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by internet_points 1mo ago
> parroted in the media ugh just recently I saw a news article gushing about how AI had helped with some health/medicine study, and various patient organizations were all like "oh yeah this is a Good use of AI" and then I
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by internet_points 1mo ago
> Mr Walker had been asked to explain why Iceland burgers passed British tests for equine DNA but failed the Irish tests. > He replied: "Well, that's the Irish, isn't it?" so his big bad mistake was to make a remar
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by internet_points 1mo ago
Can you give an example, understandable to hackers, of how you fixed an organizational problem? Genuinely interested :)
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by internet_points 1mo ago
> If tech can cause social problems (there are multiple books on this) then it can solve them too You haven't actually argued why it can solve them too. When you're about to make a general argument about tech, try to exchange
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by internet_points 1mo ago
It was news to me that the lung damage from pollution isn't necessarily permanent in children, if a change in environment happens early enough. Up until reading this, I was under the impression it would be. We had a lot of construction
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by internet_points 1mo ago
Directory listings can also be editable: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/wdired-editable-dired...
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by internet_points 1mo ago
Been a paid customer for over 13 years now. I'm very happy with them, have never considered switching to anything else.
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by internet_points 1mo ago
If you repeatedly use the same holdout and trigger acceptance on the holdout, it is no longer a holdout but just another training set.
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by internet_points 2mo ago
The study didn't really show that. What it did show, is that in this particular study there was no strong effect either way and there is really no way to generalize from the results. See in particular the details on what made the agent
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by internet_points 2mo ago
Yegge's writing was always ..interesting.. but reading him now just makes me feel sad for him.
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by internet_points 2mo ago
Heh, the article is kind of negative about Haskell's "success", but fun is exactly the reason why I still prefer Haskell over all other languages.
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by internet_points 2mo ago
don't press enter! the answer will show below your input
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Solve math calculations directly in your Firefox address bar(support.mozilla.org)
3 points by internet_points 2mo ago|4 comments
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by internet_points 2mo ago
Try also wget https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/downloads/iso-639-3.tab grep -xFf <(grep -o ^... iso-639-3.tab) /usr/share/dict/british-english You can make
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by internet_points 2mo ago
Ask the waiter and have an actual conversation with a human, or at least do an image search[0], either way you'll learn something and become a more experienced and cultured[1] human being. And you'll have a more truthful expectati
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by internet_points 2mo ago
i read a school-assigned book during the loading portions of a certain computer game. the two stories are completely interlinked in my head.
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by internet_points 2mo ago
ouf :( maybe original link should be changed to https://www.drcathicks.com/ ?
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by internet_points 2mo ago
The author Cat Hicks also co-hosts https://www.changetechnically.fyi/ which has some interesting episodes, e.g. https://www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/episodes/17541876-... In https:/&#x2
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by internet_points 3mo ago
how much storage and how much do you pay Hetzner?
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Now I'm trying to imagine a staircase with a non-integer number of steps
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Quite a lot of my searches for practical advice (building, maintenance, event planning, shopping etc. etc) have the best hits from forums that on the face of it rarely seem relevant, e.g. forums for bmx bikers or moms etc. Old-school forums
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by internet_points 3mo ago
nah, the thlh stack (tailwind+htmx+lucid+haskell) is much more unpronouncable https://github.com/monadicsystems/haskell-htmx-examples
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by internet_points 3mo ago
And Illich (where the term "tool" is quite broad, including anything from a knife to a highway system): Tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by anybody, as often or as seldom as desired, for t
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by internet_points 3mo ago
Good intentions, but these days there's an even bigger threat: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115840278905803451 https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116796122687129600 https:&#x2F
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by internet_points 3mo ago
> memory prices coming down Are they? I suspect AI labs are buying stuff not just for their own use, but to make local use too expensive to be an option :-( And they can always make the "best" frontier model even bigger (though
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by internet_points 3mo ago
(It's mentioned as an idea in the bottom part of the htmx.org essay)
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by internet_points 3mo ago
> I stress to them that I admire the heroism of their generation in resisting these temptations. > (I think older generations would do well to recognize this fact.) That is so, so much better than the default mode of blaming kids for
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by internet_points 3mo ago
> Today it is a ruin, but one that remains unmistakably alive. wat? why is it still alive? the paragraph just ended like that, no further explanation? I get the feeling I should not trust these words. (Looking at the pre-2023 articles by
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by internet_points 3mo ago
but not Haskell, guess they gave up on picking a string type =P
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by internet_points 3mo ago
ddg says "BASB" could mean "building a second brain", so I guess it's about note-taking

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