bambax

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by bambax 5d ago
There's a fantastic book[0] about positioning in a marketing sense, that explains, among many other things and IIRC, that the mind is fundamentally a WORM machine; you almost never can overwrite existing information (or, with extreme e
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by bambax 6d ago
> "When policy is politically polarized, you need more facts," he said. Mmmm... It seems in the world of politics, esp. populist politics, more facts don't bring better policies. They are simply ignored, or accused of be
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by bambax 9d ago
> 158 Canadian soldiers died defending the United States at the US's request after 9/11. Canadian fighter jets helped to patrol the skies in the US at the US's request after 9/11. Bad idea. Canada (as well as all ot
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by bambax 12d ago
And countries.
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by bambax 13d ago
Yes, he wrote a whole essay about it, in which he says: > What can't we say? One way to find these ideas is simply to look at things people do say, and get in trouble for. (...) The statements that make people mad are the ones they
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by bambax 15d ago
I have a separate box for MIDI cables of varying lengths.
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by bambax 15d ago
Very informative article, but I'd say all of this is in favor of OpenRouter, not against it. It gives you full flexibility, not just of models, but of providers. That's the offer!
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by bambax 16d ago
Like everyone, it seems, in this thread, I have not one big box of cables but several. But my classification system is mostly around age: old USB cables (mini, micro) vs recent USB cables (USB C), old screen cables (VGA) vs recent ones (HDM
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by bambax 16d ago
Not everybody listens to music all of the time. I almost never listen to music. I watch few movies and mostly, I rewatch old ones that I like. Paying that amount of money for any subscription to a content faucet (while Youtube is still free
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by bambax 16d ago
> we shouldn't be surprised? is normal to steal? Two different things. It's not normal to steal, but we shouldn't be surprised thieves steal. It's what they do.
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by bambax 16d ago
> Install ESP32 Bit Pirate firmware on supported ESP32-S3 boards Ok but is there a list of supported boards? Couldn't find it. Edit: I couldn't find the list on the site, but it's on Github.
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by bambax 17d ago
All the big AI labs were built on stealing IP; who is surprised that's still how they operate? And who believes, or has ever believed, their promises that your data is private and not logged, etc.? The big AI labs are not trying to adv
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by bambax 17d ago
Yeah but that will not prevent the stealing, it will only make the fight easier afterwards.
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by bambax 17d ago
It is indeed an interesting and original idea, but one can think about at least three objections not directly raised in the post: 1- The machine could decide to kill itself early, rendering it useless; this is indeed alluded to in the post
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by bambax 18d ago
I don't know. Government funds have a unique way of being often wrong, so this may be the kiss of death. But it is a sign that the EU is helping Mistral.
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by bambax 18d ago
> I’m sort of surprised that the EU isn’t stepping in to support them. It is! The second largest investor in this round is Scaleup Europe Fund: https://eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-fund/scaleup-europe-fund_en
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by bambax 19d ago
> some music from Eric Satre, a 19th century French composer > Gymnopedie No 1 Eric (or as he preferred, Erik) SATIE.
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by bambax 20d ago
"violent" is used many times in this announcement, but it would seem that one of the most violent entity in the world right now are the US? Also, it's so weird that "antifa" (antifascists) has become a bad thing. If
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by bambax 23d ago
Exactly.
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by bambax 24d ago
> You can get 100 tok/sec on a 3090, and it will feel a lot like the cloud models I have a beefy Linux box with a 4090 but never took the time to set it up properly beyond simple testing; any tutorial you would recommend?
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by bambax 24d ago
Nice setup; but, for simple tasks or questions, AI is currently free? And it will probably stay free, as I don't see Google starting to charge for using AI on its search engine? So costs can't be a motivation for running small mod
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by bambax 27d ago
Our brain is geared towards efficient signal processing, and is actively working to delete signals it deems "unnecessary". It wants us to notice only the new and the unexpected; that's why after a short while you don't n
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by bambax 28d ago
Don't know why this is downvoted. Users need to quit Twitter en masse, and others should not try to read whatever's on it. I quit Twitter two years ago and didn't miss it one bit.
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by bambax 29d ago
When an app asks you to login again almost every day, it's infuriating; an app should remember you indefinitely! I try to never use apps anyway, because adblocking on them is hard or impossible (which is the reason they exist in the fi
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by bambax 29d ago
I'm from Europe and like Paypal a lot for paying for things online; much easier than using a credit card. Paying with CC: typing the 16 digits of the CC, expiration date, 'CVC', and then having your phone nearby for confirmat
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by bambax 1mo ago
This is all, sadly, very true. Anti-AC sentiment is prevalent throughout Europe, and like all superstions, it's based on false assumptions, and extremely resistant to actual evidence.
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by bambax 1mo ago
They should respond with a poop emoji, which is what Musk sends to people he doesn't care about.
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by bambax 1mo ago
This was 2017-2021. Not sure if One-Stop-Shop covers this as it mentions "cross-border sales" and the problem with Amazon fulfillment and storage was to make all sales local (not cross-border). But maybe it does cover it. I don&#x
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by bambax 1mo ago
Yes. I used to sell objects on Amazon in Europe. You can sell from just one country, but then each sale outside of that country is an "export" that triggers high fees. For sales to be "local", products need to be stored
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by bambax 1mo ago
Marc Andreessen is an evil man with the behavior (and appearance!) of a Bond villain.

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