 15d ago
It's fine. They only need to steal the discoveries long enough to go IPO, then the companies will enshittify and the scientists can go back to doing their original work (which the models can't do anyway).
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by alper 19d ago
Just take Baby Rudin and a serious stack of paper with you on these holidays and you should be set. My two experiences of de-brainrotting: 1. Doing a pilgrimage walk in Japan with a cleared phone home screen. Only the Gaia GPS app on there
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by alper 1mo ago
I have a basic task that I run every day and I use it to eval models and these days the Qwen3.8 model I can run on my laptop is competitive with both Claude and Codex because the models have just been adulterated so far. I have to ask and a
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by alper 1mo ago
For full text search you could also use pg_search (Tantivy) which looks very cool. But at scale you probably don't want to manage a bunch of mission critical systems that were jacked into your database server. The database is slow? How
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by alper 1mo ago
Choco | Senior Software Engineer, Platform | Berlin - Hybrid Onsite | Typescript+AWS | Full-time We're an AI first company transforming the food supply chain and scaling up rapidly to meet the needs of larger distributors in the indust
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by alper 2mo ago
> personalized feedback, quickly identifying where you are stuck and focusing the explanations and exercises on that area, This has been a huge blocker when I tried to study advanced math myself. Many of the exercise books don't hav
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by alper 2mo ago
A classic German example of a zaibatsu.
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by alper 3mo ago
Privacy extremists are always very vocal but most people do not care at all about this. Maybe people have pornography production streams they want to manage using Immmich?
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by alper 3mo ago
Though, that is a steep price. My most likely one that I would take is this one: https://jezailfunder.jp
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by alper 3mo ago
Oh cool! Always a new one to discover.
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by alper 3mo ago
I need a split wireless mechanical keyboard to use with my phone on the go. Anybody have something good?
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by alper 3mo ago
I realized long ago that this is a complete waste of time and now I'll usually only argue with people for (blood) sport and love of the game but only if I feel like it.
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by alper 3mo ago
I have a fairly beefy M4/48G but I haven't been able to get any local model to behave anywhere near satisfactorily.
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by alper 3mo ago
At least the guys got fired. In Germany they probably wouldn't.
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by alper 3mo ago
Were they ever "special"? The inbound stuff we get through the vulnerability e-mail is pretty much exclusively spam. Then they start e-mailing random people of the company they can find to get through, and in the end it's sti
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by alper 3mo ago
> the Tony Blair Institute Making war crimes palatable?
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by alper 3mo ago
"Global Thermonuclear War"
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by alper 3mo ago
Who are paid at a steady and relatively decent rate. That's cool.
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by alper 3mo ago
It's unbelievable what lengths people will go to to hate on this. The article is good, I learned a bunch of stuff and was putting off verb conjugation for a while now.
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by alper 3mo ago
> Rules for thee but not for me This pretty accurately describes lots of stuff going on here in Germany as well and well the state of most of our "liberal democracies".
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by alper 3mo ago
If you're going to go into this direction, it seems like this would become sort of a "Letterboxd list visualizer" which honestly could be pretty cool.
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by alper 3mo ago
Github should be treated as a toxic waste site. I don't see it ever being secured by Microsoft.
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by alper 3mo ago
I'm in Berlin where there's a glut of offices which are all sitting empty. I'm living next to a top line historic renovation/office space and it took them 8-9 years to complete the renovation at probably an astronomical
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by alper 3mo ago
> lowering the rent would force a revaluation Commercial leases are often for say 5+5 years, so once you lock it in, you know for sure what the property revenue is going to be for the next so many years. Your uncertainty equation has col
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by alper 3mo ago
> much harder road Given that we have 2+ in each high street in Berlin, it seems it's not that difficult.
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by alper 3mo ago
So that answers the question as to who's buying SpaceX stock…
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by alper 3mo ago
> a larger number of people than we thought are participating in the same delusion Congratulations, you have just described high finance.

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