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by iandinwoodie 4mo ago
Also from the article: > "Claude clearly made things worse" &emdash; the main claim This article was clearly generated by AI, yet I found no mention/attribution of that by author. How likely is it than someone who vibe
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by iandinwoodie 4y ago
I think its a commonly accepted opinion that a person's ability to admit when they don't know something is a strength. It would be interesting to a see how much a constraint for known validity impacts the ability of a model to syn
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by iandinwoodie 4y ago
In addition, I wonder what effect this sort of “manual desertification” has on the soil when done en masse.
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
SIV = Semantic Import Versioning [0] 0. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44550
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
One difference I've noticed is that R libraries are usually authored and maintained by academics in the associated field; the same can't always be said about equivalent Python libraries. This means that R library authors generally
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
Do you know of any open source mobile apps that are full vendor native for iOS and Android? I'd really like to peruse some examples of that.
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
I also log my debugging process, but usually I'm less verbose with the explanations and more verbose about the specific actions I'm taking. For example, instead of a note saying "starting a debugging session to find out the i
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
LA Fitness allows you to either mail in the cancellation form or submit it in person. I was also cancelling due to a move, so I printed out the form and trekked out to the nearest location for a final workout and the piece of mind that my c
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you think "libre" is a terrible moniker?
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
After reading that, I have a new appreciation for the page’s opening sentence: “Jaffa Cakes are biscuit-sized cakes …”
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
I did a quick search for a Python-based shell and found Xonsh [0]; thought you might find it interesting. 0. https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
“The binary meaning of the kilobyte for 1024 bytes typically uses the symbol KB, with an uppercase letter K.” [0] 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
With no intent to be pedantic: wouldn't benchmarked or profiled, instead of performance tested, be a more accurate description of the performance evaluation performed by the author?
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
I think he is joking. I hope he is joking.
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
For anyone who would like to hear him speak on the topic, a talk he gave at Google was recorded: https://youtu.be/bmSAYlu0NcY
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
For anyone interested in the sport, UDisc is the “go-to” app for finding courses, viewing course maps, and tracking scores. I’m not affiliated with UDisc, but their dev team has done such a great job listening to feedback from users and act
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
Why is that the most frightening part? (Genuinely curious) I tried to look up the original intent of the .info domain and found the following on Wikipedia: "Info is the only top-level domain that was explicitly created and chartered fo
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
If 90's marketing taught me anything it's that you triple the x's. Exxxtreme
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
The "Features Reel and Showcase" video on that page was a cool overview of the type of work being done in Blender (link to video: https://youtu.be/fxNlpQYRz7s )
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
Yeah, basically a chain of trust certificates like outlined by X.509. I think managing the chain of trust would be a pretty involved process.
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
There is a spectrum of replica quality in the watch world. Some watches are very obvious to spot while others would be impossible to spot from a photo. There is also the concept of a frankenwatch: a watch that is a blend of original and non
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
You are correct, as indicated by the following quote on the page I linked: “The finished Ian Knot is identical to either the Standard Shoelace Knot [...].” Changing my Granny Knot (unbalanced) to a Standard Shoelace Knot (balanced) would ha
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
I actually switched to the Ian Knot specifically to handle the stiffer leather laces of boat shoes and boots. Previously, getting a knot in leather to hold was a miracle and I would slip the shoes on and off (causing unnecessary wear and te
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by iandinwoodie 5y ago
A few years ago I switched from the "Granny Knot" to the "Ian Knot" [0] in order to (1) eliminate the need for "double knotting" and (2) straighten the bow. Despite the few embarrassing times early in the proce
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by iandinwoodie 6y ago
> In general, this is not something you frob lightly
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by iandinwoodie 6y ago
I don't understand what is happening at the poles of the black hole in the rendering; is that light escaping the event horizon?
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by iandinwoodie 6y ago
The sudden drop of RAM and disk usage from 2020-12 to 2021-01 stood out to me. Any reason behind that? (e.g., deployed new release which contained optimizations)
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by iandinwoodie 6y ago
Where do you put 4000 years of data? Imagine indexing / searching that. If all data can’t be kept, who will get to decide what is important? It’s a really interesting topic
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by iandinwoodie 6y ago
Very interesting. So we can derive the phonetics from those provided for coq au vin (/ˌkɒk oʊ ˈvæ̃/), which I have apparently been mispronouncing for a while.
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by iandinwoodie 6y ago
Out of genuine curiosity, does anyone know how to pronounce the name of this project? I checked the “About Coq” page on the official website, the top-level README in the project’s repository, and the project’s Wikipedia but failed to find a

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