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by fzeindl 6mo ago
I tried this with early ChatGPT. Asked it to answer telegram style with as few tokens as possible. It is also interesting to ask it for jokes in this mode.
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by fzeindl 6mo ago
> But a lot of UK housing relies on on-street parking, and there's flats with car parks where charging isn't currently practical. You forget the larger problem less wealthy individuals face: They typically already own a ICE-car
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
Since sand is a non-renewable resource that is needed for construction, there’s a lot of illegal activity going on. In India, illegal sand mining is the country's largest organized criminal activity. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
Would the single sentence „Imagine you are a regular computer player and accustomed to the usual elements of games“ count as a harness?
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
I disable it only for the DIR variable which I might not use.
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
My header on top of every script #!/usr/bin/env bash set -eEuo pipefail # shellcheck disable=SC2034 DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &amp
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
Certificate/key renewal was a mess in every enterprise environment I worked in. My suspicion is that corporations in general don‘t handle tasks well that need to follow an exact timeline and can‘t be postponed by a week or two.
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
> a lot of real world performance comes down to how efficiently you are calling external services (including the database) Apart from that my experience over the last 20 years was that a lot of performance is lost because of memory alloc
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
I agree JFR is amazing. Also that you can start it on a running JVM and it that is has minimal ~1% performance overhead.
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
That and also the JVM is a marvel of engineering with millions of hours that were poured in by smart people over the last 30 years. It can be as fast a C, supports a multitude of languages, introspection, surveillance etc.
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
My guess is that some cell in an excel sheet says that some customers bought certain models in the past and no manager at Dell has enough weight or enough courage to question that and rule to NOT release a certain model.
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
I have been alone for quite some time in my life, for various reasons. Here is my advice 1. Don’t listen to people telling you that there‘s something wrong with you if you aren’t happy alone and that you need therapy. You probably don‘t. If
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
I once digged into this database out of curiosity and found incredibly detailed research on many edge cases. Like time zones in Germany being temporarily aligned to Moscow during soviet occupancy after World War Two. One particular commente
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
> Almost no one is shopping multiple supermarkets, buying cheaper alternatives, buying in-season veggies and fruit when it’s cheap, waiting for sales to stock up, buying in bulk and freezing, using coupons, meal planning based on the lat
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by fzeindl 7mo ago
This is the real URL https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000310374/suchtexperte-... For some reason HN changes the URL in the submission.
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72.000 pupils in Austria start 3-week smartphone-detox in controlled study(derstandard.at)
1 points by fzeindl 7mo ago|4 comments
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by fzeindl 8mo ago
In the book „the design of everyday things“ it is mentioned that „natural mappings“ exist. Moving the knob of a vertical slider to the upper end universally means „brighter“ or „louder“, not „less bright“ or „more silent“.
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by fzeindl 8mo ago
There are people who can actually separate their self-esteem from the winning of arguments ;). But thanks.
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by fzeindl 8mo ago
Interesting experiment, this disproves my point, thank you.
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by fzeindl 8mo ago
While technically possible, it is a very unusual situation that the car is already parked at the car wash, while the owner is somewhere else. I wonder whether the model seriously considered this odd situation, because of lack of „practical
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by fzeindl 8mo ago
I read somewhere that Google will ultimately always produce the best LLMs, since "good AI" relies on massive amounts of data and Google owns the most data. Is that a based assumption?
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by fzeindl 8mo ago
The 555 is a versatile little thing. I used it at university for a simple circuit which allowed an arduino to cut it’s own power for 5 minutes and then boot again.
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by fzeindl 8mo ago
They probably won‘t. I recently watched a talk (in german) with Julia Friedrichs, who wrote a book about millionaires and billionaires and did many interviews with them: https://www.youtube.com/live/4HpJKPywXqY?si=bb-p5
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by fzeindl 9mo ago
> I know blaming everything on LLMs is in vogue right now; but this is much more to do with Microsoft very publically firing the QA department. Yes, yes, "agile" everything... I remember clicking on a perfectly honest button in
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by fzeindl 9mo ago
That is incidentally one of the many papercuts that are widely accepted in Windows, but never were a problem on a mac. Don’t try to interact with a windows desktop while it is still booting up. Better to wait for everything to settle down,
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by fzeindl 9mo ago
LLMs sometimes remind me of american car salesmen. Was the hopeful "anything is possible" mentality of the american dream accidentally baked into the larger models?
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by fzeindl 9mo ago
I once had an idea of buying the domain "freeofcharge.org", where people could put useful services that fit into RAM onto subdomains, meaning services that cost them only ~10$ per month, which they pay out of their own pockets.
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by fzeindl 10mo ago
Obviously all of what dang said, but I want to add that I think timing is an additional factor. If you post when silicon valley wakes up on a weekday, you might get “initial” points faster, which leads to your submission being ranked higher
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by fzeindl 10mo ago
The site doesn‘t mention it, I got that information from various german announcements. I fear there probably won‘t be an English announcement regarding the budget, though there will be many regarding the tunnel.
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by fzeindl 10mo ago
In a world where large infrastructure projects regularly exceed their budget by 100-1000%, 7% is huge. It is important to show people that that is possible in government projects. If you find a more concise way of saying „with unusually sma

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