limit499karma

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by limit499karma 2y ago
I like Richard Werner's take on the matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_of_the_Yen
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by limit499karma 2y ago
I have one of those - great for video calls but music after 30 minutes gives me serious headaches.
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by limit499karma 2y ago
isn't only the client side oss? server side logs/libs is more likely. isn't it amazing 30 guys handle a billion users and who knows what sort of ddos is unleashed against them.
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by limit499karma 2y ago
> black box Actually the opacity of the abstraction layer is the core of the issue. First we note that opacity is a measure in both the inner-workings of the 'box' and orthogonally (in context of LLMs) a measure of deterministi
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by limit499karma 2y ago
a very impressive guy. too bad he didn't name the oss libraries.
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by limit499karma 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ut6RouSs0w after watching Carlson's interview with Durov have come to think he may be the genuine article. Very interesting bit his relating us agents trying to recruit a dev and pushin
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by limit499karma 2y ago
"The deputy speaker of the state Duma, Vladislav Davankov, said he had called on Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov to secure Durov’s release. “The arrest of [Durov] could have political motives and be a means of obtaining the pers
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by limit499karma 2y ago
According to a few (related) mystical schools of thought (that share a boundary with Jungian psychology) there is a distinction to be made between mind and intellect . The former, the mind, is held to be effectively a super-sense and its
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by limit499karma 2y ago
Well, this is not even 1 mm thick. It's just 2 glossy papers that are held by the adhesive so the gap while I slip it under the glass is pretty minimal.
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by limit499karma 2y ago
Any semi-stiff plane would do, the thinner the better so as not accidentally injure the little critter's legs and what-not. These days keep an unpeeled decal that has just the right thinness/stiffness properties.
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by limit499karma 2y ago
I just downloaded (thanks to other commenter below) and would question the "use" part. What is the "peen" end used for? Having read the section on hammers I still don't know. (Just re-skimmed the section and I still
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by limit499karma 2y ago
Why are you throwing in 'consciousness' in a comment regarding mechanical intelligence?
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by limit499karma 2y ago
The issue is design and development methodology. > "Spend some time with the other team" How about design documents? Is that truly a lost art among the latter-day geeks?
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by limit499karma 2y ago
It is not officially a recognized politburo. The Eastern approach to these top down systems is to have a overt power structure whereas such a structure is denied in the West even though as you say it is all in the open.
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by limit499karma 2y ago
It wasn't just US. The hidden politburo of capitalists decided and the nations followed orders.
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by limit499karma 2y ago
A typical specimen - no wonder he is a darling of MIC. This guy is the creepiest thing out of old Sun Microsystems. Must be one of those "bozos" Andy,Bill et al worried about in re to hiring ..
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by limit499karma 2y ago
Is this an actual dialogue [link please?] or do you mean the duel between G.E.B. & Emperor's New Mind?
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by limit499karma 2y ago
This seems to deny the possibility of equivalence of any sequence of actions taken in a bounded spaces of entities (named widgets thus type:id) and actions to another 'representation' (e.g. text): { select[i]@dropdown:states
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by limit499karma 2y ago
> Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing, Arabic: الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wal-muqābala) is a mathematical book written approximately 820 CE. [...] Th
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by limit499karma 2y ago
> (mechanical sympathy) I get what you are trying to convey but that usage of the term is not helpful in the general case as it confuses what mechanical sympathy actually means. Mechanical sympathy is simply this: abstractions that ackno
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by limit499karma 2y ago
Any nation that becomes captive to ideological selection for its key sectors will naturally tend to selecting subpar individuals in position of power. This is a cautionary tale. The same thing has happened to our nation, America, with the a
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by limit499karma 2y ago
Would be incredibly stupid of Russians to do something like this. Over at France24.com this is what is posted ATM: "Two security sources said the modus operandi meant initial suspicions fell on leftist militants or environmental activi