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by xenophonf 1y ago
That's right. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20wit
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by xenophonf 1y ago
It's obviously machine-generated from the linked source materials, and while I'm grateful for the bibliography, I wish I didn't have to click through a million pages to get from the blogspam to the actual content.
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by xenophonf 1y ago
I wish tcsh would get more love.
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US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam(theguardian.com)
9 points by xenophonf 1y ago|2 comments
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by xenophonf 1y ago
That's only a problem for exhibitors who value money over the inherent humanity of their exhibits. I'm amused by the idea of donating my body to science, especially to medical colleges for teaching purposes, but I would want to ma
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by xenophonf 1y ago
What is Copilot Chat but a front end to some Microsoft SaaS offering? There's nothing materially "open source" about that. All the important stuff is locked up behind the GitHub Copilot API. No one can customize the LLM de
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by xenophonf 1y ago
Assuming you selectively quoted me in good faith before asking "who is harmed", you should read the whole SEP entry on the ethics of manipulation, and then you should review the works it references. https://plato.stanfo
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by xenophonf 1y ago
I use Smart Referer to disable this, but the extension appears to be unmaintained: https://gitlab.com/smart-referrer/smart-referer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smart-ref
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by xenophonf 1y ago
It'd be a lot more accurate—not to say more honest—to say the author _estimated_ the number of all the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning. ML algorithms are stochastic; their outputs are whatever the algorithm deems the most pro
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by xenophonf 1y ago
And many more people were completely fine with the status quo ante, so they abstained from voting entirely.
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by xenophonf 1y ago
> There's not much else we can do at this point if this is the level of irrationality you're dealing with. You're giving up too easily. You can: - fundraise - boycott - divest - strike - sue - register voters - drive pe
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Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments(old.reddit.com)
248 points by xenophonf 1y ago|174 comments
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The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life(liebertpub.com)
2 points by xenophonf 1y ago|0 comments
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by xenophonf 2y ago
> you shouldn't expect government services to be in a foreign language But that's the thing about America. We don't have ein Volk . Or to put it another way, what does foreign mean to a nation like America? Lots of
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by xenophonf 2y ago
> lingua franca It's pretty hypocritical to unironically use an Italian idiom for a Mediterranean pidgin that literally means `language of the Franks`, i.e., French, in a comment supporting neo-reactionaries' attempts to shut
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by xenophonf 2y ago
That's bad practice because it hides build steps from `docker inspect`. Per https://github.com/docker-library/official-images#clarity : > Try to make the Dockerfile easy to understand/read. It may be tem
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by xenophonf 2y ago
Good point. Looking at this from the user's perspective, my concern is to limit the ability of someone with access to my computer from using a connected hardware authenticator. Maybe that physical touch activation of the authenticato
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Natural Quantization of Neural Networks(arxiv.org)
2 points by xenophonf 2y ago|0 comments
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by xenophonf 2y ago
You shouldn't use Git over HTTPS. With SSH, you can use a hardware authenticator that requires both proof of ownership (i.e., the unlock PIN) and proof of possession (i.e., physical touch) out of the box. That's technically poss
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by xenophonf 2y ago
That's unhelpful. To answer my own question—and to actually help other people with similar use cases—I read about uv's build process and dependency locking. It does not appear to be able to lock dependencies for build distributio
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by xenophonf 2y ago
> Just try it. I don't need to be told to RTFM. I was asking for advice. My attention span is my most valuable commodity, and since I'm not really surprised or slowed down by setuptools, etc., it sounds like uv probably isn
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by xenophonf 2y ago
What does uv offer over bog-standard setuptools, pip, pip-tools, and build? Right now, the only thing I really want is dependency pinning in wheels but not pyproject.yaml, so I can pip install the source and get the latest and greatest, or
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by xenophonf 2y ago
You're basically training their advertising model for them, so yay for the Algorithm, I guess.
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by xenophonf 2y ago
The documentation link is _right there_.
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by xenophonf 2y ago
That webmail screenshot made me realize how much I desperately miss threaded mail/news readers. <3 I should figure out how to make Roundcube do that.
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by xenophonf 2y ago
Even Python isn't Python. https://pyinstaller.org/ Works great. I use this instead of pipx.
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by xenophonf 2y ago
That's the magic of vertical integration! https://youtu.be/5rw4kNHNZyk
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by xenophonf 2y ago
The antonym of "luck" is "misfortune".
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by xenophonf 2y ago
Lovely. And this blog post is how I find out the Photos app mysteriously turned iCloud Photos back on. What the fuck? At least "Keep Originals" was still set.
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by xenophonf 2y ago
I remember downloading and installing one of the MCC Interim releases in 1993? 1994? before switching to Slackware. Early *BSD and Linux were certainly an adventure back then. I don't miss it.

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