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by bambax 2y ago
Wow. This is absolutely fantastic! Great work! Congrats! Do you know if there would be a way (in the future) to export existing image diagrams to this format / will there be an API. It would be very cool for archival purposes.
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by bambax 2y ago
> But for all Seneca’s powerful advice about the big picture and the meaninglessness of wealth, he was also a slave-owner who, when alerted that his male slaves were sexually abusing his female slaves, set up a brothel in his estate so
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by bambax 2y ago
The original link has apparently been changed to a content-free Yahoo post, for some reason only known to "moderators", which makes existing comments bizarre to read. The original link pointed to this OpenAI document: https:&#x2F
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by bambax 2y ago
Could this not be done algorithmically though? One can go reasonably far with static code parsing.
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by bambax 2y ago
I don't think killing actual, effective ad-blocking was the sole motivation of moving to Manifest V3, but it was certainly a nice side effect that was hard to resist.
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by bambax 2y ago
I thought his attack on Firefox was a little unbecoming, while also forgetting to mention that he's a competitor (and his product is not free). Mozilla is apparently run by corporate drones who made a blunder (as drones do). It happen
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by bambax 2y ago
You can trust or distrust whoever you want, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Firefox. They now have updated the wording of their TOS that caused so much uproar and confusion (in part fueled by Brendan Eich, who runs a competing br
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by bambax 2y ago
There's zero chance the F35s will even be able to take off when the US attacks Greenland, while the chance of Chinese planes defending Denmark from the US is non-zero. Also, they could have bought European planes (Rafale).
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by bambax 2y ago
Exactly. There probably is a kill switch (the temptation to add one is just impossible to resist), but it's not even needed. Stop maintenance, and in a matter of days these things can't fly.
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by bambax 2y ago
Nobody wants the Russians to "pack up and head home"; we want them to die on the battlefield and be left there to rot.
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by bambax 2y ago
The alternative is to destroy Russia. Destroy its economy, kill their soldiers until there isn't one left standing, ravage its cities. Set fire to its oil fields. Sink its ships. It's a good alternative. A pleasant sight and a nic
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by bambax 2y ago
Yes the US may have a second civil war coming. The good guys won the last one; they should win this one too, but it may take some time. In the end though they should go for a "reconciliation"; MAGA will show no mercy -- the good g
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by bambax 2y ago
In France you still get free shipping for orders > €35; it's not "next day" but it's extremely rare one would need something so urgently as for 24 hours to make a difference. In fact nowadays the biggest competitor to
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by bambax 2y ago
Another test with a text in English, which is maybe more fair (although Mistral is a French company ;-). This image is from Parliamentary debates of the parliament of New Zealand in 1854-55: https://i.imgur.com/1uVAWx9.png
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by bambax 2y ago
It's not bad! But it still hallucinates. Here's an example of an (admittedly difficult) image: https://i.imgur.com/jcwW5AG.jpeg For the blocks in the center, it outputs: > Claude, duc de Saint-Simon, pair et c
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by bambax 2y ago
Where did you test it? At the end of the post they say: > Mistral OCR capabilities are free to try on le Chat but when asked, Le Chat responds: > can you do ocr? > I don't have the capability to perform Optical Character
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by bambax 2y ago
> "what does Europe do for USA" I hope nothing. We will try to annoy the US as much as possible.
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by bambax 2y ago
I think an important distinction is whether you send money to those providers or not. Using free services with a strong adblocker is probably a net loss for them. And regarding streaming... the high seas are very welcoming ;-) PS: Did you m
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by bambax 2y ago
It would not make it ok if he was American-born, but the fact that he wasn't even born in the US adds insult to injury.
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The illustration in the article is extremely appropriate. It's quite strange why Americans tolerate that an unelected, and even unappointed foreigner would destroy their country piece by piece. Isn't that exactly what the much-tou
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by bambax 2y ago
Yes; not only does he speak extremely poor English (which, well, ok, why not) but he clearly doesn't understand what the interviewee is saying, and keeps pushing the same ridiculous hypotheses about new machines in the future and magic
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by bambax 2y ago
It also works flawlessly on Android, with uBlock Origin blocking everything, including ads on youtube (provided one stays in the browser of course, and not use the app).
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Yet I genuinely don't understand how people can tolerate the modern web with ads? It's possible some people accept it because they don't know any better, but I have never seen anyone going back once they realize it's pos
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by bambax 2y ago
I'm making an OCR website focused on outputting ascii text that follows the layout of the original, so that it doesn't need to understand or interpret zones in the source: it just resembles the source. This makes proofing easier a
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by bambax 2y ago
These questions are about common sense, but the election of Trump has proven once again (if it needed proof) that politics don't have anything to do with common sense. Politics is about sticking it to the other side, even if it means h
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by bambax 2y ago
But how will individuals fare should death be defeated? A world without death, with stupid gurus running around topless to show off their abs, is absolute hell.
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by bambax 2y ago
> my cult is better than your cult That's not possible, because I don't have a cult. That's the point. All cults are bad, they can't be ranked.
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by bambax 2y ago
I kind of like Steve Jobs and think Bill Burr's take down is a little unfair; but it's funny and not without merit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1liOZ1fW1F8
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by bambax 2y ago
After skimming most comments here I still wonder what people want from a temperature-controlled mattress? Is it to have a warmer bed or a cooler one? Or does it depend on each person, some like it hot and some don't? And for those who
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by bambax 2y ago
Editing of titles on HN is annoying; I maintain this Tampermonkey script to mark moderated titles and show the original one: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bambax/hntitles/refs/heads...

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