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by esperent 1y ago
> why have we decided that the FOUC (“flash of unstyled content”) ... is such a dire problem I think the answer is that different people are sensitive to different things. I'll often come across articles going to great length to red
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by esperent 1y ago
> That app made a lot of basement dwelling chuds furious, to the point that someone was willing to risk prison time for a shot at harming those women. Although undeniably, the data being mostly women does bring in the chuds so it's
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by esperent 1y ago
> it executes instructions in space instead of time. At compile time, the Efficient compiler looks at a graph made up of all the “unrolled” instructions (and data) in the program, and decides how to map it all spatially onto the hardware
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by esperent 1y ago
Isn't that indexing part of RAG? I've been always read about RAG as a two step process, creating and maintaining the vector database, and then using that database to feed the AI.
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by esperent 1y ago
> you just point it at your database Ok, but what if you're dealing with thousands of PDFs? I thought that was the whole point (or at least, killer feature) of RAG.
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by esperent 1y ago
It crashed the tab in Brave on Android for me.
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by esperent 1y ago
Well, that's an apartment. We're talking about house owners.
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by esperent 1y ago
If you own a house, generally you can do things like install charging points (also backup batteries, solar panels, better insulation, all kinds of fun things) that renters can't. I'm sure there are some homeowners who can't -
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by esperent 1y ago
> Not all of them have gui options. Well, I just run a tool like ShutUp10 once after installing Windows and 99% of these problems are gone. However, I'm well aware of those problems with Windows. I switched, after all. However, you
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by esperent 1y ago
That evolved antenna is a piece of wire with exactly 6 bends. It's extremely simple, the exact opposite of a hard to understand mess.
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by esperent 1y ago
> there are generally two camps of people: those who haven't given it a shot yet and those who evangelize it. This sounds exactly like something a person evangelizing it would say.
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by esperent 1y ago
> Some distros are better than others for hardware support I did some reading around the and consensus seemed to be that Ubuntu should be one of these. Do you have any suggestions that are likely to have better hardware support than Ub
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by esperent 1y ago
I agree that I'm not happy with the startup times of snap packages. But these are not the reason for my problems, and if Snap was the only problem I have, well I can just not use it. Probably even uninstall if I want, change to KDE and
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by esperent 1y ago
Yes, this is an important point. In future, I will always buy Linux compatible laptops and I'm sure most of these problems will go away.
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by esperent 1y ago
> Windows also sometimes has these kinds of problems Undeniably, over many years of using Windows I've had many problems. But never this amount on a fresh install. And most windows problems can be fixed with driver updates or change
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by esperent 1y ago
I recently (two weeks ago) decided to finally switch from Windows to plain Ubuntu as a daily desktop. I'm well experienced with it from managing servers and have used it occasionally at a desktop in the past. I've had - and contin
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by esperent 1y ago
Yes, I'm aware that chickens can be aggressive or even occasionally cannibalistic (although that's never happened to any groups of chickens I've seen). But that doesn't explain anything about why you're saying an en
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by esperent 1y ago
> It's not uncommon for an entire hen house to wind up murdered if you don't sex your chickens. Can you explain what you mean by this?
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by esperent 1y ago
> For example, to increase the appeal of electric vehicles - they hired German industrial designers from European automakers. People always state this as if it's a gotcha, but there's almost zero large western companies that do
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by esperent 1y ago
I generally like the idea of stronger warranties but it's not always reasonable to relate them to cost. For example batteries: they last for a specific number of uses, and it doesn't matter how expensive they are. It would also st
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by esperent 1y ago
Thank you for the info, random new account that pops up on every single thread about the EU to make comments about how terrible the EU is.
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by esperent 1y ago
There's loads. Anker, Lenovo, BYD, Timemore, Xiaomi, TCL, HiSense, Haier, Huawei, TikTok.
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by esperent 1y ago
> and it's not even certain that the quality is inferior since the brand names are also made in china Well, even from the same factory, different levels of quality control are done, and different materials are used. For example, the
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by esperent 1y ago
I run a business in Vietnam, and it's often hard/prohibitively expensive to purchase recognizable brand name items so we end up purchasing lots of these unbranded/rebranded Chinese items. The quality varies wildly and there
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by esperent 1y ago
You're assuming that: A) all of the erithritol consumed ends up in serum (blood) B) is equally distributed throughout all the blood in the body C) entirely bypasses the blood brain barrier These are huge assumptions. A) is certainly
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by esperent 1y ago
Erithritol is also produced endogenously from glucose in the lower intestine of humans. I'm struggling to find a good source on this right now but I remember reading that it could be as high as 10% of all glucose is converted this way.
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by esperent 1y ago
Note that erithritol has a much lower laxative effect than other sugar alcohols.
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by esperent 1y ago
> However, this study shows that the concentration of erithritol is well above the concentration where they see negative effects in vitro when consuming a realistic dose. Are you saying that when you eat a normal/largish amount of e
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by esperent 1y ago
> clothes are unrecognizable after the second wash What clothes are these? I don't buy any kind of expensive brands. I don't take any care when washing. I don't own a lot of clothes so I wear each item weekly. And my cloth
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by esperent 1y ago
> which is you can't use the past to predict the future Of course you can use the past to predict (well, estimate) the future. How fast does wheat grow? Collect a hundred years of statistics of wheat growth and weather patterns, and

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