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by senkora 2y ago
I suppose that they are free to focus on readability when they don't have to structure their writing in order to defend their decision-making from anyone, being the highest court of the land.
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With NYC, there is a fun example of the opposite. Manhattan Cruise Terminal in Hell’s Kitchen was constructed by cutting out parts of midtown Manhattan’s bedrock, in order to make the piers long enough to accommodate modern cruise ships. Yo
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I really like the design of this website; it's very clean.
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GObjectIntrospection is very good, so GTK has usable bindings to essentially every language. I would recommend looking at the GNOME apps and picking one that is written in the language that you want to use.
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I don’t think it’s fully returned to the level it was at when the episode aired (I forget the exact episode so I can’t say for sure), but you do have a point. Certainly anyone who bought Solana after it crashed did very well: (adjust the ti
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by senkora 2y ago
The one that I always remember is how they shilled for Solana immediately before it crashed hard. (I have never had any position in any crypto) I feel like their show has an implicit subtext where you’re expected to understand when they are
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by senkora 2y ago
I remember that one. His campaign immediately walked that promise back hard: > Asked for comment, the Trump campaign said in a statement that only after "the most aggressive vetting process in U.S. history" would "the most
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by senkora 2y ago
Not to be antagonistic, but just as a practical matter to consider: if your account username is your real name then I would be careful talking about your direct reports like this. People who you work with might see it.
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> the microwaves would selectively heat oil droplets I think it would be the opposite. It would selectively heat the water, because water is polar. That would still be consistent with the effect.
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Direct link to (one of) the optimal shape(s): https://arxiv.org/html/2410.12043v1/extracted/5929719/best_I...
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I’m sure the lawyers will eventually figure out a way to train an LLM on them.
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Thanks for the response! Your dog is lucky to have you
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> Mine needs about 5 miles of walks a day That's a lot of walking. Mine gets about 2 miles a day and it takes about 60 minutes. Sometimes I do a 2 mile jog with him which he loves. If you don't mind me asking, how long do you s
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Half-off on Switch right now. I might pick it up.
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From the "Early Days" section: > PDP-11s still employed (efficient) 16-bit int most of the time, but could use 32-bit long as needed. The 32-bitters used 32-bit int most of the time, which was more efficient, but could express
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by senkora 2y ago
I’ve really enjoyed moving most of my reading to TTS-generated audiobooks. I haven’t tried the newer AI voices but that certainly sounds like a step up!
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> We provide evidence that the incomplete adjustment of share prices to splits or reverse splits can be attributed to heterogeneity in traders' cognitive abilities . What a colorful turn of phrase.
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I worked through “Remembering Simplified Hanzi” and my one complaint is that I wish that it were “grouped by frequency” a bit more. The way that these books work is that the first one is the most common ~1500 characters grouped by radical &
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by senkora 2y ago
Nintendo has the right idea with avoiding any kind of group or voice chat in Splatoon and Mario Kart. Those are always fun online multiplayer experiences for me.
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Now there will be a twinge of sadness whenever I read a paper beginning with “Since the end of Dennard scaling…”.
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by senkora 2y ago
It was so well-loved that someone cloned it for the fediverse version of Reddit: Voyager for Lemmy is a near-clone of Apollo for Reddit, but using web technology. I have now moved my Reddit usage fully to Lemmy because the official app was
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> where the former is for scripts and the latter is intended to be a ui that makes no backwards compatibility guarantees. Also known as plumbing vs porcelain commands.
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There’s Hank and John Green’s https://good.store e-commerce website that sells socks, coffee, and soap and donates 100% of the profit to charity. It’s a borderline example since they largely sell to their fans, but the products
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> turned up nothing but vietnamese computer scientists, and nothing about the famous blog post “ORM is the vietnam of computer science”. [emphasis added] This points in the direction of the kinds of queries that I tend to use with Marg
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Well, to be fair, someone did get eaten on a Greyhound in Canada: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean
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I also don’t get the hate. My theory is that, because it is often self-hosted on-prem, some orgs under-provision the hosting and end up with a really sluggish instance, but at the companies that I’ve worked at it has always been quick. Mayb
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Why do otherwise smart people start feuds like this? I think that most people on HN would agree that 1) the most likely outcome of this feud is negative for Automattic and 2) Matt should have reasonably known that from the start. Is it some
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by senkora 2y ago
I got better performance of 20.18 tokens per second using tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0.Q8_0.llamafile from https://huggingface.co/Bojun-Feng/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0-l... If anyone is reading this and had trouble with a la
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I'll play around with it some more later. I was running llava-v1.5-7b-q4.llamafile which is the example that they recommend trying first at https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile Groq looks interesting and migh
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> For anyone who hasn't tried local models because they think it's too complicated or their computer can't handle it I have now learned that my laptop is capable of a whopping 0.37 tokens per second. 11th Gen Intel® Core™

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