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by fractallyte 5mo ago
Because it's exactly relevant, and adds more to the discussion.
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by fractallyte 5mo ago
I have a PeriPage A6 Mini Bluetooth Portable Thermal Printer ( https://www.peripageglobal.com/products/peripage-2-a6-mini-p... ), the 304dpi option. There are many similar models from other companies; however, while Blue
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by fractallyte 5mo ago
You're downvoted, but correct. And I challenge anyone to dispute this. I'm sick and tired of people trying to justify piracy. If you want to read a book – the product of someone's hard work – pay for it (fairly). That sai
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by fractallyte 5mo ago
There's an LLM for that too... https://www.hypercubic.ai/hopper
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by fractallyte 5mo ago
Many (human) translators use DeepL ( https://www.deepl.com ) in their daily jobs. It employs deep learning (hence the name), but not necessarily LLMs. And it's way better than Google Translate for many languages. So this of
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by fractallyte 5mo ago
What are the Claude "indications"? Because there's a danger now that any writing (human or otherwise) can be labeled LLM-produced. So we need accurate heuristics, or none at all.
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by fractallyte 5mo ago
Patents are a much smaller space than the vast legal one in the article, so it's tractable for a human. The raw DSL spec length is roughly comparable to Lua or Go. It's a genuine grammar, with types and an AST; but no conditionals
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by fractallyte 5mo ago
I have no idea. A few months ago, for the first time in my life, I had to write a patent document. It was very complicated – too complicated. Noting the structure, I searched for tools, but found only LLMs. So I wrote my own tool. The amu
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by fractallyte 5mo ago
Interesting synchronicity: I've written a patent-drafting DSL which exactly parallels this – and which is now shaping up into an "IDE" for patent drafting... Patent texts read as prose, but are actually precisely structured l
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by fractallyte 6mo ago
I went into this imagining something like Synfig Studio ( https://www.synfig.org/ ) or Moho ( https://moho.lostmarble.com/ ). "Studio" here is quite far from what it actually is: lip-syncing in static
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by fractallyte 6mo ago
An Amiga 4000T with a SCSI interface, and the SCSI Zip drive worked perfectly with it – I could even boot the Amiga from a Zip disk! However, since the Zip disks were formatted with an Amiga file system – I used PFS3 ( https://en.
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by fractallyte 6mo ago
Unfortunately, I never got around to using it! I bought it with high hopes, but my Zip disks turned out to be so convenient and spacious that the VHS-backup need never arose. That said, it's not too late... I still have my Amiga system
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by fractallyte 6mo ago
VHS video cassettes could be used as tape drives! There was this, from the same era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid And I have this for my Amiga, also same era: http://www.hugolyppens.com/VBS.html
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by fractallyte 6mo ago
One feature missing from almost every mainstream word processor: REVEAL CODES! ( https://kb.corel.com/en/127364 ) This is a famous "killer" feature from WordPerfect: the ability to view and edit the low-level
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by fractallyte 6mo ago
The name gives it away: UA 571-C remote gun sentry Obviously developed in Ukraine ;-)
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by fractallyte 6mo ago
My friend works at Billa AT; I could ask her – but that would be cheating ;-)
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by fractallyte 6mo ago
Just last week I needed to output a formatted document, and my choices were constrained to: HTML+CSS, Markdown, docx (OOXML), or odt (ODF). The formatting had to be manipulable in code; the first two options were unsuitable for my use case.
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by fractallyte 6mo ago
It's a fascinating paradigm – as though it dropped here out of some future. However, I'd never use it. Reason: having everything dynamically created JIT means there's a trade-off somewhere else; in this case, it's energy
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by fractallyte 6mo ago
I don't really understand this. What was stolen? The computer doesn't "enjoy" books – it assimilates them as data. That data isn't stored verbatim; it's used to train a system. In return, ChatGPT is made freely
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by fractallyte 7mo ago
English Bull Terrier - closely related to a pit bull
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by fractallyte 7mo ago
My dog bit me accidentally while playing, a few times. Every time, he apologized. (That is: he stopped playing, made a characteristic sound, and licked me to make sure I was OK.)
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by fractallyte 7mo ago
A smelling pistake
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by fractallyte 7mo ago
Regarding the issues of banking apps: if the EU is serious about tech sovereignty, it's up to members to mandate that banks allow their apps to run on Sailfish, or other alternative operating systems. It really is as simple as that. (B
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by fractallyte 7mo ago
I dispute your assertion: Sailfish's UI is WAY ahead of iOS and Android. It's simple, consistent, and intuitive; a complete contrast to the mess of iOS and the clunkiness of Android. As for stability, native Sailfish apps on my Xp
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by fractallyte 7mo ago
Libre Computer makes a range of SBCs and supports mainline Linux. I use their products, and I'm very happy with them. "Most ARM single board computers depend on proprietary binary blobs to boot or ship with outdated vendor kernel
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by fractallyte 7mo ago
Yes, it's how they make money as a company and pay their developers. Otherwise, we wouldn't have the choice of Sailfish OS instead of iOS or Android. Proprietary is not necessarily bad.
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by fractallyte 8mo ago
Your last word brought to mind the science fiction short, "Come You Nigh: Kay Shuns" by Lawrence A. Perkins, which used exactly this technique as an encryption method! Analog SF, April 1970 - available here: https://www
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by fractallyte 8mo ago
Because your first comment is inflammatory, and wrong. Ukraine is far from being a "weaker neighbor" – it's proven to have more of a backbone than all of NATO. And that "loosing land" part which seems so compellin
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by fractallyte 8mo ago
I always felt that Ron Thornton and his team at Foundation Imaging were sadly underrated and overlooked in computer graphics history. B5's SFX had a dynamism and color that was unmatched at the time. I recently rewatched the series, an
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by fractallyte 8mo ago
There are reasons not to like gypsum drywall: > Some buildings standing today still have wattle-and-daub panels from 700 years ago. Will any drywalled building survive even a tenth of this time? > The plaster mixture used then was

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