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by csande17 1y ago
Yeah, it's really just a user experience improvement. In particular, it makes AI look a lot better if it can internally retry a bunch of times until it comes up with valid code or whatever, instead of you having to see each error and
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by csande17 1y ago
News stories about women using Replika as a companion make the rounds every once in a while: https://www.thecut.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-ch...
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by csande17 1y ago
Well, here Blender Studio is distributing the game's binaries for free while charging money to access the source code, and the GPL does prohibit doing that. And Dogwalk's Itch.io page claims that the code is GPL-licensed... But if
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by csande17 1y ago
Blender Studio calls a lot of their projects "open source" because, once you do pay the monthly fee, you receive the source files under an open-source/Creative Commons license that allows you to freely use and redistribute th
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by csande17 1y ago
There's a pretty big difference between AlphaZero and a "generative AI" program: AlphaZero has access to an oracle that can tell it whether it's making valid moves and winning games. By comparison, getting accurate feedb
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by csande17 1y ago
These days, you'll have to keep the plastic in some kind of metallic sleeve. The RFID chip in US Green Cards, and I imagine passport cards as well, is designed to be readable from across a room.
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by csande17 1y ago
Who do you think is designing the UX for all the new AI products and services?
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by csande17 1y ago
The only explanation I can think of is that GP is, somewhat tautologically, defining contrast as "the value returned by WCAG 2's formula for computing contrast" (and, probably, assuming that WCAG 2's "science"
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by csande17 1y ago
> black has more contrast by either measure No it doesn't? The screenshot of the calculator in the blog post very clearly shows that white has a greater contrast according to APCA. (If the negative numbers are confusing, you can a
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by csande17 1y ago
I might be totally missing something here, but does Mycoria attempt to prevent network participants from learning the public-Internet IP address corresponding to a Mycoria router ID? The "iana" field in the configuration kind of s
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Esoteric emulators: CHIP-8 in Desmos(medium.com)
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by csande17 2y ago
Why not both? Chrome consistently pushes to make it easier for websites to track you -- by being the slowest browser to incorporate privacy protections like third-party cookie isolation, by eliminating extension APIs used by ad/tracker
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by csande17 2y ago
Not necessarily -- a lot of external hobbyist work has gone into reverse-engineering Sonic Generations, which has an official PC port and is based on the same engine as Unleashed. Funnily enough, one of the most famous Generations mods is a
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by csande17 2y ago
Of course, a lot of activities carry risk; doesn't mean teenagers will completely abstain from them. The missing piece here might be that, as a teenager, it's pretty easy to convince yourself that the main way girls will reject yo
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by csande17 2y ago
It's pretty standard for middle schools to hold assemblies discussing sexual harassment and healthy relationships, but they don't always do a great job communicating those concepts. Back when I was in middle school about a decade
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by csande17 2y ago
> repeated tests of compiling various software packages reveal that the borrow checker is within the noise performance wise. Out of curiosity, do you have a source for this? The stuff I remember reading on the topic is from back in 2018
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by csande17 2y ago
> Indeed, I don’t see the typescript community really complaining that there isn’t another implementation of typescript. There are actually numerous third-party implementations that can take TypeScript code and compile it to JavaScript.
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by csande17 2y ago
WebPKI still has the "devices stop working if certs are rotated" problem, just on a longer timescale. If the user takes an old IoT device out of the box, and the auto-update server is using a newer root cert that wasn't trust
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by csande17 2y ago
The article mentions that pinning is often used by mobile apps and IoT devices. In those contexts, you have an easy out-of-band mechanism to deliver the cert: baking it into the app/firmware binary. (The user generally receives this fr
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by csande17 2y ago
> Kernel modules have a moderate list of unstable features that are required but many (all?) have already been stabilized or on the path to stabilization so you don't need a "bleeding edge" nightly. https://gith
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by csande17 2y ago
Distros have historically been very concerned with "real development"! Debian, for example, packages all of the tools and libraries needed to build any package in Debian, so users can easily modify and recompile any package. Becau
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by csande17 2y ago
https://purgecss.com/ does this, kind of -- it used to be recommended by Tailwind back when Tailwind shipped a giant zip-bomb stylesheet of every possible property/value combination by default. I don't think it do
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by csande17 2y ago
I wonder if SVG filters would let you do the "manual" approach without JavaScript. IIRC they're hardware-accelerated by default in Chrome, and they usually still work in browsers that disable WebGL for security/privacy r
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by csande17 2y ago
The article suggests Apple is using its buying power to push component prices down, so that it can keep more of the profit on its expensive smartphones for itself.
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by csande17 2y ago
Also, the homomorphic encryption is a requirement for third-party caller ID providers, not Apple themselves. Apple's first-party "Contact Photos" caller ID feature operates primarily on the "trust Apple" security
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by csande17 2y ago
Yeah, the if statements are definitely a little weird-looking to me. It seems like the goal is to allow for more traditional infix syntax while still defining most of the language using the macro system; it seems unfortunate if their macro
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by csande17 2y ago
It would be pretty hard for the attacker to precisely arrange a hundred tiny sprinkles on the surface of a pill to exactly match a known-good pattern. (At least compared to just throwing a bunch of assorted sprinkles on the pill randomly an
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by csande17 2y ago
You've posted these links without much context, but yes, I do think Cloudflare does a pretty good job of backing up the specific claim that they'll absorb a large, random DDoS attack for you. (Although it doesn't seem like th
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by csande17 2y ago
> (in b4 it's Actually Indians.) Bad news: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-... > Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching
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by csande17 2y ago
If Cloudflare really is serious about this for R2, that's going to be difficult for them to communicate in a trustworthy way. Their other products (in particular their flagship DDOS mitigation service) definitely seem to operate on a &

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