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by sshine 2y ago
> <Every chatbot> can make mistakes. Please double-check responses. (~ at the bottom of every commercial LLM app) You can write C/C++ using a chatbot if you could without. If you couldn't without, how would you find the
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by sshine 2y ago
Same. Such a simple life writing text-only event handlers.
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by sshine 2y ago
tl;dr: Meta is ending its direct peering relationship with Deutsche Telekom due to the company's actions that undermine net neutrality and put the open internet at risk. Deutsche Telekom is using its market power to potentially restric
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by sshine 2y ago
I installed Opal ( https://www.opal.so/ ) a week ago, and my daily average phone screen time has fallen by ~53% When I installed the app, it told me that I'd be wasting another X years of my life on the screen. If I limi
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by sshine 2y ago
I suspect Linode's cost of operation is simply higher. I did some CPU and disk benchmarking of VPS'es 10+ years ago and found that vCPU effective performance varies a lot. But that does not account for the difference in cost for d
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by sshine 2y ago
Europe has by far the highest cost of electricity worldwide: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-e...
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by sshine 2y ago
My stale projects can be categorized as being ahead or behind an event horizon: I will rarely let go of an idea, but I can calculate the probability that I'll ever pick a project up again. I don't feel sorry that some things I wil
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by sshine 2y ago
> I work on a project with 4.4 million lines of code [...] It's really not all that difficult. You may be biased.
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by sshine 2y ago
> They are just milking the aging demographic It can't just be an aging demographic. Young people today use Windows. Mac has an eerie vibe to it. Linux sounds too difficult. And you want to play games.
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by sshine 2y ago
It was declining years before LLMs.
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by sshine 2y ago
I worked for the biggest job site in my country. They get thousands of doom-scrollers every day, and their revenue was ~$55M last year. Admittedly, those numbers are peanuts compared to some global SaaS providers. But they managed to work f
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by sshine 2y ago
These append-only community-driven docs were, like PHP itself, an amazing feature in 2001. The massive amount of garbage and the downvoting wasn't a thing then. They came when the Internet got populated by normies. StackOverflow stoppe
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by sshine 2y ago
"You're forgetting Rust!" ... oh wait, you're not. :-D
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by sshine 2y ago
> In many European cities, public transit is often the fastest way to get to/from the city center from an airport. Yeah, exactly. When friends or family go to the airport, I drive them. When I go to the airport, I take the metro.
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by sshine 2y ago
Yes, I've heard of them. But they were banned in my country years ago. Taxis and humans queue up against each other in the countries I've went to.
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by sshine 2y ago
What. I've never heard anything this stupid. I've only encountered the following two airport systems: 1) There's a queue of taxis and people coming out go to the first one. 2) There's a queue of people, and an airport pe
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by sshine 2y ago
> the usage of `⓿` character It gets casefolded to a 0.
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by sshine 2y ago
Yeah, that’s one type. Another is for turning soil at a small scale by hand (also called a cultivator, I think). But they all have somewhat long prongs.
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by sshine 2y ago
> theres no real incentive for this Correct. People who need the privacy can set up isolated bank accounts and legal entities. Less cryptography, your accountant will even understand.
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by sshine 2y ago
If the loan assessment criteria are objective, they can be quantified. The basic concept here is: ZKP lets you prove arbitrary statements. Instead of: Here is entire bank history, you decide. You can say: Had a fixed income above
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by sshine 2y ago
How many other UNIX commands did the Swedes adopt into their language? I know that they invented "curl". Do you tar xfz ?
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by sshine 2y ago
> we may never be 100% sure Right, but we may be 99.9999999999% sure.
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by sshine 2y ago
One place I wish there was zero knowledge proofs involved, or even any kind of cryptography, is when you perform credit assessment for loans outside your bank: an external loan provide peeks at your full bank account history to assess wheth
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by sshine 2y ago
Another demonstration of Zero-Knowledge Proofs: A paper-tech protocol for validating Sudoku solutions without revealing the solution: https://zudoku.xyz/
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by sshine 2y ago
My Chinese mother-in-law just travelled back after spending 2,5 months with us in Europe. Of course there's a bit of tension living with another grown-up who has different rules. But it was transformative, my wife cried when she went b
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by sshine 2y ago
LLMs hallucinating, lying and doubling down on things that are wrong seem very human.
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by sshine 2y ago
The Bastard Operator From Hell https://bofh.bjash.com/
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by sshine 2y ago
I know of one channel with at least two people below the age of 20! (Admittedly, 20! is a big number.)
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by sshine 2y ago
Really, it's all just wrappers around the strong nuclear force.
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by sshine 2y ago
The asymmetry between questioners and answerers might be increasing. I get quality answers on IRC. Most other places seem flooded.

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