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1y ago
Please make a washing machine like that
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1y ago
They become rich because 1/ they got marbles to start with 2/ they like marbles when marbles are a thing 3/ they figure out a trick nobody has figured out (and it's just a trick, not much genius in there) 4/ they wa
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2y ago
In the shop in my town, they sell televisions. Led ones, oled ones, big screen, the usual stuff. They have about 50 models. All have energy labels C or worse. No A, no A+, no B... Once there was an A one but the picture quality was horrible
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2y ago
really nice
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2y ago
I thought it was muuuuuch more than that! I've learned something otday!
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2y ago
Funny, I fell into that one too... I guess "guidance" has a few letters in common with "gradient" so our brain triggers... See: https://medium.com/@stephenwatathi/the-brains-power-to-read-...
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2y ago
I cook a lot. This not how I read a recipe. I watch two things: - what task can be parallelized ? (got to boil some water? cook onions ? then begin with these, they take time) - what techniques are used ? Most recipes are based on technique
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2y ago
I usually go with python when my .sh/.bat script files gets too complex. So I guess we wento down the same road. Like ruby (I guess), python is very pleasant to work with for small scripts and it's portable between linux and windo
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2y ago
I think the point was: Trump is just a symptom, not the disease...
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"they found that GPT‑4.1 excels at both precision..." They didn't say it is better than Claude at precision etc. Just that it excels. Unfortunately, AI has still not concluded that manipulations by the marketing dept is a pla
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2y ago
I certainly don't need planes, war stuff nor ships and machinery. The food I eat mostly come from my country, my car is made in countries close to mine and so are the materials used to repair my house... And my gaz is Poutine's. S
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2y ago
> It is extremely inefficient for every country to specialize in everything equally. Except when you have to produce gazillions of CO2 to move things around or when the "efficient" countries are those who don't look at the
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2y ago
Many people accept that swimming in polluted area is a bad idea and that they will have either to move to another pond or just not swim at all. So why can't we just accept that eating (way) too much meat is not good...
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2y ago
How routine is routine ? I'm sure the agro industry will have a very broad interpretation of that...
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2y ago
This list is so big and goes so much in the past...
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> Remark. As a result of the educational trend away from intellectual discipline, the last decades have shown in the Western world a sharp decline of people's mastery of their own language: many people that by the standards of a pre
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2y ago
My home desktop PC, which I use daily for many things (but not dev since rust is way too slow), is 14 years old. For rust dev I connect to a virtual machine somewhere else. Thanks to Linux I have kept my memory need low (8GB IIRC)
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2y ago
yeah, definitely. I do GPU coding at work and that's hell. Optimizing the memory saturation and cpu saturation is maddening and always comes with surprises. (but when it works, it's so gratifying! the GPU go very very fast)
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2y ago
I'm not familiar with all of this but is there then a tool to remove the blur ?
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2y ago
I certainly consider myself European. And I don't need the concept of "united states of Europe" to feel that way. That's irrelevant.
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2y ago
FTA: > I have never seen an LLM do this Interestingly, many of the program we use provide a finite set of functionality that we can discover over time. But LLM's are different: you can't explore them because the input space is
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2y ago
Will they ever upgrade their PinePhone offer ? I'm desperately looking for a linux smartphone at a mid-price (500EUR for a phone is way too much). I can definitevely live with sub optimal performance, not-so-good camera, etc.
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2y ago
especially in the time of 0-day warez. Interestingly, many thrived on the ShareWare business models (including John Carmack IIRC)
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2y ago
How compatible is it with the current code bases developped under proprietary compilers ?
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Computronium
(fr.wikipedia.org)
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@work high level modelling of hydraulics constructions (not too much math, just a bit) @hobby AccurApple my Apple 2e emulator
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2y ago
I use qalculate, it behaves well enough for my needs. https://qalculate.github.io/
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Building trust is much more than routine, it's about being predictable yourself. It's also about being supportive of the kids when they want to do something yopuu thik is so-so, also about letting them fail (and help them to recov
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I doubt so. Open ended questions like "generating ideas" allows the interviewer to judge what your level of reasoning is. If you propose "add more GPU" or "let's tweak the transformer parameters with some quant
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Because ADA is maintained by big actors who think ADA is for "mission critical" stuff and not our lowly web apps. Problem is, web is the new BASIC and many devs will start there and they will see rust first. And where's that
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