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by lagniappe 11mo ago
SVG is a current standard. Do not be coy just to satisfy your urge to disagree.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
Yes, and I had a lengthier response in that thread explaining why this isn't a useful metric. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183673
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
That is not a meaningful metric given that we don't live in 1996 and neither do our web standards.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
Really? What's the punchline? I like jokes.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
This wont change anything it will just make it less evident to those who missed a day of checking HN.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
It's called context taint.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
This suffers from a common pitfall of LLM's, context taint. You can see it is obviously the front page from today with slight "future" variation, the result ends up being very formulaic.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
Somewhat offtopic curiosity: Is there anything that Japanese fishkeepers do to keep the water and livestock inside the tank during earthquakes? Here we have no such risk for earthquakes, so a 600lb tank of water 4ft off the ground isn'
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
I wonder sometimes why we stopped at Unix, as if we all just happily said "..There!" and plopped ourselves down as if the work was done. Plan9 was our future and we let it rot unseen- a thriller with the last chapter removed.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
Much obliged. Have a good weekend. Your new gray hairs are en route :)
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
Models are trained with content scraped from the net, for the most part. The availability of content pertaining to those specs is almost nil, and of no SEO value. Ergo, models for the most part will only have a cursory knowledge of a spec t
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
A tweet I saw earlier: Mark Gurman @markgurman BREAKING: Apple’s chip chief Johny Srouji informed CEO Tim Cook he is seriously considering leaving the company and would likely continue his career elsewhere rather than retire. App
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
We actually had a myriad of competing specs. CSS proper wasn't released until december 1996.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
Nobody will agree with this hot take, but I was around in the perl years, so maybe take this opinion with a grain of salt: Perl wasn't arcane on purpose, the bar for being a programmer was just that much higher, born through necessity
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
If they think they're anywhere close to being far enough "in the lead" to force ads on paying customers, they're mistaken. Also, stop with the "wE FeLlL ShOrT", corporate platitudes mean nothing in 2025. We kno
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
That only works on reddit, this is aiming to be a place for insightful comments and fruitful discussion
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
There is a vouching system for comments that are flagged. Click the date on the post, and if you have a button saying "vouch", click that.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
Just as the delivery vans participate with local police through FLOC, so will the drones, soon. Remember, if it can be seen from a public vantage point, it's not private, including what can be seen through windows and behind fences.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
I'd prefer you focus your attention elsewhere
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
When you see these claims it's important to frame the assertion contextually as in the transformer generation , AGI is 10+ years away. This does not, however, account for the next architecture that will do more with less.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
Your brain doesn't live in isolation, your body and the fitness of it are crucial to fueling that brain.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
And for each of those names there are 100 rust zealots tainting their legacy with their behavior.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
Are you new? PHP was the standard for that type of app at the time.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
>his attempts to bulk up and become a MMA competitor notwithstanding a lot of us nerds value physical strength, it's 2025, we're not mouthbreathers anymore.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
Ah yes, the signature snark from the Rust community. This is the type of thing that repels people.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
The endless crusades are indeed tiresome.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
what's the punchline? I like jokes
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
Automated or not, editing titles is not cool. What an odd double standard.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
'an' precedes a vowel sound, 'a' precedes a consonant sound.
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by lagniappe 11mo ago
You should work on that.

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