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by zajio1am 11mo ago
IMHO people moved to Hacker News. I would guess one of the reasons is better comment system here. Algorithmic ordering of comments based on up/down is important for scaling to thousands of comments. Slashdot had scoring system, but com
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by zajio1am 11mo ago
> We programmers are currently living through the devaluation of our craft. Valuation is fundamentally connected to scarcity. 'Devaluation' is just negative spin for making it plentyful. When cicumstances changed to make someth
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by zajio1am 11mo ago
Diacritics are language-dependent, so using hungarian-meaning diacritics into english text makes no sense.
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by zajio1am 11mo ago
Yes, i mean more like educational lock-in, trying to push their own tools and SDKs so people get used to them.
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by zajio1am 11mo ago
From Arduino ecosystem i always have a feeling that they try to do an unnecessary ecosystem lock-in. Most Arduinos are just Atmel AVR MCU with fancy bootloader. You do not need Arduino-this or Arduino-that for programming them, avr-gcc and
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by zajio1am 11mo ago
How much relevant is HEVC on computers? I encounter H.264, VP9 and AV1 and that is pretty much all. I know HEVC is used on Blu-ray and in DVB-T, but that is usually played by dedicated hardware, not PC.
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by zajio1am 11mo ago
CDNs and reverse proxies are important part of internet infrastructure. Problem here is not that webservers use CloudFlare, but that use only CloudFlare. Let's assume that i could easily use multiple CDNs/proxies and put them all
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by zajio1am 11mo ago
Batteries are more or less consumables, need occasional replacement. OTOH, fresh nuclear fuel can be stockpiled for decades.
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by zajio1am 11mo ago
> there is no meiotic reset to default. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprogramming
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by zajio1am 11mo ago
Governments would mandate age requirements for many websites and these websites would be forced to check EU digital identity wallet.
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by zajio1am 1y ago
In the context of graphics, AI is usually associated with Stable diffusion / Midjourney, which are not LLMs.
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by zajio1am 1y ago
That does not match my experience. I can imagine things, but details are limited to properties i intentionally think that the imagined object should have.
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by zajio1am 1y ago
> Healthcare is cheap Is it? I pay 13.5% of my income as healthcare 'tax' for public healthcare. Overall, it is cheaper than US healthcare (as a percentage of GDP), but individually it is still a significant expense.
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A Modest Definition of Human Consciousness(oranlooney.com)
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by zajio1am 1y ago
> the media cycle ... since years framed Starlink as the only company providing such services and it turns out that you can actually use some other services. AFAIK, you, as end user, cannot. Last time i checked that Eutelsat offers the s
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by zajio1am 1y ago
If i understand InvisiCaps Fil-C correctly, it does not allow capability restriction (as metadata are stored at the beginning of each object), while with CHERI one can take ptr/capability for an object, restrict it to a capability for
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by zajio1am 1y ago
(depends on jurisdiction) there was already concept of pre-booked transport that was distinct from taxi and does not require taxi medaillon to operate. Uber just made pre-booked transport as convenient to use as taxi. So it is not that Uber
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by zajio1am 1y ago
Yes, you need to have open connection to receive messages.
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by zajio1am 1y ago
So it is not AI who forces the author to not use em dashes, but AI haters.
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by zajio1am 1y ago
But helps abroad workers.
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by zajio1am 1y ago
In that case it is no really a time, it is a condition.
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by zajio1am 1y ago
The article about Green Web on a blog that has scrolling implemented in some horrible way giving both slow experience and visible CPU usage (and therefore also power demand) spikes on my desktop...
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by zajio1am 1y ago
Democracy is not sacred. It is just a way to organise society. It has some advantages and it is likely the best way we know, but that does not mean we should be silent about its disadvantages, and populism is just a fail mode of democracy,
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by zajio1am 1y ago
Why? This is not 'use collected information to targed ads', or 'sell collected information to third parties', but 'use collected information from the service to improve the service'. Does not really seems to me
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by zajio1am 1y ago
> The universality of copy/paste is overrated. It's literally just adding shift in terminal emulators, no biggie. You have to know what to add. Sometimes it is shift, sometimes (rxvt) it is alt.
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by zajio1am 1y ago
I like having bot selection and clipboard, but problem is consistency. In terminal (rxvt) shift-ins pastes selection, while in GTK app, the same shortcut pastes clipboard.
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by zajio1am 1y ago
You don't. You can get some IP addresses from your upstream, use private IPs inside your network, and do CG-NAT on the border router.
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by zajio1am 1y ago
Rendering of vector fonts to fixed grid of pixels leads to incorrect results in principle. Introducing blur where there is a sharp edge in vector data is also a wrong result. You can just choose which kind of wrongs is more annoying - wheth
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by zajio1am 1y ago
Something like Common Crawl can be used for both search and AI training (and any other purpose, decided after crawl is done).
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by zajio1am 1y ago
It makes sense as it allows to walk city streets safely on autopilot while thinking about other things.

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