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by hansword 4y ago
Is this the most current Adobe Dreamweaver? As an online service? I think it's hilarious there are 20 comments here, and all are voicing confusion at what the product is and does?
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by hansword 4y ago
Codex helps the shareholders of ClosedAI and Micro$oft. I guess YC reaction to codex would be substantially different if this was a free and open tool anyone could use....
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by hansword 4y ago
The lawsuit has been settled. Gutenberg has been unblocked in Germany since late October. The site was completely blocked for three years, from 2018 on. Now, a total of 19 German language books are blocked, per the "terms of the settle
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by hansword 4y ago
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but what you write is both very interesting and very confusing. The 'difference between well-financed and in-debt' is very clear and to-the-point, this is excellent writing. The long
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by hansword 4y ago
> It’s true that the world is full of narcissists—people so full of themselves they think about their own talents more than my own.
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by hansword 4y ago
https://stevenwaterman.uk/musetree/ - open front end for MuseNet (by ClosedAI), choose your model characteristics, then right-click on a node to request new bits, choose which you like best, repeat.
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by hansword 4y ago
(a) if you want the dog to go to good hands, don't sell it. Spend time finding the best hands possible and give them the dog. (b) as you might see, your analogy is not very good. (c) if you find you care about the money, sell it to the
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by hansword 4y ago
This has been on here only 10 days ago? Consensus was roughly the article is bad, the author is either disingenuous or lazy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31836324
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by hansword 4y ago
I have a herd of elephants. I decide one day I get them all really really well fed, and then lead them to the marketplace where they then take a really really big dump on the stalls and the produce and the sellers and the customers. In the
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by hansword 4y ago
So he is an Economics Professor, and from his experience what professors teach is mostly useless. Ahem, with all due respect, but perhaps he is just not very good at his job...?
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by hansword 4y ago
In Germany university is mostly free. There are administrative fees in the range of ~200eu per year, and most universities have a subsidized but mandatory transit pass, which might be another ~400eu per year. There were explicit tuition fee
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by hansword 4y ago
All the comments here are positive, the range is from slightly amused to comparing her to Borges (rofl). I didn't like it the moment I heard this, but now contrarian mode has kicked in: Why isn't this destruction of essential info
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by hansword 4y ago
No one is arguing Google (Chrome) is better than Mozilla (Firefox), at least until now. Of course, living in the house of big G is much worse for privacy. But we were talking about why Mozilla is such a mess (not compared to G, but to its p
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by hansword 4y ago
Yeah, thank you. Not what I wanted a reminder of. Surely what I needed a reminder of.
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by hansword 4y ago
To me, having worked with OSS for multiple decades, but only ever having dipped my toe into the dev waters, the amount of forks happening seems ridiculous. (1) the 'subdivision of the estates' problem that primogeniture solved for
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by hansword 4y ago
Good read. Author writes Dick predicted four technologies: * forensic text analysis * automatic text generation * SEO, aka writing for machine demands * hyper-personalized recommendation engine Author says these are all kinda inevitable, th
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by hansword 4y ago
> I don't know I'm not rich. > First, there are no $5 million cars. There are cars selling $4M new from the factory.[0] Because of the scammy economics of these limited edition hypercars, if you are eligible (!), you can buy
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by hansword 4y ago
https://twitter.com/search?q=0th%20world%20problem - it seems like hundreds of people have independently coined '0th world problem' to name such non-inconveniences. Edit for two Examples: * I want ice cream but I
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by hansword 4y ago
> spend their money more or less on the same things proportionally I guess I must be misunderstanding you, because this seems obviously wrong. A very poor person spends ~100% of their income on nutrition and shelter, and their investment
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by hansword 4y ago
> At high resolutions, beyond what was considered normal when the original quantization tables were chosen, then ringing becomes much less of a problem Slightly more precise: ringing becomes much less of a problem in high resolution imag
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by hansword 4y ago
The difference is that the kraken 'about technology' website [0] gives no useful information as to how they are doing it (I guess it's 'proprietary information'), while this article gives a very detailed description
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by hansword 4y ago
Thanks for answering! I still can't find anything, but, well...
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by hansword 4y ago
Heads up, this is over 20 years old. Not saying you shouldn't read it, just a lot has happened since then.
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by hansword 4y ago
> red asbestos playgrounds Can you elaborate a little? The phrase raised some very old very vague memories, but I can't find anything, neither by probing my memory nor by a web search.
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by hansword 4y ago
I love this and would have dearly needed it like 5 years ago. Now, it is still a very interesting read. But given what we have already seen from Nvidia on video compression [0], I think within the next few years, we will move everything to
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by hansword 4y ago
Summary: I don't believe in work-life balance. Recently I was burnt out from work, so I worked a little more, and it's now good. I wish I was exaggerating. This is *terrible* advice for people who *really* are burnt out.
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by hansword 4y ago
They have this great quote on their site: > 95% of customers say switching to Brex is easy. (1) apparently getting kicked out is easy too. a bit tonedeaf it is. (2) those who thought it wasn't easy likely aren't your customers.
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by hansword 4y ago
https://nitter.net/BigScienceLLM Follow the training of the model. ETA: end of next week.
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> after 1940s, military spending's constantly reduced I think your information is incorrect. There was this thing called 'the cold war'. From 1948 on military spending constantly *increased*, when this report was written i
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by hansword 4y ago
If I enter 'Mickey Mouse' into an ML-TTI thing like Craiyon (Dall E mini) do you think I will be able to sell the resulting image on a Tshirt? No, I won't, because Disney has fancy lawyers, the average open source developer h

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