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by zevv 3y ago
For an open source alternative, try Bucklyspring: it runs on linux, mac and windows. All Klack's marketing lingo even applies as well: High fidelity sound, Immersive spatial audio, Instant type feedback, Up/down keystrokes. Debian
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by zevv 3y ago
I have met him in person a lot of times: I worked at a local electronics shop and we used to bring him TVs and radios for repair regularly. He was socially awkward, stubborn, and on more then one occasion he made mistakes with regards to th
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by zevv 3y ago
https://nitter.net/lipez400/status/1686793608626663441
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by zevv 3y ago
https://nitter.net/lereguy/status/1686363900651151360
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by zevv 3y ago
https://nitter.net/Andercot/status/1686286684424691712
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by zevv 3y ago
Aw, I was super exited to see the Requiem for a Dream website again - this really was my first big WTF moment for artsy stuff on the internet (after frog in a blender). Unfortunately it only works for the first 20 seconds or so, than it end
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by zevv 3y ago
No need to choose, you can have both - there is this very nice place where software meets hardware; call it embedded, call it robotics, call it industrial automation; this is the place where software actually gets to interface to physics: r
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by zevv 3y ago
amen.
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by zevv 3y ago
Yes, oh yes, please bring this back. Firefox used to have this, I used it a lot. Am I that old? Unfortunately live bookmarks have also gone away in Firefox, luckily I found an add-on for that.
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Twitter /search 302 redirect looping(twitter.com)
1 points by zevv 3y ago|0 comments
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by zevv 3y ago
Well, someone has to say it, right? "You might as well use vi."
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by zevv 3y ago
"I used a pair of forceps to pin the mosquito down on its side and a second pair to pinch the abdomen (pictured above), crushing the ventral nerve cord. The next day, I let the mosquitoes feed on my arm, as we do routinely in our labor
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by zevv 3y ago
I've been using the Gemini for 5 years or so, and also signed up for the slide; after years they are still to deliver. Bad communication, no numbers about units shipepd, barely any info on progress in their status updates on Indigogo -
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by zevv 3y ago
If any AI - or any other process or algorithm - would be able to provide significant better predictions than what is currently used, wouldn't this affect the stock prices as soon as this gets deployed by brokers at scale, effectively m
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by zevv 3y ago
Today at work I noticed a new chat popping up in my ChatGPT account - apparently one of the kids was home and found a new use for AI. He was proud to show me the results when I came home. I did some reading up on LLMs, transformers, hidden
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ChatGPT Builds Legos(zevv.nl)
3 points by zevv 3y ago|1 comments
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by zevv 4y ago
Call me paranoid, but this is one of the reasons I'm still driving my '95 Volvo, the smartest thing in that vehicle is the box with relays.
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by zevv 4y ago
Hooray. That'll pay for one developer for one month. [insert mandatory "dependency" xkcd here]
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by zevv 4y ago
ChatGPT keeps track of context in a "discussion", but I found that alpaca 7B has no memory of what was said by the user or the model before, so each question gets answered with a blank slate; is that true, and if so, is this somet
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by zevv 4y ago
Very few people were wearing masks; I was on the bus from the city center to the venue, which was stuffed with people to the brim. The driver announced that wearing masks was recommended, though not mandatory. I was the only one wearing a
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by zevv 4y ago
Fabrice Bellard is a robot from outer space - this must be the only explanation.
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by zevv 4y ago
I guess I am that old: I started computing on a green-on-black Apple ][, and later moved to unix on a VT320 terminal. I have stuck with green-on-black in my terminal ever since. I love to work in a darkish room, and thus also like my deskto
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by zevv 4y ago
Funny I never noticed, thanks for clearing that up.
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by zevv 4y ago
Not the answer you are looking for, but still my $0.02. It's pretty negative though, feel free to ignore all this. I have been a freelance developer for over 20 years, more often than not hired in a senior position. I have had my shar
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Uncommentable HN post “Flexport is hiring smart people..” on the front page?
9 points by zevv 4y ago|6 comments
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by zevv 4y ago
"the air surrounding Salt Lake City would occasionally turn poisonous. The lake bed contains high levels of arsenic and as more of it becomes exposed, wind storms carry that arsenic into the lungs of nearby residents"
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Carbon dioxide levels in air spike past milestone(apnews.com)
12 points by zevv 4y ago|0 comments
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by zevv 4y ago
> but you could just overwrite the root cert that must exist in that binary somewhere with your own, right? Unless they use certificate pinning, which is basically just verifying the CA's are not tampered with. Theoretically that co
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by zevv 4y ago
https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools And of course, you should install these from F-Droid, not Google Play
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by zevv 4y ago
[SSP] Assembly is of course nice, but not always practical. For those interested in a compact, embeddable and portable little Forth written in C, take a peek at zForth: https://github.com/zevv/zForth .

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