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7mo ago
> Homebrew is working on an official Rust frontend that will actually have full compatibility. When you say "Rust frontend", is the vision that Homebrew's frontend would eventually transition to being a pure Rust project
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7mo ago
You only have the right to modify if you can access the source. If you got (a snapshot of) the source along with the binary, that's fine, there's no need to keep hosting the source anywhere. But if the company said "for sourc
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7mo ago
You seem the right person to ask about this: why don’t we see any public web archivers operated by individuals or organizations based in countries that aren’t big fans of aiding or listening to American intelligence?
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7mo ago
I think that one refers to doing so when there is no food on the chopsticks . Picture tapping the chopsticks against your lips to show you’re thinking, if conversing while eating. The overarching rule being that you should put the chopstic
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7mo ago
So what are you expected to do with the last few sauce-soaked grains of rice that would at best be able to be plucked grain by grain from the bowl, and even then would likely slip from between the tips of the chopsticks? Just leave them in
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7mo ago
I wonder what Ms. Kyoto would tell me to do to properly pick up my chopsticks, given that I’m left-handed, and yet it is apparently a faux pas to lay down the chopsticks pointing to the right.
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7mo ago
> to try to maybe help some rather technologically-hopeless groups of people Even if they're the majority? (Keep in mind that as average lifespan keeps getting longer while birth rates keep going lower, demographics will tend to ske
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7mo ago
Table 2.1 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165 .
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7mo ago
They never put the parameter counts in their model names like other AI companies did, but back in the GPT3 era (i.e. before they had PR people sitting intermediating all their comms channels), OpenAI engineers would disclose this kind of
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7mo ago
OpenAI don't talk about the "size" or "weights" of these models any more. Anyone have any insight into how resource-intensive these Mini/Nano-variant models actually are at this point? I assume that OpenAI cont
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7mo ago
How about these two niches: 1. non-vegans eating with vegans at a vegan restaurant , where eating there wasn't their choice (they were craving a burger), and so, being forced to order off this menu, will choose the most burger-like
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7mo ago
Most of what I (and in my experience many people) want a voice assistant for, is setting+ending timers... which for me happens mostly in the kitchen, while I'm simultaneously holding a hot pan or hand-tossing a salad or paper-towelling
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7mo ago
> if an agent browses a poisoned page during research, the injected instructions could override its behavior before secrets ever come into play. Why is this problem (UGC instruction injection) still a thing, anyway? It feels like a probl
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7mo ago
Yep. Anyone saying a MacBook of any kind is comparable to the average school Chromebook has clearly never touched a school Chromebook anywhere other than in a Best Buy. $200 — or even $500 — plastic computers are different in kind (of parts
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7mo ago
> a zillion decent-spec chromebook style machines The interesting/unique thing about Apple's offering at this price point is the build quality, not the spec. If you're a school IT department buying these in volume, you wan
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7mo ago
I would note that motorcycles, ATVs, tractors, etc. still don't have seatbelts or airbags. And sure, that's partly because, for some combinations of safety feature x vehicle class, they fundamentally can't . But we could hav
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7mo ago
> possibly since Windows license sales are effectively a rounding error to Microsoft at this point; they make way more off of subscription services and/or Office, all of which are already available on macOS without having to dual-bo
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7mo ago
One might say that early Youtube was mainly thought of as a video pastebin that allowed (JS-assisted) hotlink-embedding into other pages. Youtube was to video as image-hosting sites like Imgur were to images. Which was important, in both ca
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7mo ago
For them to call it Bootcamp 2 (a "product" per se), they'd have had to have another OS they could actually demo installing. Otherwise "Bootcamp 2" is just a mysterious empty chooser window. But at the time there wa
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7mo ago
In every implementation I've seen, the link only becomes clickable if you hold down a modifier key. By default, the links are just text. Which should make intuitive sense, because otherwise it'd be breaking existing semantics, as
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7mo ago
Presumably because non-autonomous vehicles will still exist. Heck, there are moving violations you can perform on foot.
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7mo ago
Insofar as the thing we're talking about here isn't exactly "hack-back" per se, but more like "booby trapping your honeypot", I think you might be able to make an argument analogous to the one that would apply
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7mo ago
I think I would expect certain laws that are currently considered statutory / strict-liability laws, to be shifted to instead constitute only "evidence of negligence" and/or act as "aggravating conditions." So,
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7mo ago
> There is a difference between "putting up a sign that says 55 mph and walking away", "putting up a sign that says 55 mph and occasionally enforcing it with expensive humans when they get around to it", and "put
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7mo ago
Maybe they have exactly the accent iOS dictation was trained to recognize.
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Information that might be of interest to someone here: The formal name for the “empty” binary infix operator that gets implied in the AST when doing this, is the “juxtaposition” (or “juxtapose”, or “juxt”) operator. The implicit multiplicat
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7mo ago
Metro worked perfectly well on tablets. And every OS since W8 has actually kept some version of Metro (in the form of e.g. larger touch-targets), because having a single version of Windows UI for both touchscreen and mouse-and-keyboard comp
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I presume the difficult question there, would be what you would expect users to do to engage with that mechanism on iOS (since many Apple first-party apps, e.g. Notes, are now designed once to run on macOS + iPadOS + iOS as essentially a si
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7mo ago
No? What you’re looking for here are project-specific agent skill files. Which don’t need to be “pointed at” by AGENTS.md for the agent to find them and use them when/where applicable; and nor do they take up undue context when not in
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Except that most READMEs are seemingly written more for end-users than for developers; and even CONTRIBUTING files often mostly just document the social contribution process + guidelines rather than providing any guidance targeted toward th
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