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by rafaelmn 1y ago
The articles getting to top are getting worse rapidly - low effort AI crap with a random headline gets to the top of HN regularly. I have a feeling a lot of "vibe coders" are joining the community. Could be bot spam too. At this p
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
Frankly this kind of stuff getting upvoted kind of makes HN less and less valuable as a news source - this is yet another "hey I trivially exposed something to the LLM and I got some funny results on a toy example". These kind of
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
I was using Plasma 6 to get fractional scaling working (wrote the wrong version in original post)
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
Sorry I misspoke - I was using Plasma 6, as that was the only way to get fractional scaling in X11 apps
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
Yeah but on the flip side if your usecase is not blessed by daddy Apple - or you're not a fan of their hardware design - there is zero variety in the ecosystem and full lockdown. Like iPad is great hardware - but they will never let yo
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
Plasma was super unstable and janky, and the whole KDE desktop environment feels like developer art.
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
I tried that first but had trouble getting it to launch so I decided might as well goo with the OSS option. Boy was I in for a fun ride with getting the whole jackd and audio subsystems running.
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
> That's because X11 itself does not support it. Strangely enough Plasma was able to handle this regardless (guess it was misreporting the resolution to X11 app or something like that to make it work ?) it was a Gnome/Wayland t
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
I don't know - it's way more unstable in day to day use than say MacOS. The amount of times I had Slack crash on me or Chrome lock up in windows during calls is too frequent for daily use IMO. You could say that's a Slack or
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
It's just general polish. Like I was daily driving fedora last year and : - fractional scaling did not work in Gnome with Wayland for X11 Apps - I still cannot use my LG C4 as a monitor in full capacity because AMD on Linux does not su
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
At this point I view Windows as a legacy/compatibility OS, all the news about Windows is how they are making it worse for everyone. And using it now and then it feels like that too. Windows 10 Mail app had integration with system calen
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
I feel like model improvement is severely overstated by the benchmarks and the last release cycle basically made no difference to my use cases. If you gave me Claude 3.5 and 3.7 I couldn't really tell the difference. OpenAI models feel
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
LOL how does the AI keep track of all the places it needs to update once you make a logic change ? I have no idea what you're doing but almost nothing I do is basic CRUD - there's always logic/constraints around data flow and
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
The fact that they give these models low res photos but don't provide them with built in tools for querying more details feels suboptimal. Executing python to crop an image is clever from model and a facepalm from the implementation si
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
>The interest in ai music generation is lower than I initially thought. I jumped in but felt the exercise lacked the joy of making music physically or with software like pro tools. With pro tools you control the thousands of knobs which
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
That sounds like a comment about streaming and artists getting basically nothing from it ? I think music AI in live music would actually be interesting - theoretically it can react to crowds better than any human could. A group music editin
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
Yes, I checked it out afterwards, seems like a decent program. My comment was more about EU investing in OSS large scale. I've seen how EU projects get awarded and I doubt anything of value will come out of that, especially once cost i
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
Nice, I didn't see this is small scale grants, this is great, like Blender case. Unfortunately I don't know that this scales to serious budgets. My experience being involved in applying on a "digital transformation" fund
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by rafaelmn 1y ago
I like the publicly funded open source funding in theory, in practice I suspect these guys had to pay consultants to create a funding project application, that went through some arbitrary agency, and the money that got to the developers is
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Just because we rely on vision to interface with computer software doesn't mean it's optimal for AI models. Having a specialized interface protocol is orthogonal to capability. Just like you could theoretically write code in a pro
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
I'd say using a Mac studio with M4 Max and 128 GB RAM will get you way further than 4090 in context size and model size. Cheaper than 2x4090 and less power while being a great overall machine. I think these consumer GPUs are way too ex
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
One has the incentive to burn through as much tokens and the other has an incentive to use as little as possible
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
I think OP is arguing that the weights are not copyrightable but you're agreeing to ~ EULA by accepting terms when you acquire it ? Not sure that works either but that's how I understood them.
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
>Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings Just the first one that comes to mind.
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Lidl produces none of those, just brands them. More comparable would be something like Raid cookies I guess
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
>It's kind of ironic that even today, the default .NET version baked into fresh Windows installs is 4.6 (or nearby), not the shiny new .NET 8/9. This is because the distribution model changed ? You would probably publish self-c
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
What do you think happens when you lie through the interview ? I recently had this in my team - we were hiring fast and hired someone we shouldn't have - fired after two weeks. So your best case is receiving 6 weeks income after gettin
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
> what is one to do Find roles where your skills match the required skills ?
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
>It is about total benefit to society, period. Money is the best tool we have to measure that. Sure it has pathological cases, but overall it's the least bad version to assign value. In the government case it's much worse at th
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
If someone asked me that I would select that option too.

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