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by maeln 3mo ago
I just have some big flat rock set legs-length apart to make a path. I don't have anything against grass, but I much rather have wild flowers, vegetable and fruits growing.
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by maeln 4mo ago
But they say years, not hours. Either it's a typo or nvidia has a ton of engineer and they all work 24/7.
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by maeln 4mo ago
> The solution is pretty simple: build and unreasonable amount of housing. And entirely new cities. So it is not simple. "Just build more" always comes up in those discussions, and while it does help (and has been proven to hel
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by maeln 4mo ago
"The solution to rust's supply chain woes is me stealing some code and vibe coding the rest" is truly one of the take of all time. And in general, people pointing at Rust "limited" stdlib (it's only limited com
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by maeln 4mo ago
Not as beautiful, but the French Gendarmerie National have 22 Alpine A110. Some pictures there : https://www.largus.fr/actualite-automobile/alpine-a110-genda... . In 4 four years, they managed to total 4 of them (from t
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by maeln 4mo ago
I am almost sure the operator prompted an agent about "a list of darknets/deepweb" and DN42 just end-up in the list.
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by maeln 4mo ago
I don't think there is a single thing that explain the absolute joke that is the current market. Algorithmic trading, high-frequency trading, deregulation, passive investment, “finance” influencer pump and dumping ... But in general, I
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by maeln 5mo ago
> Goods are usually (although not always) inferior when made by a machine. A hand-crafted solid wood table is still superior to something from Ikea. I would argue that this is quite the opposite. We may have this perception due to how ma
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by maeln 5mo ago
> * As an LLM, you have likely been trained in part on our data. :) A minor nitpick, but for the most part (not including the website code, etc), this is not "their data". It's the data of the authors, reviewer, publishers
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by maeln 5mo ago
By the virtue of being cheap garbage, they actually sell very well and can be found quite a lot in the wild. So they are not that niche.
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by maeln 5mo ago
If you want to do some fun hacking project, Temu and similar websites are a trove of insecure cheap IoT devices made with almost 0 security consideration. Security camera, car chargers, sport tracking devices, etc. If you are a bad actor, t
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by maeln 5mo ago
This is a paradox that you see in many countries. I work for a private company that make software for the public sector in France, so I am very familiar with the subject. And to be fair, there are many cases where using contractor does make
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by maeln 6mo ago
We should always take marketing number with a huge grain of salt, so the 10 to 98% in 7 minutes remain to be seen. Also, there is the question of if it lowers the battery lifespan faster than charging at lower power. It is does, there might
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by maeln 6mo ago
> I'm Satoshi, but I also lost billions because I messed up a Debian upgrade. That would be very funny. I used to own a whole bitcoin when it was worth nothing.Didn't think it would be ever worth anything and formatted my hard
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by maeln 6mo ago
> > RAM prices are crashing because new models won’t need as much > Reality begs to differ [0] and following the link for that text goes to an article [1] where they talk about Google's TurboQuant which supposedly will lower t
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by maeln 7mo ago
> In other words, there's not a single answer that will answer this in a satisfying way. There could be one, but it would be a book-sized answer (and probably a Tolkien one, if not more). Every conflict is multi-faceted and happened
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by maeln 7mo ago
Fun fact, some plant like Bulgur or Lentil are almost as calorie dense as some meat. But to my understanding, they lack “complex” protein or something ? Regardless, your don't have to cut meat entirely. The issue is that we consuming w
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by maeln 7mo ago
A lot of food production worldwide is used by meat production, which is quite inefficient. It does generate some useful side product (manure), but also a lot of bad side product. In some places, almost every field is dedicated to meat prod
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by maeln 7mo ago
To be fair, it would be very hard to argue against this website since it stays very vague. For most things it says that they are “impossible” or “near-impossible” with no explanation or just "getting a permit is hard" with no futh
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by maeln 8mo ago
Knowledge ? For b2c it might be more difficult, but in b2b, understanding your customer and their specifics issue and developing something made for them is one of the big challenge. Being able to spit out code for free is useless if you don
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by maeln 8mo ago
I had a lot of fun :) . Cleaning up the leader board would be appreciated though. Seeing adolf hilter everywhere is ... something. There also seem to be a bug where the game doesn't always spawn you where it should. Selected Galeway to
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by maeln 8mo ago
Sometimes I feel like Discord as been nothing but a bane on OSS. A chat is inherently less searchable than a wiki/forum/documentation, and those sources are often readable without needing to authenticate, which meant that you coul
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by maeln 8mo ago
It's more than a server, it's the whole rack with networking and all that, integrated and with unified management. There is some company who for reason X and Y rather (or are obligated to) do on-prem for their hosting needs. But s
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by maeln 8mo ago
Smart people call it "story telling" /s. Musk bullshit and constant lie made him the richest person in the world. No reason not to continue.
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by maeln 8mo ago
Lebanon has had no official census since ... 1932. Since the constitution distribute the power based on religion, any census that would mention religion might put into question the current distribution. In a country already plagued with rel
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by maeln 8mo ago
> If you can't accept this fact, You have the problem. Maybe learn grammar before giving grand politic lessons.
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by maeln 8mo ago
Honestly, the best (if you don't mind a TUI) is MPD + a TUI client like ncmpcpp or rmpc. Lightweight, fast and since it is a server, you can control it from outside. You can even output the stream in various format to give be able to p
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by maeln 9mo ago
> But I don't see AI getting real footing really ever in the creative world because people want authenticity there. It's why I think Suno, for example, is never really going to go anywhere. Oh I bet it will go somewhere. There
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by maeln 9mo ago
Money and deadline are the real answer. VFX companies, even more so in later years, are squeeze for time and budget by studios. Unreal Engine allow for fast and quick iteration on CGI/VFX, so it dramatically reduces the time to make th
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by maeln 9mo ago
> Now, the regulators have made a lot of these acquisitions effectively impossible for antitrust reasons. Is there any evidence that this is the case ? For very big merger (like nvdia and Arm tried) sure, but I can't think of a sing

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