Townley

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Average Opus 5 Response(reddit.com)
2 points by Townley 7d ago|0 comments
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by Townley 2mo ago
Using Chinese could lead to a small amount of gains, but it's nowhere near as drastic as you'd think Putting aside the question of whether English's larger training corpus would be a dimension of quality: content is "tok
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LazyVim for Ambitious Developers(lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes)
1 points by Townley 8mo ago|0 comments
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The Dark and Predatory World of Crypto Casinos(nytimes.com)
5 points by Townley 9mo ago|0 comments
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Seeing Like a Software Company(seangoedecke.com)
4 points by Townley 1y ago|0 comments
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by Townley 1y ago
It’s heartening that there are people who find the problem you described “fun” Writing a FastAPI websocket that reads from a redis pubsub is a documentation-less flailfest
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Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing
95 points by Townley 1y ago|96 comments
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Hymn of Breaking Strain(kiplingsociety.co.uk)
3 points by Townley 1y ago|1 comments
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by Townley 1y ago
It sounds like their vision for space-based data centers presupposes nearly-free energy costs, delivered via a colossal solar farm made possible by falling launch costs. Temporarily putting aside (extremely fair) feasibility questions aroun
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by Townley 1y ago
A competitive geoguesser clearly got there through memorizing copious internet searching. So comparing knowledge retained in the trained model to knowledge retained in the brain feels surprisingly fair. Conversely, the model sharing, “I fou
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by Townley 1y ago
> These companions can take a variety of forms — in the 2004 study, which looked at 100 6- and 7-year olds, 57 percent of imaginary friends were human, 41 percent were animals, and one was “a human capable of transforming herself into an
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by Townley 2y ago
In C# you can do string foo = "bar"; string nameOfFoo = nameof(foo); // “foo” Kinda nice for iterating through lists of variables and saving them to a key/value map
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by Townley 2y ago
At work I’ve recently moved from a Node/TS monolith to “Python+TS react in a sea of .NET microservices I debug and contribute to” It’s been the second time in my career I’ve been surprised by not hating C# (the first was goofing off wi
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by Townley 2y ago
Those diapers say 10-18lbs on the package, but they actually hold waaaaay less urine than that —First dad joke my brother in law bestowed upon me after my daughter was born
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by Townley 2y ago
My teenage niece is getting solid at chess, but I can still beat her handily. So we came up with a fun handicap the last few times we’ve played: Every third turn, my four year old daughter gets to move for me. She doesn’t know the rules so
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by Townley 2y ago
Another application of GLSL/SDL: you can make custom shader materials for yourself in ThreeJS using the ShaderMaterial. You write the GLSL code in a string within the material and it’ll be applied to the mesh the material is attached t
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by Townley 2y ago
A single person sifting through 15,000,000 pounds of trash at a rate of one pound per minute would take 28 restless years But finding one of 2^256 private keys would take millions of years. This math felt correctly conservative https:&#x2F
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by Townley 2y ago
> All of us must navigate the trade-off between “me” and “we.” A famous Talmudic quote states: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I?” We must balance optimizing for oneself with optimizing for o
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A.I., The Electricians and the Boom Towns of Central Washington(nytimes.com)
2 points by Townley 2y ago|1 comments
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Insurers Are Deserting Homeowners as Climate Shocks Worsen(nytimes.com)
44 points by Townley 2y ago|85 comments
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by Townley 2y ago
Wait I remember those ads and I’m now confused. If vision-restoring eye transplants are the novel domain of futuristic moonshot research, how did Jerry Orbach’s eye donation give the “gift of sight for two New Yorkers” twenty years ago? EDI
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by Townley 2y ago
If a malicious party has access to the API key, it should be revoked regardless
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First Human to Receive Neuralink Implant Says It Lets Him Play Civilization VI(pcmag.com)
6 points by Townley 2y ago|2 comments
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by Townley 2y ago
For the last badge, it wasn't masterful strategy: I played until I got lucky with an overpowered Ring of Wealth run, and farmed the dwarven floors for like 3 days before breezing through the demon halls and ascending. That one and only
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by Townley 2y ago
Excellent game, I lost an embarrassing amount of time last year getting all of the badges. The mobile versions are great because they’re ad-free, and work without internet access when on airplanes. And since it’s turn-based, it’s very inter
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by Townley 3y ago
Also notable: some dogs do get asthma, and cats have asthma commonly https://www.webmd.com/pets/cats/asthma-symptoms-cats
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Can a $3,500 headset replace your TV? We tried Vision Pro to find out(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Townley 3y ago|9 comments
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Portugal the Man, Band Website(portugaltheman.com)
1 points by Townley 3y ago|1 comments
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CFPB Proposes Rule to Jumpstart Competition and Accelerate Shift to Open Banking(consumerfinance.gov)
4 points by Townley 3y ago|0 comments
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by Townley 3y ago
I agree with your overall point that cloud resources probably shouldn’t be a problem for Amazon that factors into the hours of processing time. But is it true that AWS could provide at-cost resources to sister companies? More of a legal&#x2

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