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by btown 2y ago
Notably, Recital 12 says the definition "should not cover systems that are based on the rules defined solely by natural persons to automatically execute operations." https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Gloss
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by btown 2y ago
Does Rust have something like a deep-codemodding macro that could be used to un-panic-fy an entire function etc. automatically? Something like: Given a function, rewrite its signature to return a Result if it doesn't already, rewrite e
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by btown 2y ago
Also named specifically to muddle the SEO for the term "deep." Nothing that OpenAI does is unintentional.
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by btown 2y ago
> enterprise-level documentation before rolling out your GaaP (Groundhogs as a Platform) strategy Do you develop a rack-mounted standalone appliance in case we need an Air GaaP solution?
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by btown 2y ago
> This is not the first time internet sleuths have discovered a way to disable Google’s AI-powered results. Other methods are more complicated, however, like adding a specific string of characters to the search results page URL. This met
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by btown 2y ago
From https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/UNITEDS... the proposed restriction seems to be: > “Google must not offer or provide anything of value to Apple—or offer any commercial terms—that
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by btown 2y ago
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9557/ for folks' reference about the new [] suffix syntax. It's a really well thought out RFC: the offset, the civil time zone name, and a flag for whether that civil
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by btown 2y ago
There is a marked difference between trusting an institution to deliver a predictable experience for you, vs. trusting it to be able to go beyond its current practices to do something values-driven that you might want it to do. Trying to co
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by btown 2y ago
From https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/operations/access-rights#acce... > By default, the ClickHouse server provides the default user account which is not allowed using SQL-driven access control and account m
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by btown 2y ago
If you want good AI generated music that captures the best of human creativity, just go to your terminal and type `cat /dev/null`.
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by btown 2y ago
This, 100%. From the SLAP paper linked in the OP https://predictors.fail/files/SLAP.pdf : > Considerations for Safari. We emphasize the importance of site isolation [55], a mechanism preventing webpages of different
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by btown 2y ago
There's a lot of conflicting information here. There are two papers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19437v1 for DeepSeek-V3-Base, which makes claims about 2.8M H800 GPU hours, and https://arxiv.org/pdf
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by btown 2y ago
This is one of many reasons why ad blocking isn't just cosmetic: it's a best practice for security too!
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by btown 2y ago
It's also quite insidious as you don't need to control anything on any server to get this information; as long as you can get your target to load a unique URL never before loaded by anyone else, you can simply later poll it with a
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by btown 2y ago
What did you use for the collaborative music voting - or did you make something yourself? For different use cases, I've seen everything used from collaborative Spotify playlists to Google forms, to those "pay a dollar to bump your
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by btown 2y ago
If you want 1 dependency rather than 0, there are various low-level libraries designed for building full-featured databases. For one of these, RocksDB, one reference point is how CockroachDB was built on top of them for many years and many
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by btown 2y ago
I like GitHub precisely because it didn't try to capture the entire market of issue trackers and code search too aggressively. If GitHub sub-issues had existed even in an inferior form back in 2019, developer-targeted trackers like L
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by btown 2y ago
I've often thought that one of the places AMD could distinguish itself from NVIDIA is bringing significantly higher amounts of VRAM (or memory systems that are as performant as what we currently know as VRAM) to the consumer space. A c
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by btown 2y ago
My hypothesis on this is that marketers who have personal MacBooks but are forced to use Windows computers at work, with mice with notched scroll wheels, find JS-driven smooth scrolling to be superior to the native snapping experience they
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by btown 2y ago
For those interested, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47986 is a relatively approachable overview of these guidelines. It's interesting to read the full TikTok opinion https://w
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by btown 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615 (both article and comments) describe various ways of looking at this - and there are many implications for machine learning e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by btown 2y ago
Huh - it's almost like the mere existence of a pendingDelete in the history of a domain should make every email existing on that domain at that time eligible for https://haveibeenpwned.com/ .
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by btown 2y ago
I'm surprised that there aren't already greater integrations between Copilot and Github pull reviews - pulling into the prompt context for completions, for instance, the data set of pull review comments that address any prior atte
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by btown 2y ago
Along those lines: especially when coming from a technical background and dealing with non-technical stakeholders, wording like "hmm, this would likely be a pretty intensive multi-week project" might have been intended as carrying
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by btown 2y ago
Yep, but one without the ability to even JIT down to vectorized CPU commands (to say nothing of GPU connectivity) would be incredibly slow indeed!
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by btown 2y ago
> quite parasitic This is the mental model that I use and teach: a NULL is a virus that will likely make everything it touches NULL... unless cordoned off by a COALESCE or IFNULL or something else that explicitly speaks about its NULL-se
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by btown 2y ago
For Chrome's PDF renderer, the runtime is V8, so we're literally one (hilarious) line of code away from this glorious future existing today: https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/refs/heads/m
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by btown 2y ago
I, for one, was surprised that Chrome's PDF renderer would allow persistent JS code like this to run - not just limited code in response to user actions, but a real game loop. But there's a spec for all this and everything! https
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by btown 2y ago
Thank you so much for this! I was a bit concerned that the performance on my Mac was nearly identical to my new 3090 on PC and thought I might have messed up the setup there!
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by btown 2y ago
Not to mention that it Just Works on Apple devices! Really, really cool.

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