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dkdbejwi383
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3mo ago
Mathematicians don’t skip past the basics and jump straight into differential equations just because we have calculators, nor do chefs eschew knife skills because we have food processors.
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Open source contributions being a great way to learn and to pad out your CV has been considered good advice on all sides of the various seas I’ve lived throughout my career too - it’s not just a dubious code camp thing.
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3mo ago
This is just the trope of the "wise and mystical oriental"
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3mo ago
Surely you'd be _more_ secure near a station as there are more "eyes on the street" near an activity hub than tucked away in an isolated suburban node
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In addition to the other good reasons also raised, PT has much more optimal land-use than private cars. Train stations or metro stations take up relatively little land and can be integrated with business and services or have nice public pla
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4mo ago
What route is that, and why is everyone screaming at them, for someone out of the loop?
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4mo ago
This is how it works in Australia, which means it's a pain for tourists as you need to provide a passport for ID and get it activated, as opposed to just grabbing one at an airport kiosk and being ready to go on your way to the taxi or
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At first I thought "medior" was a strange typo for "senior", but on seeing it twice I had to check - apparently it's used in some parts of Europe to mean "mid-level"
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4mo ago
Albertadieu
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4mo ago
Maybe not the whole thing, but bits a pieces will filter down in clips on other social media platforms
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You can already right click > Quick Actions > Remove Background. I'm sure this is Automate-able to a whole directory or batch, too. So why need a 3rd party tool?
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Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced MAGA politics, says Nick Clegg
(theguardian.com)
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> Also wtf is Pinyin? From the article: > Many people don’t realize this, but children in China first learn Latin characters, which they use to spell out Chinese phonetically, using a system called “pinyin.” They then use their knowle
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5mo ago
AI takes everything at face-value and cannot understand obvious jokes.
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6mo ago
Transport for London (TfL) have a fledgling property development arm called Places for London which aims to try and replicate some of the successes of Japanese railway companies. They propose the mooted Bakerloo line extension is partially
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6mo ago
Now combine it with ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com
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6mo ago
Such as?
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6mo ago
Or even just "the branch you're on" and "the branch being merged into yours"
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7mo ago
Because it’s text.
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7mo ago
You could probably replace LLM with "junior engineer" here as it sounds like you're basically a manager now. The big negative that LLMs have in comparison with junior engineers is that they can't learn and internalise ne
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What does SO stand for here? I assumed Significant Other but that doesn’t square with the story as surely you’d just ask
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7mo ago
The website doesn't tell me what it does or why it's better. It just wants me to sign-up and provide a bunch of permissions without first selling itself to me. The landing page should clearly communicate what this does and contras
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8mo ago
The vowel/diphthong in wear (as in wearing a towel, rhymes with “care”, “there”) and Wear (homophone with weir, rhymes with “steer”, “near”) are not the same in Australian English.
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8mo ago
Looking forward to the Steam Chully Bun
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A lot of it comes down to differences between “ask” cultures and “guess” cultures, where if something is unknown we in the west may expect the person to ask for clarification, where as other cultures prefer to just guess, because doing _som
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Fair enough but I am a programmer because I like programming. If I wanted to be a product manager I could have made that transition with or without LLMs.
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The best part about London weather is that it’s rarely life threatening. No big storms, cyclones, floods or extreme temperatures. To say it’s pleasant year round is probably a bit of a stretch for most.
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It’s an LLM, there was no intention. It’s simply the favoured token given the training set and seed.
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Cup of coffee
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There is no language that makes it impossible to have any kind of bug ever. The safety languages like Rust offer is around memory, not bad configuration or faulty business logic.
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