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by fao_ 3y ago
The vagus nerve sits inside the collarbone right next to the carotid artery. As a doctor told me once, if you're able to physically stimulate your vagus nerve, you need to get to A&E posthaste, lol
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by fao_ 3y ago
SSDs and HDD on-board firmware will actually cache-locally and then lie about if it's been written to the disk or not. Pretty much every level of the stack caches and lies about it to the point that if you do a deep dive into "has
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by fao_ 3y ago
So what you're saying is there's tenuous-at-best, non-"solid" evidence that LLMs can reason even within their training data. And yet I'm currently sitting at -1 for stating the blisteringly obvious. Lmao
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by fao_ 3y ago
Except LLMs cannot reason.
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by fao_ 3y ago
Why should someone bother to do this, if they already know and have a handle on cURL's syntax?
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by fao_ 3y ago
As someone foreign to the macos ecosystem, what... makes you say that? This Github looks perfectly innocuous.
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by fao_ 3y ago
The penguin is holding the apple, unfortunately rather than commissioning an actual artist they've seemingly gone for AI art, so the penguin also has three arms. The left foot with the third arm there is also a bit... weird and deforme
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by fao_ 3y ago
How did this even get to hacker news? This is a full page advert of the same style that wants to sell me penis pill and diet pills lmao
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by fao_ 3y ago
> Those who would like more details about the growing dysfunctionality of Linux and why it is the way it is may want to watch this YouTube video. Some context before I give my perspective: I've been using Linux since before the 201
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by fao_ 3y ago
Right, which is why the UN released a study saying that a shift in economic systems is required if we actually want to put in the work to not murder entire ecosystems.
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by fao_ 3y ago
Even the articles are higher quality, to be honest.
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by fao_ 3y ago
Not really.
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by fao_ 3y ago
Mostly they use private discord servers and self-grown communities. Fediverse, IRC, XMPP, etc.
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by fao_ 3y ago
IDK that shady is that far from literally any other C-like shader language. Any skill you have in that area is going to transfer (unless you only know Rust, lol)
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by fao_ 3y ago
Yeah. The Hacker News Guidelines say "No the website is not going downhill". But I can point to a shitton of threads from 2018 on often identical topics to threads today, where the quality of debate is quantitatively higher qualit
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by fao_ 3y ago
Other people have mentioned a lot of advantages but I'll go for another one: TSV is eminently more readable and parsable just off the bat. Empty space is always more readable than `,`, and `,` appears a lot in strings, tab appears a lo
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by fao_ 3y ago
> Being poor doesn't lead you to becoming a criminal. You're misunderstanding. Not all poor people are criminals, however, being poor is a motivating factor in crime. > Being taught that everyone is against you, that you are
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by fao_ 3y ago
See we wouldn't need this if everyone had standardized on TSV instead
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by fao_ 3y ago
And if you actually read TFA, you'd find the majority of people in Wales support UBI :P
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by fao_ 3y ago
Literally just read the linked research though - "The calculations included in the full report show that extra spending (around £600 million) could be expected by putting more cash in the pockets of lower income households, via basic i
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by fao_ 3y ago
It's wild how poverty and depressed circumstances among lower income people, especially when they see business profits continuing to grow in spite of wages, can lead to crime!
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by fao_ 3y ago
Along the same lines, it turns out to be drastically cheaper to not means-test welfare payments and just hand out money without regard to the financial status of the claimant. That is to say, if the amount of money invested in means-testing
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by fao_ 3y ago
I don't think it's fair to frame intelligence solely in terms of a weapon when one of the single most important underpinnings of intelligence in terms of predator/prey interactions and group survival is "empathy".
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by fao_ 3y ago
I think it's really representative of how much the audience of hacker news has changed in the last 3 years (negatively), that the original posts about Every Noise got a lot of fanfare, but the news of it's closure gets almost no i
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by fao_ 3y ago
My name is Astryr, and I'm a disabled trans woman living in the UK. I have depression, severe ADHD, burnout, a sleep apnea, and some kind of weird fatigue thing -- all of which blocks me from touching code, which is pretty much the onl
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by fao_ 3y ago
> My suggestion to you: Worry less about measuring resumes and more about who is actually correct as a matter of demonstrable fact. It's not about resumes, it's one person who is extremely experienced with the software, versus
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by fao_ 3y ago
> The author doesn't seem to understand how filesystems work At the time of writing (2009) the author had 10 years of experience under Sun Microsystems, IBM, Intel, and Red Hat -- all working on filesystems. Including ZFS, ext2&#x2F
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by fao_ 3y ago
> Do you think IQ tests are as valid as psychologists claim? As someone who is the spawn of two MENSAns, has friends in Neurosci and Psych, and who has brushed up a fair bit on the topic, I don't think any psychologists outside thos
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by fao_ 3y ago
> Then the DMCA would be wrong It's encoded in law. I wasn't talking about "what should be", I was talking about "what is". > it is pretty much not possible to pay the "original artist" because
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by fao_ 3y ago
> https://zero-k.info/mediawiki/index.php?title=Zero-K:Develop...

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