Giefo6ah

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by Giefo6ah 7d ago
1984 has been out of copyright in most of the world for 6 years and that, if anything, has made it easier to find an unmodified copy.
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by Giefo6ah 10d ago
If you live in the USA, the "decoy notes" may be considered an "effective technical measure" from the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act". If you live in Europe, this restriction may be considered "gatekeep
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by Giefo6ah 14d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izy4a5erom8&t=10s
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by Giefo6ah 19d ago
> Why would speakers be any different than earphones There are various "ideal" EQ targets for earphones depending on what your model of an ideal audio source is. They all start with a flat response speaker, from then you can mo
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by Giefo6ah 20d ago
You maybe interested in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.12277
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by Giefo6ah 21d ago
https://www.anthropic.com/constitution Ctrl-F honest 57 matches
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by Giefo6ah 2mo ago
Subway (the fast food chain) calls them "30cm subs", or colloquially "a thirty". The smaller sandwich is a "15cm sub", or "a fifteen".
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by Giefo6ah 2mo ago
I'd bet this is what she meant because I've done professional translation in the past. The input and output of a GPT it not a sequence of messages in turns: fundamentally the input is the entire context (both from the user and the
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by Giefo6ah 2mo ago
Deepl's professional advantage is not in the translation itself (even though it has always been a notch above the rest), but in the UI. You can literally click any word on the translated text and (a) see a list of alternatives, and (b)
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by Giefo6ah 2mo ago
You're mixing a house as personal property with the much broader claim of private property on land. It is possible to protect those two uses you mentioned, and other reasonable uses of land, without at the same time spending state reso
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by Giefo6ah 2mo ago
The cones are not sensitive to a single wavelength but to a range. The green-sensitive cones overlap with the red-sensitive cones, and to a smaller extent also with the blue-sensitive. Full saturation red and blue are possible by emitting l
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by Giefo6ah 2mo ago
When the model is open weights you can even pass every token (including the chain of thought) though a fourth-party lightweight model like gpt-oss-safeguard to check that it has not become adversarial.
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by Giefo6ah 2mo ago
They clearly didn't have the compute capacity ready to release Fable at any price that would have seemed "worth it".
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by Giefo6ah 2mo ago
There's nothing special about threads vs processes in Linux. mmap works the same, the challenge is to map the same file. You can share a path, pass a file descriptor via fork or unix domain socket, among other techniques.
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by Giefo6ah 2mo ago
You don't rent your football field from FIFA. You can, if you wish, own the field you play at. You may have heard of football clubs: If it's too expensive you can pool resources with your friends.
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by Giefo6ah 3mo ago
This is because blurays, like vinyl records, are efficiently stamped into plastic from metallic masters with negligible faults. You can't do this for electronic storage.
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by Giefo6ah 3mo ago
In 1987 a supernova was observed in the sky. In a great coincidence, just months after being put into operation, a new type of detector meant to study if protons are stable, detected instead the neutrinos coming from the supernova in a way
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by Giefo6ah 3mo ago
The labour theory of value is Adam Smith's, not Marx's.
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by Giefo6ah 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
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by Giefo6ah 3mo ago
The original 1953 NTSC standard specified phosphors with a way bigger gamut than sRGB, that were chosen to approximate the gamut of film projectors. Original NTSC cyans are more saturated than even DCI-P3 cyans. Typical CRTs use the cheaper
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by Giefo6ah 3mo ago
What would be the practical difference between an order from a party cadre in a private firm and a national security letter?
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by Giefo6ah 4mo ago
tombert should instead long QQQ and short the bits they don't like
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by Giefo6ah 4mo ago
Yet another victim of IPv4, and you still find countless detractors of IPv6 on every thread where it's mentioned.
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by Giefo6ah 5mo ago
Most feature DVDs are 8 Mbps. It's certainly blurrier than Netflix, but dark scenes, grain and textures are usually much more detailed on a DVD nonetheless.
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by Giefo6ah 5mo ago
It's often better than a 5 Mbps 1080p
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by Giefo6ah 6mo ago
I was assigned an E14 once. Compared to a T14: The case is all thick ABS. It weighs like 2.4 kg, and the weight is unbalanced. The USB-C charge only works at 20V, nothing less. While charging it overheats and spins up the fans. It came with
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by Giefo6ah 6mo ago
> After 24 months, one of the drives had a %95 loss, almost every picture was lost cut-off bottom half or so. If these are JPEGs with a grey or green lower half, it's likely only a few 16x16 macroblocks are corrupted and you can rec
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by Giefo6ah 7mo ago
Ceph solves the distributed consistent block storage problem very well. But I hardly ever need that problem solved, it's way more often that I need a distributed highly available blob storage, and Ceph makes the wrong tradeoffs for thi
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by Giefo6ah 8mo ago
And how are you supposed to convert USD to USDC to local currency at par? The exchange fees end up eating any savings you got from not using the normie SWIFT network, and then at tax filing time you have to account for paying / being p
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by Giefo6ah 8mo ago
Let's say the average firm has 10 workers. 90% of people are nihilists and empty lifers? Do I want to lead a business filled with losers?

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