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by lloeki 1y ago
We just need AI to reliably navigate Poe's law and unambiguously decide what is a joke and what is not.
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by lloeki 1y ago
Larousse dictionary disagrees: https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/informatique/... This cites the same person (Philippe Dreyfus) but with "automatic": https://www.caminteresse
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by lloeki 1y ago
In french the two fields that are Computer Science and Information Technology are under the same moniker: "informatique", a portmanteau of information and automatic. The whole field is about automating yourself out of a job, and i
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by lloeki 1y ago
> that was the 90s In the meantime the CLR happened too. And - to an extent - LLVM IR.
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by lloeki 1y ago
I think the idea is that everyone is seeing the same thing at the same time so it has to be the same scroll speed for everyone. In another but similar theme I'd rather have it autoscroll one page/autoturn pages than continuously s
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by lloeki 1y ago
> These devices then generate data that needs to be stored somewhere That part appears to severely downplay the absolutely mind-bending amount of data and the timewise density of it. https://information-technology.web.cern.ch&
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by lloeki 1y ago
You have it the wrong way around? Usually you are handed a pptx by customers and your job is to turn that into an exe.
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by lloeki 1y ago
Yes, and not just static but dynamic properties: https://displayhdr.org/performance-criteria/
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by lloeki 1y ago
On macOS even without HDR enabled on my display there's a striking difference due to better tone mapping between Safari and Firefox. If I enable HDR the Firefox ones become a gray mess vs the lights feeling like actual lights in Safari
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by lloeki 1y ago
I for one liked the article! Great visualisations. There's a bit of nostalgia ;) Brought me back to the days where GL display lists were the fancy thing to do and any kind of non-ff shader were but a wild dream.
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by lloeki 1y ago
> mercury-203 (also radioactive) What a horrible combination, mercury is poisonous enough by itself, it truly has no business being radioactive.
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by lloeki 1y ago
Well I asked it to translate song stuff and it did without batting an eye - with arguably some heavy creative license - so there's that. https://claude.ai/share/7218db3e-ee69-4d96-857a-5430037e454d I'd hardly
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by lloeki 1y ago
There absolutely is, at least in the EU. You can have any colour, as long as it's 6000-ish K. In France, every two years you gotta have your car legally checked. Misaligned headlights is ground for not passing, or being fined if the po
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by lloeki 1y ago
I live in Alsace, which is in France but has a German-like dialect (Alemannic) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsatian_dialect -ele is used a lot to denote something small, cute, adorable; maybe think of it as kind
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by lloeki 1y ago
Take an afternoon to play around talking to devices through libusb. It was an eye opener for me. Language does not matter (I used Go and Ruby) as long as bindings are reasonable.
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by lloeki 1y ago
> People love their fast cars, especially the rich and powerful Too much correlation, not enough causation here. Only "rich people" can afford pricey cars, while there are with much certainty "non rich people" that en
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by lloeki 1y ago
I don't think anyone claims vim motions are superior in absolutes with a straight face. I like a nearby comment that essentially says "it's not superior for everyone, it's just infinitely better for me ; also it doesn
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by lloeki 1y ago
> Take, for example, writing a for loop. I might type: > for (int > Then, say, I pause briefly to think about the variable name. If you happened to look over my shoulder at that moment, you would find me in normal mode. I personal
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by lloeki 1y ago
> Children ask: 'why?' So we put them in school, which cures them of this instinct and conquers curiosity through boredom. - Paul Valéry
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by lloeki 1y ago
> some of my family post insane political views Would they still if any such poster's feed would strictly only be viewable by families and friends? (I have no idea)
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by lloeki 1y ago
> but as a legitimate way to deliver production code. Beyond the developer side of the hype that gets talked a lot, I'm witnessing a trend on the "company side" that LLM coding is a worthy thing to shell out $$$ to, IOW th
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by lloeki 1y ago
> Surrogacy would seem like a much safer option. Just use the working womb without transplanting it. In some jurisdictions the former could be illegal while the latter would be legal.
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by lloeki 1y ago
This excerpt has resonated deeply: But, parallel to this political phenomenon, we observe the disappearance of free time. Free space and free time are now just memories. The free time in question is not leisure as commonly understood. Appa
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by lloeki 2y ago
> Moving faster on a side project or at work doesn't feel like the same kind of shortcut/cheat. Depends whether you're in it for the endgame or the journey. For some the latter is a means to the former, and for others it&#
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by lloeki 2y ago
> There's no million dollar Japanese supercars competing against Lamborghinis and McLarens Well there was the NSX
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by lloeki 2y ago
in TFA, it is explained how Chromium only considers the last four lines and aims to only solve one aspect (lone word) and none of rivers, bag rags, hyphenation, etc... Comparatively: > WebKit is not the first browser engine to implement,
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by lloeki 2y ago
Interesting. I didn't know that you could also use e.g codeberg this way.
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by lloeki 2y ago
> disable IPv4 inside Tailscale. TIL this is a thing > Just use the v6 ULA address that begins with fd7a exclusively. perfect, this is exactly what I desired (I'm having an increasingly high number of sad v4 only LAN devices and
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by lloeki 2y ago
> "halvtredsindstyve," meaning "half-third-times-twenty" or (2.5 × 20). And you even took a shortcut there, AIUI it's "three-minus-a-half" (and that many "twenty", vigesimal as you said) for t
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by lloeki 2y ago
> aslong as we dont base our endianess on how french pronounce or read If you're annoyed by French numbers (which come from Gauls counting in 20s) try numbers in Danish.

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