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1y ago
Then you're effectively saying that democracy is dead in the US?
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1y ago
> they would offload things like that to not spook investors Judging by the amount of fairly traditional companies holding Bitcoins, it would seem like holding Bitcoin is no longer spooky. I guess it makes sense when the financial enviro
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> I thought we’d be able to celebrate this one. I mean yeah, it's cool and all that the employees and owners get a pay out, but IPOs are generally bad news for users, and I'm sure I'm not the only Figma user here, so makes
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1y ago
With the biggest differentiator being that in Penpot, everything is a SVG/Open Standards, which for us web folks is a neat addition. Also developed by a local company in Spain, go Spain! And for the nerds, it's open source and bui
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> Open weights is unobjectionable Yeah? Try me :) > but at least you get the architecture and are able to run it as you like and fine tune it further as you like. Sure, that's cool and all, and I welcome that. But it's getti
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1y ago
> Why would anyone say that? Sketch is still alive and (presumably) well When people deep into the startup-woods say "Fail" what they really mean is "Didn't take over the world". Their perspective of "winnin
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Pangu Pro Moe: Mixture of Grouped Experts for Efficient Sparsity
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> Btw Sam has tweeted about an open source model. Stay tuned... https://x.com/sama/status/1932573231199707168 Sneaky wording but seems like no, Sam only talked about "open weights" model so far, so mo
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1y ago
> non-zero chance of 95% unemployment within the next 20 years With that said, there is probably also a non-zero chance that something like that wouldn't be negative but something positive instead. I suppose that'd be the ideal
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> My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging. Ignoring the constraint of "email client", has there been any acquisitions where the acquired product got better post-acquisition? I can think of countless exam
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1y ago
> Dry powder to do what?! Is this americanism? No, is financialism, which is basically the same thing but I digress. > Dry powder is a slang term referring to marketable securities that are highly liquid and considered cash-like - ht
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1y ago
Feels like that'd be trivial to build, biggest issue is having to ship large files (LLM weights), but maybe CNNs would be enough, I'm guessing Grammarly started with CNNs or similar? What are you using Grammarly for, is it just sp
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1y ago
I don't know the ecosystem, but seemingly Stripe themselves lists some projects/products/organizations that themselves have "Stripe" in their name, as part of the "Stripe Partner Ecosystem": https:/&
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1y ago
> I didn’t realize how much of a headache switching countries can be Indeed, and in some areas, it's easier to make the move with the government, than getting all the for-profit services to accept your country change. For example, S
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1y ago
> No, that's an unfortunate naming collision. Unfortunate? Ubuntu developers surely know what exists in Debian already, especially since both of them share the same packaging format (at least originally). They must have realized whe
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1y ago
Heh, seems people I've been learning from been biased away from beauty, as I know that as "Make It Work, Make It Right, Make It Fast".
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1y ago
I'm not sure if you're trying to say that's a lot or little? But yeah, each roll might survive 3-4 days at most I'd guess, but honestly can't say I've ever measured. We're two people (me and my wife) in th
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1y ago
So then you're saying the US stopped being a representative democracy, because one party controls three branches of government? If it still is considered a representative democracy, then the bill is actually passed with some sort of de
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1y ago
Ah, no, I just went to the homepage of BYD, clicked on Dolphin Surf and seems it sent me to a promotion page ( https://www.byd.com/es-es/promociones/dolphin-surf-promocion ) where the price is listed as 11.780€. The
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> Because the title of the article is stated in pretax figures.... How do you know that? Neither the submission article (hubspot) or the article referenced by the parent comment (gmauthority) mentions anything about the figures being pre
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> So if you saw the pretax figures it'd probably be true But why would I look at the pretax figures? Who would look at that, unless you're doing a business purchase? It basically has no meaning for the average person since they
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The Seagull (aka "Dolphin Surf" in other countries) seems to cost 18560 GBP in the UK, or 11.780€ in Spain. Haven't checked out other countries, but clearly "Chinese EVs (BYD Seagull/Dolphin Surf/Dolphin Mini)
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> Plus, conservative people tend to be older The article says: > However, the most promising of these, a mission named OSIRIS-Apex that breathes new life into an old spacecraft that otherwise would drift into oblivion, is slated for c
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> Most people can get on board with jumping spiders [...] Big eyes [...] fuzz like fur Not knowing what spiders are "jumping spiders", I felt like those attributes are what makes many people freak out about spiders in the first
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> Currently working on an accurate model of the MIT CADR in VHDL Sounds extremely interesting, any links/feeds one could follow the progress at? The dream of running lisp on hardware made for lisp lives on, against all odds :)
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> Photogrammetry is one. Generally results in messy geometry though and tolerances get finicky. The trick is a hybrid approach, use photogrammetry to get a draft model into whatever environment you use (like Blender or whatever), then us
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> Why do people want to reuse toilet paper rolls? Because some of us have like 200 cables, and toilet paper rolls is a cheap but effective way of getting some control over these :) And besides, I'm sure that my fingers and feet are
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> A lot simpler to run pokemon than test an app Yes and no, I'd say. On one hand, apps tend to be used by even the most dumb person (they are "users" after all ;) ) and I'm sure there are more people out there who can
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> I’d want more control over what’s remembered and when. Curious if anyone here has used this yet I use the "memory" feature of ChatGPT, and taking a look right now, it seems to have about ~30 items saved from me, some of them
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1y ago
Then of course we have Node-Red too, which probably is too developer focused (and generally just lacking any sort of focus at the same time, strangely), so also doesn't sit somewhere closer to the middle. Do we really not having anythi
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