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by xigoi 6mo ago
> Google doesn't want millions of people to have every cent of their money stolen. Megacorporations like Google do not care a single bit about ordinary people. They only care about making more money. How do they make more money? By
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by xigoi 6mo ago
As if there are no scam apps on Google Play.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
And then having Google approve it, so hopefully your app does not do anything that Google does not like, such as block ads.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Same as in my_snake_case_name :)
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by xigoi 6mo ago
In what ways is HTML produced by transpiling LaTeX more accessible that HTML produced by Typst?
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by xigoi 6mo ago
There seem to be several ambiguities in the grammar. Consider the following code: # Heading # If I’m understanding the grammar correctly, this can be parsed as: • A heading with text “Heading” • A heading with text “Heading #” • A pa
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by xigoi 6mo ago
If your threat model is “I don’t want the image I’m hotlinking to be replaced with something else when opened in a new tab”, then no image format is safe.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Couldn’t you do that using Content-Security-Policy?
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Why not just use an <img> tag?
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by xigoi 6mo ago
This principle would be good if not for the irony of ClosedAI saying that.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Kagi has a user forum (as well as listening to comments on other sites like Hacker News) and does not (at least supsosedly) collect telemetry. They seem to be doing fine when it comes to feedback.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
That’s what user forums are for.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Many products would be much better if they listened to what people are saying on public forums instead of using telemetry. For example, Google Maps has a longstanding bug where it auto-translates all reviews even if they are in a language
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Mathematically it’s also not true that 2³⁰⁹ = +∞. You simply can’t expect correct results from floats.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
The usage of AI for everything is analogous to using a forklift to take your groceries home.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
First they came for people asking about Tiananmen Square And I did not speak out Because I was not asking about Tiananmen Square Then they came for people asking about Israel And I did not speak out Because I was not asking about Israel
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by xigoi 6mo ago
And it just so happens that many people will now have to use OpenAI’s products because they can’t get enough RAM to run a local LLM. What a coincidence.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Isn’t the whole point of DIDs that you can switch platforms without your DID changing?
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by xigoi 6mo ago
I’m pretty sure most phones have a higher location accuracy than 1000 feet.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Not to be confused with Microsoft Copilot 365 Card Intelligence, which is a program for AI-generating business cards.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
I love using software that changes every time you compile it.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
For me, what makes the square root more “natural” is that, although it’s usually introduced as an “answer by definition”, it can also be arrived at by wondering what happens if you take something to the halfth power.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> exp-minus-log construction is closed for the operations it supports, and spans both exp and log, so E must be either identical to or a subset of exp-minus-log; not the other way around. Since E is by definition closed under exp, log an
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by xigoi 6mo ago
It gives people a false sense of security. You think the other person can’t copy the photo, but they actually can.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
It does use gendered pronouns if it guesses your gender.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
For me the geoguessing was completely wrong. It said the photo is from Belgium, but it’s not even close. (The photo does show a big chunk of nature.)
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by xigoi 7mo ago
> I wonder how the model would know that they are heterosexuals? It’s about 95% likely to be correct, which is very effective at scaring statistically illiterate people.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
This, but with people constantly asking you why you’re cycling to work when cars are the future.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
> For larger or negative inputs you get a NaN because ECMAScript has limited precision and doesn't handle imaginary numbers. This also shows why EML is not practical for computation.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
The article uses extended arithmetic where ln(0) = -∞.

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