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by thih9 1y ago
> the only laundry-related AI you can hope for, is a cloud connected smart speaker telling you it can't wash with unapproved third party detergent pods This seems unnecessarily fatalist. Laundry folding machines exist[1] and there w
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by thih9 1y ago
Not so fast, if you can do `:` (i.e. enter command-line mode) then you can do plain `:q!` - no Esc or Ctrl needed. How I understood the original problem is that you're in vim, you started editing text (insert mode) and now want to exit
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by thih9 1y ago
I don’t think that’s productive. Best case response that I can imagine is piracy opponents pushing for some legislation mandating fonts with DRM. Air quotes - “it’s obviously the fault of the person who cloned the font and the general publi
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by thih9 1y ago
Easy, use Ctrl-[ instead! It’s no different than pressing Esc, at least in terminal. > So even today, on Unix-like systems, applications running in a terminal emulator receive the character Ctrl-I when the user presses the Tab key, the c
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by thih9 1y ago
I’d be fine with missing ctrl and esc, I actually don’t use them[1]. But I couldn’t work without any modifier keys next to space (cmd, opt), that’s an unexpected dealbreaker for me. [1]: I remap ctrl to capslock and use ctrl+[ in place of e
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by thih9 1y ago
How I understood it, “form” here means that a habit has been formed. As in: “Habits aren’t formed in 21 days“, just like “Rome wasn’t built in one day”.
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by thih9 1y ago
> Now my bike has a button, you press it and the light turns on. It's like magic how simple it is! I recall no situations where I preferred an app as opposed to a regular hardware button like this.
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by thih9 2y ago
Interesting. I’m guessing this is “top 1%” based on some test or within some platform; and the name was omitted. E.g. he is a board member at Metaculous, an online forecasting platform. Also: > On his free time, Peter makes money in pred
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by thih9 2y ago
I suppose Tolkien’s work would be an exception, especially at the time. Typesetter seeing a made up word would correct it - and for most books it would have been the right choice.
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by thih9 2y ago
> LLMs, however, do not give this choice, and tend to encourage immediate exploitation instead. Users may explore if the first solution does not work, but the first choice is always to exploit. You can ask the llm to generate a number of
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by thih9 2y ago
> It's the equivalent of fixing a spelling error in a novel, I was surprised to learn that this is a thing and has been for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible
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by thih9 2y ago
Not doing taxes is a plus for corvids in my book. Seriously, you picked one of the least impressive human activities. Makes me think about my potential reincarnation choices. Crows fly, mate for life and are considered positive for the ecos
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by thih9 2y ago
Adding the text “it’s a financial management app” (or whatever description is more accurate) would make it clearer for me.
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by thih9 2y ago
Does it have only one set of photos per day?
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by thih9 2y ago
> music, which is supposed to flow with soft, pleasant and melodious tunes and beats… This is very subjective. And as you earlier say, e.g. military band music is supposed to do the opposite. > …has turned into a cacophony of loud sho
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by thih9 2y ago
> (…) the meaning of the name Good Friday can be understood as historically meaning ‘holy’. The use of ‘good’ denotes that this is a day of religious observance (…)
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by thih9 2y ago
I wouldn’t present it as a fact. Note that even the article is uncertain how much of that was urban legend or moral panic - perhaps fueled by comments like the parent comment. > “This elaboration of claims resulted in belief in a poison
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by thih9 2y ago
Hello, land of the resigned.
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by thih9 2y ago
If there isn’t, an AI could write it: https://github.com/lechmazur/writing?tab=readme-ov-file
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by thih9 2y ago
Yrff cebfpvhggb, zber cnezvtvnab. ROT13[1] encoded tasteless comment, apologies everyone, decode at your own risk. [1]: https://cryptii.com/pipes/rot13-decoder
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by thih9 2y ago
After reading the title I was expecting a "pick two". From my anecdotal experience haskell is usually far from simple, but other configurations are possible too.
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by thih9 2y ago
> zoom.com is an audio equipment manufacturer False, the audio equipment manufacturer uses: https://zoomcorp.com/ The https://zoom.com domain shows content from the video chat platform.
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by thih9 2y ago
The information is there, although you need to follow a link: > Potter's body was (…) sliced into 27,000 slices in 63-μm increments, individually scanned during a period of 60 working days. Because the technology used in the Visible
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by thih9 2y ago
An AI trained on all Gmail user data, including business accounts and their attachments, would cause chaos of unprecedented levels. Then again, with DOGE accessing classified government data and DOGE's links to xAI, we may have a chanc
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by thih9 2y ago
Wikipedia has more details about the project and the donors, and high quality photos (warning, human cadaver cryosections): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Human_Project
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by thih9 2y ago
I don't use X/Twitter - does anyone have an example of a viral tweet like this?
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by thih9 2y ago
Support quality depends on how much the company wants to keep that particular user. There are companies with better support for cheaper products and companies with worse support for more expensive products.
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by thih9 2y ago
> Don't use AI. Actually care. I agree with this. Also, whenever I care about code, I don’t use AI. So I very rarely use AI assistants for coding. I guess this is why Cursor is interested in making AI assistants popular everywhere,
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by thih9 2y ago
I can’t see any long term benefits for the US. It looks like the current administration is fine with chaos and disruption on an unprecedented scale.
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by thih9 2y ago
Not really, or at least not permanently; uniform distribution is mentioned in a github changelog, perhaps it’s an upcoming feature: > 0.4.0 > BRAKING: x~y (read: range from x to y) now means "flat distribution from x to y".

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