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by specproc 2y ago
For the Americans in the room with European customers, this all should be taken very seriously. From our perspective, the US has just declared itself hostile. No organisation their right mind would use a stack dominated by Russian companies
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by specproc 2y ago
I get it's a painting program first and foremost, but Krita's text tool is shameful. Glad to hear.
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by specproc 2y ago
My industry is currently going through something of a dotcom burst moment. I've been in the aid/non-profit sector for fifteen or so years now. Just past forty. Quit my last job in the second half of last year, was a very bad time
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by specproc 2y ago
Some more information about ngo-monitor: > NGO Monitor is a right-wing organization based in Jerusalem that reports on international NGO (non-governmental organisation) activity from a pro-Israel perspective. https://en.wikipe
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by specproc 2y ago
News apps are baffling, I've worked in the business and couldn't comprehend why colleagues needed notifications for news and socials. Can't see how it's possible to be effective whilst so reactive in a professional conte
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by specproc 2y ago
As a Georgian-speaker, the ცΓმეპfυl style made me do a little sick.
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by specproc 2y ago
I don't know about interesting, I think Niri from the parent looks like something I'd like to try. I've used i3 and moved to hyprland (because it's pretty). From the perspective I was coming from, I don't think it m
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by specproc 2y ago
I can recommend trying out any non-standard WM to anyone looking to learn more about what's going on with a Linux desktop. I learned more about Linux playing around with TWMs than any other class of software. I don't know if it&#x
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by specproc 2y ago
And Anne Applebaum no less. One hideous thing about America's (further) lurch to the right is that somehow Bush-era hawk hacks like her are lecturing us on democracy.
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by specproc 2y ago
OP notes they switch between Linux and Windows. I've not tried local LLMs on Windows, but I do loads with 'em on a three-year-old Legion running Arch. That said, whilst small local models are nice for some use-cases, I'm lean
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by specproc 2y ago
100%. I had my first obviously AI-written email the other day, and that was one of the clear tells. I was trying to figure out what made it so obvious, the dashes were one thing, the other things I noticed were: - Bits of the text were in b
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by specproc 2y ago
I've had this idea running round my head for a while now: perhaps we don't need a better internet, just a way to escape it.
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by specproc 2y ago
I don't think there's any real question as to what he's doing there. The ADL these days mainly exist to shout "antisemite" at anyone criticising Israel. Their giving him a pass was sickening, and undoubtedly related
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by specproc 2y ago
I see LLMs best used as part of a more traditional NLP pipeline. For example, an approach that does me well is clustering then using LLMs on representative docs. Tools like bertopic are great for this. I also don't see a clear cut diff
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by specproc 2y ago
A few comments in this thread pointing to network effect and switching costs. I'd like to highlight a few other factors, notably the cohort effect. I'll also highlight where the alternatives are coming from. I'm in a decade-o
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by specproc 2y ago
We did it with paper reference, and were playing _a lot_ of Magic at the time. Not something we ever did on the regular, but it was fun.
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by specproc 2y ago
I was reading something interesting on bike lanes recently. A lot of cities have sold off parking concessions to investment funds, I believe Chicago is a classic example. Such deals often include huge penalties for parking spots going out o
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by specproc 2y ago
Maybe you're joking, but my takeaway from this fantastic book was it was about lots and lots and lots of people's cumulative effort. But yeah, came here to recommend this one. Brilliantly written, a true classic.
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by specproc 2y ago
Back in the day, me and a buddy wanted to play Magic -- mainly to troll our friends -- but didn't have cards to hand. We took a pair of normal card decks, mapped some basic decks to the cards, and we did play. Good times.
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by specproc 2y ago
The FT is actually entertainingly into this sort of stuff.[0] Honestly my favourite news outlet these days, despite my being well to the left of their editorial staff. I read it mostly for their drum and bass coverage. [^0] See https:&#x2F
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by specproc 2y ago
Most of my work is data analysis, and it's the area I find LLMs are most difficult to use, and potentially dangerous! I really worry when I think of how less experienced colleagues and Excel power-users might approach a pandas/mat
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by specproc 2y ago
FYI: "Without Sky"[0] is a (IMO great) short story by Vladislav Surkov, a Kremlin insider. First thing I thought of when I saw the title, but that's probably just me. [^0] http://www.bewilderingstories.com/iss
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by specproc 2y ago
The article mentions appsheets, which I absolutely loved in my last role. Brilliant for knocking up very simple internal tooling off the back of a Google Sheet. Most importantly, there was zero fucking around with IT on it, as it was alread
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by specproc 2y ago
SF?
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by specproc 2y ago
Didn't get my farm-Brummie.
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by specproc 2y ago
In America. If you drink your coffee from coffee shops.
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by specproc 2y ago
I have a cite in the source report, and it's sad to see the top comments here being off-hand dismissals. A few things that really stood out from the study: - This is now the primary way drugs are bought and sold in Russia. Crypto and d
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by specproc 2y ago
On the API front, the endpoint that's being killed that was most interesting to me is actually their music analysis one. That was super-nerdy fun to fuck around with, I had a half-finished project on that with an old job. Totally inter
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by specproc 2y ago
Nice, thanks for the rec. I'd seen beets as well which also looks good. Spotify is definitely the lowest hanging fruit for culling on my subscription list. The API was very much part of the value proposition. I don't believe it&#x
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by specproc 2y ago
This is very sad, and another nudge away from Spotify for me. I remember the API being a motivator for signing up, and I've hacked together a few toys with it over the years. Realistically now, the only benefit Spotify provides over my

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