selcuka

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by selcuka 1y ago
Exactly the GP's point (the rotation of the Earth "made their day").
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by selcuka 1y ago
SAM on Commodore 64 was only 6K: https://project64.c64.org/Software/SAM10.TXT Obviously it's not fair to compare these with ML models.
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by selcuka 1y ago
> Turbo includes hourly and daily limits to avoid capacity issues. Usage-based pricing will soon be available to consume models in a metered fashion. Doesn't look that much better than a ChatGPT Plus subscription.
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by selcuka 1y ago
> consumers hate metered billing. they'd rather overpay for unlimited than get surprised by a bill. Standard packages are like insurance. Everyone pays more or less the same premium, but some claim more than others. On average peopl
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by selcuka 1y ago
> AWS Lightsail which is pretty much a normal VPS with VPS pricing Except it is still Amazon and subject to the same weird billing practices. I once terminated a Lightsail instance and they kept charging me, claiming that I didn't t
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by selcuka 1y ago
> the dots and dashes to be clearly distinguished from each other Yes, spaces are part of the morse code spec. It looks like a binary encoding but in fact it's ternary. We can invent a 5-bit (or 6-bit, to include numbers and punctua
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by selcuka 1y ago
> The UK seems terrible at this whole "free society" thing. Did you mean "Airstrip One"?
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by selcuka 1y ago
Pilot V5 Hi-Tecpoint has been my favourite for the last ~20 years. I'm not a heavy user, so one pen lasts for years as an added bonus.
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by selcuka 1y ago
Sure, but it wasn't me who first used Tomahawks as a monetary unit to measure healthcare spend.
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by selcuka 1y ago
So you could have increased the healthcare spend by 12% for 10 years if you didn't overthrow Iraq's government?
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by selcuka 1y ago
It will probably be monitored/augmented by human surgeons in the beginning.
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by selcuka 1y ago
I had assumed that the GP comment [1] was about both paid and free accounts. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592213
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by selcuka 1y ago
> even if they adopted uv as default instead, all the legacy stuff takes years to change Who are "they"? I am not waiting for anyone to adopt uv. I've adopted it myself and forgotten about pip as uv is pip-compatible for a
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by selcuka 1y ago
I had the same sentiment, but uv seems to have eliminated the competition. Installing uv using your OS package manager is enough as it can also download and install (isolated) Python interpreters as well.
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by selcuka 1y ago
> I liked Requests way back when but prefer httpx or aiohttp. Those two tools are modeled after `requests`, so Reitz still has an influence in your life even if you don't use his implementation directly.
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by selcuka 1y ago
It is reflected. That's why plants are green. You seem to have missed the context of my reply: > an extinction level event that filtered sunlight for a long time, removing green The lack of green sunlight would not necessarily resul
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by selcuka 1y ago
It still doesn't explain the need to reflect green, though. They could have evolved to be black and absorb all energy.
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by selcuka 1y ago
I am either reading the wrong ToS, or not getting it [1]: Permission to use your content [...] This license is for the limited purpose of: [...] - developing new technologies and services for Google consistent with the
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by selcuka 1y ago
True, but remember that all politicians are also demagogues to some degree, so his views (especially after more than 20 years in power) may not necessarily align with his base. It's not unusual for the candidate people didn’t vote for
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by selcuka 1y ago
> what was the prompt? I feel like I could get any LLM to say "bad" things. The prompt was unusually straightforward. No prompt engineering was necessary. The translation to English would roughly be something like Swear a
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by selcuka 1y ago
Turkey once had far more tolerant leaders in its recent history. The right-leaning liberal leader of the 1980s, Turgut Özal, famously asked the artist for the signed original of a (critical) caricature of himself published in a weekly magaz
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by selcuka 1y ago
You are a victim of the Nirvana fallacy [1]: "Europe is better than Turkey in terms of freedom of speech, but since neither is perfect, they are equally bad." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
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by selcuka 1y ago
It is possible that people think that the valuation would be even worse if she wasn't the CEO. Unlikely, but possible.
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by selcuka 1y ago
> No way that will ever happen when we have a party that thinks Medicare, Medicaid and social security is unnecessary for the poor or middle class. This is obviously because the current ruling class can't see what is coming. Histori
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by selcuka 1y ago
Well, we should accept that it was a bit hysterical. "Terror chief's son" [1]? Really? Apparently he's the deputy minister of agriculture. Ministers, bureaucrats and civil servants in Gaza are appointed by Hamas [2] [1]
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by selcuka 1y ago
> However, there's no reason it has to be this way - the fact people having their jobs replace by technology are completely screwed over is a result of the society we have all created together, it's not a rule of nature. I agre
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by selcuka 1y ago
Dreamcast memory cards (VMU - Visual Memory Unit) [1] were mini handheld gaming consoles with an 8-bit Sanyo LC8670 CPU and a monochrome screen. Some Dreamcast games let you "download" mini games into the memory card and play them
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by selcuka 1y ago
> RFC 1876 is an experimental standard. That has been a very long running experiment [1]: > University of Warwick, January 1996 [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1876
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by selcuka 1y ago
> that was accidentally too free. You are ignoring the fact that they claimed that they "built it in just 72 hours", accidentally omitting to mention that it's a fork of another repo.
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by selcuka 1y ago
You are aware that Meta/Google etc are behind this bill, aren't you? They don't want anonymous users. They want fully identified, age-verified ad consumers.

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