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by xg15 4mo ago
> (tap-select, drag-box, long-press deselect, two-finger scroll, pinch zoom) This is another "AI-ism" I noticed, mostly in coding agents - they seem to be very fond of making up new "compound nouns" (and occasionall
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by xg15 4mo ago
Books are an interesting analogy: We do have books and scrolls that are hundreds of years old. And technically, those books did "deteriorate": The colors faded, pages were damaged or went missing, the whole book became much more s
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by xg15 4mo ago
I still have a stash of SNES ROMs along with an old zSNES emulator binary. The whole collection is less than a GB in size and can be easily copied to whatever new drives I get. There is some irony that those games from 40 years ago will pro
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by xg15 4mo ago
Can we extend this to more properties, such as: Does IO, makes system calls, launches or interacts with threads, may block or has an unexpected space/time complexity?
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by xg15 4mo ago
Was missing the Iranian nuclear sites and other underground bases in this. Also, I knew Baikal lake was deep, but not how deep its sediment layer is! That looks like something out of a Lovecraft story...
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Ah, that makes more sense.
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A bit OT, but was anyone else amazed by the bad UX of that CO2 monitor in the picture? If you notice, that monitor has a "traffic light" gauge at the bottom to tell you if the current CO2 level is critical. That traffic light is c
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by xg15 4mo ago
> Under a sufficiently narrow definition of alignment, this is the most aligned model ever trained
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by xg15 4mo ago
> The research team used incredibly light data logger trackers measuring light intensity and time fitted as backpacks to the birds. No GPS?
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Yeah, the discovery seems more to me that some kind of genetic/biological guidance system must exist, because otherwise the observations would be hard to explain - but it doesn't tell how that guidance system works (though I'
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I was honestly unsure until the Netflix password bit gave it away...
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Ten years later: The woman's oven is still a niche product, but awareness of it is growing, because the quality is just so good. Professionals swear by it and the name is written only with the utmost reverence in the Italian (and other
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by xg15 4mo ago
Shouldn't the Longtermists be extremely concerned about that? I imagine each present potential child that wasn't born would lead to several trillion future potential descendants that are also prevented from existence. Spread it wi
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I found the part about the engineer's motivation interesting: > The founder offers [the engineer] 20% of the company and total freedom to build the perfect oven. The salary isn’t great, but there’s the promise: [...] And something
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Or in other words, the mask is off.
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Who unironically writes "thought leader" as their job description?
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How much do all the appeals processes cost?
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> Individuals suffering from PPS believe that shortly after being bitten by a dog, puppies are conceived within their abdomen. > Most sufferers are referred to psychiatric services, but in some instances patients fail to take anti-ra
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Do the needful!
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As a non-brit I feel discriminated against by being unable to see that amazing page.
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The website on its own would be an ok marketing stunt. But this is a real, permanent installation at one of their locations? Only in America... :)
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Out of curiosity, what actual journals (with peer review) do you read to keep up with research developments relevant for tech?
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> There are plenty of disastrous decisions in the last 70 years at the level of major policies. There are plenty of failed projects. Failures are everywhere, even the OP acknowledged that. I think the more important question is what a
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This thread from yesterday feels relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746445
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by xg15 4mo ago
> AI speeds up typing, which was never the bottleneck for an expert in a codebase they already know. For me as a dev, that's not the whole truth. Where I've found actual value in AI (and I think were some of that "percei
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by xg15 4mo ago
Was wondering the same. So coding, debugging and anything that has to do with cybersecurity or LLM development is blocked. What tasks are left in which Fable 5 is meaningfully better than the predecessors?
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It will now...
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> Everything I read these days may have been written by Claude, so I’m constantly trying to determine if what I’m reading is or isn’t I think it's even worse: There are also people who did write the original posts themselves, but
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Yes, but the numbers probably don't go viral on X, usually.
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The cool thing is, there is so little "ossification surface" in URLs that this proposal could still be implemented today. The only thing not natively supported by browsers is the relative URL syntax, but even that could be added b

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