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by yetanother12345 3y ago
IMHO, Brave Browser + uBlock origin is far better than any other browser without UBO. So, perhaps the real difference isn't so much the browser as it is UBO? (I Know that BB is basically Chromium with some changes, just like Chrome
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
cough... elephant...cough... room... something ...israel... USA... something Not realated to any current, past, or future conflict. Still, to any non-American it is mind-numbing, and even moreso that so few Americans apparently even notice
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I can confirm that there is indeed a market for (unprinted) models, just like there is a market for print-to-order parts. The market works such that you pay for the right to print the model even if the model as such has one license or anoth
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Question: Is a 3D printer "a printer"? The difficulty of substituting a 3D for a 2D etc would suggest not so. So, if we agree that somehow there is not much overlap in the 2D vs 3D printing businesses it would seem sane to suspect
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> a lot of people could use a 3D printed part. We use 3D printers @work. Also, some colleagues have their own printers as well. Turns out, there is in fact a market for 3D printed parts already. You simply contact "the printer&quo
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I would have thought it well known by Search Engine Journal that at intervals Google implements changes that in one way or the other influences what kind of sites are rated in which way... And that, at times of change this may lead to very
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> In such a world, discoverability is not a problem oh, well... my two cents: Before smartphones was the browser web. We had discoverability issues because very few search engines had a near monopoly (to put it politely), and there was n
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
eh... wget or curl ? or not modern enough for you?
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
FWIW, around a month ago I researched how to open a Turkish bank account in order to benefit from the high interest rate level by depositing some money there, but I had to give up. It seems to be hard to impossible for a non-resident. (The
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
TIL: The limit of 255 characters in any distinct part of an URL seems to be purely fictional. I've always assumed it was a very clear cut standard, but now I can't find it neither in the RFC [0,1] nor the standard [2] So, as we&#x
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Let me get this right... You buy some piece of land, or (as per TFA) lease it for 30 years. Then, you do nothing with it. On the basis of you having the potential of doing something with it, you calculate a hypothetical difference in &quo
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
This is not specific to IT. It is a general trend. Also, it's not new; cf the saying "Jack of all trades, master of none". Also, the reason why we don't see Da Vinci types anymore. Enthropy is increasing. Things
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
FUD. Women (or any other gender) can not be undressed in a photo. Only IRL. What these software programs do is something else entirely. They refactor the photo into something else which is not the same person in a naked state but an entirel
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I've not read Chomsky first hand, but the points referred in the article as "Key points of Chomsky’s Universal Grammar" seem to be a non-traditional description of a LLM, IMHO (some amount of creative interpretation required)
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I think this article makes some interesting points, but it's not exactly on the money (pun intended) Quote: What are AIs of the GPT-4 generation best at? It’s things like: - writing essays or short fictions - digital
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> It's complex and boring and error prone and fragile ... And, if you want to fix this you must first try to understand why it is so. Software development is, well... development . Those doing that are in fact inventing things. The
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
>> I’ve seen this now at five major megacorps and I have to believe it’s going on at most. I sense a potential misaglignment with the article headline that: The industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative While "majo
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
What choice do these voters realistically have but to allow it? What alternative is there? As a minimum they would need to be able to put their votes somewhere that would somehow "disallow it", but where would that be? As for extr
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
They are a very heavily advertised first mover in the (perceived) next-generation of automobiles. Investors operate on discounted net present value of future income streams. Perceived future income streams, that is. Investors may be wrong,
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> not difficult at all Replying to my own comment only to admit that it is fairly easy to give yourself a task (ie. a problem to solve through the medium of painting) that will be perceived as hard, or even extremely hard. I do not nega
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I have some skin in this game. I'd say that painting is not difficult at all. Depending on your preferred style it can be as easy as literally throwing random pigments on whatever surface you prefer to target. Painting (or drawing) to
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> Elon simply doesn't believe ... IMHO the focus here on HN and elsewhere on the antics of this person leads the debate astray somewhat. (Actually on every single activity this man is involved with, not just cars.) I do not find it
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
LOL. But you're excused. In Denmark the government just took away all subsidies to the PostNord company. Prices will double next year, and some areas will not be served at all. Mind you there is no alternative for common mail, only for
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> frowned upon to mindlessly browse when you're driving a car. Here, illegal. Traffic safety. Same goes for cellphone usage. Even on bikes. But then perhaps OP was thinking bus, train, etc... but there you often have other problems
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I've commuted using bicycle for years as I used to live-and-work in one of the top bicycle-friendly cities of the world. With that particular bias, I would agree. However, for many people cycling will not be an option, either because t
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> train with few and well behaved passengers Few? If you are commuting you will be doing so in the same drove as all the others that are trying to reach the office space within the same window of a select few hours. And, probably the sa
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I've always been a bit baffled by these types of discussions. Doesn't any of you have multiple versioning systems, say "internal" and "external" at the minimum? One project I'm on has an internal version n
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> trustworthy AI >> "... ensure legal, ethical and scientific criteria are met." Please... We are talking about stochastic models. This means that we are in the domain of Math, not the domain of Philosophy, and not Law ei
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> stop mowing for some months and they will come I have to reply here. The problem is not the mowing of the lawn: The problem is the lawn itself! The thing to do about the lawn, if you want to do the right thing, is: Clear
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> the American Dream is defined ... Thanks for the definition. As a non-American I've always wondered what that idiom really ment, and I didn't even imagine that it had a definition. I honestly assumed it was just referring to

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