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by mFixman 2y ago
I've been using this extension for years, and I can confirm it's fantastic. Lots of configurability make it so that I can have the exact panel that I want. In my case, it's Auto-hide + app shortcuts + windows with no grouping
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by mFixman 2y ago
If I understood this correctly, would this allow you to make an extremely good estimation of direction of velocity? If you want to use dead reckoning to estimate position, how would you know the abs of the velocity?
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by mFixman 2y ago
Then we are lucky they didn't decide to start their arrays at 1 :-)
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by mFixman 2y ago
Most of the bugs I got on numpy programs came from a variable with a different ndims as expected being broadcast implicitly. Implicit type casting is considered a mistake in most programming languages; if I were to redesign numpy from scrat
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by mFixman 2y ago
Has anybody here improved their day-to-day workflow with any kind of "implicit" generative AI rather than explicitly talking to an LLM? So far all attempts seem to be building an universal Clippy. In my experience, all kinds of fo
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by mFixman 2y ago
It's still a privacy nightmare. Your encryption key "never reaches Apple's servers" until the company that built your computer and signs your safe executables force-installs some binary that gives them data about every s
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by mFixman 2y ago
Dumb question: but how is this different from Apple capturing all your files in Time Machine for "convenience reasons"? Both programs are a terrible invasion of privacy installed in all of their computers, but the backlash against
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by mFixman 2y ago
If it were a pointer, Microsoft's advice of copying the message would cause a segmentation fault. Maybe a better comparison would be a weak reference to an object that's in line to being garbage collected.
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by mFixman 2y ago
AI generated images and video are not competing against actual quality work with money put into it. They are competing against the quick photoshop or Adobe Aftereffects done by hobbyists and people learning how to work in the creative arts.
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by mFixman 2y ago
Regexes are easy to test. Bad developers do bad regexes, regardless of whether they used AI.
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by mFixman 2y ago
GPT-4 is better at planning than at executing. Have you tried asking it to generate a regex to transform your list into a CSV?
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by mFixman 2y ago
I read an HN article about Bitcoin in 2011 when it was about $1 per BTC, and mining on AWS was still profitable. I dismissed as a stupid novelty that's not worth the time to set up an AWS instance. Lesson learned: don't listen to
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by mFixman 2y ago
> For instance, the difference between an Uber driver with 4.3 stars and 4.9 stars is consistently obvious. Yeah, 4.9 drivers explicitly ask for a good rating. It's the same for 4.3 and 4.9 star restaurants in Google Maps. Reviews m
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by mFixman 2y ago
You are saying "IQ" and "intelligence" to explain people's career prospects, but what you actually mean is "social class".
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by mFixman 2y ago
Same here. My theory is that purchase tracking is done automatically via AI, while humans are on the loop to check the feed of people taking each item and verifying that the amounts are correct before charging. It makes sense. Even if your
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by mFixman 2y ago
But I cannot create a routine or change its time with my voice. I can say "Alexa, set my alarm tomorrow at 7 in the morning". I wish I could say "Alexa, open my curtains at 6:45 in the morning tomorroe" instead of having
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by mFixman 2y ago
Amazon's failure is not realising that Alexa's best use is an universal remote control. The interface with smart devices is good but clunky. While I can say "Alexa open my curtains" and I can go to the slow and bloated A
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by mFixman 3y ago
Glad GCC is moving into the direction of human-readable parsing! Back in my day (like 15 years ago) any error would return a stack of unreadable template expansions. Still, I wonder if GCC is the best tool for this visualisation. Shouldn&#x
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by mFixman 3y ago
IMO the style, formatting, and animations in 3B1B videos is what Coursera courses should have been about in the first place. Andrew Ng's course doesn't use video effectively at all: half of each class is Andrew talking to the came
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by mFixman 3y ago
Same here. I'm currently listening around the final years of the Flavian dynasty and I'm wondering when these "couple hundred years of wine, revelry and decadence [in the post-Augustian Empire]" are supposed to arrive.
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by mFixman 3y ago
Back when I used a iPhone for work, I remember having Safari, Apple Music, Apple Rock Band, Apple Podcasts, Apple News and a lot of built-in apps being un-uninstallable and unremovable from my home screen. Safari was the most egregious, sin
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by mFixman 3y ago
Let me disagree with this thread. I've used flagship Android Samsungs since Google stopped Nexus phones, and they were great. The hardware is fantastic, you can install and change any default app, and their performance doesn't deg
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by mFixman 3y ago
I was able to remap my Bixby button on my previous Samsung Phones. I usually put it to Google search and double click to the camera. The newer phones (since ~2019) don't have Bixby, and Google Pay launches automatically when touching a
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by mFixman 3y ago
My crazy and political idea what will fix all problems is to give proxy votes to parents for each of their children. A lot of teacher salary problems come from idle retirees outvoting children on personalised social care vs mass school fund
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by mFixman 3y ago
Can coda 'r' be combined with any initial, medial, or rhyme other than 'er'? I thought er-hua was only used for 儿 and homonyms.
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by mFixman 3y ago
It would be Simpsons' Paradox if Google services in Indonesia were initially slow because Indonesians tend to use YouTube more often than lighter services. There wasn't an error in the conclusions of the initial measuremen. It was
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by mFixman 3y ago
Neat, that makes sense. Still, giant missed opportunity for AMD not to focus on this when NVIDIA has an almost monopoly on massive GPGPUs.
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by mFixman 3y ago
Why is it so hard to develop a CUDA-like to AMD-opcode compiler? If it wasn't taking the tech community so long I would imagine it would not be harder than porting GCC to a new architecture.
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by mFixman 3y ago
I read the Dune books after seeing Part 1, and I was slightly disappointed at how _little_ characterisation most characters have. Most of them have no history or relationships outside of the ones present in the book and very broad "Pau
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by mFixman 3y ago
> You can do handwritten digit recognition with 90% accuracy? Sounds pretty good, but if you need to turn that into recognizing a 12 digit account number you now have a 70% chance of getting at least one digit incorrect. You are assuming

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