bigtones

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by bigtones 3mo ago
The entire premise of this article is wrong and derived from a misquote. Kristian Høgsberg, in Wayland stated his goal was a system in which "every frame is perfect, by which I mean that applications will be able to control the renderi
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by bigtones 4mo ago
Toyota recalled ALL the bZ4X electric SUV's because the wheels fell off. https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/wheels-falling...
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by bigtones 6mo ago
FYI: This world happiness report is entirely based on asking just one obtuse question, which does not even have the word happiness in the actual question: Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. Th
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by bigtones 7mo ago
That's not the same as no webhooks. It's totally using webhooks.
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by bigtones 7mo ago
Great to see you're in Sydney Brendan, and let the haters hate. You have done a brilliant job elevating your chosen specialty to the world, and encouraging and inspiring others in the industry for a long time - so you should be fairly
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by bigtones 7mo ago
Yes... and also it pays pretty damn well if your company sales team is winning. Incentives are aligned.
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by bigtones 7mo ago
Agreed - its total sales engineering as he described it.
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by bigtones 8mo ago
Same here. It just times out.
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by bigtones 9mo ago
Yeah I think that is a much more accurate take on the same subject.
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by bigtones 9mo ago
Here is a working link to the same paper: https://github.com/Anima-Core/an1-core/blob/main/papers/Post...
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by bigtones 9mo ago
I had to check this was actually Reuters and not The Onion. eye roll
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by bigtones 10mo ago
Dr Jeyanthi Kunadhasan is an Australian Anaesthetist that has been on this COVID mRNA vaccine is bad rant for a long time, and has been widely discredited in Australia. She is misinterpreting the deaths data in the trial, which unfortunate
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by bigtones 10mo ago
Yes, it looks like its using Stripe Connect under the hood. So these guys are just middle men.
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by bigtones 10mo ago
Googles weather prediction engine is already very good, and the new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season when tested against actual hurricane paths. Meanwhile, the US Government Global Forecasting System continues to get wors
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by bigtones 10mo ago
Fi Fi Lee also recently founded a new AI startup called World Labs, which focus on creating AI world models with spatial intelligence to understand and interact with the 3D world, unlike current LLM AI that primarily processes 2D images and
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by bigtones 11mo ago
Americans are very weird when it comes to metric. They often quote mobile phones as having something like "a six inch screen size but now only 12mm thick" - pick a measurement system people !
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by bigtones 11mo ago
Andrej Karpathy seems to me like a national (world) treasure. He has the ability to explain concepts and thoughts with analogies and generalizations and interesting sayings that allow you to keep interest in what he is talking about for lit
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by bigtones 11mo ago
Australia is the same. Its part of the car registration cost annually.
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by bigtones 1y ago
Note this website itself uses way more CSS than what it is proposing in the article. I count at least 300 lines all up. Still a good baseline though.
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by bigtones 1y ago
Here is my bold prediction - Microsoft will try acquire Notion within a year. Notion seems have a lot of hype lately, and Microsoft tries to be king of the hill when it comes to productivity apps, buying tools encroaching upon their turf of
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by bigtones 1y ago
Yep lightening fast now - great work !
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by bigtones 1y ago
Mattermost website is down right now with an nginx error. Does not look promising.
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by bigtones 1y ago
That was not sarcasm. They were being serious.
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by bigtones 1y ago
Yes, every link takes a feew seconds to load with no visual feedback it doing anything. Maybe work on that or put a loading bar at the top or show something.
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by bigtones 1y ago
So the article notes Anthropic states they never publicly released a frontier model that was trained on the downloaded copyright material. So were Claude 2 and 3 only trained on legally purchased and scanned books, or do they now use a diff
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by bigtones 1y ago
If the PM was also an ex-developer and has both product management and development skills this happens a lot less. When the PM knows the Engineering and complexity and code debt cost of shipping a feature then they can self-triage with that
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by bigtones 1y ago
Acoustic coupler for the win !
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by bigtones 1y ago
No....there is value in having many developers use your tool for daily code development. You should think if it as a lot more than a text editor as well, just like Github is a lot more than just hosted Git (also VC backed at first).
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by bigtones 1y ago
Right, I would like to see some examples of what he is talking about considering his tone of voice - he is literally telliong people to change their ways and use modern CSS and the entire article is devoid of such css.
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by bigtones 1y ago
Each of the fuel switches on the 787 is equipped with a locking mechanism that is supposed to prevent accidental movement, experts said. To turn the fuel supply on, the switch must be pulled outward and then moved to a “RUN” position, where

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