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by nxobject 1y ago
I imagine this falls under the remit of "nuclear warhead research without actual warheads".
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by nxobject 1y ago
This may cause some psychic damage, but I use en dashes instead for this reason... even though yes, it's only conventionally used for numeric ranges.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Huh - literally every trick in the toolbox (pun intended) is used to integrate the running System with the host OS. An actual Quadra ROM, but a System Enabler (and a Helper application). For Toolbox UI services, it does everything from patc
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by nxobject 1y ago
All of the boosters of the Semantic Web were just a little too early to the market...
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by nxobject 1y ago
Their rhetorical strategy only flies if you’re inclined not to believe in climate change… > Far more often the report follows a familiar pattern, wrote Ben Sanderson, a climate scientist at CICERO, a Norwegian climate research institute,
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by nxobject 1y ago
Those may have been the exact people creating training material for OpenAI…
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by nxobject 1y ago
I'm curious – how are you organizing the folder/instructing Claude Code on its layout? I'm trying to get an LLM-aided dev environment set up for an ancient application dev framework, and I'm resigned to the fact that I&#
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by nxobject 1y ago
Think about the logistics of suddenly having to put up a fault slide during an emergency, especially when the best you can ask for is a camera and possibly a chroma-keyer! A camera on a swivel must've been a luxury.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Here's an opportunity for humans to benefit: create a plaintext LLM documentation-to-Gopher portal...
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by nxobject 1y ago
If you've seen this before, it's worth looking at the 2025 roadmap – it's long-term work, a full safety story hasn't been quite figured out (TBD end 2025), and 0.1 is TBD end 2026. About the pace of Rust, although withou
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by nxobject 1y ago
> I can give myself a similar cognitive reward for simply reading on HN about other people completing projects, and even (at my lowest) passively watching YouTube videos of other people building cool stuff. I struggle with the same thing
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by nxobject 1y ago
My very cursory understanding -- at least from Unsloth's recommendations -- is that you have to work very hard to preserve reasoning/instruct capabilities [1]: for example to "preserve" Qwen3's reasoning capabilitie
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by nxobject 1y ago
> NSF has been opaque about these plans—intentionally so, Wellner believes. “They are purposely not putting anything in writing,” she says. And the planned cancellation is leaving in limbo the scientists who have cruises planned for the
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by nxobject 1y ago
After the latest round of research cuts to basic biomedical research and hostility towards foreign academics, why not give it 10 years? That's how long it'll take for the current cohort of graduates to find the institutions they&#
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by nxobject 1y ago
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to use this with many of the recent open weight code/instruct models - CC tool use doesn’t work with Qwen3 and Kimi K2 for me.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Oh no, I meant the opposite - that IM had Pascal for that long. Sorry for not being clear.
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by nxobject 1y ago
I didn’t realize that IM was written for Pascal for that long, deep into the CodeWarrior days… With my copy of THINK C, I felt like a medieval scholar having to learn Latin to keep up with the holy texts.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Welp, time to switch aider models for the _second_ time in a week...
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Railroad Operator Union Pacific Exploring Deal for Norfolk Southern(wsj.com)
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by nxobject 1y ago
Where did the 6 application/year number come from? The justification seems a little fast-and-loose: > According to the new notice, the number of PIs who submit more than six applications per year is “relatively low.” I imagine that,
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by nxobject 1y ago
Corollary if you're unfamiliar with how CC works (because you've never been able to consider it for its price, like me) – the CC client is freely available over 'npm'.
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by nxobject 1y ago
I agree that Portland does need public space to co-work and to be close to research. Unfortunately that would take investment… and that’s not forthcoming, not even public $. That being said, as someone who took a few graduate stats courses
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by nxobject 1y ago
Do you think east of the Willamette will be where any tech scene rebuilding might end up? I wonder which neighborhood might have the right mix of housing, office space, and recreation (ie food.)
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by nxobject 1y ago
+1 to this. As someone who still believes that everything that made Oregon attractive is still there, and won’t be taken from Oregon soon - nature, laid-back culture, quality of life - we can’t deny that Oregon is deindustrializing more bro
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by nxobject 1y ago
As a fun historical sidebar and an illustration that there are no new names in tech these days, Metaflow was also the name of the company that first introduced out-of-order speculative execution of CISC architectures using micro-ops. [1] [1
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by nxobject 1y ago
Since I don't want to stealth-edit my post, another one was the rise of "nuisance homelessness" – the same shelter-in-place order prevented the City from sweeping people into warehouse shelters (but lower-capacity motel shelt
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by nxobject 1y ago
Here's one thing OP might be talking about – the "skyscraper district" of PDX practically emptied out during COVID, precisely because Portland has highly segregated big-B-business and residential districts. The rise of WFH me
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by nxobject 1y ago
It's a very laid-back place - more of a "you're missing out on life if you're not enjoying nature every weekend" type of place. Lots of new parents in the mid-to-late 30s (I think the highest proportion of any major
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by nxobject 1y ago
You don't have to answer this question, but: do you live off the I-205? I'm always astounded (well, annoyed) at how, living in the inner east side, getting to Multnomah Falls via I-84 would sometimes be quicker than getting to PDX
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by nxobject 1y ago
Another thing that would've sweetened the deal -- given certain priorities -- is how close nature is: Oregon's restrictive limits on urban area boundaries means that in 45 minutes you're out in nature, and in 1 1/2 hour

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