barrucadu

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by barrucadu 7mo ago
A style of animated TV show from Japan
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by barrucadu 8mo ago
Read the rest of the sentence.
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by barrucadu 9mo ago
Was the lockdown not during the pandemic?
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by barrucadu 9mo ago
Are these answers so critical they're needed on a holiday?
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by barrucadu 10mo ago
Don't the C parts of Linux heavily depend on GCC extensions too? Seems depending on specific compiler features isn't really a blocker.
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by barrucadu 11mo ago
How does OpenAI being liable for reproducing copyrighted material imply that a word processor should be as well? Last time I checked, word processors don't have a black box text generator trained on pre-existing works: a word processo
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by barrucadu 11mo ago
I take it you think copyright shouldn't exist at all, then?
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by barrucadu 11mo ago
Obviously there's a limit, reproducing a single sentence is unlikely to be copyright infringement just because there are only so many words in a language; but if reproducing some text would be copyright infringement if a human did it,
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by barrucadu 11mo ago
> I don’t think a country’s government can justify no commercial LLMs to its populace They're not saying no LLMs, they're saying no LLMs using lyrics without a license. OpenAI simply need to pay for a license, or train an LLM
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by barrucadu 1y ago
Why would you want to implement an entire typesetting engine yourself?
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by barrucadu 1y ago
> Meat isn't tasty. If it was you wouldn't always eat it fried almost to a char with salt and spices. Allow me to introduce you to the concept of "steak".
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by barrucadu 2y ago
That's a good point, I've personally not got much use out of LLMs (I use them to generate fantasy names for my D&D campaign, but find they fall down for anything complex) - but I've also never got much use out of StackOve
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by barrucadu 2y ago
But the crust is nice, why would you throw it away just because you're rich?
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by barrucadu 2y ago
In the first paragraph: > I want to be clear that I am generally limiting my scope here to rigid non-powered armor. Power (or powered) armor – that is, armor that moves with built-in servos and motors, rather than purely under muscle pow
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by barrucadu 2y ago
Whether the registrar keeps doing business is irrelevant if the root nameservers stop serving NS for .io.
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by barrucadu 2y ago
I agree that transparent and documented decisions are good evidence for not being corrupt, and I can see how you could argue that they're required (as a non-corrupt organisation that hides the reasoning behind its decisions is larg
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by barrucadu 2y ago
By god you've done it, you've solved linguistics!
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by barrucadu 2y ago
Obviously the idea is to live longer with good mental and physical health. There's no point in living longer if your faculties are too degraded to enjoy it, you may as well just be dead.
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by barrucadu 2y ago
Maybe this is one of those things that's harder to understand if you have an accounting background. As someone without an accounting background, I found it incredibly intuitive: if money moves out of an account, that's a posting
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by barrucadu 3y ago
It's possible to have two important things and yet for one to be more important than the other.
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by barrucadu 3y ago
Very few pieces of advice apply 100% in all situations regardless of the context. That doesn't mean the advice should be rejected out of hand.
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by barrucadu 3y ago
How can you tell whether the problem is due to a software bug or due to a hardware fault though? The software could have thrown the "catastrophic failure, stop the world" exception due to memory corruption.
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by barrucadu 4y ago
Why would you block the port you're serving SSH on?
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by barrucadu 4y ago
An unsolicited SMS every month sounds like a lot to me.
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by barrucadu 4y ago
There's an uncountable number of numbers between 0 and 1, but you, a human, can only pick from a countable subset of those.
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by barrucadu 4y ago
A ### in Markdown doesn't "do" anything either, the reader just has to know that it denotes a 3rd level heading.
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by barrucadu 4y ago
Is it offensive to want to be happy / happier without first solving someone else's problems? What's the appropriate amount of happiness to feel before it should turn to guilt?
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by barrucadu 4y ago
My "purpose", though it feels rather grand to call it that, is simply to have a good time. Do I derive some sort of great spiritual meaning from working on side-projects, reading lots of books, playing tabletop RPGs, and planning
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by barrucadu 4y ago
That's what parameterised queries are for. SQL injection isn't hard to avoid.
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by barrucadu 4y ago
Sure, if Apple don't want to be part of the EU market they can just stop selling to the EU. Is that supposed to be some kind of "gotcha"? Are you saying the EU market needs Apple more than Apple needs the EU market?

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