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by cylemons 11mo ago
System package management is a mess in the first place, if you have a program that uses python then all the packages that it uses need to be installed globally, so you have python packages bundled as system packages which can conflict with
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by cylemons 11mo ago
I dont understand why you can't just install python in your container? How does venv make it hard?
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by cylemons 1y ago
They are doing it for speculation. They buy it for 20k and sell for higher to profit
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by cylemons 1y ago
What was the AMD GPGPU called?
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by cylemons 1y ago
Have you tried installing APKs directly?
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by cylemons 1y ago
Just like simple webpages, simple desktop and mobile apps last a long time too. It is only when working on complex applications that use cutting edge apis that churn is a problem
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by cylemons 1y ago
So the way this works is to draw fonts/svgs inside the canvas and check the pixels, that makes sense
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by cylemons 1y ago
How does testing rendering work? Can javascript get pixel data from the DOM
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by cylemons 1y ago
> I don't think a jew would have gone back to Nazi Germany to visit family That is because they wouldn't be having a family in Germany since they would be dead
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by cylemons 1y ago
At least in a democracy, you can rest assured that your government is supported by big part of the population, should sanctions hit them too hard they will vote the other way and get out of sanctions quickly. But in dictatorship you are jus
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by cylemons 1y ago
Why would rebranding be expensive? Isn't it just a new set of logos?
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by cylemons 1y ago
Dont high profile designers have strong anticompetes?
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by cylemons 1y ago
Works very smoothly on my phone
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by cylemons 1y ago
Also, culture is shaped by biology, our brains are wired to find meat delicious because it gives us the proteins we need to survive.
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by cylemons 1y ago
It is different tho, atleast eating meat is nutritionally beneficial while killing for sports is a waste of time.
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by cylemons 1y ago
Also a matter of purpose, killing animals for food is more acceptable than killing them for sport or entertainment
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by cylemons 1y ago
They may be the most popular but more importantly how profitable are they
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by cylemons 1y ago
does HN even have a downvote button?
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by cylemons 1y ago
How hard does hardware based DRMs like HDCP, TPMs, etc. make pirating movies nowadays
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by cylemons 1y ago
I guess the analogy flawed, because it is not a competition where we can pit the chatbots against each other directly
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by cylemons 1y ago
He's the boss of the researchers so he knows more than them /s But seriously tho, what parent is saying isn't a deep insight, it makes sense from a business perspective to consolidate your products into one so you don't
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by cylemons 1y ago
He specifically said play them individually.
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by cylemons 1y ago
Thing is the original owner has to have fast paced development and add new features or else people would stick to the open source version. So its not just free publicity
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by cylemons 1y ago
The dev cannot remove the older opensource versions, so the community is always free to fork those
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by cylemons 1y ago
Wouldn't that be very space inefficient to repeat the paths every time a letter appears in the file? Or you mean that glyph Ids don't necessarily map to Unicode?
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by cylemons 1y ago
That and only commercial pdf libraries support PDF/A. Apperantly, it is much harder than regular PDF so open source libs dont bother.
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by cylemons 1y ago
PDF is more like a glorified svg format than a word format. It only contains info on how the document should look but so semantic information like sentences, paragraphs, etc. Just a bag of characters positioned in certain places.
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by cylemons 1y ago
If that stuff is stored as structured metadata extracting that should be trivial
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by cylemons 1y ago
Same, Western Asia
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by cylemons 1y ago
Historically, Microsoft didn't have a problem making breaking changes in new D3D APIs so I think they'll be one of the first to make a clean API to leverage the new hardware features

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