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by varenc 2y ago
> “...it decided to deselect these dissertations, so that 3.2 km could be freed up for new acquisitions” Am I reading this correctly and they have 3.2 kilometers of dissertations? What an interesting unit of paper archive size, though
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by varenc 2y ago
I find sq handy when you use it to accomplish things you can't (easily) do with just raw SQL. Things like: exporting certain rows to JSON or CSV, transforming rows into nicely formatted log lines for viewing, or reading in a CSV file
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by varenc 2y ago
I love sq. It's handy for quickly performing simple operations on DBs and outputting that as CSV or JSON. Though my one wish is that the sq query language (SLQ) supported substring matching like SQL's `... LIKE "SOME_STRING%&
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by varenc 2y ago
From the tweet we also known that the phone is nearby some free public wifi which might help narrow it down too!
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by varenc 2y ago
Shifting public sentiment seems a worthy goal, but this particular comment ("OpenAI?? more like ClosedAI amirite") gets repeated so often I don't think its doing anything. It shows up on every mention of OpenAI but has no bea
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by varenc 2y ago
This is a tired and trite comment that appears on every mention of OpenAI but contributes little to the discussion.
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by varenc 2y ago
I too am confused by this. When using the chatgpt.com interface it seems to expose its chain-of-thought quite obviously? Or the "chain-of-thought" available from chatgpt.com isn't the real chain-of-thought? Here's an ex
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by varenc 2y ago
What’s it like having magnet in a fingertip?
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by varenc 2y ago
Your mixing up general Tor use vs Tor hidden services. With hidden services there’s not really an exit node because the traffic never exits the Tor network. Charlie could only see the machine in the final step of requesting the illegal con
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by varenc 2y ago
The core question here is w whether law enforcement actually believes, incorrectly, that the exit node operators are being intentionally unhelpful, or if they understand that due to Tor’s design the exit node operators have no valuable info
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by varenc 2y ago
Some revisions yes, but this is a big one. This discrepancy is because the initial numbers are determined based on surveys and the later revised numbers use more reliable but more slowly updated IRS reporting. (I believe)
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by varenc 2y ago
Can anyone find parts 2-4? This seems to just be part of 1!
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by varenc 2y ago
In addition to what others have said, hardware decoding comes with other drawbacks. There’s occasionally decoding inaccuracies and there’s no support for most video filters (unless you’re using `auto-copy`)
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by varenc 2y ago
Slightly related: mpv also has excellent backward playing capability! Of course video encodings aren’t optimized for this so it does some work to make the performance reasonable.
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by varenc 2y ago
I absolutely love mpv. And if you have a Mac check out IINA. It’s just a relatively thin GUI over the mpv core.
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by varenc 2y ago
Besides what others have said, I think non-tech savvy users get a huge benefit from passkeys. Imagine the people that aren’t already using password managers (probably most people). With passkeys there’s no way they can reuse or leak a pass
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by varenc 2y ago
Whoa great sleuthing! Also fun to see Apple internal documentation in .md format
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by varenc 2y ago
Eh this feels like a false comparison. Memory pressure is an internal macOS system metric not some public facing self aggrandizing metric. It’s not like Apple has marketing material like “idles at 20% memory pressure!”. I’m sure it’s explic
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by varenc 2y ago
> Can this be substantiated? Sort of. Use the `memory_pressure` CLI tool. You can use it to just simulate a critical memory warning and you’ll immediately see the system free up a lot of RAM. In macOS parlance the key metric is “memory
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by varenc 2y ago
I just watched this 1950s DoD video on the heavy press program and highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ50nZU3oG8
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by varenc 2y ago
From the article: > It is estimated that about 70 percent of the energy generated worldwide ends up as waste heat. This has me a bit confused and I’m curious if someone has more insight. Doesn’t all energy generated end up as heat somewh
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by varenc 2y ago
Discord has around 200 million monthly active users. At least according to one albeit dubious source: https://backlinko.com/discord-users#discord-monthly-active-u... Seems reasonable to go with the growing platform with 100
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by varenc 2y ago
When I run that: $ doggo google.com A AAAA AFSDB APL CAA CDNSKEY CDS CERT CNAME CSYNC DHCID DLV DNAME DNSKEY DS EUI48 EUI64 HINFO HIP HTTPS IPSECKEY KEY KX LOC MX NAPTR NS NSEC NSEC3 NSEC3PARAM OPENPGPKEY RRSIG RP SIG SMIMEA SOA SRV SS
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by varenc 2y ago
I love using ipinfo.com for the extra details it provides like hostname, ISP, ASN, etc. $ curl ipinfo.io/json or you can look up these details for any other IP: $ curl ipinfo.io/18.18.18.18
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by varenc 2y ago
Agreed that it still seems decently hard to find if you aren't looking for it. Though the tone of the blog post made a lot more sense to me when I saw the over-top-top title of the article[0] it's responding to: 'Analysis of
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by varenc 2y ago
I always read up on how the local transit system works when I visit a new place. But that’s never adequately prepared me to smoothly use a public bus like a local would the very first time. Some transit systems are just inherently more conf
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by varenc 2y ago
The user experience seems superior with an NFC chip like this. It’s easier and more reliable for the user to tap a card than scan a bar code. It’s also probably cheaper and simpler for the subway system to use a NFC reader for everything s
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by varenc 2y ago
I’d really like to download the entire chart as a vector graphic and print it out on a huge plotter.
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by varenc 2y ago
It appears to be entirely closed source at the moment. This is just the announcement of development of in-house tech. Nothing public yet that could even be licensed.
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by varenc 2y ago
I always thought there was another reason for VCs encouraging founders to sell shares: giving them a taste of wealth. If you're a founder that sold 2M in stock a year ago and a 200M acquisition offer comes along, you'd be less te

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