mFixman

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by mFixman 10mo ago
Everything on the internet is fake. That is as true now as it always was. For every real post, I can make up a fake one that's more agreeable to the hivemind and therefore will be more upvoted. Since you see a limited amount of posts i
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by mFixman 11mo ago
The author overlooked an interesting error in the second skull pancake image: the strawberry is on the right eye socket (to the left of the image), and the blackberry is on the left eye socket (to the right of the image)! This looks like it
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by mFixman 11mo ago
> burger means civilian I just realised this is probably the German etymological branch of "burgoise".
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by mFixman 11mo ago
You need to have a restricted set of allowed syllables to prevent attackers from having names with similar pronounciation to common ones. In unique name world I would totally for a scammer telling me "Hello, my name is Marck Zuckaberg,
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by mFixman 1y ago
Runescape tried this back in 2007 along with completely disabling PvP; it was a very unpopular change for the vast majority of players who were not buying items. I stopped playing the game around that time, so I have to thank Jagex for gett
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by mFixman 1y ago
The Latin alphabet is not native to English, and it's a much worse fit for that language that it is for Vietnamese.
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by mFixman 1y ago
My theory is that Google wants to bake Gemini into Chrome to preempt a future antitrust ruling ordering them to spin the browser out, for the same reason Microsoft made IE an integral part of Windows 98.
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by mFixman 1y ago
Maybe it's a personal preference, but I don't want external programs to ever touch my package manager, even with permission. Besides, this will fail loudly for systems that don't use `apt-get`. I would just ask the user to in
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by mFixman 1y ago
Because benchmarks are meaningless and, despite having so many years of development, LLMs become crap at coding or producing anything productive as soon as you move a bit from the things being benchmarked. I wouldn't mind if GPT-5 was
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by mFixman 1y ago
The whole mess is a good example why benchmark-driven-development has negative consequences. A lot of users had expectations of ChatGPT that either aren't measurable or are not being actively benchmarkmaxxed by OpenAI, and ChatGPT is n
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by mFixman 1y ago
The Syrian diaspora overwhelmingly opposed Assad while its population seemed to support the regime... until it fell in 2024. I wouldn't put any weight on how much the population of a autocratic country pretend to support its regime.
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by mFixman 1y ago
CityMapper, a local transport app, tried to do this in London a few years ago. It was a failure because they couldn't compete in price with the government-subsidised buses, so the vans they used were almost always completely empty. It
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by mFixman 1y ago
Francis was the most important supporter of liberation theology in Argentina, which was very ideologically aligned with the Kirchners. He was also strongly opposed to almost every politician who opposed the government. Bergoglio had several
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by mFixman 1y ago
Francis was seen as being too close to the Kirchnerists in ideology and too conflicted with the Kirchnerists in actions when he was Archbishop. Visiting Argentina would have forced him to take a side and trigger a political crisis he probab
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by mFixman 1y ago
The tragedy is not that some students are going to college to get a diploma while learning as little as possible. It is that the boards of many private universities see their students' cash as more important than their education, and f
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by mFixman 1y ago
I'm still using Facebook for this, which works for the very few of my friends who are on it. It's actually nice if you aggressively report and unfollow everything you don't want to see. Does anybody here know of an alternativ
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by mFixman 1y ago
This sounds like the kind of things painters said after good photography because widespread. Instead we got aesthetically original avant-garde art to replace the thousands of low-quality slop portraits that were common in the mid-19th centu
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by mFixman 2y ago
Always remember that internet conversations are carried by a small group of antisocial losers, and a most of media articles complaining about society are specifically targeting that small but loud group. An average person has a lot more in
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by mFixman 2y ago
The microphones and speakers are what I care about. Alexa is the perfect hands-off universal remote + podcast speaker. Is there a way to flash the Echo hardware to make it work with Home Assistant without pinging Amazon HQ?
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by mFixman 2y ago
I bought a Thinkpad P16s because I wanted to use Linux but got used to the beautiful Macbook screen. So far I'm very happy with it.
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by mFixman 2y ago
Back when I was forced to use a Mac I used BetterTouchTool for this. It's a fantastic tool in general, and the window management is sensible.
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by mFixman 2y ago
Why Librewolf and not Waterfox or any other open source fork?
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by mFixman 2y ago
Thanks! If anybody has any suggestion in preparing for a PhD in a major university, I'd appreciate it: I expect these four years to be fun but also very challenging.
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by mFixman 2y ago
I saw this talk in person, and I liked so much it inspired to spend four years doing a PhD in automated theorem proving. As things stand, I'm starting one this October!
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by mFixman 2y ago
Would this mean that the trading hours for stock of companies listed in both NYSE branches would be extended by one hour due to time differences?
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by mFixman 2y ago
I can't believe Microsoft finally made Windows open source.
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by mFixman 2y ago
That's a good reason to include the tax in the price in the US. How would consumers know how much they will pay otherwise?
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by mFixman 2y ago
"M"?
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by mFixman 2y ago
> I was a L5 IC at the time Kudos to Google for hiring extremely competent people, but I'm surprised that the creator and main architect of Keras hadn't been promoted to Staff Engineer at minimum.
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by mFixman 2y ago
I have four different apps on my phone all called "Messenger". There must something about companies wanting their customers think that they don't need to use the competition.

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