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by dTal 2y ago
The regularization applied, which collapses multiple splats along a ray, seems to hurt detail capture quite badly in some circumstances, as can be seen in several of the depth map comparisons. Sure, they don't have floaters anymore, bu
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by dTal 2y ago
Let me just run this through the trusty ol' DeSnarkifier 8000... clunk hum DING aha, here we are: "There was severe wealth inequality in the past". Hm! Very true! But it doesn't really advance the discussion from &
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by dTal 2y ago
Interested viewers may enjoy a somewhat more historical treatment in the BBC's "Breaking the Code", a 1996 made-for-TV movie starring Derek Jacobi. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115749/ https:&#x2F
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by dTal 2y ago
>That means that power and wealth gets concentrated into hands of a small elite It is with some restraint that I note that "democracy" per se does a piss-poor job of preventing this, when Tim Cook's net worth exceeds the y
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by dTal 2y ago
I would love to live in the universe where popularity was a good indicator of quality.
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by dTal 2y ago
An important distinction must be drawn between suppressing distribution, and "banning your citizens from reading". In fact it is not illegal to possess or read RT content, nor even for that matter to share it on social media. It i
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by dTal 2y ago
GTK widgets are indeed offputting in general. I think it's partly that GTK is very easy to use, which means we've all used a lot of shitty GTK software due to the lower barrier to entry, and partly that at some point it got tangle
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by dTal 2y ago
You might also be interested in SALOME - it's designed as a CFD meshing interface, but the CAD part is basically "FreeCAD but sane".
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by dTal 2y ago
Smaller, granted, but the Deluge also has an integrated battery? Lasts ages too.
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by dTal 2y ago
Depending on what you mean by "weighted sample", that's either trivially true (the network is of course a function of its training data and nothing else) or trivially false (the network generalizes over the training data an
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by dTal 2y ago
A Synthstrom Deluge arguably ticks those boxes, except perhaps for the "piano layout" (not that I think that makes much difference when you can't play either device like an actual piano, and at least the Deluge has a luscious
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by dTal 2y ago
If you want to justify rent-seeking because it helps you pay for your lifestyle, come out and say so in the first place instead of pretending it's for the benefit of your users. But claiming that Linux is a "hobby" on HN is e
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by dTal 2y ago
Funny, I've never once in all my days installed malware from a Linux package manager, and this "seal of approval" doesn't cost me or the developer any money at all.
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by dTal 2y ago
I feel the use of the word "parrot" is unintentionally apt, given that parrots were long thought to be mere mimics but were ultimately shown to have (at least the capacity for) real linguistic understanding.
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by dTal 2y ago
You underestimate it! https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster
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by dTal 2y ago
On Android you can simply run vanilla llama.cpp inside a terminal, or indeed any stack that you would run on a Linux desktop that doesn't involve a native GUI.
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by dTal 2y ago
I hope you realize that this is essentially an argument for anarchy, as you may substitute for "space stuff" any of the many worthwhile things that free markets don't adequately incentivize, which is to say everything a gove
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by dTal 2y ago
It has everything to do with being open/closed source. If it were open, you could trivially fix this behavior. Instead, and I quote: "the DHCP server on these modems hands out leases with the DNS suffix fritz.box, which means th
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by dTal 3y ago
I dunno, my Plasma 5 desktop is lightyears more functional than any DE I was running a decade ago - though I do agree with sibling comments that the RAM delta is probably more to do with pixmaps and pointer sizes that code bloat. There is a
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by dTal 3y ago
I would not expect this hack to fry hardware - at worst, voltage drop, interference, signal distortion, and impedance mismatch will simply cause the device to not work. But I've successfully run USB 2.0 over 30ft cables despite it bein
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by dTal 3y ago
Indeed, and once the 'McDonalds propaganda' folder has been laundered through the weights, there is no reliable way to scrub it, particularly without knowing what was in it - any generated data might contain a subtle echo of it.
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by dTal 3y ago
"Sandboxing" is an understandable kneejerk reaction to the threat of untrustworthy software, but I think it's the wrong one - the classic "technical solution to a political problem". Software must compose. After all
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by dTal 3y ago
It's still interesting that self driving cars are framed as being something other than "AI".
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by dTal 3y ago
It's absolutely AI. Perhaps this is one of those weird redefinitions that happens when a gold rush takes over a word, like how "crypto" now means digital currency instead of merely "encryption". But what does "
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by dTal 3y ago
It's worth noting that Void Linux (and maybe others) does indeed keep all its (largely declarative) package recipes and build tooling in a single git monorepo, although it does not keep copies of the upstream source because (package, v
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by dTal 3y ago
Please, these kinds of purple-prosed thesaurus-laden ruminations smack of LLM augmentation - two in the same thread, and neither contributing anything much more than a long winded flowery restatement of the existing state of the discussion:
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by dTal 3y ago
Why the hell did they build it then?
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by dTal 3y ago
Please stop this.
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by dTal 3y ago
This seems like it would be very useful for running flaky programs under Wine, which I find often ends with me crafting pkill regexes to tidy up the dozen or so helper "explorer.exe" processes left behind.
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by dTal 3y ago
I'm sure that works beautifully, unless one or both parties happen to be running the most popular mobile OS in the world, Android. That 'AirDrop' even exists as a proprietary technology really proves the point.

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