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by specproc 9mo ago
I think it's just WebDAV, used to be at least.
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by specproc 9mo ago
The article tells us as much about coding as it does AI. The author cites Loom and a transcription service as their projects. They've just stitched together screen record and a video editor, and made a nice front end for Whisper. Not d
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by specproc 9mo ago
Injected plastic. Resin occasionally, but it's premium and GW have pretty much discontinued it. There's definitely a quality component, which will be part design and part manufacture. GW minis are substantially better quality than
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by specproc 9mo ago
The near-monopoly comes from network effect. There are plenty of other games, I'm more of a painter and have models from a load of them, but I've only ever played GW games as that's what my friends play. I can't think of
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by specproc 9mo ago
Their success is down to a bunch of factors: near monopoly position in their niche, total vertical integration, obsession with design and marketing, and I think crucially, having the kids who grew up playing coming into a high-spending age
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by specproc 9mo ago
The problem with tech is that there's absolutely zero accountability. Marketing is, to some extent at least, regulated. There's so little consumer protection in the tech industry, it's a joke. We've got GDPR (in Europe)
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by specproc 9mo ago
And getting used to not having European customers.
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by specproc 9mo ago
Or, she could sit down and think really hard about what she needs, come up with a neat technical solution, and share her thinking with a community that loves this stuff. Glad she didn't go shopping.
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by specproc 9mo ago
Heh, did I mention that peace degree was a loooooong time ago. Totally appreciate the correction. I remember reading an argument along those lines at the time that resonated. Perhaps not the Black Panthers? Or am I just totally wrong here a
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by specproc 9mo ago
I have an undergraduate degree in Peace Studies, and have spent extensive time in and around conflict or post-conflict zones. Violence, particularly civil war, is utterly destructive to a society, completely tears apart the social fabric an
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by specproc 9mo ago
I used to fly a lot of Turkish, and their one's laughably bad. If anyone here works for Turkish Airlines, get yourself a better Chess bot.
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by specproc 9mo ago
Ah, it's probably because they're asking for bomb-making instructions. I can see low-resource language + guard-rail running into issues.
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by specproc 9mo ago
Interesting. I've gotten really good mileage with Georgian and ChatGPT, which I'm aware is apples and oranges. There should be a larger Armenian corpus out there. Do any other languages cause this issue? Translation is a real kill
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by specproc 9mo ago
I've been walking seriously for about a decade now. I've got a dog, so it's mandatory, and my last two locations have been hilly so I'd say I'm doing "good" walks. I feel great for it, and I'm definit
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by specproc 9mo ago
Methadone is available in the UK, on the NHS. I know at least one person who has been on it for decades. https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/methadone/
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by specproc 9mo ago
God yeah. So much healthier and happier in my forties than my thirties, and it's all down to my executive assistant.
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by specproc 9mo ago
Not at all. We, as European governments, block pirate sites and Russia Today. We should similarly ban the social media of what is clearly a hostile foreign power.
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by specproc 9mo ago
The author appears to be an academic in the social sciences, giving things names is pretty much the game there. I liked it, anyway. Had a few things there that resonated. I doubt it will change my life, but maybe I do need to do my teeth an
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by specproc 9mo ago
Boingboing used to be brilliant, I got into Doctorow through it. Absolute trash now, so sad.
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by specproc 9mo ago
What I'm appreciating here is the quality of the _best_ human responses on SO. There are always a number of ways to solve a problem. A good SO response gives both a path forward, and an explanation why, in the context of other possible
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by specproc 9mo ago
Heh, OK, dialogue wasn't the right word. I am a better informed person by the power of internet pedantry.
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by specproc 9mo ago
Back in the late noughties, my Dad had a NAS. I had a pretty chaotic life at the time and a big stash of old pics on a hard drive I knew could die at any point. Dad offers to keep them for me. He's a sensible, stable chap. "Sure I
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by specproc 9mo ago
What I always appreciate about SO is the dialogue between commenters. LLMs give one answer, or bullet points around a theme, or just dump a load of code in your IDE. SO gives a debate, in which the finer points of an issue are thrashed out,
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by specproc 9mo ago
The core issue is that most major businesses are ultimately owned directly or indirectly abroad, largely in America, with some tapping by London-based intermediaries. Supermarkets and shopping centres, national assets (e.g., water) the stor
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by specproc 9mo ago
We're really going to get nowhere till we start executing some of these bustards.
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by specproc 10mo ago
So I'm guessing we passed HN through an LLM, looking for book mentions. A number of posts here flagging disambiguation issues, I've run into this a lot. I've been dealing with the problem using cosine distance between embeddi
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by specproc 10mo ago
Jeez, gimme a break. The US is rounding up people on the streets, the UK throwing terrorism legislation at pensioners, don't get me started on Israel. Russia is an oppressive and dangerous regime, sure, but in 2025, there's nothin
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by specproc 10mo ago
It's straight up corruption, pure and simple. The UK is also full of this crap. The officials and executives who've facilitated and profited from this robbery should be jailed.
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by specproc 10mo ago
I have also had some super weird stuff in my output (2.5-flash). I'm passing docs for bulk inference via Vertex, and a small number of returned results will include gibberish in Japanese.
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by specproc 10mo ago
I worked for non-profits my whole career, and the hiring scene is completely fucked right now. I've never, in nearly 20 years in the sector, been unemployed for more than a few months at a time. It's been a year, half my LinkedIn

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