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by lioeters 2y ago
Damn, local LLM just made it up. Thanks for the correction, I should have confirmed before quoting it. Sounded true enough but that's what it's optimized for.. I just searched for the quote and my comment shows up as top result. S
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by lioeters 2y ago
Or politics, where confidently lying is an essential skill.
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by lioeters 2y ago
In a sane country this would be a crime. But here we are..
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by lioeters 2y ago
> the ground truth in math is nature Who was it that said, "Mathematics is an experimental science." > In his 1900 lectures, "Methods of Mathematical Physics," (posthumously published in 1935) Henri Poincaré argued
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by lioeters 2y ago
That's the comment I was looking for to rally behind. I use the same character `-` for all purposes: minus, hyphen, em/en dash. It's easy to type and it makes practically no difference in meaning or legibility. I refuse to wa
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by lioeters 2y ago
Seemingly bad effort-to-reward ratio. I still have several large projects on previous versions of Next.js, and I'm not motivated (financially or otherwise) to spend the effort upgrading them for no reason other than to keep up with the
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by lioeters 2y ago
True, that's a probable and very real risk that this recursive cycle of LLMs consuming LLM-produced content will degrade the overall quality of its "intelligence" and "creativity", maybe even the quality of literatu
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by lioeters 2y ago
Soundslice has a fairly new feature for scanning PDF or image into a music score, with export to MusicXML and MIDI. https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/
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by lioeters 2y ago
That's insightful. Thank you for sharing your work and the patient responses to everyone's questions. Yesterday I started exploring a smaller Gemma3 model locally with Ollama, and it's clearly a level up from the previous mod
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by lioeters 2y ago
> we will move the goalposts to ensure the rough spots of AI are massaged out Totally agree with this point. Software engineering will adapt to work better with LLMs. It will influence how we think about programming language design, as a
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by lioeters 2y ago
Docs and Word are both generic words that need a qualification like Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Otherwise they could be Open Docs or Open Word (not sure if that exists, maybe Libre Word?). Same with Books. It could be Google Books, Faceb
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by lioeters 2y ago
const getOddness = n => n % 2 ? 'Odd' : 'Even'
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by lioeters 2y ago
That's the line they were unwilling to cross, to compromise their ad tech. Apparently, however anonymous it may be, it's still legally selling user data.
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by lioeters 2y ago
> extra text This describes the majority of all literature, works of the written word, and perhaps human communication in general. For Tolkien, it could be argued that the whole purpose of his books is to entertain with the medium of lan
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by lioeters 2y ago
> Will Apple eventually buy Ladybird? This is the first time I've heard of the idea. Considering how the project has decided to replace C++ with Swift, a language with strong ties to Apple, it seems like a possible scenario. https:
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by lioeters 2y ago
The big winners are often ambitious players with appetite for risk, including legally and ethically questionable business practices. The risk/reward ratio is high so there are players who will do whatever is necessary to get big return
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by lioeters 2y ago
Every line is potentially many bugs. Or, how many bugs can fit in a single line.
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by lioeters 2y ago
Imagination is an old washing machine that never breaks
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by lioeters 2y ago
Bukowski is a hilarious and uproarious poet, especially if you've experienced what life is like at the bottom of society. The despair, anger, and joy of living - it's gritty, ugly, hopeless, and yet somehow with a hint of redempti
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by lioeters 2y ago
From the README: Image/Video/Binary Tools Image Resizer Image Converter Video Trimmer Video Reverser And more... String/List Tools Case Converters List Shuffler Text Formatters And m
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by lioeters 2y ago
This is such a fun project, both the hardware and software. The video is so well-made too! I love the light-hearted tone, fast-paced but with every step explained. I will keep going deeper to learn what I can of the details. Thanks for crea
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by lioeters 2y ago
..I was just quoting the article, I don't necessarily agree with their opinion.
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by lioeters 2y ago
> the Chrome team has tried to reduce the potential for abuse in the new “Manifest V3” system, but pundits and others have popularized elaborate conspiracy theories that this was just a way for Google to crack down on adblockers for thei
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by lioeters 2y ago
Also I've never known anyone who has no bias. Even if such people existed, it's not a given that they would make the best decisions. I would imagine the best decisions are made by those who have a good set of preferences and opi
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by lioeters 2y ago
I don't think Americans are more accepting of aggressive capitalism, they're victims of an exploitative system that has completely captured their government, media, education, and every aspect of life. Sure many of them are willin
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by lioeters 2y ago
You've skipped over "senior" and have become an honoured "legacy" engineer.
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XFrames: GPU-accelerated GUI development for the desktop and the browser(xframes.dev)
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by lioeters 2y ago
Maybe, just maybe, some of these "kids" know what they're doing and are preferring Rust for legitimate reasons other than fashion - such as performence, memory safety, and type safety.
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by lioeters 2y ago
> keep the deceased’s phone number active for a while I wish I had known this. After my father passed away a few years ago, I had a password list but some accounts required 2FA, and unfortunately I didn't have access to his phone. I
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by lioeters 2y ago
> spend a ton of time and money Not necessarily. For non-professional purposes, I've spent zero dollars (no additional memory or GPU) and I'm running a local language model that's good enough to help with many kinds of tas

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