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by enriquto 8mo ago
> the app my electricity utility provides for viewing and paying my account DISABLES ITSELF FOREVER if you so much as enable USB debugging on your phone (even after you've disabled it again). These are self-inflicted problems by the
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by enriquto 8mo ago
> we divide everyone into two groups: the cost centers and the profit centers. This would make some sort of sense if it was honest. For a start, the owners and shareholders are plainly cost centers (they are literally useless sinks of r
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by enriquto 8mo ago
These wavelength-indexed spectra always seem a bit weird... the blue is so cramped! When you plot them by frequency they feel just right. We say "ultraviolet" and "infrared" for a reason; never "infraviolet&quo
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by enriquto 8mo ago
good answer if the job is in a big and very expensive city: "I like this job and would do it for free if I was rich. But I'm not: I'll need to live with this salary. The absolute minimum I require is food and shelter for my
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by enriquto 9mo ago
half of the founders of this thing come from Microsoft. I suppose this makes the answer to your question obvious.
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by enriquto 9mo ago
> because of the stochastic nature of LLMs. But is this "stochastic nature" inherent to the LLM? Can't you make the outputs deterministic by specifying a version of the weights and a seed for the random number generator?
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by enriquto 9mo ago
can you give a few examples of this "lot of things"? What operations do not map naturally to file access?
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by enriquto 9mo ago
This steering is the main "source code" of the program that you wrote, isn't it? Why throw it away. It's like deleting the .c once you have obtained the .exe
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by enriquto 9mo ago
> can be tricky and limiting for the developer. It is pretty great for the end user however. This seems to be a great general principle of api design! The best apis are those that are hated by the developer and loved by the end users
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by enriquto 9mo ago
And sourcehut in the Netherlands!
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by enriquto 10mo ago
> hate trying to install other people’s scripts. This phrasing sounds contradictory to me. The whole idea of scripts is that there's nothing to install (besides one standard interpreter). You just run them.
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by enriquto 10mo ago
I don't see the difference between "local, open weights" and "local, proprietary weights". Is that just the handful of lines of code that call the inference? The model itself is just a binary blob, like a compiled
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by enriquto 10mo ago
What do you mean by "open"? Open weights, or open training data? These are very different things.
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by enriquto 10mo ago
> why not do it in C? Well, because you can do it in Fortran, of course! What else do you want? Multidimensional arrays out of the box, fast loops, native cuda support, trivial build and packaging system, zero version churning... all of
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by enriquto 11mo ago
cmake is a self-inflicted problem of some C++ users, and an independent issue of the language itself (just like cargo for rust). If you want, you can use a makefile and distribution-provided dependencies, or vendored dependencies, and you
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by enriquto 11mo ago
> I am thrown back by how... "janky" the syntax is. Well if you come from C++ it's a breath of fresh air! Rust is like a "cleaned-up" C++, that does not carry the historical baggage forced by backwards compatibi
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by enriquto 11mo ago
if this got sixel support it would be just perfect! I would use it for everything
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by enriquto 11mo ago
that's great! The ~/.mozilla folder is one of the last remaining dotfiles in my home directory $ ls -a ~ . .. .bashrc .mozilla .profile .ssh bak config local pro src You can also be an xdg ninja if you want: https:&#
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by enriquto 11mo ago
> Slackware is the best example - one release per decade means it is factually dead As a daily user of slack I find your statement quite interesting. If you run "-current", all your programs are up to date, and you get new rele
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by enriquto 1y ago
The table seems wrong. Xterm supports sixels.
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by enriquto 1y ago
> X11's practical absence of any security mechanisms for user sessions means you should probably not run any kind of low-trust UI program This has nothing to do with X11 or even UI at all. You should not run any low-trust program w
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by enriquto 1y ago
> The language itself is awful. As a programming language freak, I must disagree... in what other programming language can you solve a linear system Ax=b in one line x = A\b without any external libraries or imports, just with t
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by enriquto 1y ago
Still, we are discussing it almost 30 years after it happened. What alternative messaging system offers such openness and stability? I don't see anything other than publicly archived mailing lists.
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by enriquto 1y ago
Oh, this is one of my favorite (and sad!) dramas in free software. Five years later the main llvm developer proposed [0] to integrate it into gcc. Unfortunately, this critical message was missed by a mail mishap on Stallman's part; and
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by enriquto 1y ago
As a happy paying user of fastmail, I'm beyond saddened that they are wasting my hard-earned money in this... what, electron bundle? There is already a fastmail desktop app. It's called thunderbird. And there are many more, fo
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by enriquto 1y ago
what is the point of this? you can just import inside function definitions: def antislash(A, b): from numpy.linalg import solve return solve(A, b) thus numpy.linalg is only imported the first time you call the antis
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by enriquto 1y ago
please fix your ambiguous use of "their"... you mean google and apple, don't you?
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by enriquto 1y ago
> "Slack" didn't do anything. A uninformed sales process included (...) I didn't hit anyone! An uninformed hand, that was at that moment attached to my body, did!
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by enriquto 1y ago
> a nonprofit teaching coding to kids that's a perfect teaching occasion, then! Kids: don't use proprietary services just because they are trendy. Prefer always open standards!
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by enriquto 1y ago
> Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own? Yes. It is a basic human right. > This is a question where freedom, practicality, and reality all collide into a mess. No; it isn't. The answe

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