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by lvncelot 3y ago
What an insightful article. I vaguely remembered the questionnaire mentioned in the beginning paragraph, and how there were some inconsistencies. Glad I read the rest of the article before jumping in here to comment, because the author goes
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I'm looking forward to an SAP LLM interface, complete with certificates for consultants who have to train users to actually talk to the thing.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
While I totally agree with you, I've read the comment you're replying to as more of a (lighthearted) jab at HN comments than an actual evaluation of the results.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I wouldn't agree with that argument, though. What does 'true' in that sense even mean? Do we as a society want to weed out the easily distractible or do we want to ensure that more people are able to flourish? Is a potential
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Thr site[1] itself is facetious. There's no "real" 0ver, just projects that couldn't commit to stability after a certain level of maturity that are being shamed. I found it to be a funny stab at the likes of Hashicorp (e
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of Nix, and I'm glad to have stuck with the often times daunting process of getting into it - and I have to agree with the author's point regarding the documentation. That's not a fault of the people who a
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I got burned using the k8s operator a while back. The old one, that had custom resource definitions for instances, realms, clients & users was deprecated and the new one is still so far behind in functionality that it's unusable fo
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Ears and also eyes. Blowing air over your eyes would dry them out pretty quickly.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Huh, interesting - from the perspective of someone about ten years younger than the friends you've described, I often had the conversation how great the english singular "they/them" is (either for an unknown or non-binar
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by lvncelot 3y ago
The Dispossessed is one of my favorite books of all time.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I have the feeling that Pixar's Hair/Water/Snow VFX techniques are even more impressive once you've glanced behind the curtain and understood how they work, and that Netflix's narrative techniques are very much less
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Related: The Grug Brained Developer https://grugbrain.dev/
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I've subscribed to the beta experiments years ago, before the dark patterns started emerging and I was actually looking forward to any changes, and you're absolutely right, it is totally abandoned. The subreddit has just become a
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by lvncelot 3y ago
> but most of these already have alternative sites (e.g. discourse, Discord, SE) I've seen Discord used as a platform for project-based discussion, and I just can't get into it. It just seems so fundamentally not built for long
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by lvncelot 3y ago
The "disclaimer" under the input already sent me: > Free "Research" Preview. Our goal is to make AI systems cloaked in the guise of natural interaction. Your feedback will help us make money.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I've tried to get it to spell it using the Nato alphabet and had a similar issue. In my case, only "h" and "t" were swapped.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Thanks for the link, seems weird that they've nuked the rest of the README instead of just posting that update at the top.
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by lvncelot 4y ago
Eight Gigs And Disk Swapping Egads!
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by lvncelot 4y ago
> This is a really rich comment from a company that relies entirely on user submitted content User submitted content and moderation.
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by lvncelot 4y ago
> Inside a 'thick' nebula, obscuring all other entities in the sky except for their own star and planets. Imagine an interstellar object like Oumuamua passing through and the complete perplexity of a civilization observing it a
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by lvncelot 4y ago
A few months (weeks?) ago I would've said that this already was the case for language models. It's absolutely mind-blowing to me what is happening here - same with stable diffusion. Once Dall-E was out, I was sure that there was n
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by lvncelot 4y ago
I'm using a Macbook (intel) for work and a linux machine (xorg, not wayland) for hobby related stuff. It's insane how much snappier and instant everything feels on the linux machine. Every time I'm tinkering with my config on
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by lvncelot 4y ago
> That being said, I wonder if I wouldn't be better off moving away from vim entirely That's a surprising sentence to read, as someone who's also used to vim (although I've moved from vim to emacs+evil and not the oth
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by lvncelot 4y ago
I've also started working on something similar: https://github.com/tiborpilz/commitomatic It was a fun project, and I think I will re-use some parts (prompt generation, selection via fzf), but for the specific use
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by lvncelot 4y ago
And for us bspwm/sxhkd folk, theres yabai[1] and shkd[2] [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [2] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd
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by lvncelot 4y ago
Love Firenvim. Although I think there are different usecases for a vim-in-a-website and something like firenvim (or emacs-anywhere[1], which is what I'm using nowadays, after I've crossed over to the evil side) - as you can use vi
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by lvncelot 4y ago
> I also wonder if Vim is a productivity gain at all. The big productivity gain for me doesn't come from faster editing due to the shortcuts, per se, but from the golden combo of modal editing and macros. Due to how you treat simila
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by lvncelot 4y ago
It was the same for me, for a long time. I've just used vim for commit messages since I was to lazy to change $EDITOR. Then, I can't even remember why exactly, I've taken a few weeks to actually learn the basics. The first fe
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by lvncelot 4y ago
Yes, which is why I'm so skeptical of that claim. "I've put the password in because otherwise it would've taken 6 hours" makes no sense at all - even putting aside my napkin calculation; if it would've taken an
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by lvncelot 4y ago
Given that a four word password should have around 44 bits of entropy (according to the correct horse battery staple XKCD), that should take 2^44 hashes to exhaust, or 2^43 hashes to have a 50% chance of getting the password. 2^43 hashes &#

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