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by archon 3mo ago
I'm uneducated on how distillation works at more than a basic level so forgive me if this is a stupid question. Isn't "distillation" of another provider's model exactly how these models got training date in the firs
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by archon 4mo ago
> To tell the truth: I do not even know how to use the pen. I have never needed to do this in my life. I truly do not understand how one could have T1D for 27 years and still be alive with this attitude. Don't get my wrong, I'm
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by archon 7mo ago
> Find an online community that has self-selected for some kind of criterion I’ll add onto that: find real-life friends/acquaintances who are both not brain dead and read books. Frequently ask them “what are you reading lately?” Not
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by archon 1y ago
"Have done this" implies Slate has delivered even one vehicle. They have not. I hope Slate succeeds, but let's not get caught up in the preorder hype.
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by archon 2y ago
I switched from the Roku ecosystem to Nvidia Shield about a year ago because of Roku’s increasingly user hostile ad and tracking decisions and have been pretty happy with it. Android TV gives me enough control with a custom launcher that I
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by archon 2y ago
I would guess that the number of people listening to this media on anything higher quality than the built-in speakers on a 65-inch TV is minuscule. They’re optimizing for sound on an iPad, not a full surround sound setup.
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by archon 3y ago
Agreed. After using ChatGPT at all Siri is absolutely frustrating. Example from a couple days ago: Me, in the shower so not able to type: "Hey Siri, add 1.5 inch brad nails to my latest shopping list note." Siri: "Sorry, I ca
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by archon 3y ago
Backend with a lot of existing code that's still in .Net Framework using tech like WCF and Windows Services. I could get away with doing dev directly on the Mac if I was _only_ working in .Net Core on our newer applications and if I wa
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by archon 3y ago
I'm one of that tiny percentage, but all of my development is done by remoting into a cloud Windows VM. I tried directly coding on the Mac when I first got it, but quickly gave up on that. (I hate Rider, which seems to put me in minori
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by archon 3y ago
I've had the same experience. Played multiple times, once for almost a year. The only thing that kept me playing that long was the good group of people on voice comms. I quit for the last time when I realized that life is too short to
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by archon 3y ago
Pure speculation: With so many subs now private, they're hitting a performance wall searching for enough content to fill the front page. If I'm logged in and go to the site root, it throws an error. If logged out, it works. If I g
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by archon 3y ago
I saw a web comic the other day that I think was right on the nose. Something along the lines of: "AI will eat all of the developer jobs!!!" "Nah. AI expects exact, well-reasoned requirements from management? We're safe.
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by archon 3y ago
> It's just surprising that audiobook listeners haven't developed a distinct taste apart from book readers. Sample size of 1, but: my taste in audiobooks does not perfectly overlap with my taste in dead-trees books. My audioboo
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by archon 4y ago
I've been thinking of doing this exact thing, although with a smaller 10x12 single-level shed, just because I want to learn timber framing. Would you do it again? Any specific book recommendations?
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by archon 4y ago
At one point you were talking about the possibility of updating Start Small Stay Small. Just curious if that's still on the table?
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by archon 4y ago
Not sure if you're just joking, but: Rob founded/ran several SaaS products, many of them solo. https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/about
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by archon 4y ago
I just wanted to thank you for this. This is the most succinct and easy-to-understand-for-non-investors explanation of the concept I've seen and now I think I finally understand it.
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by archon 5y ago
Not advocating for this point of view, but I think the thinking goes that even if <insert industry of choice here> wasn't any less concentrated in 2017 vs. now, the pandemic provided a lot of opportunity for price increase that m
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by archon 5y ago
At least half of people are involved in the housing market, not just immediate buyers. Because you’d better believe if residential property prices skyrocket, so will rental rates.
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by archon 6y ago
They benefit by preventing easy access to an export of the user’s data that could then be importied into a competitor’s software, thereby (presumably) locking in a non-trivial number of their own user base who don’t want to deal with the ha
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by archon 6y ago
Preface: This is an honest question, not an attempt to start a "which language is better" war. I'm proficient in C#. I haven't yet encountered any problems I can't solve with C# and the .Net open source ecosystem. (
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by archon 6y ago
Our church has taken as many precautions as we can while still remaining open for in-person services. * Offering live streaming. * Reducing capacity for services to one-quarter capacity and having our ushers enforce 6-foot (4 seats) separat
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by archon 6y ago
Chattanooga and EPB (our aforementioned fast internet) are both pretty awesome. I see a definite uptick in people from out of state moving here over the past 6 months, which is stretching the area's housing supply. We also had a tornad
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by archon 6y ago
This is part of the larger issue of the police - in Minneapolis and a lot of other places - actively resisting efforts by the public to document police actions and provide any level of accountability through those recordings. That is a free
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by archon 6y ago
Sometimes it's not about the game, it's about the people you're playing with and the conversation you have over the game.
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by archon 6y ago
I started using OBS when our church moved our services to live streaming due to the pandemic. Our mostly non-technical volunteer media team has had zero issues using it to stream to Facebook or a self-hosted Restreamer instance. Easy to use
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by archon 7y ago
There's another Voyager episode in which Tuvok is temporarily blinded and he tells the computer to turn on the tactile interface so he can work on a computer console. So even 25 years ago before everyone had a touchscreen in their pock
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by archon 7y ago
> Because they will forget lots of important details, and things that are glaringly obvious to you won't even show up on their radar. Something related that I wish I had learned much earlier: Just because that person forgets the det
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by archon 7y ago
I don't think it ever fell out of use, it just isn't written. I'm from the US south, I use both "them" and "'em" in everyday speech depending on context, but I never write "'em", even w
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by archon 8y ago
Platinum Carbon ink is supposed to be waterproof as well.

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