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by nomilk 6mo ago
> I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts A power to face unpleasant facts is a super power. The world would be a much better place if everyone had it.
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Claude Opus 4.6 was nerfed prior to release of Opus 4.7(twitter.com)
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by nomilk 6mo ago
I have an ‘old’ model (iPhone 14 pro max) and text frequently misses characters due to the lag/input delay. It’s most pronounced when using safari for some reason. In any case, it’s odd that hardware is multiples better yet it doesn’t
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What Is an XY Problem?(meta.stackexchange.com)
1 points by nomilk 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 6mo ago
Yes, your comment really should be the focus of article, i.e. genuinely new capabilities and improvements, not existing capabilities done a slightly different way. In any case it’s a minor nitpick and it’s awesome progress for the language
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by nomilk 6mo ago
I suspect the main benefits are portability (since tree-sitter uses wasm and javascript it can run in any webpage - compared to the previous way of parsing R code which needed an R runtime, so not just any old website could do it; e.g. a sh
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by nomilk 6mo ago
The article makes out like auto completion and help on hover are new things, but RStudio IDE has had them for years and years. R/RStudio was my first language/IDE. I was horribly shocked when moving into other languages to discove
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What Features Did X and xAI Add in 2025?(twitter.com)
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by nomilk 6mo ago
Greek and Roman columns would have a slight curve because it was more pleasing to the human eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entasis > Its best-known use is in certain orders of Classical columns that diminish in
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Entasis(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nomilk 6mo ago
The video says tidyverse vs base R is the > "vim vs emacs" of the statistics world. Good analogy because they compete for patronage and talent to an degree, but (just like vim and emacs) the user can choose which tool is best f
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The Untold Story of R [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nomilk 6mo ago|1 comments
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Thucydides Trap(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nomilk 6mo ago|1 comments
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Exploring Psychic Powers Live TV Special (1989) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nomilk 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 6mo ago
Great satire. The political equivalent of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
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Vermin Supreme: When I'm President Everyone Gets a Free Pony [video](youtube.com)
11 points by nomilk 6mo ago|4 comments
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by nomilk 6mo ago
Thanks. Until you pointed out it's Earth at night , I had no clue what was supposed to be special about this photo (it appeared suspiciously pixelated for something 'high res', and neighbouring pixels seemed to contrast in c
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by nomilk 7mo ago
> that's a monumental amount of work Agree, but look at the alternative; GitHub is constantly being savaged by users who (quite reasonably) expect uptime. Ignoring impacts on morale and reputation, damage to their bottom line alon
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by nomilk 7mo ago
Love stories like this, where someone learns some completely orthogonal domain for educational purposes.
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by nomilk 7mo ago
Why don't companies with chronic outages mimic their stack from top to bottom (i.e. starting with a new domain), then before making a change, make the change on the duplicate stack and blast it with mock requests. Might catch 90% of pr
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Edinburgh of the Seven Seas(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by nomilk 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 7mo ago
Simply prove them wrong (earnestly and in good faith). When they realise the LLM is fallible, they'll learn to be skeptical of it without you needing to teach them that specific lesson.
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by nomilk 7mo ago
Dumb question, many cities suffer from extremely high property (i.e. land) prices. I understand the NIMBY barrier. But I don't understand why it isn't more common to simply.. start a new city. Especially in countries like Australi
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by nomilk 7mo ago
It would be great to make this data into a browser extension that overlays the info when using Google Flights
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by nomilk 7mo ago
Why are social media platforms picked on? Did we forget Gresham's Law applies to content and has done so since humans could communicate? Bad or wrong ideas are the ones that get talked about. Do we discuss the 10 issues politicians get
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Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology – Robert Sapolsky [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nomilk 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 7mo ago
Sponsorblock instantly 'broke' video for me; I feel incredible discomfort watching any video without it. Amazing extension. Such is its utility, this single extension lifts youtube as a platform higher above tv or or native video
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by nomilk 7mo ago
Oh wow. Appreciate the correction. I wonder what improvements in price transparency Trump has in mind. Perhaps it's that website in the parent comment.
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Metadeception: The Truth About Oz Pearlman [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nomilk 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 7mo ago
Interesting case study (video; ~2 min): https://www.tiktok.com/@thesephew/video/7476558168059809067

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