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by socksy 2y ago
Another website in this vein is https://www.maria.cloud/ which is more geared up for teaching complete beginners programming, but I think with the basic paredit style controls and the evaluate-each-form-at-a-time style is I
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by socksy 2y ago
I’m always suspicious with low-signal articles written about LLM based systems, as I suspect that the crowd involved are very trigger happy in using an LLM to write human facing text. Maybe not what’s happening in this case, but it’s what s
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by socksy 2y ago
> You can see this hyperbole in the sibling comment, where the quote "man-made compounds from household products didn’t belong in the human body" is asserted as some kind of fact. Even if you're predisposed to believe this
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by socksy 2y ago
Fun fact: "-ize" is a valid British spelling (but "-yze", e.g. in "analyze" isn't!) See https://www.oed.com/dictionary/apologize_v & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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by socksy 2y ago
As in, they would have to prove, potentially in court, that the layoff was absolutely necessary to actually be about to do it, plus pay an undefined fair severance amount (that people mostly seem to accept as 0.5 * monthly salary * years of
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by socksy 2y ago
I guess one start might be to avoid the comments section on HN ;)
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by socksy 3y ago
Why do you feel the need to tell me I didn't read the comment? I did, and my comment was my response. > That the market has cars bug enough for him, and the reasons for providing it, are not germane to his comment. Did you watch the
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by socksy 3y ago
SUVs are pushed by manufacturers due to their relative lack of regulation in the US, and so the more money they can make from them. Safety and car seat sizes have nothing to do with it. https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo
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by socksy 3y ago
I'm curious if you had a look at GraphBLAS (ala Redis Graph etc)?
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by socksy 3y ago
I suppose this is in the context where you will be syncing up the changes to a backend server which will also be storing the document in an SQL database. Normally, you might expect that data format on the client to be JSON/XML/som
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by socksy 3y ago
> What do they have in common? A bright fantasy setting with a large, more or less seamless territory to explore. They have a lot more in common than that. Not to say that Genshin Impact isn't doing it's own thing, but there&#x
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by socksy 3y ago
> The options seemed to be: If I went for it, I’d be penniless, and if I didn’t go for it, I’d be bitter. I’d be bitter going forward. Penniless certainly beats bitter. So I made the decision. And that was ten years ago! And I’m still go
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by socksy 4y ago
The most bizarre one I saw after trying a couple times: > I take full responsibility for this difficult decision, as it was my own judgment that led to the unfortunate events which caused this. It all began when I decided to give our tea
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by socksy 4y ago
This isn't true.[0] The difference between "Ich bin Berliner" and "Ich bin ein Berliner" is that the former says that you literally are from/living in Berlin, and the latter means you are figuratively speaking
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by socksy 4y ago
I suppose it's quite similar to the idea of Bagwell's persistent data structures[1] — those are particularly useful for lock free coding and with a high enough branching factor could be not as much overhead as a linked list or jus
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by socksy 5y ago
No end-to-end encryption does not mean no encryption. For example, Telegram does not use end-to-end encryption by default, however they encrypt all the messages with keys distributed across their servers. Anyone inspecting the packets won&#
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by socksy 5y ago
On Android I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurenceda... with https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.laurencedawson.redd... which IMO is the best mobile reddit
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Reddit now forces you to use new.reddit.com to dismiss the cookie banner(twitter.com)
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by socksy 5y ago
It certainly was a thing working for Telefónica in Germany. We needed to get separate permission to be allowed to do work/volunteering outside of the main role, which was conditional on you being able to complete the main task. I heard
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by socksy 6y ago
Yes. He was diagnosed with lung cancer and chose euthanasia. http://hintjens.com/blog:115 and https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592
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by socksy 6y ago
Communicating with the majority of my friends through telegram, and having access to the records of all of our conversations, has revolutionised my usage with computing. I use the "saved messages" (previously messaging yourself) t
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by socksy 6y ago
Deliveroo pulled out of Germany when it was decided that their drivers weren't self employed. In their absence, we were left with a terrible service called Lieferando ("deliver-ando"), which were not more expensive, but have
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by socksy 6y ago
keepass2android supports autofill across apps and is something of of a lifesaver for me, but I can't speak for iOS apps
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by socksy 6y ago
Atomoxetine (strattera) is a non-stimulant ADHD medication that might be tolerated better. Additionally, I noticed that stimulants don't upset my stomach nearly as much if you take it with a substantial meal.
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by socksy 6y ago
It wouldn't have even occurred to me to switch over to private if I became self employed, just assumed you would price the employer contribution into the day rate. Is switching to private widely expected? I would've thought that G
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by socksy 6y ago
I prefer the German "Hamsterkauf" (lit. "hamster buying") which feels a lot less judgy
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by socksy 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland%E2%80%93Un...
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by socksy 6y ago
Doesn't the Dell XPS meet those expectations? The 15" version can be specced to an 8 core i9 with around 290ppi and an 87Whr battery, and if you're happy with a 6 core i7 you can get a 13" with around 330ppi (same resolu
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by socksy 6y ago
But that was rather the point: "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'Git'" https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Why_the_.27G
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by socksy 6y ago
Curious, what exactly would you be expecting from a presentation software API? Like a webplayer style player.next() and player.back(), or a way to make embedded media inside?

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