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2y ago
i wonder if it is also effective against methanol to help those who consumed denatured alcohol.
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2y ago
being from a country on the bottom side of the list living on one from the top, it seems to roughly add up from my experience. although it is more accurate for the more expensive parts of each country. when living in a cheaper country to li
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2y ago
imo a better alternative (did not test on other sites) yt-dlp -f bestaudio <url> it directly downloads the audio from youtube and does not require ffmpeg unlike the -x option. moreover, you can specify format (m4a or default webm) lik
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2y ago
PLA is also involved in greener coffee cartridge alternatives ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbmfLjBUSV8 ). i personally only knew it as a filament type for 3d printing, but was unaware about its bio-labelling in other ind
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2y ago
the only ergonomic solution to me is to maintain a converted script of notebooks and using it for diff tracking, productionizing, etc. through a simple abstraction.
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2y ago
fun thought exercise, but the fact that a relatively new player is exposed to services such as leetify and learning that way nowadays blows my mind. trying to quantify performance this way is stuck somewhere between extremely abstract ratin
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2y ago
it is ironic that while mechanically EVs are much simpler, they are only shipped with all the complexity from electronic side. i am not an automobile engg, but the core parts required to run an EV (motor control, battery management, etc.) h
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3y ago
word of caution - better have a secondary computer and easy access to bios programmer before doing this. just downgrading bios (supposedly supported by the laptop manufacturer as an option in the bios) bricked a laptop of mine and it requir
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3y ago
recently switched to iphone and some crucial things are missing or not in a good place, which has soured the otherwise niceties: - no way to record phone calls: missing the ability to relisten to the calls after the fact has costed me a lot
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3y ago
love all of this drama, which is overblown partially because of the ai craze imho. the OGs would know when Brownlee would openly criticize Beats headphones before they got acquired by Apple ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z
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3y ago
i might be one of a dozen reading this when i say that i am actually using less of reddit nowadays. i more or less stopped actively using the site directly after their third-party app crackdown. you may see reddit as an alternative to the a
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3y ago
RAG is to me just a glued-up solution to try counter the obvious limitations of LLMs that they essentially find the next token in a very convincing fashion. i am sure there can be newer ways to do prompt injection in an elegant way, but for
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3y ago
from most of the discourse here and even recent legislations in the us, it seems that people are taking the same approach for social media as the war on drugs. i feel that we did not learn much from the failures in the latter. take the praw
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3y ago
at least in the Indian capital, over time the e-rickshaws have seemingly replaced most of the manually operated ones. neither was directly contributing to the problem, but i suppose the electric ones can be more efficient for space on the r
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3y ago
2 wheelers do have their place and are well positioned imo. they have easy-to-remove batteries that counter reliance on charging infrastructure. this with enough range for an average middle class commuter in small to large towns. the last m
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3y ago
they've managed to hit a good starting price but it still feels positioned like their phones. for context: you can get better sounding non-anc tws for a third of the price, or good budget anc options under 100 usd. i have been personal
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3y ago
i see the ethical arguments against this decision. at the same time, we got testimonials from up and coming artists saying that their current pay is literally a few cents per month for getting similar streams as the threshold. i am no artis
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3y ago
from what i understand, there appears to be little to no oversight on how these models are trained and evaluated. if the markers, a la features, discussed in the article are anything to go with, it is a very disturbing method of classifying
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3y ago
the prosecuters might find this a win but from the comments it seems that there is next to no permutations where the general public would've been content. meanwhile we are seeing "institutionalization" of crypto-related secur
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3y ago
it is easy to use qualifications as a crutch for making excuses about leadership when things don't go well. the same happens for tech founders without a management degree acting as ceo.
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3y ago
this. if you can afford m3 level of money, a6000 is definitely worth it and provides you long-term access to a level of compute even hard to find in the cloud (for the price and waiting period). it is only dwarfed by other options if your w
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3y ago
it is interesting to see for which parties these actions are taken on. they appear more like the protectionist actions that governments take in other business domains.
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3y ago
being a broke outsider in the city, it has been very difficult to exercise my rights especially in terms of housing. from my limited experience it seems that while in richer neighbourhoods there might be some diversity, it is not the case e
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3y ago
those in the diy space are very well aware about assembling your own batteries as mentioned by others. their approach does not seem too different from the norm, but it is interesting to see it happen at commercial level. from an economic st
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3y ago
i share a similar story but today we don't seem to have any alternatives. it is a shame really but i wonder if there is something else that does not involve freenom today.
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3y ago
despite the original license, it is still nice to have a curated dataset for potentially training newer models. not too bothered with the resolution as mere mortals today can only afford to train on downsized images anyways.
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3y ago
it is high time to stop praising apple for their software ecosystem. i am still impressed by their level of engineering but it is not doing much in terms of real use-case since the ios days. case in point - the whole ipad and "what is
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3y ago
this idea is at odds with the way public services work in societies with safety nets. it has been, and remains to be, the case that the main purpose of certain parts of public services is to give people employment. there is rarely any merit
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3y ago
in terms of web hosting, why does hosting using serverless / paas means not using a cdn? it also baffles me that these services cannot tell between legitimate traffic and ddos.
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maybe they realized that handing over the sales to private dealerships, which they HAVE to do in their biggest market, would not be worth all the hassle with the development. i am aware that they have/had "authorized resellers&quo
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