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by hansword 4y ago
> What we found was that the majority [of C-suite executives] want to do something about it, but they just haven't done something about it I literally laughed out loud. This is how it is, this is always how it is. LOL
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by hansword 4y ago
Yes it is open, and for some reason you forgot to link it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim... As you can see, from 112M total expenses, internet hosting is 2.4M (or 2%), and
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by hansword 4y ago
I thought this was super silly, but when I read the article I thought it quite interesting. Shame he study is all google based.. :(
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by hansword 4y ago
> rather than prioritize posts from accounts people follow, Facebook’s main feed will, like TikTok, start heavily recommending posts regardless of where they come from To get updates from my channel, subscribe, ring the bell, click the e
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by hansword 4y ago
Yes, contribute a bit more is good. But contribute to what? Server costs are (compared to WMF budget) small, the actual contributors never have and never will see a cent.
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by hansword 4y ago
Ohhhhhh, thanks, much appreciated.
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by hansword 4y ago
Just yesterday someone asked me if "AI style transfer"* would work for 3d models or video. I said "if the current speed of progress holds, i think we will see this within the year". And here it is. "What a time to b
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by hansword 4y ago
Looks super-cool, would love to try it. However... > All from your web browser. Your project is stored in the cloud, accessible from anywhere. I don't want that. I want my code on my machine, not someone else's. And I most cert
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by hansword 4y ago
This reminds me of the phantasy consoles scene: * https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php (paid, $15) * https://tic80.com/ (Lua, JS, Ruby, Wren, ...., open source, free) * https://pixelvision8.gith
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by hansword 4y ago
Every year from now on is going to be the hottest year on record.
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by hansword 4y ago
> Crypto is successful at being money. If you don't believe me, then I'm happy to sell you the laptop I'm writing this on for 1,000 ETH instead of 1,000 USD. You might be happy to sell it, but I am not happy to buy it usin
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by hansword 4y ago
Good job! I can't get below 10 on my iPad.
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by hansword 4y ago
When I was a kid I learned Logo and Basic and then Pascal, later C, and a bunch of other languages. In the late 1990s, there was this huge trend where a fancy 'new' language was embraced by everyone and their mother: JAVA. I thoug
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by hansword 4y ago
The article ends with the author saying the results were non-surprising. While I agreed with the author here, we disagree on the need to publish this.
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by hansword 4y ago
> These examples rely on the NFT already being meaningful in some community before it gets added in. Meanwhile, in the real world, whenever some company wants to implement NFTs they get massive backlash from their player base.
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by hansword 4y ago
Nick says it is bad practice to post an x-language article, but change the title into y-language. That x is German and y is English isn't that important. It's about wrongly signaling to the reader, who then after clicking is confu
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by hansword 4y ago
Simple rule: Don't use meta products. Shame everyone who attempts to copy their business practices.
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by hansword 4y ago
I want to second the gamers nexus recommendation here. (To be frank, I think LMG labs is very much inspired by what GN has been doing over the last year or two.)
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by hansword 4y ago
Just because a sedentary lifestyle is bad for your health, doesn't mean smoking is harmless. Do you know anything about these chemical? If so, please share. If not, well, ....
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by hansword 4y ago
The email address I give out to companies is theircompanyname@myserver.com - this has most of the privacy benefits the author describes. But frankly, I did it just to find out who sells my personal info to spammers. Turns out quite a few do
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by hansword 4y ago
This article is either massively overpromising in its title, or I lack massive understanding. Given my academic background I suppose it's the former, but I can't be sure. I can be sure it's badly written.
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by hansword 4y ago
You might have missed a part of the article, where author says they write single line sentences as 'code', but both Markdown and HTML automatically turn concescutive sentences into paragraphs, unless you (using a blank line or &lt
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by hansword 4y ago
Such a dubious analogy, mainly, but not exclusively because it basically ignores the role 'profit' plays in an industry. "Software will eat the world" makes a lot of money for software companies. Who makes money or profi
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by hansword 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment that adults are much better at projecting confidence than actually knowing what the heck they are doing or even making smart decisions. The advice of just founding a company without a plan? Not so much....
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by hansword 4y ago
Also the union rep says that the region (Brandenburg state, Giga Berlin is not in Berlin) has a severe lack of professionally trained skilled workers, so it's easy to find another job. The onky solution, they say, is for Tesla to raise
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by hansword 4y ago
So overdue; frankly the original name should have never happened in the first place. In the last week alone, I explained to a dozen people that "DALL E" and "DALL E 2" (by ClosedAI) and "DALL E Mini" (by Dayma
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by hansword 4y ago
> huge AI models that may germinate into an AGI are science fiction.
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by hansword 4y ago
> It's only people who are actually lazy and not doing anything useful with their lives that are looked down upon, and rightfully so. Your view is manifestly incorrect. There are so many groups of people that are looked down upon, w
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by hansword 4y ago
Much thanks, didn't know that, edited my comment.
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by hansword 4y ago
> because despite the increase in productivity we also have increased lifespan which results in large number of retirees who consume the resources for much longer than before. The retirees in your example, with great probability, either

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