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by ar9av 4y ago
I don't really have a strong opinion on the letter because I agree with a few of the comments that the cat is kind of out of the bag. Even if we don't reach AGI, however you want to define it, I think we are headed for something e
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by ar9av 4y ago
If the price difference is justified, I can't argue with a refurb. Most of my purchases from Dell (mainly laptops, a couple monitors) in the past 10+ years have been refurbs from the outlet. On a sale, about 20-30% discount over new, a
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by ar9av 4y ago
I love that OpenAI uses a ton of other peoples work to train their model, yet when someone uses OpenAI to train their model, they get all up in arms. As far as I'm concerned, OpenAI has decided terms of use don't exist anymore.
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by ar9av 4y ago
Scratch gets a lot of hate with semi-experienced programmers (the kind to browse this sub) because of its simplicity, but it's actually really good. It teaches you basic programming concepts without all of the complexity of other progr
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by ar9av 4y ago
How do you define "consistent"? Consistent with what? Because at the moment it looks like it's using completely other terminology than the VCS I am used to.
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by ar9av 4y ago
Some software is not worth paying for to use. But other services might. Look at nextcloud: they wouldn’t have been anywhere near as big if they weren’t open source. Very few people would pay for the product but instead users now provide pul
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by ar9av 4y ago
Probably an unpopular opinion, and I realize I'm kind of ranting on a relatively unrelated subject, but I have become really dissuaded with the Node ecosystems dependence on seemingly boundless dependency trees. The fact that Window&#x
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by ar9av 4y ago
Imagine complaining about an an optional ai upscaler doing ai upscaling things. Literally shooting himself in the foot and crying from the pain
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by ar9av 4y ago
Yeah and watch your azure bill skyrocket even for the most trivial cases! Source: am in an org using cosmos in prod for some basic use cases.
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by ar9av 4y ago
The whole metaverse thing has felt like a buzzword-without-meaning that was never going to live up to the hype (at least in any meaningful good way), but still sucks for the people losing the jobs.
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by ar9av 4y ago
TL;DR: another ChatGPT article
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by ar9av 4y ago
I don’t think I could comfortably switch to only EV cars. I think I still need a gasoline car with my Tesla. However, both of cars are similar size and mileage. One uses electricity, the other uses premium gas, as a result… round trip from
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by ar9av 4y ago
finally ESM. jesus. The internals are still CJS, but at least we can use it ESM.
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by ar9av 4y ago
I am personally doubtful. The problem with BABA is that it is a variable interest entity (VIE) listed in the Cayman Island that means shareholders are technically owners of shell company rather than the Chinese enterprises that they they th
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by ar9av 4y ago
Apple supports them now. Everyone else has been doing it for years.
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by ar9av 4y ago
The charging issue and grid use is a massively overblown problem. You only need to charge your car for a few hours every 300 miles. Nowhere near everyone is always charging all the time. Renewables and stored heat batteries will cover night
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by ar9av 4y ago
Wow, I've bookmarked the article for future reference, this is all very cool! I have been working in OpenGL recently on procedural meshes, particularly with L-Systems. My method for drawing branching structures was basically the same a
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by ar9av 4y ago
I love how patient classical music fans are when people ask THE SAME QUESTION over and over and over again on forums as to why there’s a need for a separate classical music app. You classical music fans rock…
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by ar9av 4y ago
I saw this last night, I found an article from some smart PhD dude who is a Yale prof and a former federal reserve governor, it explained what would happen if the fed lost money. Nothing much, unless they lose a lot of money for a long peri
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by ar9av 4y ago
Honestly, writing a regex is way easier than reading a regex, no? So it feels like now I have the harder task of proving that the generated regex is correct.
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by ar9av 4y ago
The main limitation of Apple's passwords implementation for me is lack of sharing. For accounts that my wife and I both need access to, we can have them in a shared location in bitwarden, but there's no comparable feature with App
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by ar9av 4y ago
If there's 'digital blackface', then I'm guessing there's also 'digital whiteface' and other 'digital [input race]face', or am I missing something? Either way, are those who are both white and bl
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by ar9av 4y ago
NGL I read that as First Republic & nearly fell over. Two once highly regarded (even more so now) Northern Cali banks, they're perfect for each other.
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by ar9av 4y ago
Quick question: does it feed in the entire html inside the GPT prompt and get results from there?
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by ar9av 4y ago
Is this that piece where really smart people are swayed by the perspective of someone that was psychologically tortured to the point of rationalizing murder?
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by ar9av 4y ago
Whatever AI wrote that article needs an upgrade.
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by ar9av 4y ago
I really hope his casket has an Intel Inside sticker on it. RIP
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by ar9av 4y ago
There are two main ways to implement a programming language: A compiler transforms the source code into another language. This is usually executable machine code, but it can be another language for which an implementation already exists. An
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by ar9av 4y ago
there is less space now. if you walked around NYC in the 1980's there were still a bunch of empty lots. these have been built over and so each new project is more expensive as the current building must be purchased, demolished and then
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by ar9av 4y ago
I use Little Snitch on my MacBook Pro and love it. I’m a privacy nut and don’t relish the idea of behemoth corporations making money off me by exploiting my computer. It can be a pain to check every connection your browser tries to make but

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