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by mhink 3y ago
They paid $8k for the domain and $4k to the broker. (At least, that's how I'm reading it- I agree it could be worded more clearly.)
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by mhink 3y ago
> Command line UIs are still an order of magnitude easier to build than even the most basic web page. I think by "interactive command-line apps", parent commenter is talking more about "TUI applications" like e.g. `ht
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by mhink 3y ago
One of my favorite side projects (from several years ago now) was a custom renderer implementation that let one use React to manage the parts of an Electron app outside the page being rendered. [1] I never found the time to actually go th
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by mhink 3y ago
There's actually a NIPS (Nostr's equivalent of RFCs) which introduces a proof-of-work scheme to prevent spamming. Event IDs are a SHA-256 over the event's payload and metadata, so the idea is that you put some extra metadata
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by mhink 3y ago
> Do you fine-tune the LLM to adhere to a format that the planner understands? This one. It looks like they're using GPT3 to translate the natural-language problem context and goal into a format called PDDL (planning domain definiti
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by mhink 3y ago
Interestingly, the record for OpenAI's application (for "GPT") has a note under "Goods and Services" that reads: "FIRST USE: 20181000. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20181000" [1] The paper "Improving Languag
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by mhink 3y ago
vairfgvtngr gur nepu pnershyyl. It took me a little while to realize. :)
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by mhink 3y ago
I experience something similar, but it seems to have more to do with *how familiar* I am with the song. If it's something I've never heard before, it's much more distracting- even if it doesn't have words. On the other h
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by mhink 4y ago
Just out of curiosity (as someone who hasn't done a lot of this kind of operational stuff) how does this approach to queueing with Postgres degrade as scale increases? Is it just that your job throughput starts to hit a ceiling?
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by mhink 4y ago
> The creators of generative models need to have some skin in the game around the correctness of statements made about real people. Only insofar as they claim that the statements generated by a model should be understood to be factual- a
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by mhink 4y ago
In my understanding of the Chinese Room example, the resolution to the argument is that the *human* may not understand Chinese, but the *system as a whole* can be said to understand it. With this in mind, I think asking whether ChatGPT *in
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by mhink 4y ago
The site in question isn't even talking about web apps . They're talking about telemetry in tools commonly used to build webapps, which is perhaps more surprising. The Next.js CLI phones home to Vercel with statistics about h
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by mhink 4y ago
I never knew there was a proper term for this technique! In the roguelike development community, these are known as "Dijkstra maps", and people use them for all sorts of things. [1] One of the coolest tricks the article describes
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by mhink 4y ago
They took a chunk out of the left side of the "8", leaving "3". At least, that's how I've always interpreted it.
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by mhink 4y ago
> I liked this article, but I thought the Delete button example with "maximum juice" was a very poor user experience. This is a fair point, but I got the impression that the Delete button in question wasn't meant to say &q
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by mhink 4y ago
One of my local spots has it! One feature I think is especially cool is there's a small upper playfield which, when you manage to get the ball up there, has you controlling the tilt with the flipper buttons. Getting to the end without
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by mhink 4y ago
> As already mentioned, The Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas is probably the most well known collection on a national level. I've heard that a lot of their games have various maintenance issues, is this true? On the other hand, I&#
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by mhink 4y ago
That is an absolutely fantastic point, and one I hadn’t considered. Thanks for the explanation, and also for teaching me the word “interpolands”. :)
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by mhink 4y ago
The difference is on the tag side. "Tag functions" receive the string segments separately from the interpolated values, so like: function exampleTag(stringSegment, ...values) { console.log(stringSegment); console
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by mhink 4y ago
> My only issue with TypeScript is its strange design with regard to interface and types. Those are pretty fundamental concepts and they're absolutely similar. I don't understand this design and I think that only one thing shou
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by mhink 4y ago
I thought HTML5, at least, was UTF-8 by default?
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by mhink 4y ago
To be perfectly honest, although it's technically possible to go car-free here, it can be more trouble than it's worth. You'll be able to get to the essentials easily enough, but there are a long tail of places that you may w
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by mhink 4y ago
> Good point about Wikipedia. In just a few years the image people had of Wikipedia changed from an untrustworthy joke (The Office had a joke about Michael Scott trusting Wikipedia) to one of the first places people went to get informati
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by mhink 4y ago
Oddly enough, this doesn't seem to be accurate: check out https://jsbench.me/02l63eic9j/1 . I also would have sworn up and down that using a DocumentFragment would be loads faster than both, but it doesn't see
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by mhink 4y ago
I'm actually kinda surprised that's the case for links to the same origin. I suppose you could probably still get this working by using `window.opener` along with `postMessage` to request data from the opener, although you'd
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by mhink 4y ago
Note on 2: I haven't seen this get a lot of use (or maybe I just haven't noticed it), but the Storage API also provides a `sessionStorage` object [1] with some interesting properties. Not only are values persisted across same-tab
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by mhink 4y ago
Oh, I detest this as well. At Chik-Fil-A in the US, employees are basically required to say "my pleasure" in response to "thank you", and it comes off so artificial- maybe even culty. It's even worse when the employ
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by mhink 4y ago
> People like to say it's just a few bad apples, but it's far more prevalent than that. Not discounting your point at all, but the best response when someone says this is to point out that the saying is "a few bad apples
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by mhink 4y ago
> JS got popular coz, well you ain't got fucking choice on frontend and having your then-frontend JS/HTML/CSS designer be able to also do backend is, well, again, easy and cheap. IIRC, a bigger reason for Node's popul
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by mhink 4y ago
> The other downside of boosts, retweets, quote tweets is that it discourages writing your own original posts. More than 80% of what Twitter calls tweet activity is simply retweets, not new tweets. I don't really see a way around th

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