wsgeorge

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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> show up somewhere and seize a bunch of land and declare it's part of their nation This is the root of your confusion. A bunch of people didn't just "show up somewhere and seize a bunch of land". This bunch of people
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> No functional website You surely don't mean web.telegram.com isn't functional?
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Yes. Maybe a little too much. Poorly design URLs are my pet peeve.
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Tell HN: Concord Music Publishing claims copyright on a 328 year old song
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Funny how your comment reads like my iPhone user experience (minus the "pay your access fee today!") I personally do not have a problem with these serfdoms, as they meet a real, functional need. It does suck that there aren't
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I really love how the news is in a plaintext file. Just the content and nothing else.
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Why wasn't there a Turkish Missile Crisis? [video](youtube.com)
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> but few complained about bails out from tax payers. I'm sure there were a lot of complaints...
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> Yet they cannot refuse to do business with us... I obviously know little about business and "trade", because this strikes me as odd. I mean, I get that it's contractual, but how could a well-written contract not anticipa
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> greenfielding just-JavaScript, though There are still some frameworks that let you write fancy front-ends without a build-step and associated tooling. And there's people like me who prefer those since they meet our needs.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> Anyway, containers are nice, but they're not a replacement for profiles. This, so much. Anytime I've brought up profiles on Firefox, I'm told about this alternative that isn't a replacement for the feature. Safari i
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> It's just hidden behind a clunky UX. That's part of the "problem" with Firefox's support of profiles. It feels more like an afterthought and less like a primary use case the product wants to surface. To approxi
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
TBF YouTube has gotten better (see sibling comment), but Google Meet is really what matters here for me. There's also offline mode in Google Docs, which I use regularly because I'm not guaranteed a good-enough connection wherever
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but this is a big deal IMO. We're here because Chrome has been the better product for a long time. Firefox not doing things people want well enough will hurt its adoption, which will impact i
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Some Google services I regularly depend on (like YouTube and Google Meet) don't work as well on Firefox as they do on Chrome, in ways that actually matter. Besides that I think most websites work fine.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> the increasingly thick environment stack (the Expo layer, RN layer, UI framework layer, OS layer). This is at the core of my difficulty with cross-platform frameworks for Android and iOS. Dealing with the first-party stack presents eno
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Pretty much checks out with my own experience of successful entrepreneurs and profiles of people society/history has celebrated as "Great Men". I'm at the point where I'm convinced the world of business selects for
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Defaults from the Huggingface repo, just copy-pasted. So, iirc 50 steps and the image is 512x512. Edit: confirmed. > Prompt length shouldn't influence creation time... Yeah, checks out with my experience too. Longer prompts were tru
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
On an Apple M1 with 16gig RAM, without using Pytorch compiled to take advantage of Metal, it could take 12mins to generate an image with a tweet-length prompt. With Metal, it takes less than 60 seconds.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Day names are common across ethnic groups within Ghana, and different southern ethnic groups have similar sounding names. For instance, Kojo, Kwadwo, Jojo, Cudjo are all Monday names across different southern languages. Yaw, Yao, Yawa are T
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Is Xbox doing poorly? I don't know much about the console space, but it looks to me like a continued success
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I think NeXT [0] was a pretty good one. Of course, the "better" you have in your question means different things to different people, so there's lots of ways a good acquisition will also be bad. [0] https://en.wikip
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Llama.cpp now has a simple web UI for chat(github.com)
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
The "latest phones" still include a discontinued Xiaomi and Nokia devices from 2020. The Wikipedia article[0] is more up-to-date. That article lists no new phones in 2023. The program might be dead. [0] https://en.wikip
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The Android One website hasn't been updated in 3 years(android.com)
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How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster (2017) [video](youtube.com)
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I just started this after finishing The History of Rome. :)
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I'll be excited to see an sd.cpp in the near future. Gerganov's projects have been a boon for inference accessibility. I really admire their spirit: fast inference "with no extra dependencies".
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
+1 for a rather honest AI service ;) I'll take the bait and ask: how do you plan to navigate ethical and legal issues around AI generated NSFW content?
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
To my best understanding of what a code snippet manager will do, no. What value would it offer?

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