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by jdiez17 3y ago
It's not possible for consumers to signal that they would prefer an iPhone with a USB-C port instead of Lightning.
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by jdiez17 3y ago
You are confused about what costs $10m to train (a base LLM) vs. $100 (fine tuning a pre-trained LLM).
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Right, there are a lot of administrators, janitors, technical support staff etc being paid by the university. But I'm surprised they aren't paid by the students tuition fees, since are so ridiculously high already.
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Before I read the article, my first reaction was "People. Research grants pay for people('s salaries)." (And other things as well, but that's usually the biggest category) But apparently, in the author's university,
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Well, that was hilarious. Thank you for starting my day with a chuckle.
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by jdiez17 4y ago
> My problem is with the first step: the existence of a super intelligent AI. Why are we sure it can exist? It's difficult to prove that something that has never been done before is possible, until it has been done. I personally don
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Would be cool to support multi-language conversations. Just tried the Gen Z hotline and I got her to switch to Spanish (read back with a hilarious accent), but the voice recognition doesn't handle me speaking Spanish.
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by jdiez17 4y ago
> The EU has a unified single market for goods, but not for services. It's definitely possible and easy for a company in EU country X to provide a service to individuals or companies in another EU country. What makes you think other
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by jdiez17 4y ago
> JLCPCB Green 5 €1.86 total €0.37 each (Minimum order qty 5) How much would you pay to get 5 boards delivered? (And in what timeframe) Actual example from a 33x55mm board I have on my account: Price for 3 boards in 7 working days: €18.0
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by jdiez17 4y ago
According to PCBshopper JLCPCB would make 3x 2 layer 10cm*10cm boards for 31.59€ and delivery in 7 days, while Aisler would make them for 37.20€ (with delivery often within 3 business days). In my experience there's often a 20€-ish cus
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by jdiez17 4y ago
I would recommend you to check out Aisler. Boards made in Germany, cheap and fast! And pretty good quality as far as I can tell. I haven't noticed any defects in many boards ordered.
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by jdiez17 4y ago
I've had pretty good experiences with Aisler[1]. They're based in Germany and produce prototype PCBs (2, 4 and 6 layers) ridiculously quickly. For simple 2 layer boards they are often sent in the post within 2 days and arrive the
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by jdiez17 4y ago
So... same business model as credit cards?
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Your last point is one of my long-standing pet-peeves about language teaching methods. It seems the universally accepted practice is to give students mountains of vocabulary to study, grammar rules that make no sense, and a little bit of sp
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Don't get me wrong, I think Jupyter Notebooks are great if you are a programmer or want to learn programming. But there's a massive usability gap between downloading an application and "open the command line, run pip install
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Excel is another amazing piece of software, that is almost universally looked down upon by programmers. Why make complex calculations in a GUI if you can just write a Python script with numpy and pandas!? And yet, so much of the world runs
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Never thought I would hear someone making that argument. You think we should let more people die in plane crashes so that flying is cheaper? We already know cheap flying with current safety standards is economically viable, with costs appro
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by jdiez17 4y ago
> I'd be tempted to just throw the Apple libraries into Ghidra and see what they do The Asahi people usually reverse engineer things like the audio system by running macOS under the m1n1 hypervisor, which lets you inspect interactio
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by jdiez17 4y ago
+1 for Blackmagic [1] (the firmware and the probe itself.) I integrated the open hardware and software into a dev board, super easy! [1] https://black-magic.org/
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by jdiez17 4y ago
You can still learn a lot from broken electronics, even if you cannot power them up. Have you seen what utterly destroyed hard drives data recovery specialists can get data from?
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Some of the turns are way too tight to be done by the autopilot. But it looks very regular, so I would suspect some custom control system was used. Would also be interested to know how they did this!
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by jdiez17 4y ago
OT, but I find this fascinating: did you buy all of those computers for yourself? If so, why do you need to upgrade them so frequently?
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by jdiez17 4y ago
I don't know about France but it definitely is not the case in Germany.
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Have you read the article? Until recent years, "there is no relationship between the scale of refugee inflow and the crime rate". Now there's a (in my opinion) small increase in the probability that a crime is perpetrated by
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by jdiez17 4y ago
You can use ifuse: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Requirements are a useful tool to direct the effort of a team of engineers in a productive direction. They don't have to be set in stone from the get-go - in fact, it's better if they are updated by different people as new informa
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by jdiez17 4y ago
> How many people use Gmail vs paying for a provider not owned by an advertiser company? Ads shown in Gmail are not based on the contents of the emails, rather on other characteristics inferred from the associated Google account [0]. It&
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Those people will be given a choice (assuming Meta doesn’t throw a tantrum and decide to leave the EU in Brexit fashion - which they are more than welcome to do!). “Do you want us to use [extensive list of all of the kinds of information we
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by jdiez17 4y ago
That’s my understanding as well. Point 4 being the key factor. They would have to ask, and give a clear yes/no option, on whether the user wants ads to be personalized based on their previous activity on the app (which posts they have
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by jdiez17 4y ago
Cookie banners are only necessary when using cookies that are not technically necessary, i.e. for spying. Also, most cookie banners are designed to nag you into clicking "yes, track me". Refusing the tracking is often more difficu

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