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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
Whenever I need something from Google Books I inevitably reach the message that this is a limited preview and the part I need is not included. I therefore feel the same way about Google Books that how I felt when I learned that What.cd went
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
I know Meta it's not Google, but it's worth remembering that these promises haven't had a great measure of success in the past: > Facebook has been fined €110m (£94m) by the EU for providing misleading information about i
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
It has a 1-to-1 correlation, though: the faster you can generate code (which is the one quality under discussion), the more lines of code you can generate in a given unit of time, and vice versa. So I would argue we are talking about line
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
Lines-of-code has long been accepted as a terrible measure for code quality, and I believe it has been strongly correlated with poorer code quality.
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
I asked for the price too, it told me "you seem to be asking about repair prices, you should go to <other website> instead". I gave the answer a thumbs up, of course.
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
Some searching led me to this report from an NGO called "AirWars" [1] which, in connection with The Guardian, reports that "at least 22,679, and potentially as many as 48,308 civilians, have been likely killed by US strikes&q
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
Also, price of an Nvidia RTX 4090 according to a random website [1]: Jan. 2023: $1920 Jan. 2024: $1811 Jan. 2025: $1639 Jan. 2026: $2193 [1] https://bestvaluegpu.com/history/new-and-used-rtx-4090-price...
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
> Yeah I was in Europe for a month last month and this summer was the best ever. I imagine you don't intend it like that, but last month killed an extra five thousand people in Germany alone [1], more than one thousand of them in
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
> What other better solution do you imagine? I believe there are two ways to deal with a system that's not working as intended. One alternative is to have shock buffers for unexpected circumstances. Berlin, known for its chaotic n
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
Without writing my entire life story, here are some pointers. Best city: Leverkusen. Easy to get appointments, incredibly friendly personnel. Honorable mention for Potsdam. Worst city: Saarbrücken. I was undocumented a couple months because
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
On the topic of rules: > [Rules mean that] someone, or a group of people, sat down and thought about that specific thing and decided on a standard for everyone. When you have to do something, you don't feel lost, because you can ju
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
The bid was accepted in 2018, during Trump's first presidency. So both yes and no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_bids
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
Mildly off-topic, but also mildly interesting. The Wikipedia page for "Ratlines" [1] discusses "systems of escape routes used by Nazis and their collaborators" and how they settled in Rome, Spain, Genoa, and various Sout
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
I agree that something must be done, but the hydration break is the wrong solution for two reasons. First, plenty of countries have been regularly playing under these conditions and will keep doing so after the World Cup. Too hot to play in
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
Speaking for the *ACL conferences, they are not "random people" in the sense that they must have "(a) at least two papers in main ACL events or Findings, plus (b) at least one more paper in the ACL Anthology or a major ML&#x2
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
The best answer to that question is the development blog they made for the first game: https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/archives.html At a quick glance: four months for the engine (which they wrote from scratch [1]) and, ba
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
If you feel like trying a hail Mary to perhaps improve the ending I have two theories that I couldn't muster enough strength to check. Also, spoilers from here on. First, there's a fridge that you can't open close to the endi
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
Let's say I'm one of such people. How would you convince me that your comment is any different from the ones we've been getting since roughly GPT-3 claiming that AGI is finally here and that, while the previous models were ba
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
I may have a smaller one. I don't know exactly where it is, but at least I know exactly how fast it's moving.
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
I would like to offer this comment from three days ago as counterpoint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013694
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
I deleted my account when they deprecated i.reddit.com. It's mildly funny to read comments lamenting the death of "the good mobile interface" when the amazing one was already killed years ago. > we have yet to see an al
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
I suggest reading the original linked article, if only because it includes a video with the zipper in action: https://news.mit.edu/2026/three-sided-y-zipper-design-0504
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
The problem with spam is that it's not a technology like AI is. So I suggest taking cars instead. Cars have plenty of advantages, and yet no one would say "the number of pedestrians killed by cars is rising, but that's an iss
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
I recently desk-rejected a paper where every single citation in its Introduction was hallucinated. That means that the entire connection between what the author(s) did and how it relates to existing research was simply made up. I've ne
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
Since we're off-topic, most of the information in that article (as it's often the case) is based mostly on Christopher Hitchen's work (book and documentary), a man who describes himself as "antitheist" and made a li
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
I cannot speak for the intended purpose of ArXiv by its creators but I can tell you that, in the conference circles, its main intended use was flag planting: people were afraid that their competitors would tweet some results while their (ea
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
Two weeks ago a heatwave linked to climate change killed in Germany an excess 1300 people [1, 2]. It was the deadliest single day of the last 25 years [3] - the mean numbers of deaths per day is 2400 while June 29 reports 4800. If the attit
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
> Cece went into her room, flopped onto her bed, and pulled up her text thread with Tomo. “Honestly,” she typed, “all this drama makes me wanna end it all.” (...) “if these thoughts get worse, you need to reach out to a trusted adult or
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
I disagree with that conclusion: even if the chainmail were indeed very uncommon (no idea), getting it from China was so easy that he even got it when actively trying to avoid it. And since the chainmail is the revolutionary part of the ide
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
More like the new "America can't manufacture a grill scrubber" [1]. For those who haven't seen the video, YouTuber Destin Sandlin ("Smarter every day") tried to build a grill scrubber using 100% materials from

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