magicalhippo

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by magicalhippo 27d ago
And for those still confused, CORE is FreeBSD-based and has been discontinued, while SCALE is Debian-based and the version that will be developed by TrueNAS going forwards. Hence the "continued" part in the title.
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by magicalhippo 27d ago
From the other side of the table kinda, as a SaaS provider, wages here have risen by about 5% each year. And wages is the greatest expense we have. That said, I'm just an employee so not my call either way.
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by magicalhippo 28d ago
Polls have consistently been favoring No to EU side since.
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by magicalhippo 28d ago
Maybe have a lighter intro page? I gave up waiting for it to load.
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by magicalhippo 28d ago
That's because the PM's party brokered that half-way deal with EU against the will of the people, after they had voted no to EU for the second time[1]. Not saying some of our export companies aren't enjoying the access to EU,
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by magicalhippo 28d ago
There are several sites out there trying to help explain PPWR and they all say the same thing: the one that brings the package to an EU state market must do EPR registration in that EU state. If you sell directly to consumers from a web sho
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by magicalhippo 29d ago
Even if you didn't have mnemonics, you could use tab, arrow keys and alt if needed, to navigate, and space to "click" buttons and such. So even if the developer forgot to configure mnemonics, which was as easy as prefixing a
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by magicalhippo 29d ago
Which, if you made say a regular Win32 application, was guaranteed. These newfangled frameworks dropped the ball, if anything.
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
Now resolved it seems. Interesting failure though: We have identified a critical cooling failure in our Frankfurt datacenter. We are currently in the process of shifting traffic to our backups sites.
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
> What does "sits in headings Canada taxes" mean? My guess would be it's refering to the Harmonized System[1], used to classify goods on import and export declarations: The HS is organized into 21 Sections, which are subd
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
When asking AI to improve the text, I ask it for feedback. It might come with suggestions for changed sentences, but I then try to capture the essence of the suggestion while rewriting the sentence myself. Perhaps what the AI wanted was to
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
Get a kid, they're much more fun and you'll get the night-waking as a free bonus.
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
Here in Norway, statistics has been introduced in 9th and 10th grade (15 and 16 year olds). Here[1] is what a 9th grader is supposed to know at the end of the school year. Some key points translated to English: - Interpret and critically e
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
As far as I'm aware, kids at that age are very dependent on experiencing the effects of their actions. They lift the wooden cube and drop it, and it makes a sound and rolls a bit. Do it again and it does it similarly but different. Pus
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
Not in this study, as they had a separate 1.5 age bracket. Couldn't access the average was for 1.5 year olds though, but wording suggested it increases with age.
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
Paper submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49431024
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
An average of two hours of screen time at age 1 seems insane to me. Should be measured in seconds as far as I'm concerned. Though I admit I'm privileged by living in Norway and don't have to work crazy hours to make ends meet
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
Certain conjoined twins also have multiple brains in a single body, like the Hensel sisters[1]. In their case, they each control one arm and one leg, but are otherwise quite independent. I seem to recall they said they can both feel the who
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
Back when I was studying there were topics which I had a really hard time grasping. Having a personal tutor that I could ask specific questions and have a back and forth with would have helped a lot I think. At least the few times I did hav
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
The blog post: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-avo-reaches-100-on-... Using Claude Opus 5, but it can use others: AVO is also designed to operate across frontier models. While our full public-set result used
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
The variance is extreme though. Thanks to Claude Code and Codex I've been able to make several non-trivial internal tools and libraries without writing much in terms of code, just some reviews here and there. I spent a couple of days o
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
> But because of its time period, the built-in assembler only ever understood up to 80286 instructions, so the day you wanted a 386 and its 32-bit registers you were sent off to an external assembler anyway. Or you just prefixed the inst
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
Tire wear and surface wear due to studded tires, yes. Most run studless but they're soft, and we often have long periods of mostly dry roads so they wear, especially at the start and end of season when temperatures are relatively high.
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
Here in Oslo, Norway they've introduced an "environmental speed limit" during winter. The stated reason is to reduce air particulates, as Oslo is prone to very poor air quality during winter. So one of the main roads circling
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
> Homework scores once predicted exam performance As with most training the journey is the point, not the destination. That said, I think smart use of AI could help. It could explain concepts in a way that might help you understand bette
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
I guess there's also the economic aspect. It would make it much easier for competitors to figure out your costs and margins if they know the model parameter sizes you operate.
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
> Now, immediately after I have bought it, what's it worth? Is a buyer asking to buy it? If yes, whatever you sell it for. If no, then you really have no idea what it's worth now, all you know is it was worth 1B to you when you
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
Office Space[1], for those who somehow haven't seen it yet. [1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
Why would Stripe want to buy OpenRouter except to lock down the payment processor of a popular and potentially quite large customer if AI doesn't crash somehow? I mean there's skimming the free training data from the "free&qu
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by magicalhippo 1mo ago
On a farm there's always work, and most were farming or similar back then. An old farmer I know let me in on his trick: don't work so hard. He said young and inexperienced folks would work way too hard, ie put in too much effort,

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