golergka

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by golergka 3y ago
> So then, why did the size of armies grow? If a smaller armored force could route a much larger unarmored force in spite of firearms... why didn't more armies stay smaller and armored? Because of societal changes, as governments be
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by golergka 3y ago
> Importantly this doesn't actually guarantee that it does any kind of search. What's more important is that a user _can see_ whether GPT-4 has searched for something or not, and can ask it to actually search the web for refere
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by golergka 3y ago
Through political pressure that forces parties in power to adopt some of the opposition party's positions in order to stay in power.
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by golergka 3y ago
> I've voted for green parties and politics my whole life. Green party in Germany forced the country to close down its nuclear reactors and use coal instead, increasing the emissions.
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by golergka 3y ago
> This "tipping" concept seems to have been originally proposed to deal with GPT-4 Turbo being "lazy" when writing code. There's an inherent assumption here that it's a negative trait, but for a lot of tasks
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by golergka 3y ago
If this was the main reason for people to purchase the phone, they would still be buying Nokia Vertu phones instead.
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by golergka 3y ago
I've had an iRiver h340 mp3 player with 40gb hard drive, not that different from what iPod offered. But when I got an iPod instead, it just felt so much better, even compared to the custom firmware like Rockbox. Same tech specs, but a
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by golergka 3y ago
> You can’t fix everything But you can fix a lot. Some of the products I've worked at had Sentry alerts all the time that nobody paid attention to, whereas others (of very similar complexity) had them a few times a week, and every t
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by golergka 3y ago
I know that unique word count is not a perfect way to measure "sophistication" of the lyrics, but I still find it funny that the "best" metal band has less than a half of Aesop Rock's vocabulary given how some metal
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by golergka 3y ago
When I first watched Departed, I didn't realise that Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio's characters are different people until the third act. It was very confusing.
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by golergka 3y ago
Why do you think that data compression and cognition are fundamentally different?
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by golergka 3y ago
I generate all kinds of documents by dictating unstructured train of thought to the app, its wonderful at it. Why not meeting agendas as well?
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by golergka 3y ago
“Take”? More like “buy for a very good price”, nothing wrong with that.
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by golergka 3y ago
Of course you could, but it doesn't mean you always should. Typescript doesn't have a kitchen sink framework like Django or Rails.
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by golergka 3y ago
Because they're in Russia or North Korea, and their bosses bosses are good friends of local police and secret services. What exactly can FBI do about them?
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by golergka 3y ago
As a JS developer, I second this. I love node, react and typescript, but they're great tools to build very complex web apps — think Figma or an in-browser IDE. If you're building a typical CRUD app and don't have a VC-backed
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by golergka 3y ago
Why not? That's primary function of many research entities of various sorts in very different industries.
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by golergka 3y ago
A lot of ancient writers didn't shy away from writing awful things about emperors. You could say that it was for propaganda purposes of their successors, but regardless of their motives, why wouldn't they write about their constru
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by golergka 3y ago
It's a luxury journey that most people around the world simply can't afford. Modern world is a marvel because it feeds and clothes them. If they had to pay a market rate to the artisanal shoemaker, they would walk barefoot.
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by golergka 3y ago
Do you enjoy having to search for the TS source of the stacktrace that ends up in some third-party library compiled TS? Because I don't.
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by golergka 3y ago
I used Gitlab a few years ago, but then it had severe client-side performance problems on large pull requests. Github isn't ideal with them too, but it manages to be decent.
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by golergka 3y ago
Being two orders of magnitude away from running out of ids is too close for comfort anyway.
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by golergka 3y ago
I've known him personally for quite a time and that's a ridiculous statement. He never was and isn't a revolutionary, but he always was pretty sincere in his beliefs and his attempts to fight in rapidly closing legal space.
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by golergka 3y ago
I've been watching 80s movies recently, and amount of nudity and sex scenes often feels unnecessary. I'm definitely not a prude. I watch porn, I talk about sex with friends, I go to kinky parties sometimes. But it really feels tha
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by golergka 3y ago
> AI has no spark, no drive, no ambition, no initiative, no theory of mind So, it is completely alike what a lot of humans are like, at least at their jobs?
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by golergka 3y ago
We shouldn't be reducing energy consumption. We should be increasing it, while decreasing CO2 emissions.
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by golergka 3y ago
> Some examples: shoe making, artisan furniture, tailors, watchmakers. > Nowadays most people make money in bleak half-automated jobs (e.g. construction, factory workers) or in white collar jobs sitting in front of a computer in some
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by golergka 3y ago
I would add stupidity. I know I'm stupid, that's why I write types, tests and documentation.
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by golergka 3y ago
In one of the demos, it successfully navigates a threejs demo and finds the place to change in response to a request. How long until it shows similar results on middle-sized and large codebases? And do the job adequately?
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by golergka 3y ago
Cables.

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