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by jmcphers 4y ago
Citation needed. A lot of neural-net based AIs actually get better when trained on their own output[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero
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by jmcphers 4y ago
Love passwordstore, been using it for almost 6 years with zero issues while watching my friends run frantically from one compromised or greedy password manager to another.
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by jmcphers 4y ago
On the contrary, ChatGPT appears conversational because it basically feeds the entire chat history into the model to generate each subsequent response.
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by jmcphers 4y ago
Also don't like OMZ because of feature and performance bloat. I've been using prezto -- it's very modular and fast. https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
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by jmcphers 4y ago
I used to have a job that required a daily commute, but didn't require any travel. I now have a remote job that I do at home, with an extremely modest amount of travel -- I see my teammates 2-3 times a year at conferences or meetups. I
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by jmcphers 4y ago
This went in a different direction than I'd guessed. As someone who still drives a manual transmission car in the US, my guess is that non-electric cars will eventually be a category for enthusiasts. Those for whom a car is an applianc
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by jmcphers 4y ago
The hype cycle is not applicable to every technology. Some, probably even most , technologies are eventually found to not be useful or valuable, and never recover once the hype bust happens and the technology is forced to compete in the ma
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by jmcphers 4y ago
> It's certainly true that looking at the man pages could drive almost anybody the same Some genius created a git man page generator that creates plausible-looking but completely nonsensical man pages for made-up git commands. The
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by jmcphers 4y ago
Parent post is on target. Here is the website for the SeRCH organization: https://www.vanguardstem.com/serch
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by jmcphers 4y ago
First prompt: var G = 6.67e-11; var force = G * mass1 * mass2 / distance * distance; return force; Second prompt: % pointMatrixGravity - Calculates the gravitational force and torque on a % point mass due to a ma
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by jmcphers 4y ago
If you're at all concerned about privacy with the Bip, you can use the open source Gadgetbridge app[1] instead of Zepp for collecting metrics/syncing/uploading faces/etc. https://gadgetbridge.org/
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RStudio changed its name to Posit today(posit.co)
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by jmcphers 4y ago
I am an amateur pianist and have both a real piano and a digital piano at home. My kids gravitate towards the real piano. It doesn't have to be turned on or plugged in. It has no screen or volume control. It's a physical thing the
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by jmcphers 4y ago
I've used the same system for about 8 years. I have a folder of Markdown files labeled "diary"; in that folder are files named YYYY-MM-DD.md. I use these files as a daily scratchpad, recording what needs to be done, what I ac
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by jmcphers 4y ago
> At this point, Copilot strikes me as a tool that replaces googling for stack overflow answers This matches with my experience. I have never used Copilot to generate a large body of code or even anything more than a few trivially inspec
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by jmcphers 4y ago
It becomes different -- but not better or worse. The truth is that taking kids to the park can feel like even MORE of a chore when it's your own kids, because you've had to do it every week, it has no novelty, and you would love j
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by jmcphers 4y ago
In addition to all the language servers folks have already pointed to, Github Copilot works -- surprisingly --- great in Neovim. Tim Pope (author of fugitive and many other popular Vim plugins) wrote the integration. https://gith
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by jmcphers 4y ago
If you just want a knowledge base in Vim, have you tried Vimwiki[1]? I use Vimwiki in vim and Obsidian outside of Vim -- they can be configured to use exactly the same pile of Markdown files as a vault/wiki. [1] https://gith
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by jmcphers 4y ago
The Google Messages app is pretty good. It's a little thing, but it's the only app that supports tapbacks from iOS -- so on the (many) group threads I'm on that have iPhone users, I can see loves/like reactions instead o
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by jmcphers 4y ago
There are plenty of middling engineers at FAANG-class companies. It is true that they have more rigorous standards and employ above average engineers, but that isn't the primary driver of the comp: these companies have to pay a premium
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by jmcphers 4y ago
It really is. I am currently rocking a Pixel 3 and it stopped receiving security updates ... a long time ago. The phone's a little long in the tooth (about 4 years old); would probably consider continuing to use it if were still gettin
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by jmcphers 4y ago
If you need a non-freaky human face generated by AI, look no further than: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
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by jmcphers 4y ago
A lot of comments blaming this on high-carb, sugary foods, but it has to be more than that. Carbs and sugar intake started falling in 2000 and has fallen every year since[1]; this is not happening because people can't control themselve
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by jmcphers 4y ago
Well, that's sure an improvement from the last time I looked into this! Thank you, I'll check out Kobo.
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by jmcphers 4y ago
I was really hoping for a new Oasis in this announcement! I currently use a Voyage, a long-since-discontinued Kindle that was a hybrid of the Paperwhite and the Oasis, with a symmetric design and haptic page turn "buttons" on the
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by jmcphers 4y ago
The main reason I stick with Amazon is that it has the best integration with my local library, which is where I get 90% of my books. Like most libraries, they are OverDrive based. I can check out a book from the library on my phone and have
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by jmcphers 4y ago
I own this exact model -- the QN90A, though in a smaller size -- and have had exactly the same experience. The most maddening advertisement is the one that is forcibly inserted in the menu between the apps and the settings. Using the remote
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by jmcphers 4y ago
I was using Dropbox to sync the KeePass database (also tried OneDrive).
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by jmcphers 4y ago
I was really hoping for a Kindle with USB-C and page turning buttons; inexplicably this still does not exist.
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by jmcphers 4y ago
I used it for a long time and eventually quit because sync isn't good enough -- it just writes to an opaque binary file you have to sync yourself (with Syncthing, Dropbox, Onedrive, etc.). I had my password database on multiple device

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