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by turnsout 3y ago
Uber and Lyft have gotten so expensive I've started hailing cabs from the Curb app, which is only marginally functional.
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by turnsout 3y ago
That's interesting about Debian and dist-upgrade. I think I had assumed everyone had consolidated on Ubuntu, but every Ubuntu installation I've run has been a short-lived VPS, so I haven't had to think too much about long-ter
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by turnsout 3y ago
I've been running a FreeBSD server (web, email, DNS) for 20 years at this point, so consider this a long-term review. It just works! Specifically, keeping the system running and up-to-date is very low-maintenance. On the software side,
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by turnsout 3y ago
Is this a local model that’s going to destroy my battery life, or a cloud model that’s going to steal all my data? Kidding… sort of.
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by turnsout 3y ago
Hope isn't a strategy
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by turnsout 3y ago
First line of the article: > The United States is in big trouble militarily. That’s the upshot of a new RAND publication… So the defense think tank says we need to spend more on defense. Stop the presses! Listen, if China literally att
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by turnsout 3y ago
The problem is calculating the number of display characters… It’s surprisingly difficult.
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by turnsout 3y ago
Sorry, I was too terse—I was just observing that it was a combination of policy and UX that combined to create a good CX. You’re right that it’s not necessarily the chat UX that led to the good experience, but it also was not purely policy.
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by turnsout 3y ago
That would be better CX—chat UIs don’t have any inherent advantage when it comes to the quality of the experience. It’s all contextual.
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by turnsout 3y ago
It's good CX (Customer Experience). You have to look at the holistic experience.
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by turnsout 3y ago
Right but in non-fictional humans, strength and stature are indeed encoded into genes.
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by turnsout 3y ago
Care to explain that? The fact that he's a superhero aside, how is his attractiveness unrelated to heritable traits? In this case, he's strong, good looking and charming, all of which have clear genetic and probably even epigeneti
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by turnsout 3y ago
It just strikes me as a completely inanely self-evident observation. If evolution is an ongoing optimization for fitness and survival, success in procreation is a blindingly obvious component of that equation. The more interesting question
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by turnsout 3y ago
Right, but the way that females judge "the ability to create sexually attractive offspring" is the sexual attractiveness of their partner. So it's completely tautological.
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by turnsout 3y ago
So, it turns out that what females find sexually attractive is… sexual attractiveness? Someone phone the Nobel committee!
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by turnsout 3y ago
It is if you're selling sheep milk and you don't want to lose your flock.
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by turnsout 3y ago
If you have plenty of space but you're tight on money, it's an ingenious solution.
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by turnsout 3y ago
At this point, HTML+CSS is so full-featured, I think we need to question why a framework is necessary at all. Especially if you don’t need JS.
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by turnsout 3y ago
I'm 100% with you, and I think you're setting an example in your community that has a positive ripple effect you could never calculate. It's also fulfilling in its own right. At the same time, we need to acknowledge that DIY
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by turnsout 3y ago
Fair enough—I was too lazy to click through to Sematic's site and see that it is indeed FOSS!
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by turnsout 3y ago
I'm fine with the Huggingface piece, but this joins the long list of blog posts that make it to the top of hn with the message "Easily fine tune an LLM! …by tying yourself to our proprietary platform"
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by turnsout 3y ago
That's an entitled perspective… not everyone has the ability to easily walk away. There are people who have high medical expenses and can't afford a break in coverage, people on H-1B visas, people who are in roles which are not in
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by turnsout 3y ago
The thing is, plenty of people were hired with the expectation that they would stay remote. Sure, some of those people will be happy to go into the office. Others will most certainly not be happy about the "choice" of whether to m
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by turnsout 3y ago
Can you imagine being asked to move to a different city, go into the office, only to use Chime all day? The only people who will agree are the ones who sadly have no alternative.
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by turnsout 3y ago
There's always WebXR…
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by turnsout 3y ago
Say more… I read the link, and it seems to be advocating for replacing specific business logic with a generic code interpreter?
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by turnsout 3y ago
It's just wild to me how fast they turned this around! Llama 2 was released 3 days ago, and we're already seeing fine-tuned variants.
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by turnsout 3y ago
FreeWilly 2 is based on Llama 2
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by turnsout 3y ago
Just want to throw this out there: in a business context, "secret sauce" can also just mean experience, a bunch of incumbent advantages, and successful ways of working. For example, people often talk about Apple's secret sauc
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by turnsout 3y ago
Yeah, it feels like Swift with lifetimes (which are coming to Swift). Other than the abstract benefits of mutable value semantics for generics, I wonder what would make one reach for Val over Swift (or going the other way, Rust)

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