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by tyre 4mo ago
For anyone needing to do this, the answer is to convert it to an image first. Far smaller, LLMs work well with them (even in some pretty insane use cases I've seen), and, along with human review, it can be a huge productivity gain that
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At least in Gmail, downloading content (e.g. images) is disabled by default for suspicious emails. There is no way for the sender to know if it’s monitored unless this is disabled by explicit user action.
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You might be using the wrong database if that’s what you’re hoping for. Columnar databases are a separate category. It’s like saying that you’re getting worried Apple doesn’t sell washing machines.
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And the .sy boom until startups got enough heat for, you know, funding the Assad regime.
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Yes, but for context Samsung is a massive chaebol. You need to compare it to the business unit in question. It’s different to, say, Google’s vertical monopoly in advertising where that’s most of their revenue.
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silly specific: the minus sign is a separate character. The dash equivalent is the en dash (–), versus the larger em (—) and smaller hyphen (-). The en dash is also used in things like scores (3–2 Turkey), votes (the bill passed 58–42), or
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Yes, big pet peeve of the new world. Every em dash is apparently an AI trigger. Back in my day, they were a sign of great respect within my people.
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> Please do not abuse these. Reminds me of Jamie Wolf's joke about bestiality laws. Who are those for? What stops most people from bestiality is… not wanting to have sex with animals! For people who do want to, what, they won't
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by tyre 4mo ago
Could you explain this like I'm 35?
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This is a pithy internet comment, but terrible advice. Between the Chinese government and Anthropic, I know which one I'd rather send tokens to. For all of the problems of the US, for-profit corporations, data harvesting, etc. the CCP
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As someone old enough to remember the party breakdown in Congress when Obama came to office, yes, I can confirm that this is possible.
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Crypto companies were built for anonymous transfers of wealth. It's why they are perfect for money laundering and corruption. Venture backed companies are more difficult, since you would need a paper trail (equity, incorporation docume
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I don't think your average consumer has any idea how memory works, which apps are using it, or what a "reasonable" consumption is for a given task. If things don't work, they will blame the computer. Developers will chec
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Imagine you want to make a smaller model that is really good at one thing, say, driving a car. You could remove the parameters that lead it to correctly answer, "What is the powerhouse of the cell?" or, "Who was the first pre
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This was with their credit card. You're going to get demolished if you start bouncing gambling debt on a credit card. I'm guessing that at some point, probably not very long from now, credit cards are going to cut down on this. Th
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They want to expand the public's perception of who a gamer is, to make people feel more comfortable identifying as a gamer. If you included a sweaty CSGO player farming loot boxes with bloodshot eyes at 3am, that doesn't give you
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What exactly are you asking for? They clearly are expressing empathy for others’ situations. I live in a managed building that is completely soulless. I needed to extend my lease by one month before moving out. They wanted me to sign a new
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huh, that's an interesting perspective. I've never thought of it that way. This framing could explain some of the bullshit I went through with a politicking manager and a less experienced leader. Personally, I tend to assume accou
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Huge disagree, as a manager. It depends on the thing, of course. If you're rushing into a giant re-architecture by Tuesday, that's dumb. If you have some change you want to make, go for it. My default is to trust engineers based o
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You're right, fair use was the ruling. Thank you for the correction. In that case, would the implementation of a standard qualify? Feels like it would?
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Yes, and innovative writing sells well. There is room for the Da Vinci Code _and_ Lincoln in the Bardo.
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Well, it was (is?) significantly easier to use, faster, the team behind it is fantastic, and generally had enough compatibility to run the projects I needed it to. When it’s enough of a drop-in replacement, that’s more than good enough. As
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My worry is less about scholarship than the next generation of readers and authors. It is too easy to be lazy right now. Too easy to skip the difficult work of struggling with ideas. Yapping with Claude probably (?) doesn’t have the same ra
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Hot take: I think it’ll be pretty much the same as it was. If anything it will get better. You will still have gatekeepers and taste makers. Publishing houses will screen fiction for well-written and interesting fiction. Word-of-mouth, pers
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We need a SciHub for standards docs. Since APIs have been ruled incopyrightable in the US, building a library that implements the standard shouldn’t itself be illegal. This will only increase innovation.
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Have you tried a Mac? Apple silicon is fantastic, build quality is the best on the market, you're still running a unix OS, and there's a huge community of developers + companies making things work.
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going to go with "money" and a lot of BS from altman
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> It would be in the insurance companies’ interests to band together to fund the research so they can save huge amounts of money in the long term but they do not do this. Insurance companies do not want cheaper care. In the US, insurance
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Imagine buying ad space on their platforms, but instead of writing copy and providing images, you simply give it your website. Then they generate unique copy and images for each user (or hyper-targeted bucket of users), tailored to what wou
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This is pretty, but it's goals make it sound under-thought and somewhat silly. Typical "SF is coming to save the world" stuff. > Our ambitious goal is by 2031 to have a fleet of over 50,000 scanners worldwide - with a tota

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