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by sambaumann 1y ago
Plenty of businesses fail to find a way to make a profit
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by sambaumann 1y ago
Wikipedia [1] implies it's to give them an incredibly large field of vision to spot prey, though the source it cites [2] seems less certain about that [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_heigh
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by sambaumann 1y ago
It's not worth it to them precisely because the vast majority of web traffic is served over HTTPS. You can bet they would these days if most traffic was HTTP
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by sambaumann 1y ago
There's lots of rumors/leaks that Valve has a successor to the index coming very soon that may check all the boxes for you, it may be worth keeping an eye out for that.
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by sambaumann 1y ago
Or mint, which is a much more popular Ubuntu derivative which uses flatpaks
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by sambaumann 1y ago
I recently built a personal project using peewee and it doesn't have a ton of bells and whistles but it works well for what it does do.
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by sambaumann 1y ago
Yep, on the ollama home page ( https://ollama.com/ ) it says > OpenAI and Ollama partner to launch gpt-oss
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by sambaumann 1y ago
using uv after years of fumbling with pip/venv, pyenv, conda, etc feels like a superpower. It really just works.
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by sambaumann 1y ago
Between yesterday's thread and this thread I decided to finally give uv a shot today - I'm impressed, both by the speed and how easy it is to manage dependencies for a project. I think their docs could use a little bit of work, es
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by sambaumann 1y ago
The characters in Ted Lasso almost exclusively have iPhones and Macs
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by sambaumann 1y ago
anyone have any good suggestions for a self-hosted option?
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by sambaumann 1y ago
I believe there's a remote option
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by sambaumann 2y ago
Right now I'm learning Clojure/script - at the moment I'm just building a toy Sudoku app as a learning exercise, but the eventual goal is to build a fully featured web game
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by sambaumann 2y ago
I would say GPT correctly identified the locations of about half the videos - I probably could have bumped that up a bit with a bit more prompt engineering, but there are also a good chunk of them where that wasn't able to be inferred
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by sambaumann 2y ago
I use my pihole for tailscale too without issue - just have a tailscale node on my home network and point the tailscale DNS settings to the pi-hole's IP
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by sambaumann 2y ago
I have my cell phone routed to my pi hole for DNS even when I'm not at home using tailscale. It's a great experience
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by sambaumann 2y ago
(2016) - the NIST Peanut Butter now costs $1,217 ( https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=2387&cclcl=en... )
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by sambaumann 2y ago
that same independence is the reason it's not subject to the political whims of whoever is in power at a given time, which is important for the long term health of the economy. "The people" did decide this - as congress gave
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by sambaumann 2y ago
Is this based on trellis?
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by sambaumann 2y ago
I'm building an app to help organize information in Genealogical research (family trees/family history) - a few months ago I started doing some family research and I was struck by how many of the resources are owned by one company
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by sambaumann 2y ago
Would it be fair to say then that "Python" is Turing complete, while CPython/PyPy implementations are not turing complete, because they will always implicitly run up against C's memory limitations, therefore they do have
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by sambaumann 2y ago
Even when amazon shows that you're on the manufacturer store, it still may not be genuine. I bought an intel wifi card off what looked like the official intel store on amazon, but it turns out that it was an out of production model sol
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by sambaumann 2y ago
I started my K2SE run in march and I've come to accept I'm not going to finish by the time Space Age comes out.
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by sambaumann 3y ago
Do the 132B params need to be loaded in GPU memory, or only the 36B?
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by sambaumann 3y ago
I saw it last year while I was doing a project for school - and clicked off the page as it was appearing. Never seen it again.