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5mo ago
2.6B, but then: > A dedicated 17B long-video refiner sharpens texture, motion, and late-window quality on top of the long-rollout backbone.
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100% is common. Stanford was paid hundreds of millions by Google over the years for the use of the patented PageRank algorithm, invented by Google's founders while Stanford students, and therefore owned by Stanford. Most universities
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No, it was Clawdbot, then Moltbot, then OpenClaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenClaw . It had the "claw" related lobster theme from early on.
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5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
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If you keep on shaking the mouse, the pointer just keeps getting bigger and bigger. You can certainly find it when it is enormous.
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mkl
5mo ago
You don't need a fake extended vocabulary. Just communicate directly and honestly. Underlining spelling errors as you type has been a standard feature of email software for nearly three decades.
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5mo ago
Data only in one place is bad no matter how big the drive is. Sync it to a NAS, PC, online, external drive, other laptop, or multiple of those.
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5mo ago
> This flag is sent by my browser when I connect to SOMEONE ELSE’s SERVER. No, it's set in your command shell (e.g. bash) and tells CLI programs that support it to not connect to a server. It has nothing to do with browsers or ad
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5mo ago
Multiple providers of the same model. That means competition for price, reliability, latency, etc. It also means you can use the same model as long as you want, instead of having it silently change behaviour.
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> Go – very little hidden, everything in text on the page, LLMs are great. Java, similar. But writing Haskell, it's pretty bad, Erlang, not wonderful. You need much more of a mental model for those languages. I don't think that
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AI tab completion and agentic edits are often derivative works.
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Projects are more than code. This doesn't solve the problem of issue trackers, pull requests, CI, etc.
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20-25 years ago it was fairly common, and it never stopped, just faded gradually.
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> Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized ma
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I think one of the biggest constraints is not directly visible to users, but its effects are: HN is built in Arc, a small LISP dialect that for a long time didn't have great performance. Some info here: https://lisp-journey
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5mo ago
This I think: https://tana.inc/ Seems like there's quite a bit more to it: https://outliner.tana.inc/learn
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Accelerometer, by putting the two phones together and shaking (some app used to do this, but I can't find it with a quick search). Edit: I might have been thinking of Bump, mentioned downthread, though it's a different physical m
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Why not? People were not far from it and have been getting closer and closer to it for years. To me it seemed almost certain that it would happen this decade or next.
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Two beat two hours is what they meant.
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21.19km/h on average, or 17 seconds per hundred metres on average.
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It's immutable and you can't install packages, just docker containers.
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No, Google's market cap is $4.1T, over 10 times $350B.
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6mo ago
I can't find that exact quote, but the US navy had barges (made of concrete!) that made ice cream in World War 2, and those barges were unarmed so needed guarding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_barge
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It's been open and free on Adobe's website for 20+ years, aside from proprietary extensions like XFA. It's the ISO standards that until recently required payment (as that's how ISO generally works).
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It has been since 2008.
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In my experience (NZ) that means it was strong but distant.
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It's pretty obvious if you did high school physics. I experimented with earphones as microphones as a teenager but couldn't get any meaningful audio data. I think they're being downvoted because their comments all seem to ha
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That should be "research" and "straight" in the last sentence. Maybe that will improve it further?
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We care only about a very small and narrow subset of possible programs, not any arbitrary one. It's possible to solve this kind of problem in large enough classes of program to be useful.
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The JS engine is SpiderMonkey, which is C++.
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