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by vidarh 7mo ago
> One can make similar arguments about Bokmål and Sami, but people speak Sami. And I would argue that a lot more people speak "pure Bokmål" than Nynorsk. Very, very few. I used to, as a side effect of being quite asocial and re
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by vidarh 7mo ago
As a Norwegian with passable German, written Dutch feels almost like just jumbling some letters around and adding unnecessary consonants... (Spoken Dutch, though, is entirely incomprehensible to me) The language continuum around the North
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by vidarh 7mo ago
It's not that hard to make it generic. It does take a little work, but really it boils down to figuring out how to make things work with the "dumbest" model in your set.
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by vidarh 7mo ago
Unless the places of work are vetted, setting up a company to offer a job, and collect fees for offering said "jobs", would seem to be a simple way of committing fraud in that case. So either you vet the companies offering those j
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by vidarh 7mo ago
They're absolutely worth using for the right tasks. It's hard to go back to GPT4 level for everything (for me at least), but there's plenty of stuff they are smart enough for.
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by vidarh 7mo ago
The will not measure up. Notice they're comparing it to Gemma, Google's open weight model, not to Gemini, Sonnet, or GPT. That's fine - this is a tiny model. If you want something closer to the frontier models, Qwen3.6-Plus (
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by vidarh 7mo ago
The cursor overdrawing trick in part started going away before it's time thanks to patent enforcement (one of the lawsuits infamously exacerbated Commodores financial woes towards the end)... By the time the patent expired there was re
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by vidarh 7mo ago
The odd thing is that a lot of Linux software does have Dbus support, but it somehow feels like the barrier is a lot higher and buy-in a lot worse. Just throwing together ad-hoc scripts w/dbus feels like it has a higher barrier. Dataty
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by vidarh 7mo ago
Nothing springs to mind that gives a good overview without going to primary sources. It's been literal decades since I spent time reading up on a wide range of these ideologies. This Wikipedia list is reasonably comprehensive: https:&
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by vidarh 7mo ago
Indeed. It is quite fascinating how that is simultaneously a wide-spread view of the left, while at the same time the left is regularly accused of being all collectivist. Some left wing ideologies are decidedly collectivist. Some are goin
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by vidarh 7mo ago
Yeah, I saw that back in the day, and it's great, but that was too faithful. I liked the eye candy of Enlightenment, but with a nod to the nostalgia... There is still a lot of things I miss from the Amiga, but I'm acutely aware
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by vidarh 7mo ago
In '99 or so, I ran Enlightenment with Amiga-style draggable virtual desktops. As a former Amiga user, it made me very happy.
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by vidarh 7mo ago
It seems you know what I'm thinking better than me. I have categorically not argued it's invalid for you to consider these regimes communist. How, exactly, is it you imagine this is a "No true Scotsman"? What I have ar
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by vidarh 7mo ago
One of the most interesting little nuggets on this is Reagans notes on Able Archer 83, where he for the first time seems to have realised that the Soviet leaders weren't cartoon villains, but actually were just as scared of the US as t
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by vidarh 7mo ago
If you believe "real communism" can not be achieved by marxism-leninism, then that would be a conclusion. I intentionally did not make any claim like that, because that is wildly subjective and contentious. You're entirely
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by vidarh 7mo ago
> - “Never been tried” quips as a retort to, um, no one even claiming that here My emphasis. You seem intent on attacking strawmen.
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by vidarh 7mo ago
And yet you're the one here bringing that up, not me. It is irrelevant if it is "real communism" or not - it remains an objective fact that all of these regimes have derived their ideology from one very specific branch. In fa
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by vidarh 7mo ago
Strawman - at no point did I make that claim. It has no relevance to my comment.
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by vidarh 7mo ago
All "actual communist societies", have been run by marxist-leninists or regimes supporting derivations of it, which is a couple from dozens of ideologies within the umbrella. So, sure, you can generalize about those regimes. That
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by vidarh 7mo ago
It's a fascinating exercise in antrhopology to see otherwise smart people confidently discuss the mind of people most of them have had no exposure to in person. Having spoken to a variety of people across the very broad spectrum of l
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by vidarh 7mo ago
Which ISO certification matters, but the key thing people should be aware of is that the primary value of the certification to customers is that your processes are documented and that deviations are tracked, so that customers can check wh
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by vidarh 7mo ago
I wish we'd known that ahead of time... It looks like the only difference is the deposit and expiry? Which seems like it makes the tourist-only version pretty much pointless.
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by vidarh 7mo ago
> "Welcome to SUICA" tourist card (available at fewer locations) with the normal one? Quite likely.
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When we visited Tokyo last year, what stopped us from even trying was the online information we came across was unclear and suggested we could only get the physical cards at the airport and at some tourist office, and we forgot to look for
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by vidarh 7mo ago
Even the lowest density US states have most of the population in corridors or areas with sufficient density. E.g. Montana used to have passenger rail through the most densely populated Southern part of the state. That region has comparable
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by vidarh 7mo ago
We won't know that until someone has actually investigated how an LLM would do in those scenarios.
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The article is not about practical measurements at all. Doing it manually has nothing to do with it. It is explicitly about why the measured length depends on the precision you choose to measure with.
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by vidarh 7mo ago
Yeah, I mostly stopped checking hardware compatibility for Linux ~10 years ago. Every now and again there's an issue, but it's usually easy to work around, or I wait a little bit and it's resolved. When it got to the point th
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by vidarh 7mo ago
It might have been Brandis' thesis I was primarily thinking about. Of the PhD theses at EHTz on Oberon, I'm also a big fan of Michael Franz' thesis on Semantic Dictionary Encoding, but that only touched on optimization potent
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by vidarh 7mo ago
There was a couple of PhD theses at ETH Zurich in the 90s on optimizations for Oberon, as well as SSA support. I haven't looked at your language yet, but depending on how advanced your compiler is, and how similar to Oberon, they might

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