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by halosghost 2y ago
I love my pebble time steel. In fact, I still have one sitting around (I don't wear it for reasons unrelated to the device's quality). However, just to be clear, the screen is not e-ink. It is “e-paper” (a very low-power, low-
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by halosghost 2y ago
I've never quite understood how it is so easy for people to rationalize this thought-process: “<X := some motivation assumed to be widely shared like greed> means that someone will <Y := do some morally-questionable to moral
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by halosghost 2y ago
As an object-lesson of how confused this perspective is: why even have link aggregators like HN? Why have chatwithjfkfiles.com when you could instead ask some model what chatwithjfkfiles.com would say? The direction you're pointing to
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by halosghost 2y ago
I don't want to “chat” with an untrustworthy compression of the documents, I want to see the documents. I understand that novel ideas have been devalued in-favor of “put more of <current-hyped-tech> into it,” but it would be much
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by halosghost 2y ago
From the FAQ: Where do the executive order descriptions come from? These descriptions are generated using ChatGPT 4o-mini as soon as the president publishes the text of the executive order. While the language strives to be factual an
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by halosghost 2y ago
For a similar project in a similar space (but with both a free android emulator, and the option for a dedicated hardware device), see [0]. I actually use it as my preferred calculator on my phone. All the best, [0] https://www.nu
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Fedi-E2EE Public Key Directory Specification Reaches v0.1(github.com)
5 points by halosghost 2y ago|1 comments
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The Case for Resistance(crimethinc.com)
1 points by halosghost 2y ago|0 comments
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by halosghost 2y ago
Whenever I rewatch one of many of Maciej's talks (including “Haunted by Data”, “The Website Obesity Crisis”, “What Happens Next Will Amaze You”, “Superintelligence”, etc.), he always strikes me a bit as a digitally-relevant, modern rei
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by halosghost 2y ago
I feel like this is happening quite a lot in the generative-AI space, a /lot/ of words/names that already have wide/common use in the tech-sphere are being reused for new developments in generative AI. I'm trying to
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by halosghost 2y ago
> if the LLMs work better and faster than the majority of _human_ assistants at my disposal You've added an additional condition to the if expression from what you quoted above, which would require substantiation for the conclusion
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by halosghost 3y ago
Flagged for intentional misgendering in editorialized title. All the best,
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by halosghost 3y ago
I'm involved with a few projects that leverage the DCO [1]. Afaik, it's not been legally tested yet, but given all the open questions around copyright with LLMs, I assume a DCO sign-off on LLM-generated code would be a misrepresen
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by halosghost 3y ago
I remain infuriated that I cannot purchase a roll of ascorbic-acid based thermal paper that is the width of either US letter or A4, and perforated at the respective appropriate height. Thermal printers have far fewer moving parts, no non-pa
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by halosghost 3y ago
I appreciate your tireless efforts towards the perfection of HTML, the programming language, as well as its accompanying documentation. Thank you! All the best,
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by halosghost 3y ago
[1] suggests that I should define functions with the `<dfn>` tag, but the documentation appears out-of-date, because the HTML program sample shows using the `<def>` tag. Is the next revision of HTML, the Programming Language, A
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by halosghost 3y ago
A reminder that this still isn't the correct way of handling money. The correct way is to put it in the type-system [1]. All the best, -HG [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211014094900/https://ren.z
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by halosghost 3y ago
This is one of the more exciting things I've seen proposed for C in quite a while. The ability to finally clean up the `intmax_t` mess in a reasonably straight-forward, backwards-compatible fashion would be a huge win. All the best,
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by halosghost 3y ago
So, not only does this generate nightmare fuel at surprising rate, but it will /happily/ generate likenesses of well-known people by just adding their name in the prompt. So, that's terrifying and probably not going to end we
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by halosghost 3y ago
Others have already mentioned how high-quality this is, but I feel the need to reinforce it. The content is excellent, the framing is smooth, the presentation is accessible, and gorgeous. And beyond all that, you also ensured that the gener
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by halosghost 3y ago
My team is geographically distributed both across the US and elsewhere in the world. Even when talking with people based completely across the globe, I've never had jitsi be the bottleneck, and its performance settings let you tweak th
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by halosghost 3y ago
I've never hosted my own jitsi instance, but I use it quite frequently for a variety of purposes both personal and professional. It is, in my opinion, the best of all the conference systems out there, FLOSS or otherwise. Every other so
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by halosghost 3y ago
Is there a recording anywhere of one of these actually flying? I've not been able to track one down from my cursory searching, which gives me significant pause. All the best, -HG
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by halosghost 3y ago
If we're going to go this far, why not go all the way? [1] I.e., use a 536-bit unsigned integer to store Planck time with one Planck time following the big bang as the epoch, and use the top three bits as a tetration height instead of
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by halosghost 3y ago
I'd strongly suggest switching to Librewolf [1] before you fully setup everything and get a bit locked-in. It's a friendly-fork of firefox, done right (imo); it stays up-to-date with upstream rapidly, and predominantly has the goa
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by halosghost 3y ago
I believe gp's point is that Neutron Stars often have diameters around 10 km (so says Wikipedia anyway ). So, if you're comparing by-diameter and you count neutron stars as stars, then a neutron star can absolutely be smaller than
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by halosghost 3y ago
https://archive.is/6jv1p Not sure how much businesses making attempts to lure customers from a particular demographic will ever help when the State executive branch (even leaving aside any of the legislative or judicial bra
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by halosghost 3y ago
> Note: this is only correct about UUID version 1. However, it is what most applications use. Okay, so, not all UUIDs, just v1. And, for some anecdata, I've actually only interacted with UUID v4 in my entire career; I don't kno
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by halosghost 3y ago
You might be responding tongue-in-cheek, but you have essentially described an underspecified variant of FDN Rata Die [1]. FDN R.D. does have a place in calendrical calculations; namely, it serves as the narrow waist for converting between
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by halosghost 3y ago
At this point, I doubt there will ever be any proposal as easy to adopt and as radically-improved as Symmetry454 [1]. One day, I hope to live in a world where I get to use this calendar and the average response isn't for people to look

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