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by thih9 2y ago
When I asked it to deconstruct "Babbage"[1] I got "Derived from Babba's place", Some others: - phonenose: The ability to detect sounds or voices through the nose - legpc: Acronym for Laptop Easy Personal Computer -
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by thih9 2y ago
We’re fine with “The big friendly giant” and the sahara desert (“desert desert”); big llm could join the family of pleonasms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonasm
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by thih9 2y ago
Dismissed, Big LLM will live on along with Big Data.
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by thih9 2y ago
All bios are short with two emojis. Is this project picking a random text from hardcoded LLM output? https://github.com/LukeDunsMoto/BioCringe/blob/4d554d2bcc772...
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by thih9 2y ago
> This site uses cookies. Not the tasty kind, just the ones that make the internet work. Deal with it? Nope, there should be a “reject non essential cookies” button as well if the site is being served in the eu. Or don’t use non essentia
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by thih9 2y ago
I don’t see “adjust colors” in mobile safari. Still, thanks, I’ll check it out on desktop later then.
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by thih9 2y ago
The “technical details”[1] section says: > Multibrot Sets: Beyond the traditional Mandelbrot set, users can explore multibrot sets by adjusting the exponent in the generating formula. > Customizable Color Schemes: Users can personaliz
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by thih9 2y ago
Still, you cannot zoom in past a limit, this becomes noticeable around 800 or 1600 iterations. E.g.: https://mandelbrot.site/?re=-0.7375916562086786&im=-0.189982...
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by thih9 2y ago
Perhaps Kasia should be offered a way to participate in core business projects, or a raise, or both. Seems only fair after such praise from colleagues and HN.
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by thih9 2y ago
> Choose an image file of your child's artwork to mint as an NFT. With a money transfer present, there’s an increased chance of scams. What would happen if e.g. adults started posting styled/AI pictures?
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by thih9 2y ago
Cool! Feedback: the concept of “lives” spoils the fun for me; I’d like to retry a level without having to replay earlier ones.
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by thih9 2y ago
Yes. Then again, there’s Banksy’s take: > People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flip
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by thih9 2y ago
Honorable mention goes to the Old Spice 2010 ad, where a lot was done in camera too, including the horse. The Man Your Man Could Smell Like: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE Pitch presentation: https://w
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by thih9 2y ago
New titles are still being produced by Taito. The corporation is a subsidiary of Square Enix since 2006, but I still find it impressive. E.g.: > Also joining Apple Arcade on April 3 are Space Invaders Infinity Gene Evolve, the newest ent
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by thih9 2y ago
Somewhat related: https://www.hyundaimotorgroup.com/story/CONT0000000000090151 (2020) > Hyundai’s World’s First Road‒Noise Active Noise Control, RANC
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by thih9 2y ago
Good for you. Like the grandparent commenter said, for others these tradeoffs might be important. E.g.: > I am disappointed with how poorly Rust's build scales, even with the incremental test-utf-8 benchmark which shouldn't be
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by thih9 2y ago
I prefer to set these kind of constraints on my device and for the hours that work for me. This way I can even pick different hours on different days or not pick hours at all and constrain the time, or do something else. Also, social media
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by thih9 2y ago
To be fair, so did everyone else. Except Pentax.
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by thih9 2y ago
Curious, did you retire or move to a different field? If the latter, what are you doing now?
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by thih9 2y ago
It’s possible to draw a heart: /KCDEOXOEDCK/ Wider: /KLCDDENOXONEDDCLK/
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by thih9 2y ago
The fact that tests are passing is not a useful metric to me - it’s easy to write low quality passing tests. I may be biased, I am working with a codebase written in copilot and I have seen tests that check if dictionary literals have the v
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by thih9 2y ago
> Increasing the yield of a crop, such as wheat, for a given area will reduce the area required to achieve the same total yield. However, increasing efficiency may make it more profitable to grow wheat and lead farmers to convert land to
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by thih9 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250116111830/https://bodydoubl...
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by thih9 2y ago
> Now, for those of you who haven’t read the Discworld series, it is basically the anti-LOTR. This seems very wrong. Discworld heroes value the power of legends, LOTR heroes live for everyday life and sillines. While different on the out
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by thih9 2y ago
I don’t think anyone ever wished for non-physical controls. I can understand them in phones, tablets or other small and generic devices, trading ergonomy for portability; the net effect on UX could be positive. But in the context of cars (i
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by thih9 2y ago
But where? What spaces? I know about wikia/fandom, discords (both as user hostile as reddit), or some ancient topical forums (neither small not thriving).
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by thih9 2y ago
The fact that she did no editing makes her photos more impressive in a lot of ways. At the same time there were other photographers with that approach, who left processing to others and/or opted for no editing; e.g.: > He believed i
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by thih9 2y ago
Agreed. Any pet owner who actually looks at their pet knows that already. E.g.: - https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/07/cats... “Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets” - http
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by thih9 2y ago
> Machine should be serving _us_ the buyers/users. Yes. But every now and then consumers get a tempting offer and trade a bit of their freedom for lower price, more comfort, more prestige, or something else. I.e. in practice buyers
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by thih9 2y ago
In practice surprisingly similar to switching between apps and tabs on modern ios + mobile Safari.

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