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by zarzavat 2y ago
True, though paid language models are probably just a blip in history. Free weight language models are only ~12 months behind and have massive resources thanks to Meta. That profit will be squeezed to zero over the long term if Zuck maintai
902.
by zarzavat 2y ago
I made a basic version of this to help me pass the UK driving test, which is fairly difficult: 40 minutes of virtually error-free driving is required and the pass rate is 50%. It's 2.5D, I used a 3D engine but the graphics are just sa
903.
by zarzavat 2y ago
Strong disagree. enums + unions = ADTs. Without enums you have to use either string or number. The problem with using strings is that nothing else uses strings (like say, your database), so you have to have this interminable roundtrip conve
904.
by zarzavat 2y ago
Britain is one of the richest countries on Earth (21st in terms of GDP/capita, and many countries ranked above it are tiny ones). This compares favourably to its most similar neighbour, France (23rd), which also suffered the same econo
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by zarzavat 2y ago
If Google detects something strange or is just feeling particularly chaotic that day, they will lock the account and require you to verify it using the phone number. Even if you don't have 2FA enabled.
906.
by zarzavat 2y ago
The reason is that resentencing people is a low priority when the justice system is falling apart in so many other ways. The authorities also don't want to be held to account for traumatising these people and any crimes they subsequent
907.
by zarzavat 2y ago
Performance is probably the wrong lens. Mobile data is often expensive in terms of money, whereas compression is cheap in terms of CPU time. More compression is almost always the right answer for users of mobile apps.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Isn't that like China seizing an iPhone factory and declaring that they are going to make the next iPhone? I doubt that a TSMC US fab can function independently for very long in the case of invasion, the Taiwanese govt presumably did t
909.
by zarzavat 2y ago
That was tried 20 years ago and it turns out that humans are not good at writing XML. XML makes sense if you are authoring HTML in an editor. However, this is not how most HTML is actually produced. It's mostly produced by templating e
910.
by zarzavat 2y ago
It's very much the opposite. LLMs free me from the nuts and bolts of the "how", for example I don't have to manually type out a loop. I just write a comment and the loop magically appears. Sometimes I don't have to
911.
by zarzavat 2y ago
YC S25 startup idea: Online identify verification is hard. Financial apps rely on verification to meet their KYC/AML obligations. In years past, a selfie photo was sufficient, but sophisticated fraud entails that we must now ask users
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It seems that the proposal itself has given up on the syntax in the article and will be proposing try expressions instead. The ?= syntax would never fly given that there's already a ??= operator that does something else. Given that the
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by zarzavat 2y ago
I can say that it doesn't work on Google Docs, which uses the IP address's language^, even though my language is set to en-UK. Unless you're logged in, but I often have to use incognito because of another misfeature which is
914.
by zarzavat 2y ago
It comes to something when a $160 Xiaomi has the features that OP wants though. Apple drip feeds features, they have realized that their business relies of making small incremental improvements to the iPhone every year so they hold back fea
915.
by zarzavat 2y ago
In terms of packet size, DNS (DoH) doesn’t really look any different to an XHR request.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Malaysia famously banned the movie Babe because a talking pig might offend religious sensibilities. It’s a safe to say that freedom of expression is not a high priority over there.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
If you use a VPN^ to block ads then the VPN needs to be able to see inside your TLS session. Moreover, you still need an adblocker inside the browser process to do DOM manipulation, etc. For example, the element picker. It’s technically pos
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by zarzavat 2y ago
I’ll bite. I like HTTP/2. It may be too complicated for what it was designed to do, i.e serving web resources, but it’s really good at doing things that it wasn’t designed to do. If you need something more complicated than what a bro
919.
by zarzavat 2y ago
This is the way. Few governments have the resources to play cat and mouse with OS or browser devs. Just look at the fuss over manifest v3, it shouldn’t be a big deal - just fork chromium and patch manifest v2 back in again - but it is bec
920.
by zarzavat 2y ago
They’re a natural implementation detail. They could be exposed by the programming language as some other type than SomeObject* or SomeReference.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
How does that work if you use a REPL? If I type $ python >>> import numpy as np >>> import pandas as pd Everything’s just there for me. I want my Python packages installed globally, Python is like a Swis
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by zarzavat 2y ago
When it comes to IDEs, small and easy = uncompetitive. Most users want to use the IDE that saves them the most time and has the features they want, they are not concerned with implementation complexity because that’s someone else’s job. If
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Python is good because it has batteries included. Other languages have taken a more idealistic approach of not including batteries. Python understands that programmers just want to get shit done without have to search what is the current ho
924.
by zarzavat 2y ago
Nix/NixOS and Docker work in fundamentally different ways so you have to decide which method of operation is most suitable for your use case. If you use Docker then each container requires its OS image, which is fine if you’re running
925.
by zarzavat 2y ago
The M1 is four years ago, and all I hear is people saying they don’t see any point upgrading since it’s good enough for them.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Which features do you feel are unnecessary? I mostly have the opposite reaction to new CSS features “What took them so long?” CSS is so much better than it used to be. Many people will remember positioning things with float and display: t
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Concorde got a pass because it was British and even then it was controversial. Boom will still have to meet all noise pollution rules now and in the future . Noise rules are designed for normal passenger aircraft, they will not get any exc
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Offshore wind has always been allowed. Onshore wind was technically allowed but in practice the rules were so restrictive that it was very difficult to get any projects approved. So yes technically not a ban, but it was a de facto ban.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It’s not all bad. UK has a lot of onshore wind energy potential that was banned from development to placate the shires. That ban is no more. UK is also a good place for nuclear power with an almost complete absence of risk factors, though w
930.
by zarzavat 2y ago
The thesis of the article is broadly correct but the reasoning it uses to get there is questionable. Every country has its quirks. The US has a very high cost of living and consequent high salaries. No wonder it’s important to be able to fi

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