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by ur-whale 1y ago
I wish they had "Tranquility" in there, this was a really nice game on Irix.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Surprised to see CMU (Carnegie-Mellon) so low in the rankings.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> For anyone who's dealt with a hoarder house that's not the reducto ad absurdum you think it is, just the tragic reality. As a matter of fact, hoarder house is quite an accurate description of the US government.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Was this on an electric or a gas stove? Now if we're cooking with gas (as the east Germans use to say in the 80's), that generates quite some PM2.5 in an of itself. Also, anyone cooking eggs without getting to the Maillard reactio
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by ur-whale 1y ago
5B is a fairly tiny stake (Intel's market cap is around 120B), other than the "we're now working together" signal, why is this news?
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by ur-whale 1y ago
What are the specs in term of CPU speed? So far, all the RISC-V SBC's I've tried were woefully under-powered compared to a comparably-priced Raspi.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> it’s a company that I feel has lost its alignment with me and other long-time Apple users and customers. I have been forced, for professional reasons, to use Apple laptops for close to 10 years of my professional career, about half of
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by ur-whale 1y ago
I used to get in the kind of frustrated situations where, like the author, I spent two days reverse-engineering something I had just bought just to get it to do what I thought it obviously would when I bought it. IOT things like the thing h
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> you are evaluating multiple ones (and that task is much quicker). Of course the latter. And of course I ask the AI to help me select a libray/module/project/whatever that provides what I need. And I ask the AI to classif
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by ur-whale 1y ago
I do agree with many points in the article, but not about the last part, namely that coding with AI assist makes you slower. Personal experience (data points count = 1), as a somewhat seasoned dev (>30yrs of coding), it makes me WAY fa
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by ur-whale 1y ago
I agree that most natural languages are a very poor tool to write code specification in. Specifically, natural language is: - ambiguous (LLMs solve this to a certain extent) - extremely verbose - doesn't lend itself well t
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Funny how the map shows a clear north/south divide (modulo some nordics). Looks like latin cultures don't really care about being spied on by they governments.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Would have been nice to mention that it's one thing that Julia seem to have gotten right.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
https://maps.yandex.com
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Whomever thought AI's massaging the user's ego at each exchange was a good idea ... well ... thought wrong. It is so horribly irritating I have explicit instruction against it in my default prompt, along with my code formatting pr
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by ur-whale 1y ago
At the risk of asking a naive question ... why would anyone still do traditional NLP today?
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Looks like the list of reasons to avoid window like the plague is growing longer every day.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> For understandable reasons There is no such thing as "understandable" when it comes to censorship, especially when it comes to Nazi imagery, and especially in Germany. If there's actually one place where it needs to
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> A crucial component of democracy is free and accurate media. What does "accurate media" mean? The fact is, there strictly isn't and strictly never was any such thing. In fact, it is absolutely impossible to attain someth
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> The RT ban is about RT being a state owned propaganda network owned by the government thats waging an active war against Europe. And ... ?
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> Are you seriously crying about the biggest Russian propaganda channel being blocked The decision to classify something as propaganda should never be the role of a government, much less blocking it. But that's something that&#x27
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> bigger than one would think Why in heaven's name would anyone think that censorship is NOT super heavy-handed in Germany? Does Germany have a recent or historical track record of EVER being a liberal-minded place?
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> I’ve yet to use an LLM that can consistently provide sources that back up what it’s telling me. Mmmh, that would have been my take as well up to around end of Q1 2025. Theses days, the flagship LLM's have reduced hallucination by
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by ur-whale 1y ago
https://archive.is/tQXqC
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> eventually i go back to regular chrome I guess being given a daily colonoscopy by your browser and the results being reported to GOOG isn't high on your list of concerns then.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> feels like people keep wanting more and more from the browser. The browser is the new OS, so no wonder there.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
IMO not a very useful quiz. At most questions, my answers would have been: "all of the above" or "it depends on the context"
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by ur-whale 1y ago
https://archive.is/XiL3M
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> and GDP per capita is twice as high. And why do you think that is?
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> no need for the bitchy response. Says the man who accuses others of lack of expertise without a shred of evidence.

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