aragilar

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by aragilar 4d ago
Pretty sure it's supposed to be parody.
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by aragilar 8d ago
Planets travel along the ecliptic, so they're pretty easy to map.
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by aragilar 13d ago
No, that is not what I said, and you repeatedly misreading what people write is noticeable.
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by aragilar 15d ago
Except Thunderbird now does run on donations (though is looking a relevant additional funding sources, e.g. providing hosted email: https://www.tb.pro/en-US/ ). This is not to say Mozilla can't seek out other sourc
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by aragilar 15d ago
And killed its add-on ecosystem. If the choice is between (as it was then) a slower browser missing the add-ons you were used to, and a faster browser missing the add-ons you were used to, then you're going to need some other motivatio
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by aragilar 15d ago
Pocket ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) for those who aren't aware of it) is an excellent example: 1. Pocket was an external company, which Mozilla bought (and claimed they would open source), which
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by aragilar 15d ago
Then let me pay for Firefox. I don't need a resold Mullvad (which incidentally took forever to come to my country) or an AI chatbot (which seemingly are the options Mozilla provides to give them money), and donations to Mozilla don&#x2
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by aragilar 16d ago
The questions is, how much are you willing to pay (because the cost of this is not free, especially in this cloud era), and what is the scientific return for access to the uncalibrated data? There is significantly more value in a well desig
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by aragilar 16d ago
This isn't normal?
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by aragilar 1mo ago
The obvious question is what limits getting more data? Astronomy (especially in Australia) has been quite good at designing surveys to answer multiple scientific questions with reasonable amounts of data (and then fed into ML systems like t
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by aragilar 1mo ago
"an invitation-only programme that lets you earn money from the performance of your eligible public reels, photos, stories and text posts." implies this is only available to a subset of people?
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by aragilar 1mo ago
I think it depends on whether what Meta states about the "Content Monetization" program being invite only is true? If it is, that's effectively commissioning, if it's not, well Meta is lying and then the question is why
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by aragilar 1mo ago
I'm not aware of the issues with the SF <-> LA high speed rail, but I had in mind https://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-03-30/many-factors-behind-t... (where an apartment block started collapsing causing the
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by aragilar 1mo ago
But if new evidence comes in which changes the basis for approval (e.g. lets say you need to do some earthworks and as part of performing them it becomes apparent these earthworks will damage nearby buildings), presumably the approval can b
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by aragilar 1mo ago
I think it's the zoning rules (based on https://www.wsj.com/us-news/how-amazon-built-a-data-center-i... ), which seem to provide an expedited process (which for large scale projects like this always seems a bit odd
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by aragilar 2mo ago
Why not give everyone access for free?
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by aragilar 2mo ago
Copyright law varies across jurisdictions, and it's not obvious how training for AIs would align with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing (and it appears a recent push to re-examine copyright law in Austral
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Victora proposes new laws to target big tech and online trolls(abc.net.au)
5 points by aragilar 2mo ago|0 comments
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by aragilar 2mo ago
I think it's not clear from the article why they left (e.g. could be anything from retirement to going to work at another firm/contracting to being fired to switching careers), and likely it's going to be a mix, plus not all
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by aragilar 2mo ago
The answer is fairly obvious, Typst (like ConTeXt) is not LaTeX. Typst is a perfectly fine solution if you're giving the typeset output (i.e. a PDF) to someone, it not a solution if you need to give the document source to someone (if t
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by aragilar 2mo ago
I would say the complexity of IEEE-754 is warranted (given the history of the standard), but the issue is those writing languages are typically not aware of numerical computing (it's rarely a course at university), and so do not design
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by aragilar 2mo ago
Specifically, 0/0 (or inf/inf), not any division by 0.
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by aragilar 2mo ago
Of what, IEEE-754? Given how poorly most languages implement it (and how many shortcuts are taken in the same of speed), I'm not sure IEEE-754 is the problem.
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by aragilar 2mo ago
You don't need NaN (or Inf) to have unexpected behaviour with floats and naive loops in lua, using 1e52 is enough. Conflating floating point and integers (independent of encoding) is always a bit of a trap.
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by aragilar 2mo ago
There's too much available power then (curtailment/negative prices are fairly common now on sunny days), and not enough during the evenings, so it's an incentive for those who don't have/can't get batteries (e.
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by aragilar 3mo ago
ssh -X works fine depending on the toolkit you use (i.e. not Gtk, because of its rendering pipeline) and the distance/latency you travel. For distance/latency, at some point (i.e. at sufficient latency) you're going to need t
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by aragilar 3mo ago
In my experience, anywhere using an app/QR code is better served by me walking up to the counter and ordering.
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by aragilar 3mo ago
Personally, I think AC vs. no AC isn't the issue, it's the lack of fans and air circulation that is the problem. I suspect there are building where installing AC is going to be required, but the majority of building really just ne
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by aragilar 4mo ago
I hate writing, but I don't send LLM output, because I'm not the asshole who sends junk.
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Microsoft CEO: We're moving from OS and apps to agents instead(9to5mac.com)
7 points by aragilar 4mo ago|1 comments

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