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hannasanarion
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hannasanarion
2y ago
E-ink is not "paper feel". It's a super low-power display, it only consumes power when the content on it changes. Since it works by moving around physical pigment molecules inside little cells, the screen will continue showin
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2y ago
Copyright on the software that produces something isn't the same as copyright on the output. The library's copyright is intact, as normal, and they can control who uses it and how just like any other software. The output of AI s
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2y ago
You can't add a contingency to a payment retroactively. It sounds like these are exit agreements, not employment agreements. If it was "we'll give you shares/cash if you don't say anything bad about us", that&#
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2y ago
> and most of those SMBH have relativistic jets with lobes throwing out particles near light speed This is not correct. Most SMBH do not have relativistic jets. The jets only form when the black hole is actively consuming a large quantit
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3y ago
Remember the point of a system prompt is to evoke desirable responses and behavior, not to provide the truth. If you tell a lot of llm chatbots "please please make sure you get it right, if I don't do X then I'll lose my job
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3y ago
Because the footprint is so expensive, you don't have the cash to invest in quality without making the building too expensive for the people who are going to be using it. And the footprint isn't the only thing that's more exp
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3y ago
There's a lot of costs that go into construction, the actual expense of putting together the parts to make the thing was at one time the biggest one, but not any more. With all those new technologies that increase the efficiency of bui
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3y ago
I sincerely doubt that the New York Times as an institution is unaware of the fact that resurrection is a core tenet of Christianity. The BrietBlart-class right wing news media loves to make a big deal out of a hardly noticeable editorial m
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The purpose of most buildings is to be useful, not to look pretty in pictures. > Modern architecture has destroyed our cities. It's hard to find a building build after WO2 that's actually pretty That's because the things t
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Did it? Every single person who was draft-eligible in 1940 was born before WW1 ended.
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3y ago
more like 4%, but yeah.
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3y ago
I'm not able to reproduce the author's bad results in Kagi, at all. What I'm seeing when searching the same terms is fantastic in comparison. I don't know what went wrong there. In the Youtube Downloader search, NortonSa
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3y ago
GPT 4 is THIRTY (30) times more expensive. In the llm-assisted search spaces I'm involved in, a lot of folks are trying to build solutions based on fine tuning and support software surrounding 3.5, which is economical for a massive use
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3y ago
Helping people get out is not the only purpose for media about a thing. Informing people who aren't in it is also legitimate news, and can be important if the people outside need to know what's going on inside so that they don
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3y ago
Sure, the presence of some collision somewhere is still likely to happen, but the chances that that collision will actually matter for anything is still vanishingly small. In the real world, we do not spend 100% of our entire species's
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Because incrementing integers require a singular central node to track the universal state and even so still have a risk of collision bucause they are not guaranteed to be unique in absence of an externally carefully managed master incremen
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3y ago
But the uuid collision chance only matters if there is even a possibility of colliding writes and lookups. So what if your microblogging platform's tweet uuid happens to collide with my cocktail recipe generator's ingredient uuid?
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I think you vastly overestimate the likelihood of collisions. If all of the 2 billion computers in the world produced a new uuidv4 every millisecond, we still wouldn't expect a collision for the next 5 quintillion years. Or if the same
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3y ago
In the same millisecond, in the same database system, having rolled the same 74 bit (~22 digit) number?
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A lot of regular bikes are coming with disc brakes these days, but they're usually cable-operated except on e-bikes.
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What do you think the word "meme" means, and what features does something need to qualify as one?
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Charging more for an ebike, like, in general, or when working on ebike-specific features? Because they aren't just bikes with a battery and motor, ebikes typically have hydraulic brakes that require special equipment to service, more c
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3y ago
A critical word here is "knowledge". Every element of data, core capability, or logical object should have a single authoritative source. Having multiple db connections or ui controllers would, in fact, be a horrible nightmare, ob
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The point is that they were never actually common in the first place, only superficially similar. You're saying we should look for duplications, abstract them, and then every time a change needs to be made to the abstraction to suit on
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> whether or not LLMs will turn out to be useful depends on future developments But LLMs are already useful. All kinds of people are using them to improve their writing, they now ship with grammar-check tools like Grammarly. All the bi
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I think the fact that the hype cycle was so short is evidence in LLM's favor as a revolutionary technology. Hype-bubble technologies live off their hype forever, and need to accelerate the hype to get more investment in a technology th
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Not if they don't have the passwords and 2FA devices to access company resources from that machine, and all of the sessions are expired.
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This is a bit like saying, "there's no point in having a lock on my door because somebody in my house can shoot me". The fact that an outer ring of security can't protect you from people who are already in an inner ring
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Do you not see how that's circular? Cookbooks in the old days were just as calorie dense as McDonalds is today. People used to eat tons of sugar and butter in everything, including things that were home cooked or marketed as healthy. H
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Read it again. The statements are not in conflict because the culture reacted to the increasing obesity, not the other way around . If modern cookbooks had more fattening recipes, then I would be wrong and obesity would be explainable by c
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