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by slimsag 3y ago
Definitely all guesses and assumptions, I do not mean re-selling, just cross-bred (possibly accidentally) with a patented variety. My source is just comments from random gardeners in /r/gardening[0] and I don't have any insid
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by slimsag 3y ago
I'm confused, you got one already and didn't like it? or you just didn't like ordering it?
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by slimsag 3y ago
It's not 'one flower' - it's one petunia plant. They grow 6-12 inches tall, and 1-4ft wide, with multiple flowers. It's like a small sprawly bush. From the FAQ: > The Firefly Petunia is shipped as a small plant r
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by slimsag 3y ago
Not quite, you can get 3 for $107 because it applies some automatic discount and shipping is not a linear cost.
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by slimsag 3y ago
Patents are a major PITA even in home gardening and small-scale nurseries. People have to respect the patents because a lot of plant sales are online these days, through Etsy and stuff, and the company will sue the ever living shit out of y
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by slimsag 3y ago
Thank you for quoting it! For some reason the link won't load for me yet.
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by slimsag 3y ago
Are there ways this could be done with rapidly biodegradable materials, such that e.g. it would need to be continually done year after year or else the sky would return to the exact same state it was in before? Also, living in Arizona with
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by slimsag 3y ago
makes sense, thanks :) Just wanted to check I didn't miss something haha!
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by slimsag 3y ago
are you saying vkd3d also has a SPIRV->DXIL converter? I imagine it having the opposite (DXIL->SPIRV)
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by slimsag 3y ago
Yes, SPIRV->DXIL does seem tempting and worth exploring. Very recently I learned Mesa has such a tool, spirv2dxil, though unsure how robust/featureful it is compared to HLSL->DXC->DXIL.
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by slimsag 3y ago
How far should one go with that line of thinking? Should we all be using formally verified C that e.g. the aerospace industry uses? It can prevent whole classes of logic bugs that languages like Rust couldn't dream of
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by slimsag 3y ago
Also Morello prototype architecture / CHERI could well just end up enforcing this all at the hardware level and make language-level safety a largely moot point.
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by slimsag 3y ago
Make something better, then. (I'm not being dismissive, I really genuinely mean it - please do) I don't know who is behind Ollama and don't really care about them. I can agree with your disgust for VC 'open source'
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by slimsag 3y ago
Useful! At work we are building a better version of Copilot, and support bringing your own LLM. Recently I've been adding an 'OpenAI compatible' backend, so that if you can provide any OpenAI compatible API endpoint, and just
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by slimsag 3y ago
like what? If you're gonna accuse a project of shady stuff, at least give examples :)
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by slimsag 3y ago
Compliance-related challenges due to transferring data outside the network. Compliance-related challenges due to potentially biased decision making. Financial regulation compliance concerns. Government regulations around the application of
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by slimsag 3y ago
> At least if they either use the user's code in training OR if it uses any code with unknown provenance. There are also many other cases where it is just outright prohibited, or heavily restricted, even if the aspects you describe
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by slimsag 3y ago
Most people in tech aren't even using old.reddit.com Ever notice people posting completely broken markdown? That's because they use new reddit, which disagrees about markdown newlines. I would guess >70% of programmers/tec
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by slimsag 3y ago
Which I would also suggest is the most questionable/concerning part of Bluesky: Twitter didn't invest in it in exchange for nothing. What amount of control might X/Elon have over Bluesky as a company? Jack backing something o
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by slimsag 3y ago
This may be the funniest and saddest thing I've read all year. So $MEGACORP abuses their absolute monopolistic position in the market to underhandedly negotiate with book publishers and force their hand into working the way $MEGACORP w
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by slimsag 3y ago
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidel
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by slimsag 3y ago
Isn't this almost identical to the general admissions process, too? It seems strange to me that we built institutions on the idea of filtering in/out applicants based on relatively arbitrary criteria, and then express shock/s
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by slimsag 3y ago
I don't know if there's anything better than a zip. For our website[0] which includes a bunch of docs for our game engine, Zig packages, etc. we just offer a link "offline version of this site" in the footer which is an
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by slimsag 3y ago
They killed Google Code in 2016, and Google Code Search in 2012. Internally those types of products still exist, just not for public use. I see no reason Google groups could not also be killed for any public use.
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by slimsag 3y ago
It's worth noting that SPIR-V isn't really compiled for the target ISA, it's not even guaranteed to be in a particular optimized form already.. so when the GPU driver loads it, it may or may not decide to spend a lot of time
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by slimsag 3y ago
The quantity and type of SPIR-V issues which DirectXShaderCompiler has makes me believe it is not really used in serious settings. Microsoft also directly states in the README it is a community contribution, which seems an intentional choic
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by slimsag 3y ago
> recursion is now possible in Vulkan, and control-flow is no longer limited. If you care about mobile devices (even modern android phones) I suspect this is not true
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by slimsag 3y ago
I often see folks complain/express confusion about shading languages.. but I think it's often incorrectly stated as syntax of the language, when in reality the confusion is about underlying GPU concepts. Like, people (naturally) w
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by slimsag 3y ago
Do you have links? I'd be curious to see them
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by slimsag 3y ago
I feel like there were two large types of website designs: (1) those archaic ones you'd find on your professor's website, plain HTML, no CSS or CSS that was just intended to do something annoying (blinking cursor, sparkles, matrix

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