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by swiftcoder 17d ago
This is pure genius. No notes
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
I've hit this too, but you can just add "in English" to steer it
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
If they can keep up this cadence of Flash leap-frogging the previous Pro, we're in for a good time
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
> it means you don’t accrue or worry about a balance The flip side of this, is that you don't have a visible balance, so you have to calibrate what is an "acceptable" number of vacation days against what your coworkers tak
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
That's fair, the books portray it as a quiet withdrawal from humanity, rather than a war with humanity
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
> but there's no robot war in Asimov's foundation iirc, the apple screenwriters made it up There isn't in the early Foundation novels, but Azimov spent much of the later part of his career combining/retconning all of
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
Even pretty dumb models are useful for running subtasks (especially at this sort of speed). Note that in the coding section they only mention using it as a subagent for a smarter model
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
> It's relatively common to get 4+ weeks paid in GOOD tech jobs in the US I didn't have that much at either Amazon or Meta.
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
It was certainly an interesting way to squander much of the good will generated by being a wikipedia founder. On the other hand, fandom made him rich, so it's all swings and roundabouts
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
The average desktop has an anaemic integrated GPU - so it sort of depends how one defines "desktop-class"
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
> (The second-largest problem -- the smell -- is a different issue entirely. It usually ramped up pretty well by the time the first problem was approaching being solved.) I'm guessing that's where his spending a shit ton on HVA
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
> Work a US job for 4 months, quit, take the next 8 months for holiday/vacation, and you still save more money than a European SWE. Let's assume for the sake of argument that you have a decent software job in the Bay Area, so y
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
> Usually the us position is unlimited pto Look, the year is 2026, we all understand by now that unlimited PTO is a neat trick to incentivise your employees to take as little time off as possible. > and yes you have options if laid of
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
> Last I saw job offers for mistral (engineering, Paris) it advertised 90k euros base salary. Not sure how they’re intending to compete with the US when even a top AI lab can’t afford to be competitive :-/ Does the US position come
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
> Spain is exceptionally liberal on LGBT issues while remaining more religious than some northern countries When you move here, "more religious" turns out to pretty much be window dressing. Yes, they still celebrate a bunch of
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
I'm more or less in your boat, but I also know several folks who play D&D or warhammer every weekend in big groups. It's kind of a choices-one-makes and where-one-lives deal, I think
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
Right, but the base assumption here is unfounded. Disabling WASM isn't in any way equivalent to disabling Javascript - you are just kneecapping your own browser performance, rather than closing off a large attack surface.
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
God, imagine having a big enough friend group as an adult to justify an 18-gaming-PC LAN. These folks are doing something right
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
Yep, I spent a hot minute puzzling over that sentence
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
From the article: "The result does not unite quantum mechanics and gravity, nor does it show that gravity itself is quantum". I must say, it's actually quite refreshing to read an article about a science topic that conveys th
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
> GP is talking about what indications they get a page is running arbitrary code as they load it I mean, you get the same indicators as when the page runs arbitrary Javascript on load? WASM assembly may be (slightly) harder to read than
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
Oh, for sure. It's definitely one of these things that's only surprising because our cultural context is very different
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
> The problem with "firebombs on anti-abortion pregnancy crisis centers" is obviously the firebombs I don't know, if we didn't have "anti-abortion pregnancy crisis centers", the firebombs would be kind of ir
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
> because I dislike things running in the background without my knowledge Point of order: WASM doesn't let things run in the background. To do that you need WebWorkers (a javascript feature, not WASM-specific).
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
It is mind blowing to me that the shoes-off-inside rule is so deeply entrenched that emergency responders remove their shoes at the front door
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
> The payment system has to be decoupled first, and then banks can have nothing to fear from US sanctions. I'm not sure the payment system is most banks primary concern. Being able to buy/sell US securities turns out to be a fa
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by swiftcoder 20d ago
> JavaScript asceticism is a weird trend that has just never died out, no one treats any other language this way I'm not aware of any other language that is layered on top of a perfectly serviceable user-facing content delivery synt
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by swiftcoder 20d ago
> It's during the partial/annular/penumbral phases when you use the protective eyewear Those are also by far the most interesting phases to watch. Totality itself is just kind of dark.
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by swiftcoder 20d ago
> https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20 ... This designation offers some specific examples of violence being coordinated using their systems All that demonstrates is that they operated a p
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by swiftcoder 20d ago
I mean, this sort of pales in comparison to sanctioning the International Criminal Court, no? They got away with that...

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