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by mft_ 7mo ago
(I seem to be cast in the role of FreeCAD advocate on HN these days, but here goes!) For years I agreed with you - I tried FreeCAD multiple times, different versions, always sucked. Then I watched this video [0] and discovered that v1.1 is
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> the macOS ecosystem seems to be a little hostile towards pCloud and it seems to be fighting a never ending battle in order to the get the remote drive functioning reliably there pCloud seems to have been having a few wobbles in the pas
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Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop(github.com)
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It tried to solve cross-platform development. That’s a legitimate issue. In retrospect, calling it React probably caused more problems than it brought benefits, and makes little sense - like Java vs JavaScript.
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It’s still randomly really slow (like, individual controls drawing one by one slow) on my recently-refreshed corporate laptop; and opening Teams was the last action before the entire Windows installation my personal laptop was nuked… but ye
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by mft_ 7mo ago
Fundamentally, I'd argue that very little should ever be unreasonable or out of bounds to make jokes about; what is important is that it's good humour. Case in point: https://theonion.com/hijackers-surprised-to-f
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by mft_ 7mo ago
It's probably pertinent to mention that the Python installation ecosystem is a hot mess, with multiple ways of installing Python (e.g. standard Python installer, multiple different packages managers on different OSes, Conda, and myriad
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by mft_ 7mo ago
Processed Kenny Rogers' The Gambler perfectly - took out the lead vocal but left the backing vocals.
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Big karaoke fan, so thanks for doing this. I'm processing a first test song as I write. The pitch scoring sounds really interesting as both a competitive and maybe also a training tool. A couple of immediate small pieces of feedback:
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This is kinda why the (fucking) platforms that you hate exist. Small business wants a presence on the internet for reasons. Originally, small business would have to pay $$$ to engage an expert, who will assist them in creating a website, ho
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Many non-vegetarian restaurants don't seem to care about the vegetarian options, and just offer almost default options. It's probably down to the attitude of the chef - similarly to how you can sometimes tell whether the chef is
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> cheap items with 3M hearing protection Can I ask which, please?
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The new(ish) Sennheiser HDB 630s have been getting fairly spectacular reviews for sound quality, and cost a touch less than the Airpods Max 2s. Leaving the rest of your equipment aside, those would be the first options I'd consider in
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by mft_ 7mo ago
I disagree. I’m ~97% vegetarian but there are a few foods for which traditional vegetarian alternatives are rubbish. One of these is the burger: you either get some odd veg/potato base pattie, a large grilled mushroom, or halloumi. The
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Sure, the AI contributed, but it was far less responsible overall than the humans in this case. Don't let the AI system off the hook by all means, but by focusing on it to this extent, the narrative ignores (deliberately?) the hugely n
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Quite; AI contributed to a (criminally?) inept and negligent "justice" system ruining an innocent woman's life. The AI was akin to an unreliable eye-witness in this case, although people's trust in the AI's judgemen
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by mft_ 7mo ago
I dunno; IME many people who could barely be called a ‘creator’ seem to invest in a standalone microphone already, and many of these (the portable ones anyway) aren’t wired.
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Thank you, yes, efficiency was entirely my point. :) Humans are far more efficient when they interact with information that's in a format that suits their abilities or preferences; it seems pretty obvious that in some ways the same w
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Conceptually, this seems a good direction. The other piece that has always struck me as a huge inefficiency with current usage of LLMs is the hoops they have to jump through to make sense of existing file formats - especially making sense o
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Wider participation in voting? Easier to vote for people who can’t travel to the voting station, for myriad reasons? Just more efficient for everyone involved? And bigger picture, once you prove a system that’s easier, more efficient, relia
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A related but different approach I liked was taken by Amy Goodchild, who is an artist that uses code for her creations. She encoded her handwriting as paths in JS (rather than as a font): https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog&#x
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I focused on the part of the comment that I was replying to that I disagreed with . Without wanting to be overly reductive, this is the point of discussion: to focus on the points of disagreement, for the purposes of understanding, alignme
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It's not black/white. There's are scales of complexity and innovation, and at the moment, the LLMs are mostly good (with obvious caveats) at helping with the lower end of the complexity scale, and arguably almost nowhere on
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Woah. 1) You seem to think I'm some sort of GOP-pedo-billionaire sympathiser; nothing could be further from the truth. I'll help you slam the prison door and throw away the key. 2) No-one mentioned Epstein in this part of the disc
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If you really want to get to the root cause, on the Democratic side it’s the people who promoted/supported/covered up for Biden when it would have been obvious to anyone close that he wasn’t fit for the purpose any more. And Biden
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With respect, you’ve given the typical German response to virtually any outsider’s criticism anything German: no, it’s simple, you’re just not doing/understanding it correctly, just learn a, b and c, and then do d, e, f and g. (Except
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I run FF on Mac laptop, Windows/Linux laptop, and Windows desktop and can’t remember it crashing in years.
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> It's not surprising that people have little interest in talking to AI if they're being lied to. I read that and it sounds like the typical nonsense script that customer service agents the world over use to promise-not-promise
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I was on a lovely fast smooth ICE Sprinter to Berlin last week. All was going well until they announced that the train would terminate at Erfurt (roughly half way) because… who knows?! These days, a DB journey that doesn’t involve some so
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Indeed; or, Europe badly needs a competitive model to hedge against US political nonsense.

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