dmd

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   by dmd 3y ago

   I must be staying in very different airbnbs than you. I have never had to do any of that. But I only stay with Superhosts and only 4.8 or higher.
2. 1142.▲
   by dmd 3y ago

   I have the exact opposite experience -- as someone who always wants two adjoining rooms (for kids). Doing that in a hotel tends to cost as much as 3 times what an Airbnb would cost, and the airbnb is more comfortable. You just need to actua
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   by dmd 3y ago

   Trivial. First, "package require delorean". Travel back in time to when the parents of the person who created that file met... the rest is left as an exercise for the reader.
4. 1144.▲
   by dmd 4y ago

   So is IEEE floating point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae9EKCyI1xU
5. 1145.▲
   by dmd 4y ago

   Given they make money hand over fist... I think they're doing just fine with their current strategy. I obviously can't give details, but they basically print money.
6. 1146.▲
   by dmd 4y ago

   I'm thinking you didn't read it, then, because it isn't making any claims about LLMs!
7. 1147.▲
   by dmd 4y ago

   > a human being is an LLM simply by existing, That's not what it's claiming at all. It's taking umbrage with the word "just" in "just predicting the next word". A gun "just moves some metal from o
8. 1148.▲
   by dmd 4y ago

   Do you think I wrote that? And what do qualifications have to do with anything?
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   by dmd 4y ago

   I worked for 3 years at Ab Initio, a software company with an ETL product which is - honestly - phenomenally good and worlds above anything else in the space, open source or not. (It was designed and is still mostly developed by graybeard f
10. 1150.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    > It's a next-word prediction model So are you. https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/its-just-predicting-t...
11. 1151.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    For both you and gp - why? What's the advantage?
12. 1152.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    Sounds like you've never actually used it for writing code, and are basing this on how you think it works. As someone who uses it for hours a day every day for writing code ... no, it does not have that problem.
13. 1153.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    Why? They're generally much clearer and well-commented than what a rushed harried sysadmin would write.
14. 1154.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    I had a 5 MB hard drive for my Commodore 64 (D9060)!
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    by dmd 4y ago

    > 8.2.1 Do You Have Enough Disk Space? If you build and install all of core+contrib you might need as much as 900 megabytes of disk space. Outrageous!
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    by dmd 4y ago

    Yeah! I've never seen trains so clean and modern looking in my life. They look like they came out of a futuristic toy set.
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    by dmd 4y ago

    I found this on the web for "make me even start".
18. 1158.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    Hi, I'm Daniel, and I'm a todo list software addict
19. 1159.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    Over the last 20 years or so I've tried: index cards, wunderlist, todo.txt, remember the milk, Asana, Any.do, Evernote, Google Notebook, Simplenote, Trello, Workflowy, Google Keep, Bear Notes, org-mode, and probably a dozen others. Th
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    by dmd 4y ago

    My town (Boston suburb) just banned them, but the enforcement as far as I can tell is "you pay a small fine", which means that fine just becomes the cost of doing business for the landscapers.
21. 1161.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    A lot of people - especially people with impairments whom it would help a lot if they know about it - are unaware of the fantastic pointer-accessibility stuff that's built into MacOS: https://support.apple.com/guide&#x2
22. 1162.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    Ok, I'll bite - how else do people do this? (Speaking as someone who has ONLY ever done it this way.)
23. 1163.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    Counterpoint: Nearly all of my (thousands of) users use whitespace in basically every single folder name and file name every single day (which are usually titles of papers or experiments), and none of them ever have any problems. When writi
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    by dmd 4y ago

    I have never had anything but bad experiences with any non-first-party booker; I now book only directly with {hotels, airlines, rental car companies}. It's just not worth the couple bucks you sometimes save; if there's a problem n
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    by dmd 4y ago

    The thing I don't understand about Red Hat is how the support is so bad . I (a customer at a medical/educational site) pay for Red Hat, and on the few occasions I've requested support, that support has never, not once, actu
26. 1166.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    Yep. But we get paid at academic rates. I stay for the relaxed lifestyle, not the salary.
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    by dmd 4y ago

    phrasing
28. 1168.▲
    by dmd 4y ago

    Look I found the guy who keeps moving the goalposts!
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    by dmd 4y ago

    FUSE's announcement: https://lwn.net/2001/1115/a/fuse.php3
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    by dmd 4y ago

    If there is literally no evidence whatsoever - none, not even microscopic evidence - then no, it hasn't, and I'd argue that this has happened to your house every time you've ever left it. In fact, right now, there are people