amarant

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by amarant 24d ago
I think if the right to work from home was encoded in law for any job which was practically possible to do remotely, you'd have a better shot at keeping rural villages alive without relying on foreigners. That would keep the local cult
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by amarant 25d ago
I was thinking about this the other day, but along a slightly different path. I realised there is no need to use web technology to provide native experiences anymore. Bundling a web browser was always a way to ship native apps to multiple p
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by amarant 28d ago
The source of the word is almost certainly the Swedish town Särna in this case. Note that ä is not an a, in sound it's more similar to e than a, although it is distinct from both.
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by amarant 1mo ago
My hot take is that AI is a multiplier. Software engineers skill can be measured on a scale from -10 to +10, where 0 means you introduce as many bugs as you solve, or something along those lines(this scale is loosely defined, don't thi
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by amarant 1mo ago
..... In such a way that most commonly used button is replaced by an ad 0.001 seconds before you click it
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by amarant 1mo ago
Sweden. Our system is pretty good at emergency care, but absolutely abysmal at preventive care, imo.
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by amarant 1mo ago
This is the real reason women live longer than men. Doctors won't see me unless I'm dying, or at least tell them I am. And I am, if I understand things correctly, which I might not tbh, in a high risk group for prostate cancer, gi
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by amarant 1mo ago
I had to look it up, but it seems like you do a lookup per number before calling, and nixregistret will basically tell you if that number is in their register or not. I'm not sure how enforcement works, from the copy on their website i
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by amarant 1mo ago
Nix-registret is awesome! I didn't realise just how good it is until I transferred ownership of my number to my company, which automatically took me off the list(companies can't be in nix) which almost immediately made me regret o
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by amarant 1mo ago
Definitely agree with LLM texts being boring and lacking personality. Which for technical text is fine, but devastating for fiction. I wonder if you could coax it into writing less average formulations with some clever prompting? I don&#x27
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by amarant 1mo ago
I'm not convinced this is true in any sense at all anymore. Can you name a piece of hardware that isn't supported by Linux? I was gonna suggest maybe the surface tablets, but a quick googling suggest even they run it just fine. 20
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by amarant 2mo ago
It's even Carolus rex paludis! Not sure if fable is a history buff or a Sabaton fan, but I repeat myself.
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by amarant 2mo ago
As one of the Devs responsible for the technical part of that transition: thank you. We tried real hard to give users the best possible experience, but I think it has nevertheless been the least appreciated piece of code I have ever written
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by amarant 2mo ago
Or perhaps all of your thousands of children being in peril, having found themselves on a murderous human, with no obvious path to escape as the gigantic scary human swaths hundreds at a time?
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by amarant 2mo ago
But that's just the thing with open weights: you're not doing any business with company that made the model. They might publish the weights to a, say, European host, and then you download the model from Europe and and run it on yo
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by amarant 2mo ago
Oh... Then...I don't think I understood what your point was.. How is running a inference business similar to sports betting, but specifically placing bets, not running a successful sports betting business?
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by amarant 2mo ago
And it is? Look at kindred group for example, they made >700 million GBP last year. seems viable enough to me!
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by amarant 2mo ago
Citing a study published in '25, and thus conducted before that, basically before AI got good. Yeah this article is safe to ignore
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by amarant 2mo ago
Agreed! I find AI to be pretty decent at documenting and explaining technical stuff, which is a subgenre of non-fiction. I once tried telling it to write a fantasy novel for me because I didn't know what to read next. Gave it some exam
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by amarant 2mo ago
Vibecoding a SVG based metroidvania as we speak! This is gonna be lit!
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by amarant 2mo ago
Building the indexer is the easy part. The hard part is indexing the vast seas of the web. You need a large pile of cash to do that. One of those cases where running the software is harder than making it. And once you've spent your lar
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by amarant 2mo ago
Welp, that's one less competitor in the AI race I guess!
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by amarant 2mo ago
Are we really complaining that good people make money now? Is poverty a requirement for being a good person? Sounds like thinly veiled self-righteous jealousy to me...
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by amarant 2mo ago
I'm good with starting from 0 if the bank is (my mortgage is a lot bigger than my balance)
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by amarant 2mo ago
Wait would that work? My understanding was that the pollen had to come from a different genome of pawpaw for it to work... But perhaps I'm mistaken?
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by amarant 2mo ago
Seems that the direction of causation is still an open question. Is TV watching causing smaller brains, or is it the other way around? Intuitively both seem plausible. More research needed!
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by amarant 2mo ago
Well, no, but it prevents fraud, which seems to be the bigger problem. A honest dominant force is better than a fraudulent dominant force.
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by amarant 2mo ago
In Europe we've used regulations. There's standardised ways to measure area of an apartment/house, and it has to be included in any ads and contract of sale/rent. If the actual area doesn't match what's in the
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by amarant 2mo ago
I like how our very own Bobby Tables is ranking near the top in several categories! Go Bobby!
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by amarant 2mo ago
Today I learned the Nordic larp style is not the global default. As a Swede who's only ever participated in 2 larps,I hadn't realised people do it differently elsewhere! I really don't see how leveling and experience points w

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