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by necovek 2mo ago
Now let's be honest: short men clothing is basically modern, "slim fit" clothing; you get that fashionable bare-ankles look with short pants. And again, who does not want to drive a tractor in their city when they hit the pot
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by necovek 2mo ago
Before Google, before Reddit, before Facebook, people all over the world, rich and poor, run their own sites and their own forums, allowing them to chat with people throughout the world. Here in Serbia, even in the worst of times (sanctions
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by necovek 2mo ago
Network Video Recorder, a name for devices where IP cameras stream their video to to be stored on, usually, a hard disk drive. Same thing as DVR for analog surveillance cameras, just with eth (usually PoE) ports.
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by necovek 2mo ago
I've long been considering this idea as I make a lot of my own cabinetry, and would love to get automated cutting and drilling lists depending on if I'll use screws or dowel pins or some nice wooden joints. In general, you always
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by necovek 2mo ago
I find the ad blindness and bug blindness similar but on opposite ends: I also notice bugs easily, but I also notice ads (instead of skimming — when ad blockers do not work or apply), yet I consciously make an effort to not be tricked and s
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Postscriptum on LLMs: pelicans on bicycles with a twist(danilo.segan.org)
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by necovek 2mo ago
I had similar thoughts, but this is a largely solved problem: even headlights in my Volvo turn as I turn the wheel, and it should be easy to change rendering direction to an "average" of road tangents for the next say 50m (would d
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by necovek 2mo ago
The fact that it took them 4 months to roll out does not mean this is the hard part: it's simply a coordinated rollout with incremental, staggered deployments and rate-limited migrations. Changing data structures with that approach jus
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by necovek 2mo ago
Respecting a timeline only matters in some universes, and in the Universe of Quotes, it certainly does not!
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by necovek 2mo ago
I think your professor took that one from Franklin... or was it Mark Twain?
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by necovek 2mo ago
Incidentally, that's my favourite quote from Blaise Pascal: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
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by necovek 2mo ago
Well, if the alternative was going to be Microsoft 365... not so sure :)
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by necovek 2mo ago
Got it, thanks for the correction: it does surprisingly line up!
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by necovek 2mo ago
This is why I said operationalizing: you need to memorize enough to either be able to know what to look up, or know it outright if you need to be fast(er).
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by necovek 2mo ago
I am actually hoping this is a future where it does become possible. At least on top of what is generally more-than-good-enough (Linux kernel, base GNU system with the compiler toolchain, basic desktop environment...). So I'd like to h
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by necovek 2mo ago
Though also a reminder to not enter the same usage patterns or there is no point ;)
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by necovek 2mo ago
Depends on what you consider "ads": I have always been paying for ad-free experience, but I regularly end up on the screen where there are ads for books I do not care about (they probably say that's just the store homepage, b
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by necovek 2mo ago
It seems Amazon has financial and legal incentive to keep older Kindles (it is so many of them still) updated to avoid them getting jailbroken and not having Kindle store at their fingertips :) Not sure if they cut it off at some point, but
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by necovek 2mo ago
As other noted, apart from us being on Hacker News, if my toaster does and/or can run Linux, I want to have full control over any software running in my home. If a toaster needs to just be a good toaster, it sure as hell does not ne
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by necovek 2mo ago
I am not making a judgement call, merely describing what the GP meant. I do believe it is not as clear cut though — taking it to an extreme, imagine you directly invested in Epstein's sexual abuse business but only as minority owner. S
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by necovek 2mo ago
I see this as a memorize-vs-understand fallacy many repeat. It is really a combination: you need to memorize a large corpus of information to operationalize knowledge — understanding a bunch of theorems in mathematics does not help much (ev
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by necovek 2mo ago
I am not saying it's impossible to come up with numbers, but that they will be somewhat made-up. You'd also need to amortize the damages over years, and then spread it to all the speeding tickets issued. So I'd actually simpl
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by necovek 2mo ago
I am pretty sure speeding ticket fines have never been established based on economic or emotional harm (how much does 200 lives lost cost? is it their accumulated net worth? expected earnings through what would have been left of their caree
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by necovek 2mo ago
I think you missed the point: you can still take damages from the corporation, but if corporation cannot provide them (bankrupcy), owners are held liable for them instead. This is how non-LLC companies are treated. The instrument of Limited
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by necovek 2mo ago
With laws, you generally want to charge and cover for the harm done, but also to disincentivise law breaking. For instance, someone might be significantly speeding for 10 years, and never hurting anyone or causing any harm (financial or oth
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by necovek 2mo ago
Is this article not exactly about ASICs built for LLM inference and training acceleration?
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by necovek 2mo ago
I think Netherlands is a bad example, because all locals I've met there speak perfect English, and a visitor learns that fast!
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by necovek 2mo ago
The way I remember it, GNOME moved away from funny release codenames all the way back around 2004 or 2005, and then gradually moved to application names reflecting their generic function (eg. gedit was for a long time called "Gnome Tex
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by necovek 2mo ago
I'd love seeing some Polish names in products and learning their pronounciation: but as a fellow Slavic language speaker (which there are hundreds of millions of, compared to 10 or 20 million Swedish speakers), I imagine I can do a pre
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by necovek 2mo ago
Yeah, large part of the world reads J as Y in ye/yi combinations in English, even if they'd giggle at what it means in English.

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