leidenfrost

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by leidenfrost 7d ago
I personally don't mind cloud LLMs as long as I'm aware of what's being sent to the internet. I was thinking that it's a new thing for our field for such products only to be available behind a paid service. Before LLMs,
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by leidenfrost 7d ago
I don't buy into the AGI commercial hype, and I treat LLMs as nothing more than pseudo-random text generators. It just happens that at certain size the flow of words look a lot like "reasoning" because of the emergence phenom
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by leidenfrost 7d ago
> then why bring it to life? Like many things in life, the answer is just "because I want to" and "because I can". Not everything has to be a linear progression or a level-up mechanic like a mmorpg. Sometimes you want
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by leidenfrost 7d ago
You can say the same for building computers. You didn't actually "built" a computer from the ground up. You just bought the pre-made hardware and plugged it in the places that are made to be easily pluggable. Everything in te
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by leidenfrost 7d ago
Not for me. I do like having an agent at my disposition that accelerates the way into making those little experiments a reality. A sloppy reality? Maybe. But It's just tinkering, there's no other use case for this outside of sayin
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by leidenfrost 10d ago
AFAIK Charles III is the monarch both for UK and Canada. Doesn't this mean that Canada is, in a certain degree, dependent of UK?
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by leidenfrost 4mo ago
In regards to the site, all of them follow almost the same templates. Once you see a few, it becomes obvious
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by leidenfrost 4mo ago
IMHO people expected a Pi that offered similar performance as a Mac M1 but with Linux as first class citizen
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by leidenfrost 5mo ago
Still, it's a tool. Even if your tool learns to talk and to make decisions, it's still a tool, not a person. You're the person and the one responsible for the decisions you make based on your tools. Going back from the analog
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by leidenfrost 7mo ago
I have a hard time finding a good battery. I bought an internal and external battery and the external one quickly started bloating.
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by leidenfrost 8mo ago
Try Plop Boot Manager: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html It can boot from a floppy or from a CD drive, and it lets you chainload into a live usb even on old computers. I used it to boot from CD from a floppy in
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by leidenfrost 9mo ago
It's tacky, but not the end of the world. It remins me of some gnome themes from 2005-2009. I'd choose that a thousand times over an ad filled start menu
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by leidenfrost 10mo ago
The real culprit is the International Division of Labour. Some countries sell primary goods and other countries manufacture them. But it turns out it's the manufacturing industry the one that trickles wealth the most, raises salaries a
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by leidenfrost 10mo ago
I have macOS shortcuts hot branded in my brain. I'd prefer to adopt a few of these programs than having to configure i3 and use ctrl for everything
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by leidenfrost 10mo ago
The solution for that is to decide which period do you want to build support for. Trying to be binary-compatible with Tahoe may not be worth it. But you could make a distro binary-compatible with Snow Leopard. Or better, make it compatible
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by leidenfrost 11mo ago
I interpreted it as: if you include all hobbies and games made by humans in history, I'm pretty sure most of them involve a set of cards made of paper, some others involving wooden figurines (chess, checkers) or even drawing on dirt wi
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
The most absurd part is that you totally can access the home banking from your desktop PC with Linux, without any need of hardware attestation. Suddenly it's mandatory because the device is a phone?
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
I agree with you on the Windows side. Linux is different. Decades of being tied to x86 made the OS way more coupled with the processor family than one might think. Decades of bugfixes, optimizations and workarounds were made assuming a stan
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
I found a video of a n64 port in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjG6_UY0ou4
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
Sometimes it does change and when that happens is for the worse. Some developers suddenly realize that X system is old, and then they try to redo it from zero. And when they do that, they throw decades of feature development down the drain:
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
Question, why are you glad you didnt go for the PostmarketOS route? Do you think it's not worth it? Or that android is better in any way? Just curious
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
Liquid glass looks like some freeware teenager icon pack from gnome-look.org And we would have laughed at it.
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
Insulin control is about managing hunger more than a direct cause for weight. You don't even need to do keto or wacky "just meat" diets to handle insulin. Protein consumption prevents insulin spikes for around 1-2 hours after
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
But it's not. What you're referring to, is the basic concept of thermodynamic calorie in/calorie out. Yes, you can "just" reduce food and lose weight if you hit deficit numbers. But if you don't do it correctly
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Double Pendulums are (not) Chaotic(youtube.com)
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
While it's not the explicit goal, it was because of technological superiority that most of us got into free software in the first place. There was a time where Linux worked great while Windows 98/XP struggled to maintain in its ow
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
I have an S23 base for that exact reason. A full flagship phone at 6.1" size
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
The idea behind the parent comment is not that they can't compete, but they are specifically made not to. Sort of a puppet browser made only for proving the court that the giants are not technically a monopoly, while ranking a bare min
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
Typically low level code and some manual fiddling with memory by asuming page size. Everything's ok until some obscure library suddenly segfaults without any error
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by leidenfrost 1y ago
I wonder if these studies also take in account indigenous languages and its native speakers. People from Paraguay speak both Spanish and Guarani. A lot of people from Mexico speak both Spanish and Mayan. Does that have the same effect as th

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