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by garyrob 3y ago
> Imagine if you didn’t have to replace an entire phone over a broken triviality. I can imagine it. It wouldn't make the slightest difference to my practical experience. And then, as another commenter mentioned, my phone is refurbi
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by garyrob 3y ago
I must admit I'm having trouble relating to the strong desire to have a phone that's more repairable than an iPhone. There have been a couple times I've had a problem with my iPhone under AppleCare. I've gone to my neare
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by garyrob 3y ago
> The insurance company then showed their data and it wasn’t falsified. That’s just amazing. They both falsified data, and when caught, pointed at each other. Can you or anyone give more information on this? That data was definitely fals
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by garyrob 3y ago
Yoko did innovate and this piece might not have existed without her. But that should not take away at all from what Abramovic did. The fact that Beethoven built on the innovations of earlier artists does not diminish Beethoven.
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by garyrob 3y ago
> It has a very crude tf-idf based categorization. I do have plans to improve it. You could use the same algorithm that was used for spam filtering in my Linux Journal article from back in 2003[1]. I have thought about making a plugin to
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by garyrob 3y ago
That was my immediate question too.
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by garyrob 3y ago
This is the second time I've seen "understated" (mis)used that way recently. I am afraid this may be a trend, like the appearance in the world of "irregardless," which is becoming an accepted word, or the use of &qu
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by garyrob 3y ago
I have. It was another possibility. But Rust seems to be closer to my tastes in a language, other than the PITA of memory management...
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A Thought On Using Rust for non-system programming
2 points by garyrob 3y ago|3 comments
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by garyrob 3y ago
I've never ended up using PyPy other than to play with it. Numba has worked very well for me for real code.
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by garyrob 3y ago
I read an article some time ago that analyzed this in depth, and was very specific about a number of studies. I can't pull them out of my memory now, but I found the article very convincing. The ones that were less rigorous might be on
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by garyrob 3y ago
There's a lot of dismissiveness here. What I don't see, so far, is even one comment actually engaging with the statistical analyses that are the heart of the article. (Maybe one's being written by someone else while I write t
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ChatGPT: The end of new programming languages?
45 points by garyrob 3y ago|46 comments
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by garyrob 3y ago
Here are some use cases people have tried: https://medium.com/@smraiyyan/chatgpt-code-interpreter-launc...
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ChatGPT Code Interpreter(artificialcorner.com)
1 points by garyrob 3y ago|1 comments
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by garyrob 3y ago
I listened to the Adam Mosseri interview on the New York Times' Hard Fork podcast today, and I came away with the strong impression that it will interoperate bidirectionally. He was asked what the business reasons are for doing that, a
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by garyrob 3y ago
Whoah! Haven't had one yet. Saving that until I make a lot more money! :) But on a more affordable level I recommend checking out https://www.cognac-expert.com . They do have the incredibly expensive stuff, but at a also a r
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by garyrob 3y ago
> To say that alcohol distills down to being able to socialize doesn’t fit. Socializing is not hard. Are you at a party? Approach people you don’t know the way you want to be approached. Wear a sincere smile, give some distance, give you
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by garyrob 3y ago
I agree with this totally. For me, the strongest manifestation is cognac. A good cognac is just fantastic. The main thing is the tail, that just goes on and on in different stages of taste and sensation. I'd drink it all day if I could
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by garyrob 3y ago
The FAQ on that site has an entry for "Where is ‘The Starry Night’?" and its answer is at Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Where it happens that I saw it a few weeks ago, as part of a big Van Gogh exhibition with many of his paintings
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by garyrob 3y ago
https://directai.io
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Show HN: Direct AI: Image classification without training data
2 points by garyrob 3y ago|1 comments
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by garyrob 3y ago
Thanks for that info!
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by garyrob 3y ago
Thanks, that's helpful. > I’m not sure what you mean about cross-platform. LiveView is for building web apps, so there’s only really one platform to speak of: the browser. Similarly, React is for web apps but React Native has emerge
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by garyrob 3y ago
When I've seen LiveView mentioned in the past, the one major problem seems to be its reliance on sockets, which causes problems in certain environments and also can cause too much latency on slow internet connections. An example of the
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by garyrob 3y ago
Oh, that was just too easy... :)
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by garyrob 3y ago
"So what? You've got physical buttons? Big whoop. That physical button that takes 500ms to respond is still as dangerous. You've just removed one problem. " At least for me, response time isn't the issue. It's
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by garyrob 3y ago
I suspect they're saying that the KKK itself was a "thundering herd of dumb".
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by garyrob 3y ago
I was a bit hyperbolic in my first comment above. But think about how receptive today's Republicans are to things Kamala Harris says, and how receptive today's Democrats are to things Donald Trump says. That's based on each g
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by garyrob 3y ago
I think you make a good point, except that I strongly suspect that when humans write software, etc. etc., they, too, are relying on patterns stored in their memories more than they are performing "fresh logic". This is my impressi

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