EntrePrescott

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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
> Xi is head of state as president, but not head of government (like King of England). Uhm: the king of England (which incidentally happens to be king of quite a number of other territories that have yet to fully emancipate themselves f
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
What I'd like is a good bidirectional Latin <-> English AI translation model, ideally downloadable (though even an online version with an interface like DeepL - which doesn't do latin - would be better than the current situa
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
For that matter, I'd even say that it can be dangerous to choose cofounders within one's friend circle. It tends to make people more blind to lacks and red flags (for the needs of a tech business) that would clearly be recognized
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
chicken chicken :-( …… (*) ________ (*) edit: chickenshit: I just spent some time putting together a chicken story made of mostly chicken-related unicode emojis, math/logic operators and "chicken", but the hacker news site
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
> I'd assume it's an attempt to have exclusivity (and thus a shot at exponential growth) instead of targeting slow and stable growth ? My guess from the context would rather be that they think (rightly or not) that they can do
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
> I would love to see shader compilers merged into regular compiler toolchains they are already using the same compiler infrastructure: pretty much every relevant shader or otherwise GPU oriented compiler out there is based on LLVM. As f
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
One could put together a phrase where that one would clearly come out when speaking it out, though not (or not as clearly) in written form, e.g.: "Frag mal den Wirt, welche Alkohol-Konzentration s'Lager-Bier hat"
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
You project some personal conception of "worth" of x as if it was some normative and objective value inherent by essence to each category x would belong to. It's not. For whatever x, your estimation of the "worth" o
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
First of all, that line you quote isn't from me. Then: Ugly as that Google thing was, its intent and effect was to prevent competition ("poaching") by a handful of big competitors. Ugly, sure, but that only represented a smal
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
> The job market is not our god Thank the FSM it isn't. But then again, a god is not what determines the price of any given type of work. That would be not a god but… salary negotiations (at the individual level) and more generally
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
small specialized forum sites (like they were the norm in the days before big centralized social media) - much as I too prefer them to big centralized social networks - do have some big pain points though that are why they lost web share t
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
Who let the hogs out? - oink, oink, oink, oink - Who let the hogs out?
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
> Why are they called 'feral hogs' in America? because they are domestic pigs gone feral, plus a minority of boar-pig hybrids resulting from the contact with wild boar. > This is the original wild species of pigs (…) I think
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
fun fact: Thermidor - after which Sauce Thermidor and derived dishes like Lobster Themidor are named, is a month in the French Republican Calendar, specifically: the second month of summer, going approx. from mid-July to mid-August.
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
Nah, I'm not pretending anything of the likes in any way. In fact, the overwhelming majority of apps aren't cross-platform at all, so that's really the norm, not cross-platform frameworks. All I'm saying is that unlike t
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
I hate embedded browser UIs like electron stuff as much as you do, but you're pointing your blaming finger in the wrong direction: What do you expect application developers to do in absence of a natively compiling cross-platform GUI li
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
The Widgets are easier to work with for pure desktop apps… but they are limited to that purpose. Qt Quick and QML are better for pretty much any application use case that isn't the classic desktop. Especially any form of app for mobile
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
> Holding the money in escrow […] some jurisdictions prohibit it Which juridictions?
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
are there openly available models that are similar for the output i.e. generating speech or singing with a voice set by a given sample, but that instead of a text prompt input would take a speech or singing input and take pitch change and i
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
Nice, but unfortunately (for people outside the US) very narrowly centered on the US market… as the "American Edition" in the title already points to. Which makes me wonder: Is there also a European edition?
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
given the fact that the demographics of home/real estate ownership by age group are very much biased in favor of the elderly, one could say that indeed such a proposal featured here on hn just recently: https://news.ycombina
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
> poor regional planning forcing everyone into the cities could you please elaborate on that? What kind of poor planning and in what ways did it force people into the cities?
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
This makes zero sense to me. By what logic would a salary paid this fiscal year (be it for R&D or any other activity, I don't see why there would be any difference there) not be a simple expense to be fully deducted from the revenu
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
Kinda refreshing - within the ever growing genre of stories about Heroku's downfall into junk status - to find such an article with a higher level of detail and analysis of the origins of the problem. There's one thing that somewh
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
> Son-of-BLIP maybe even add an "a" for extra spice: Son-of-a-BLIP
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
If the criterion is to go with what's the most apt fit for the company, then "closedai.com" would be even better, and as a bonus it would probably be even cheaper… (even if they have enough money for a more expensive domain)
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
Maybe you're just holding it wrong: You're not supposed to let your LLM rest or chat idly while you do the webdev stuff yourself, but to make your LLM do the webdev stuff for you ;P
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
all the more proof that AI has reached the point where it can replace most web dev. You get what you train for ;P
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
reminds me of this saying, in different variations, attributed to Aristotle: "He who has many friends has no friends".
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by EntrePrescott 3y ago
that would explain how it came to the Brexit mess.

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