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I think the answer is actually the other way around: It's the chores that don't require much attention.
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It_ might_ be_ safe_, but_ it_ is_ definitely_ annoying_.
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This does not contradict what GP said.
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They just move over to the next things. A lot of the current crop of AI grifters were NFT and shitcoin grifters before that.
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If this were true, then a 10fps movie clip would be indistinguishable from a 24fps or a 60fps one. I have written several years ago about how optimizing my shell prompt from 50ms to 5ms was definitely a noticeable impact on how snappy the s
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So we're back to square one then, and came to agree on the original premise: Money is a unit of exchange that exists to compel action.
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Does it work better when the AI is instructed to describe a method of answering the question, instead of answering the question directly? For example, in this specific case, I am enough of a domain expert to know that this information is ac
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If forking Firefox was a viable route, would someone not already have done it?
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How exactly does typing Fn+ArrowDown instead of PgDn lead to injuries?
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For what it's worth, I accidentally flung my Framework 13 across several stairs of a lecture hall. All in all, a 3 meter drop on an arched trajectory with the lid closed. The device has not been damaged except for scratches. I wouldn&#
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The reason that PulseAudio did not work at first (and PipeWire worked out of the gate), is that PulseAudio and PipeWire use a lot of relatively newer kernel audio APIs that previous sound daemons did not use. Therefore driver implementation
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I like how Cory Doctorow put it (paraphrasing): Every technology exists to solve a problem. AI in its current form is intended to solve the problem of having to pay wages.
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If you had checked that before posting your original message, you could have spared yourself the embarrassment of publishing a "ChatGPT speculates the following" post by just linking the documentation right away.
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> what is this type actually Do you mean that you don't know what type a certain variable has? If so, just add `theVariableName = false` and try to compile it (or just `go vet ./path/to/folder` from the repo root) and
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Also, most of this can be automated with `go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls/internal/analysis/modernize/cmd/modernize@latest && modernize -fix ./...`
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Zero values can, for the most part, be caught with a custom UnmarshalJSON implementation (and the new UnmarshalJSONFrom interface ought to remove most of the performance penalty associated with that). The one problem is what to do when the
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From experience, these bot filters are usually installed because the site would be down entirely without rejecting AI scrapers, so the argument to shut it off to improve usability is rather silly.
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Anubis is not all that useful for static websites since serving them does not generate high load (unlike when a bot traverses a Git server UI).
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It looks like the model file needs to be supplied at invocation time, so the binary blob would not be required for packaging.
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To make the language easier to learn. Lots of languages go through orthographic reforms from time to time, English being one of the notable exceptions because there is no central authority that could impose rule changes in a way that would
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> I enjoy games too, I just don’t think preserving most of them is a big deal Games are undoubtedly one of the most significant forms of cultural artifacts of our time. (For example, contemporary games arguably inform youth culture signi
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HULK SMASH INFERENCE PRICES
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> Walking doesn't let you go very far in a reasonable amount of time, either Earlier today, I walked across several neighborhoods and through an entire large park to get to the city center for some shopping, all in the span of 40 mi
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Not to disagree entirely, but the first stable Rust release is over ten years old. It qualifies as "the latest programming fashion" less and less with each passing day.
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Then no high-level decisions would get made. Any technical argument that spans beyond one person would be at risk of running into an eternal stalemate. No strategic choices would be undertaken. (Tone indicator: Not a value judgment. I'
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> The 100x speed up is according to some misleading micro benchmark. Honestly though, nobody who has any idea how anything works would have expected ffmpeg to suddenly unearth a 100x speedup for everything. That's why the devs did n
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Every time I've seen XSLT deployed, it was "that one hairball that no one besides the original author dares to touch". I'm not sure what it is about the technology, but it seems to either inevitably desolve into a comple
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React is not an abstraction, it's a framework. The core abstraction is "a component takes data only from its parent, and only passes data back up through provided callbacks". The exact spot where this abstraction breaks down
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Sounds like I need to borrow my friend's Rodecaster for a bit. :)
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Asking as a Linux user for whom PipeWire works fine (for recording, live-streaming, as well as playback), what does macOS do better?
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