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by tpoacher 2y ago
Obviously the title / article is clickbait. But in general I have often found great benefit in many cases in obtaining packages from source and compiling them, or downloading official binaries, even if the repository does have the late
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I had what you described. This correlated significantly with reduced sleep / increased stress at work / increased blood pressure. Eye strain and headache would come within a couple of hours. Some time ago I prioritised sleep, inne
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This is beyond silly. You could be using your phone to factcheck something that relates to the ongoing discussion. Or having a side-chat with another member, privately expressing/requesting an opinion to provide context. Or to take qui
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by tpoacher 2y ago
It's not even a good name for a cross platform tiktok network. I would have stolen a name like Transmission, or Bing instead.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Having said that, there's some very recent research to suggest that memories / neuronal weights are actually encoded directly in neuronal DNA. (this does not mean that this DNA is directly heritable, since it does not necessarily
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Except it's a video introducing the concept and trying to create buzz around it and inviting people to try it (for free), and providing a link to the page where you can do so. (at least as far as I could tell). So yes, but not really.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
And on the other side, there's companies like Theranos, where you think the world will never be the same again, until you actually try the thing they're selling. Full cigar promised, but not even close. Not saying this is the case
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Clickbait title. I have read what is linked there and it claims no such thing. At best, if you read through the notices, input data can be used to train personalised AI chatbots (running locally) IF you give your consent at the time of acti
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I don't think that link contracts anything. It just says that probability is a subset of ND but not vice versa. Which is true. But this is not the same as saying probability is not ND. Maybe I'm missing something...
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I think you're splitting hairs here. Not sure what definition or context of determinism you are using, but in most scientific fields not only is probability the de-facto example of non-determinism, but in fact the words are often used
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Thanks! If you try it and have any feedback please let me know :)
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"Yo dawg I heard you like pdfs so I put a pdf reader into your pdfs so that you can pdf while you pdf".
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Given other comments on this thread regarding large densities of mosquitoes, this might actually make sense if large amounts of insecticides are used in the region.
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indeed; something like an h5-index would be interesting to see.
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I'm on linux but I also download from the website to get the latest updates; the distro repo versions are typically quite outdated. In theory, the downloadable version lets you know when there's an update. In practice I'm usi
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except there's still ads.
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You may have been saying this but the parent comment that spurred the discussion was making the explicit assertion that "the rule of law is the only thing holding together [...] everyone's countries, and civilized society in g
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Not everyone who indirectly cares about anonymity is an activist who feels they need to go to great lengths to disguise their identity. Sometimes anonymisation is part of a process, and the ability to collect potentially deanonymizing data
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People who claim that zero / no is always followed by the plural have zero / no clues what's going on.
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Interesting, I actually didn't know this. Not a rust developer obviously. It does sound like the kind of factoid that should be super upfront though. Half the "better than c" comments I see here always seem to hint about c me
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Meanwhile, bryan lunduke blogged this today: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/massive-memory-leaks-in-syste...
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you don't like java interfaces?
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I'll second this in Java land. I much prefer reading the sources directly than javadocs. Though jshell also comes in handy.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
> After wasting precious moments of my life with an LLM that links me to the same useless documentation, I’ll finally be allowed to email a real person This too is already rapidly becoming utopia-land.
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There's a subtle difference between a nice template and a fully-working implementation that you then modify though. (e.g. in that they were designed with different goals in mind, so the former is likely to have stopped at the point whe
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> However, at the point of design, this suggests a tool design (or tool application) that is flawed: the tool (or system) is too complicated (or annoying) to use from scratch. As someone who teaches and sees college-level students ask ch
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C is simple in the same way Conway's Game of Life is simple. That's not to say you can't create interesting monstrocities out of it!
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I found it useful to have them mentioned, since people new to this topic (or, e.g., Haskell) tend to bump onto monoids when they first try to understand monads. A 'handwavy' association that somewhat makes sense and allows you to
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Very nice article, thank you. One of the clearest, most relatable definitions of what a monoid actually is, why you should care if at all, and how it relates to monads at the end. Great! Might have been nice to add a footnote on what an &qu
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There's a good chance that's not what people mean by this term though. It's probably used in the (now) classic sense as defined by M. Feathers in his "Working with legacy code" book. Code that is old but otherwise a

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