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by wzdd 6mo ago
Kind of like what3words, except what3words uses three words which you stand a chance of remembering, whereas this produced, for an address similar to mine, "Miniature nerves eulogize gaily inside erect lion yet able stables hiss the co
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by wzdd 7mo ago
Advertisement, noun. A notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.
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by wzdd 7mo ago
"DO NOT, EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, think of an elephant"
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by wzdd 7mo ago
“In your repo” and “in the directory you are running copilot” are two separate things.
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by wzdd 7mo ago
Fun. I did this recently with mine. There's now a discreet USB cable running down from behind it...
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by wzdd 7mo ago
If comments here were for anybody to use as they wish, then anybody could use them for whatever they liked and (thus) YC could refuse to delete them. Being okay with both of those doesn't isn't a fundamentally-opposed viewpoint. O
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by wzdd 7mo ago
They've basically taken three separate models, one for fly vision, one for the fly brain, and one for the fly body, and bolted them together Frankenstein style. They've taken the connectome, which is a map of how neurons in the br
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by wzdd 7mo ago
He doesn't really even dig into the quality of Spotify's AI DJ apart from pointing out, in a very roundabout way, that it was designed for popular music. Classical is a harder (or at least different) problem and it's why spec
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by wzdd 7mo ago
Actually, the article says the law says A or B. From the article: > In a simplified form, retailers are responsible for warranty claims and must replace or refund the defective item The choice is at the retailer’s discretion and the refu
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by wzdd 7mo ago
I'm just annoyed I lost points for specifying both "Open the peanut butter jar" and "unscrew the lid of the peanut butter jar". The first one's context! The second "more precise" version doesn't
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by wzdd 7mo ago
Online tests have very explicit grading criteria which you can be confident are applied equally. AI evaluations, as the linked video in the article points out, not only do not have explicit grading criteria but the companies promoting them
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by wzdd 7mo ago
Over the top as mandatory registration of cyclists may be, he has a point on shared bike lanes. They're awful both for cyclists and pedestrians. From a cyclist's perspective you have a narrow path filled with effectively-immobile
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by wzdd 8mo ago
Not seeming unnatural is literally what the LLM is trained to be, but it's pretty interesting how little sense they make when you dig in. Goes to how little attention we pay normally, and/or how much weight we put on text seeming
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by wzdd 8mo ago
The gotcha style "if AI is so good, why does $AI_COMPANY's software not meet my particular standard for quality" blog posts are already getting tedious.
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by wzdd 8mo ago
The fact that different parts of the file use different endiannesses really added that special Apple tech flavour.
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by wzdd 10mo ago
Currently all the comments are either talking about whether DisplayLink's emails were helpful or nit-picking the aesthetics of the site, so just to get technical... While adding pause / resume functionality certainly solves the pr
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by wzdd 10mo ago
> In fact, I think the first photo used outpainting And it looks bad. The streetlamps on the right are way too close together and the building on the left looks like a prison or something out of Dickens.
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by wzdd 10mo ago
Python got this right. Zero-based indexing combined with half-open slice notation means as a practical matter you don't see too many -1s in the code. Certainly far fewer than when I wrote a game in Löve for a gamejam, where screen co-o
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by wzdd 10mo ago
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/371713238#comment829 seems fine and only has the potential to break other Apple BT hardware, which is relatively easy to test. Nobody actually productively commenting in the threa
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by wzdd 10mo ago
The article states that Google has done the same for this extension as part of providing its "Featured" badge.
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by wzdd 10mo ago
Last Chance to See has a fun bit about listening for dolphins in the Yangtze by taking a regular microphone and putting a condom over it. Always wondered how they sealed the end.
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by wzdd 10mo ago
The wolf wasn't trying to be vegetarian, he was trying to not have the forest creatures run away from him. He achieved his goal by not eating them.
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by wzdd 10mo ago
If you're 12 years old and it's the family computer (which I suspect was a not-insignificant part of the target market), you've also got to negotiate opening it up and sticking in a circuit board, adding drivers (and thus bec
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by wzdd 11mo ago
Entertaining that the article about copyright-infringing similarity of AI-generated summaries is illustrated with a picture of an animated skeleton labelled "White Walker", which is neither what White Walkers are nor what they loo
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by wzdd 11mo ago
Looking forward to seeing the same generation of biohackers who previously CRISPRed their lactose intolerance to now CRISPR their hippocampi!
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by wzdd 1y ago
This explains a lot for me. On the server side, all my for-pay stuff is deployed using Docker. We have a single Python environment and complete control over it. We do multistage for compilation. Client side, we don't get the privilege
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by wzdd 1y ago
GP's point is that buring something down is by definition something that requires a specific physical process. It's not obvious that thinking is the same. So when someone says something like "just as a simulation of fire is
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by wzdd 1y ago
"When this feature is disabled, facial recognition will be disabled immediately and existing recognition data will be purged within 60 days". Then you don't need a creepy message. Okay, so that's 6 times a year, but what
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by wzdd 1y ago
GGP didn’t say “Antichrist” wasn’t in the bible. They said that antichrist “as a figure” wasn’t in the bible. Even the Wikipedia article on Antichrist will give you a rich overview of this discussion and general scholarly agreement that tha
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by wzdd 1y ago
Exactly. I do quite a bit of dev on larger SBCs and it's much easier and more reliable to plug in a small HDMI monitor (powered through the USB) than it is to faff around with HDMI capture dongles, let alone networked KVM. The one I bo

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