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by xarope 2y ago
it's frustrating to watch this, especially since Rust started off within Mozilla.
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by xarope 2y ago
There's a Borges story lurking here...
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by xarope 2y ago
When I tried nix, I had the most utility from doing a nix-shell -p to get different envs for trying out different versions of apps/environments for dev work. But for a full system, given universal blue and other variants (e.g. bazzite
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by xarope 2y ago
to be fair, some of the java-era software with their default toolkits do look very windows 3.1/95'ish (all that blue and teal)
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by xarope 2y ago
When waiting for lifts, instead of focusing on my phone in the vain hope of finding something useful and enlightening, I have a quick chat with those around me. Unsurprisingly, the security guards and other neighbours now say hi to me regul
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by xarope 2y ago
I think it's reasonably legit. By way of other languages as examples: - words for half-empty/full - Eskimo-Aleut has 50 (?) words for different forms of snow - tonality adds complexity; mandarin (4 tones + neutral), cantonese (9?
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by xarope 2y ago
> card with a picture of a small kitten and now I want to know which card...!
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by xarope 2y ago
I do feel like we've reached a local maxima with the current state of LLMs, and researchers need to find something completely different to hit a new maxima (whether that is the global maxima or not, we'll know when we hail our new
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by xarope 2y ago
yes, give it a try and try to get past the first few chapters. The first time I read it, the world building almost put me to sleep. Somehow I decided to give it another try on a long flight, and this time I grok'd the world building,
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by xarope 2y ago
There has always been a lot of good research happening in MS, but what we see as end-users are Recall, and the latest Bing news in Edge. Seriously, who are the PMs that allow this cr*p?!?
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by xarope 2y ago
I've done this before: Me: you've listed Java as "Expert", perhaps you could discuss about <favorite footgun in project> Interviewee: sweats for a bit, finally admits only used Java factory factory and copied lots
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by xarope 2y ago
nobody expects the spanish inquisition...
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by xarope 2y ago
reminds me of the (apocryphal) joke about James Gosling (who invented Java in 1994); interviewer in 1999: we are looking for someone with 10 years of java experience. james: I invented java 5 years ago.
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by xarope 2y ago
I remember being taught about associative caches in CPU architecture, and later on programming the same in C. So I'm not sure about the 90's and hash tables being "exotic". My first real use of hashes was in perl4; with
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by xarope 2y ago
If my trips to the cheesecake factory are any indication, then yes, too much food, and let's doggy bag the rest of the yummy.
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by xarope 2y ago
> A 65 yr old is a dependent that may be true for some, but others I have seen are highly capable at that age still. And of course in the US we have two octogenarians running to be presidents.
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by xarope 2y ago
In the same vein, aren't there also McDonald's McCafe's too? Some friends have told me the coffee ain't too bad, actually. [oops, sorry, this should have been under the thread about Starbucks Reserve]
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by xarope 2y ago
Right, tell the hordes of olympic weightlifters, boxers etc deliberately losing water to make weight, that they should lift/fight at that depleted state. They'd probably collapse after the first lift/minute or cramp like cra
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by xarope 2y ago
levels 1-7 were relatively easy (finished in < 10 minutes), but I seem to have a mental block about level 8, nothing I tried works. Probably means I need to sleep on it and try again in a week's time!
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by xarope 2y ago
I would say as counter, a child, pseudo-random training by parents and environment. Not sure what price tag to put on this, but in comparison, LLMs, how many billions, to reach what level of competency exactly?
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by xarope 2y ago
differentiating between puppy and a husky in a snowy background without being trained in millions of images?
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by xarope 2y ago
Yes, I like the turboxyz123 animation and contrast to the minimalist website (reminds me of the zen garden with a single rock). I think people forget nowadays in their haste to add the latest and greatest react animation, that too much noi
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by xarope 2y ago
The last time I bought a car I wanted to pay cash, and the sales person gave me this wet puppy look. So I negotiated a 5 year finance rate where I calculated it would be net-zero in difference to me, literally; let's say it was 50K in
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by xarope 2y ago
I was going to mention this too; I used to have my hockey skates sharpened regularly, but I don't recall ever needing ski edges sharpened. Waxed, yes. Sharpened, no.
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by xarope 2y ago
As a counterpoint, I found 3 body problem terrible to read (how many pages of trudging through deserts do I have to endure?), and the Culture series delightful.
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by xarope 2y ago
Does this mean you can export the backup and run a separate authenticator, yet both are sync'd?
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by xarope 2y ago
the way has many ways yet are not the way (I'm sure someone can put on their yoda hat and do even better!)
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by xarope 2y ago
I have resisted moving off Authy as I liked the idea of cross-platform cloud sync. That'll teach me. Any other suitable alternatives? Aegis is android only. I do run vaultwarden, but it means I need another 2FA to login to it, befo
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by xarope 2y ago
and then there's the Radler, a beer and lemonade mixture specifically created for cyclists. It's quite tasty and thirst quenching, although I'm not sure I'd use it as as peri-workout drink (post-workout? sure)!
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by xarope 2y ago
2004: Bill Gates will get rid of SPAM ... 2024: AI impersonating Bill Gates sends you SPAM

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