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by cnity 2y ago
Yes, I agree my post was unkind. I had an emotional reaction to a charged subject, and I'm sorry for that.
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by cnity 2y ago
Thank you for taking such a good perspective and providing interesting thoughts despite me taking a fairly argumentative oppositional debate style. It's uncommon and has made me rethink my approach. You do raise some interesting points
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by cnity 2y ago
With respect, you did not further the discussion. You turned it round and ran it backwards, misleading an unknown number of people in the process. > But in that case, ... WhatsApp, ... can (and probably do) already spy on me and my pictu
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by cnity 2y ago
99.99% would mean 1 incorrect classification for every 10,000 images, which is actually a very large number. I mean, how many pictures do you think are sent per hour across all mainstream communication platforms?
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by cnity 2y ago
> It's funny seeing the current generation get up in arms about progress after spending so much time whining about boomers inability to cope with change. Almost all of these apparent "contradictions" stem from the fact tha
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by cnity 2y ago
Aside from resolution of paths to some canonical version (e.g. collapsing redundant /'s in your example), what actually is an "actual directory" other than a prefix?
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by cnity 2y ago
You're recommending that OP uses an abstraction over the system. It takes their X problem and makes it a Y problem instead (because they won't learn systems that way)!
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by cnity 2y ago
> The only problem I have is that I can never remember which one maps to HTTP status codes 401 and 403. But that’s just a personal quirk. It's probably because the name of the codes is actually wrong. 401 is called "unauthorize
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by cnity 2y ago
Right. The OP title is: "I want flexible queries, not RAG". I didn't write the article, btw!
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by cnity 2y ago
The valuable part _is_ the vector search, at least from the perspective of the OP. It sounds like what they're after is to just pass back the source texts from the vector search, rather than passing them back through an LLM to be summa
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by cnity 2y ago
Reminds me of this gem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163667
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by cnity 2y ago
If you combined this with JIT compilation and a macro system you could make a pretty nice performant browser-ready lisp that produces small code.
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by cnity 2y ago
Hear hear. Rakes can be more efficient[0], provide an upper-body workout, minimise impact to the environment, make next to no sound, cost almost nothing, and provide a relaxing experience if you know how to embrace it. I suppose these days
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by cnity 2y ago
Islam generally frowns upon depictions of life and especially depictions of Mohammed, the opposite is true for christianity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam
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by cnity 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve
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by cnity 2y ago
I think that's broadly true, and possibly an aesthetic thing that in part is what pushes me away from certain types of classical music, but look up, for example, Rushad Eggleston[image: 0] for a counter-example of whether or not classi
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by cnity 2y ago
On the other hand, many rock guitarists have destroyed guitars on-stage as an act of expression. Destruction is a perfectly valid mode of expression this way, and there's no "correct" way to handle an instrument just because
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by cnity 2y ago
AssemblyScript?
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by cnity 2y ago
A "social lunch" is very different from "lunch". Arguably a "social lunch" is a kind of day-drinking party, in my experience.
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by cnity 2y ago
Possibly dumb question, but if you wore weighted vests (for example) to match the same force due to gravity on earth for that individual, would that be equivalent to existing on earth without the vest? Ignoring e.g. the difference in exact
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by cnity 2y ago
The causality of this condition is not the same. Prion issues cause both sleeplessness and death, which is not the same thing as sleep deprivation leading to death. Thanks for the link though, this is interesting.
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by cnity 2y ago
They also growl and do stifled sleep barks, and sometimes they are clearly running.
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by cnity 2y ago
This to me is a sign that some commits should be squashed, because it implies the same lines have changed multiple times in the commits that are ahead of the remote branch. It's worth doing the rebase interactively and squashing them u
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by cnity 2y ago
This presents a false dichotomy (Github vs email patches), when there exist a whole host of self-hosted options (Gitea for one).
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by cnity 2y ago
Just use: > git pull --rebase
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by cnity 2y ago
This. The $12B represents about 0.2% of the total US outlays for FY 2023. People tend to see the big number without considering the rest of public spending. You have to crack an egg to make an omelette. As a result the general population wi
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by cnity 3y ago
> A little bit of this also has to do to stick it to all those Luddites on the internet who post "that's impossible" or "you're doing it wrong" to Stack Overflow questions... Requesting permissions in the JN
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by cnity 3y ago
I personally find the explanation very satisfying, actually! So many fractals are a complex embodiment of a simple rule, and this idea (complexity from simplicity) permeates everything in the natural world. That this extends to proteins is
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by cnity 3y ago
Only on Hacker News would someone picture an oscillating waveform with a derivative of 0 twice per cycle! (I'm just poking fun)
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by cnity 3y ago
This was my thought too, it's borne of frustration.

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