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by leonidasv 2y ago
Gemini 2.5 Pro got the farmer problem variation right: https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...
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by leonidasv 2y ago
Hugo and Cloudflare Pages: https://leonidasv.com
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by leonidasv 2y ago
> Do we really think things will move this fast? Sort of no - between the beginning of the project last summer and the present, Daniel’s median for the intelligence explosion shifted from 2027 to 2028. We keep the scenario centered aroun
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by leonidasv 2y ago
When I used XFCE as my daily driver, I once tried installing Chicago95 just for nostalgia and it stick as my daily driver for almost a year! The UI is less distracting than modern UIs and there's something to it that makes it easier to
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by leonidasv 2y ago
MCPs aren't specific to Cursor. Rather, they enable any IDE to become a Cursor competitor. Example: JetBrains released an MCP server plugin for their IDEs recently and it enables Claude Desktop to seamlessly use the IDE for reading and
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by leonidasv 2y ago
I live in an apartment. When I go to my living room, a pop-up shows on my phone (Samsung Galaxy) asking if I want to connect to a Samsung TV and cast my phone. The catch is: I don't have any Samsung TV in my home. It's the neighbo
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by leonidasv 2y ago
I had a similar experience with the read-only Postgres MCP. Just asked Claude "how can I optimise the performance of my database?" and boom, it checked missing indexes, most used tables, work_mem, etc and gave personalized suggest
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by leonidasv 2y ago
This is going to drive websites to put even more Cloudflare captcha-walls before you can even see the content. Web will become less accessible. I have a domain parked with just a blank page that's getting 172,000 requests per month. Si
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by leonidasv 2y ago
You may be interested in FerretDB[1]. [1] https://www.ferretdb.com/
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by leonidasv 2y ago
Now I'm curious how the film would look if it was rendered in Cycles, there are some lighting aspects that really feel "off". Perhaps now that the film is acclaimed they could release a remaster done in Cycles.
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Postmortem: Big Games' Rise of Nations(web.archive.org)
2 points by leonidasv 2y ago|0 comments
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by leonidasv 2y ago
That 1M tokens context window alone is going to kill a lot of RAG use cases. Crazy to see how we went from 4K tokens context windows (2023 ChatGPT-3.5) to 1M in less than 2 years.
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by leonidasv 2y ago
Also, notice that the original study is from 2023.
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by leonidasv 2y ago
What I don't like about Mastodon is the way it federate servers. For example, if someone on server B "retweets" a post from server A, it does not carry over likes and comments from server A. That means personal instances are
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by leonidasv 2y ago
ICP-Brasil officially stopped emitting public-facing SSL/TLS certificates in October: https://www.gov.br/iti/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/indice-de-not... This is pretty bad. Someone circunvented the ban
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Debugging third-party goroutine leaks(leonidasv.com)
1 points by leonidasv 2y ago|0 comments
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by leonidasv 2y ago
I'd argue that sports betting is not the biggest concern. What we saw was the rise of online cassinos after a new law in 2023 classified them as "sports betting" too. Betting your team will win the tournament has a very delay
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by leonidasv 2y ago
If you can self-host something, you can run a SSG*-based blog platform (Hugo, Jekyll, etc). And static webpages are even simpler to self-host. If you are willing to bend a little bit for big tech, you can just host them dropping generated f
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by leonidasv 2y ago
Exactly. Europe and Brazil didn't outlaw AI. They just outlawed opt-out use of personal data for training those models. You are still free to use opt-in or publicly available data for training. Nevertheless, Meta was using photos from
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by leonidasv 2y ago
The law used to support this decision was the LGPD. LGPD is not against AI, it's pro-privacy and pro-explicit user consent. It was approved back in 2018, mirroring the GDPR. Meta was training Generative AI on Instagram photos as an opt
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by leonidasv 2y ago
They probably set a low fine to minimize the risk of the decision getting overruled by some Court for having a "disproportional fine". However, had Meta chosen not to comply, the fine would surely rise and the agency would pursue
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by leonidasv 2y ago
This story originally came out in 2022: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/all-of-the-bases-in-dna-... Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33498586
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Why randomness is important for Deep Learning (2016)(blog.evjang.com)
2 points by leonidasv 3y ago|0 comments
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Total Functional Programming (2004) [pdf](ncatlab.org)
89 points by leonidasv 3y ago|99 comments
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OpenAI's board had safety concerns. Big Tech obliterated them in 48 hours(latimes.com)
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by leonidasv 3y ago
>The Unix epoch is midnight on January 1, 1970. It's important to remember that this isn't Unix's "birthday" -- rough versions of the operating system were around in the 1960s. Instead, the date was programmed in
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by leonidasv 3y ago
Kagi, a paid search engine. I accepted paying for it after the trial because every other search engine just sucks or isn't customizable enough in comparison. Not to mention ads and tracking. Kagi results are really, really great. I fin
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by leonidasv 3y ago
Unrelated, but now I'm curious about how much would it take on RPis 4 and 5.
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by leonidasv 3y ago
The website seems to have been hugged to death. WebArchive has a copy, tho: https://web.archive.org/web/20230827191921/https://aircosmos...
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by leonidasv 3y ago
The worst part is that WinRAR does not have autoupdate built-in, so millions of people will remain vulnerable for years.

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