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by theobeers 6y ago
And the examples of issues flagged in review that Jeff keeps highlighting—like Timnit’s alleged failure to mention recent work to reduce the environmental impact of large models—are themselves a bit worrisome. Jeff gives the impression that
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by theobeers 6y ago
That reminds me of the many local and regional newspapers in the US that are owned by Tribune Publishing, and whose websites have been inaccessible in Europe since the GDPR went into effect. You'll be met with the following disclaimer:
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by theobeers 6y ago
Setting aside the merits of this blog post, someone needs to chime in with the relevant Dickens quote: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, an
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by theobeers 6y ago
Exactly: a world full of Chromium natives. I'm torn between accepting this while waiting for the next paradigm shift, and resisting it out of a sense that someone has to.
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by theobeers 6y ago
One of my current machines is a late 2013 13-inch MBP. No problems so far with Big Sur. Of course, my anecdata are no better or worse than anyone else’s.
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by theobeers 6y ago
Hmm, I was getting a 403 error trying to access this page, apparently because I was using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1/WARP service on iOS. When I switched to 1.1.1.1 DNS only, the problem went away. Does Krebs block visitors who appear to be
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by theobeers 6y ago
It makes sense enough—I also assumed that pwd stood for "present working directory"—but the more that I think about it, "present" and "working" are almost redundant. i.e., by "working directory," I wo
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by theobeers 6y ago
That’s true. I think a lot of people learn solfège in primary school, but then it’s “use it or lose it.”
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by theobeers 6y ago
A low-tech option is to keep at hand a copy of Morgenstern and Barlow’s Dictionary of Musical Themes.[0] Listen for a central theme in the piece that’s playing, search for the sequence of notes assuming that it’s in the key of C major or mi
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by theobeers 6y ago
IMO it makes more sense to look at the rising popularity of a license like MIT, as opposed to the GPL, in terms of the acceptability of each license to different groups of individuals and institutions. What is the range of opinion regarding
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by theobeers 6y ago
This was a nice read. A line that struck me, given the forced march to insanity that we’ve been experiencing in recent years: “[Oppen] was wary of the idea that every aspect of a life should conform to a coherent political-aesthetic vision
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by theobeers 6y ago
That effect kicks in at higher sugar concentrations, e.g. a 2:1 sugar:water simple syrup, which can have some shelf stability. I don’t think soft-serve mix would be even close. You need for there to be little enough water in the solution th
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by theobeers 6y ago
This seems like a nice project. I was wondering about the backstory of the name Jami, which I associate with a great fifteenth-century Persian poet (جامی)—really one of the towering figures in the millennium-long tradition of classical Pers
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by theobeers 6y ago
Wow, nice find! I'm glad I scrolled through the YouTube comments a bit to see this note on the background of the recording in wartime Berlin: "Recorded in Berlin, June 17, 1941. This was based on an old Yiddish song 'Yossel,
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by theobeers 6y ago
Two newer developments are official support for TypeScript, and a nice VS Code extension using the language server. Those advances are what enticed me to give Svelte a try over the summer.
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by theobeers 6y ago
Parks and playgrounds both. That's been a real difference-maker for Berlin families with young children up to this point in the pandemic. I have my fingers crossed for a mild winter, but there's no way things won't get more d
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by theobeers 6y ago
I thought there would be more discussion here surrounding the recent update to Lighthouse, whereby it warns you if you're using Moment.js and suggests alternatives. There was some back-and-forth about this on Twitter the other day: ht
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by theobeers 6y ago
It sickens me how little it seems to matter to people in our mainstream discourse whether or not Assange is treated as a human being. After he was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy, and officials said he had behaved erratically there and
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by theobeers 6y ago
“The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books. Not, of course, that there is any magic about the past. People were no cleverer then than they
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by theobeers 6y ago
This was the topic (in part) and title of a Practical Engineering video just last month.[0] [0]: https://youtu.be/XKFaC5RYbEM
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by theobeers 6y ago
Magic Wormhole is good. These days I use croc,[0] which I find even better. [0]: https://github.com/schollz/croc
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by theobeers 6y ago
Ah, thanks! I was leafing through the Svelte tutorial recently, and I knew I’d read about this other project, but I couldn’t remember the name.
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by theobeers 6y ago
Thank you for this comment, and thanks to saagarjha for the blog post. I’ve had the feeling over the past year or so, that Homebrew is getting in the way of other steps that I’d like to take to secure my system. (And I’ve been confused by t
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by theobeers 6y ago
This question of usage has always been a tough one for me, since both senses are well attested and fill niches (though “would-be fact” has a stronger etymological basis). Oh well! I try to enjoy such cases of multivalence.
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by theobeers 6y ago
I was starting to worry that the author would omit one of the classic factoids on this topic: that there are more pyramids in what is now Sudan, than there are in what is now Egypt. And not by a small margin! (This is mentioned, pretty far
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by theobeers 6y ago
Wow, that’s a bummer. I used Send semi-regularly over the past year, and recommended it to colleagues. By coincidence, I haven’t needed it since early summer. How are they supposed to address the malware problem without making significant c
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by theobeers 6y ago
I just finished a two-week road trip from Berlin to the Black Forest and back (with other stops in both directions). The windshield was gunked up by the end—more than I expected, but nothing like what I remember from my childhood.
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by theobeers 6y ago
You may be thinking of this much-lampooned tweet with a photo from a Huffington Post editors’ meeting: https://twitter.com/lheron/status/733758898855940098 It looks even worse at a few years’ remove.
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by theobeers 6y ago
One of the most active figures in this debate has been a New York doctor named Cameron Kyle-Sidell. He frequently posts interesting sources on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cameronks
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by theobeers 7y ago
See this comment in an HN thread from about six months ago, where Brave developer Jonathan Sampson explains the system (as it worked at that time, at least): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20831014 For convenience, I&

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