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by diggan 1y ago
Best way of learning electronic music (including synths, both modular and non-modular) for me has been to have some idea in mind, then figuring out how to translate that to the synth I have in front of me. Currently experimenting with dub t
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by diggan 1y ago
To be honest, they're more or less the same. Zuckerberg frequently talks proudly of his "open source models" constantly, while OpenAI at least doesn't claim to release open source models when they're not. Still, agr
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by diggan 1y ago
> In the past we thought that the collective human knowledge available via the Internet will allow everyone to learn. I think it is fair to say that it didn't change much in the grand scheme of things. Just an anecdote of course, bu
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by diggan 1y ago
> I ask because every serious study on using modern generative AI tools There are a lot of studies, and I can't say I've read all of them, but the ones I have read, there hasn't been much focus on how the participants used
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by diggan 1y ago
> Yes, I have to tell it a lot of things. Like that I use Linux (Ubuntu version also), that I want to use emacs and not nano, etc. It would be nice if I could say it once and for all. You can add this to the system prompt, or "custo
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by diggan 1y ago
> I'm currently learning Janet and using ChatGPT as my tutor is absolutely awful Yeah, slightly outside of "mainstream" technologies tend to have lots of hallucinated material. The only thing I've found to work is O3
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by diggan 1y ago
Looks like a great start, played around with it a bit yesterday and today, I've basically been doing the same with my own CLI but the UI you came up with helps a great deal with navigation and resuming learning :) One issue I found is
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by diggan 1y ago
> asking them to be terse hampered their ability to give complete and correct answers? You can kind of guide both the reasoning and "final" answer individually in the system prompts, so you can ask it to revalidate everything d
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by diggan 1y ago
> What is the point of this? Probably for people like me, where the only Apple hardware I own and use is a iPhone 12 Mini, almost everything else is USB-C or the previous USB iterations. It'd be great if I can use the same cables I
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by diggan 1y ago
What you mean "can't even replace"? You can, nothing in my comment says you cannot?
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by diggan 1y ago
The worst part is that they even lack internal consistency, so they (someone at least) know it's wrong, yet they persist regardless. > https://www.llama.com/ - "Industry Leading, Open-Source AI" > http
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by diggan 1y ago
> Pretty much everyone nowadays I think it depends on the ecosystem. It's true much of the "maker" community tends to embrace whatever solution is the cheapest, fastest and easiest to get something working out the door, bu
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by diggan 1y ago
> When the modding community is so heavily plagued with mods that are malicious in some way Is it? Granted, I'm a heavy mod user myself for various games, but only created mods myself for Cities Skylines and Cities Skylines 2 so I g
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by diggan 1y ago
This was published the day after, with the title "Problems with the heap" but the URL makes the context clear: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/26/atop/
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by diggan 1y ago
> uninformed speculation, panic, reddit levels of baseless accusation, and harassment of the developers To be fair, it seems like the only way of avoiding something like that is never saying anything publicly. The crowds of the internet
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by diggan 1y ago
They may be, but there are lots of languages, lots of approaches, lots of methodologies and just a ton of different ways to "code", coding isn't one homogeneous activity that one model beats all the other models at. > what
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Itch.io – Update on NSFW Content – Addendum FAQ July 28th(itch.io)
5 points by diggan 1y ago|0 comments
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by diggan 1y ago
For what? It's really hard to say what model is "generally" better then another, as they're all better/worse at specific things. My own benchmarks has a bunch of different tasks I use various local models for, and I
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by diggan 1y ago
Even "accidentally" it makes sense that "SVGs of pelicans riding bikes" are now included into datasets used for training as it has spread as a wildfire on the internet, making it less useful as a simple benchmark. This i
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Harvard Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500M to Resolve Trump Dispute(nytimes.com)
4 points by diggan 1y ago|1 comments
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by diggan 1y ago
> I don't think you should use LLMs for something you can't master without. I'm not sure, I frequently use LLMs for well-scoped math-heavy functions (mostly for game development) where I don't neccessarly understand w
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by diggan 1y ago
> €170 + 21.5% (Irish VAT rate) is €206.55. So not sure what you expected. Parent clearly stated they only saw "€170+VAT" and not €206.55, so of course they expected to see €206.55 before the purchase went through. Not sure wha
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Dalí's creative dream: Scientific evidence demonstrates the power of micro-naps(english.elpais.com)
3 points by diggan 1y ago|0 comments
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by diggan 1y ago
> So, I hop off, run over, press the WALK button [...] the light turns green, the WALK sign says WALK and we're on our way. You mean the button for pedestrians to pass the crosswalk I guess? Why would it say "WALK" (be gre
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by diggan 1y ago
Finally, since we're a lot of programmers here, all of Blenders functionality is exposed as a Python API, that can be run directly from within Blender or as an addon/extension. Handy when you're doing a bunch of repetitive st
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by diggan 1y ago
Removing/degrading the UX for keyboard and mouse users would be (professional) suicide for Blender, I'm 99% confident Ton would never do something like that, unless most of the user base suddenly find themselves using tablets excl
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Early Hawaiian petroglyphs on a beach are visible again(apnews.com)
4 points by diggan 1y ago|0 comments
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2025 July Pebble Update – Pebble Is Now Called Pebble(ericmigi.com)
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by diggan 1y ago
> It's sexual for a decent proportion of people - just the fact that this article was tagged NSFW shows that I don't think it shows that at all. Any content not suitable for a work computer in the typical office gets a NSFW lab
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by diggan 1y ago
So your argument is that because you happen to find the person attractive, the image itself is sexual? That would quickly lead us to classifying 90% of everything on the internet as sexual, as there is a wide range of stuff that makes peopl

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