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by cabalamat 3y ago
I suspect what was meant is something like 500% VAT, where if a generative AI charges a customer $6, then $5 goes to the taxman and $1 to the AI company.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
$100T in 2022 according to the World Bank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Or to put it another way, one month's worth of world GDP.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> 100% they would pay a lot of money to be able to hang out with Joe Rogan, or some only fans person, and those pornstars or podcasts hosts will never disagree with them, never get mad at them, never get bored of them, never thing they&#
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by cabalamat 3y ago
A pity the USA couldn't do the same to Elizabeth Holmes.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
There's a bash example on the home page, so it wasn't obvious to me it's windows-only.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> In the first one I failed, I had to write a limited chess program, that only supported two kinds of pieces. It needed a project structure, a data model, valid movements for the pieces, and tests. I started from nothing, and had to be s
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Short names are OK if they are explained somewhere. I often explain them in a comment at the start of a class or function.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Fair enough
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Looking at the code (src/microsearch/engine.py), we have: class SearchEngine: def __init__(self, k1: float = 1.5, b: float = 0.75): self._index: dict[str, dict[str, int]] = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Indeed. Couldn't the whole article just be replaced by the phrase "transaction costs"?
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by cabalamat 3y ago
That works too.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> I think they really need to solve redundancy They could offer a service that backs up your local Umbrel server to their central servers. This would provide reassurance that your data is backed up, and give them a revenue stream.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
I always use a wired keyboard/mouse. Less to go wrong.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> The user is currently using an input device when they see this message. Surely they are using an output device, the screen?
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by cabalamat 3y ago
More simply: don't outsource activities that have a complex interface to your organisation. Having to write complex specs for an outside organisation to implement is an anti-pattern, because: - the more complex a spec the harder it is
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> This is the national internet regulator proposing that it would require that everyone, adult and children alike, would upload their state ID and live selfies, to porn sites to have biometric processing of their facial images performed.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
No porn for you then.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> Many didn’t know about new CSS features that had shipped 10 years ago. What’s more, even when we told them about them, they didn’t seem too excited. They were doing just fine with jQuery and WordPress, thank you. ...and if jQuery and W
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> beneficial for those enthusiastic about SPAs It's almost as if some developers choose technologies based on "what'll look good on my CV"
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by cabalamat 3y ago
If any of the above have relatives in the PRC that could be used as levers to coerce the student into spying for China, then that's reason to be wary.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> In Nino, pages and blocks are interoperable with each other what does a "block" mean in this context?
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> There are some syntactic quirks that don't convey any obvious benefit, like the use of '>' to indicate a return type. [...] why not use the much more common ':' or even '->'? Agreed. New languag
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> as soon as you have electronics and bus systems DIY basically requires deep car electronics knowledge and skills. So how is this done on cars? Dores each manufacturer have their own proprietary bus system (what i imagine), or is there
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> Don't they get feedback from users that we hate these annoying things? I suspect they don't care.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> The system could be abused or hacked E.g. by a hostile foreign power.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Is it possible to upload pages to neocities programmatically? I know you have a Ruby-based program to do so, but can i do it by ftp, http, or something similar? The reason i ask is I've written (in Python) wiki software catwiki[1] that
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> Someone who is judicious about their upvotes is going to have a much smaller impact than some who just reflexively upvotes or downvotes everything based on kneejerk reactions. It would be very easy for websites to weight upvotes so tha
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> "YouTube voice," the narration style(s) that so many creators have picked up I can't say I've ever noticed that -- do you have particular creators/videos in mind?
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> There is a sizable contingent of English speakers out there that continue to insist that it’s incorrect to end a sentence in a preposition That is the sort of nonsense up with which one should not put.

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