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Hyprland 0.40.0 update moving off wlroots(hyprland.org)
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by ssivark 2y ago
> I also find it takes a lot of mentally energy to get my head around them and makes readability harder. Why so? They take what was implicit and make it explicit, so I would expect this notation to be far easier to understand than trans
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by ssivark 2y ago
Could someone elaborate on why large TVs don’t make good monitors, and what aspects one should check for when trying to repurpose one?
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by ssivark 3y ago
A substantial fraction of households that can afford Apple devices likely owns several of them. So if Apple wants to multiply their revenue, they need to create products with wide appeal with margins (in raw numbers -- not just percentage
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by ssivark 3y ago
If that’s the case, what makes the work “creative”? (It’s possible two sets of people use the term to mean two different things)
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by ssivark 3y ago
> In contrast, when communicating with an OS or engineering a mechanical device, ambiguity is a negative and it's crucial to use language that is deterministic. Very much a historical artifact. Modern systems (LLMs, for example) can
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by ssivark 3y ago
The FAA grounding all planes Boeing planes (of this model) would be a more practical path to the same, executed through proxy collective action.
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by ssivark 3y ago
It’s less compute for the same model sizes . Rest assured that there will still be a race to scale model sizes (and data) to achieve better performance.
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by ssivark 3y ago
Not sure what you mean by Emacs needing better documentation — IME it is exemplary of particularly good documentation + introspection, integrated well with the editor.
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by ssivark 3y ago
So many words, and no answers to the obvious question — how does it compare with VS Code?
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by ssivark 3y ago
It’s weird how most comments here are dismissive of the article because content is more important than looks. But the article states just as much: > Ultimately, what your talk is about is the content. Anything visual that you add is onl
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by ssivark 3y ago
What makes you think that a neural net must necessarily be significantly better? How much better is significant? Can one actually train a large enough network on (finite) available data? Sometimes it might take god awful amounts of data+com
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by ssivark 3y ago
I’m very suspicious of some post-hoc generalization that rhymes a little too conveniently with modern fads. Nokia made great phones during the mid/late 2000s. The N9 was a piece of beauty that continued to have a more cohesive and thou
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by ssivark 3y ago
Well, but this stuff is also much more principled and much better understood (by construction) than why/how a transformer works. The price of actual understanding, and being able to make precise statements, is that the statements will
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by ssivark 3y ago
Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, etc are all retrieval services (with some rudimentary remixing capabilities thrown in, for the latter few). Some human has to actually have interesting insights and write them. Retrieval services help wi
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by ssivark 3y ago
All this stuff about warps and streaming multi-processors — is this still the best mental model for targeting modern GPUs with ML workloads? It seems cleaner to think in terms of GEMM, kernels, etc.
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by ssivark 3y ago
What would it take to let people make custom keyboards layouts for the laptop? (Given some fixed surface area on the board)
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by ssivark 3y ago
Firstly, it’s an enormous human tragedy, and I’m not justifying it. I’m trying to understand why the problem seems so widespread. > "sacrifices are required in order to industrialize." No, I’m making a different point. I’m no
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by ssivark 3y ago
> Indians are cheap and many in job roles are not qualified or care about their job. Do you think the business generates enough surplus to be able to afford the safety margins & additional expenses you’re talking about? > If I wer
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by ssivark 3y ago
How much economic surplus do you think that cable car generates? How much of that could/should be spent on insurance premiums? What payoffs would those premiums entail? What is the right balance between spending on better safety tech (
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by ssivark 3y ago
I acknowledge your concern, but also wish to point out that the emphasis/tone is slightly misdirected [fn] India certainly has a long way to go on this front. It feels very reminiscent of the US circa the gilded age roughly a century a
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by ssivark 3y ago
> I'm not sure that's justified, at all. The domains are harder to experiment in - so the standards are more fitting for their domain. Not taking sides here, but I want to point out that there is a distinction between rigor in
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by ssivark 3y ago
I was very excited about this when it launched (in alpha). How has the product matured? Also, does it now have an API for easy import/export of data into the database?
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by ssivark 3y ago
This is exactly the model of communication I want to succeed :joy: Then I have full control over all my social media activity -- posts/messages and metadata (likes, and what not) and can save them and slice and dice them however I want
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by ssivark 3y ago
Kudos on shipping your hobby project! Looks slick. And a calibre cli would definitely be appreciated -- I hate having to click five levels deep in a dozen menus :P If the "reader" and "editor" aspects are explicit non-go
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by ssivark 3y ago
It seems that you want to take this under your wing because you think that this could be a key differentiator / value provider for you. Nice to see an example in the opposite direction to the outsourcing craze.
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by ssivark 3y ago
We could try using vector search to surface better matches, or LLMs to summarize large forum threads, etc.
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by ssivark 3y ago
1. What forum did you use that turned into a lot of work? 2. What is the way around the free plan message limit? 3. What do you use Slack for?
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by ssivark 3y ago
Agreed that it's confusing. In case it helps, the concepts you're conflating are "agent-y" as an adjective (i.e. agent-like, for others) and "agency" the abstract noun for the quality of being a good agent for
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by ssivark 3y ago
Why should the federal government subsidise airlines if they want to be cheapskates risking safety & long term viability for a few bucks? I’d rather the government enforce the switch by regulation (if appropriate) and have the airline

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