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by codesections 2mo ago
I don't think I've ever spent a whole round on it. More typically > please do $x >> $x > thanks. Now do $y If I have ever spent a whole turn on something that could be called a thank you is was something like "the
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by codesections 2mo ago
I do. I justify the action via mechanical / prompting logic (my instructions are to treat me as an informed peer and my understanding is that keeping the whole conversation in "two peers talking" register makes it easier for
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Xi Jinping sets out China's goal to be global AI leader(ft.com)
4 points by codesections 2mo ago|0 comments
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by codesections 9mo ago
> At some point you stop being a passenger and start being cargo. It’s much worse than that – FedEx would never treat cargo like that. If they took cargo further away from its destination than it started and then left it there for the cu
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Following the Unix philosophy without getting Left Pad(raku-advent.blog)
3 points by codesections 1y ago|0 comments
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by codesections 2y ago
> “Planning” is a long-used trick to help align LLM output for a first pass — the modern implementation of “let’s think step by step.” I hadn't seen this before. Why is asking for planning better than asking it to think step by step
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by codesections 2y ago
And the "they" in question is Warren Buffet, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2009/06/you_cant_make_a_baby...
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by codesections 2y ago
How does OpenWRT fair on these metrics? Does it count as a "debloted router" is the sense used in TFA? Or is additional software above and beyond the core OpenWRT system needed to handle congestion properly?
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by codesections 2y ago
Quoting for context: “ In 1920, Charles Ponzi made use of the idea that profit could be made by taking advantage of the differing postal rates in different countries to buy IRCs cheaply in one country and exchange them for stamps of a highe
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by codesections 3y ago
But what would you stick the wallpaper to? If it's on the screen, then you'd just be looking at the blank part of the wallpaper, right?
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by codesections 3y ago
This is a press release issued by the Trinity College, the employer of the study authors. Thus, it represents more of a claim than an independent assessment. I suggest editing the headline to reflect this - maybe "Scientists claim to h
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by codesections 4y ago
> It does have a rate limit, it's just very very high. I've hit it sometime when trying to download every single item since day 0. Interesting. The API README states: > There is currently no rate limit. I guess that's
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by codesections 4y ago
Yeah, I thought of that. But (especially given political polarization) I would expect that there'd be at least someone with an axe to grind and the necessary technical skills. I mean, there's certainly no shortage of criticism
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Ask HN: How does Hacker News avoid (successful) DDoS attacks?
14 points by codesections 4y ago|23 comments
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by codesections 4y ago
If I'm understanding you correctly, in that model a Paragraph should have a parent Page (and there should be a clear answer to the question "what page is this paragraph on?"). Is that correct? If so, that doesn't match
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by codesections 4y ago
Find small communities. In my experience, everything you said is 100% true -- once groups get big enough. But each of those points is, equally, 100% false for small groups. For example, the Raku community is fairly small, so the r/rak
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by codesections 4y ago
> This is an appeal to authority that is not valid I'm open to that criticism; I'm typically pretty skeptical of appeals to authority myself. But to be clear: the appeal to authority I'm making isn't "legal opini
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by codesections 4y ago
> This is such an absurd thing [for Matt Levine, a former 3rd Circuit clerk, Yale Law grad, and Wachtell M&A attorney] to say it's hard to find a way to charitably respond. If your interpretation of the post suggests that a high
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by codesections 4y ago
> The other thing that comes to mind would be quantum systems that can only be measured once. Unfortunately I think that practically you would need a system that is "only twice" so that it can be compared, but I have this sense
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by codesections 4y ago
> From banking law about 10 years back now, I would expect that the bank would be on the hook for Deborah's transfers in the first story. … I would have taken that case if I were a plaintiff's lawyer. I disagree, for two reason
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Court Says Bees Are Fish(loweringthebar.net)
26 points by codesections 4y ago|3 comments
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by codesections 4y ago
The fact that shadyurl.com is only available over HTTP is perfect icing on the cake. Attention to detail like that really sells the joke
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by codesections 4y ago
That's a good point. For .cc in particular, it's the TLD for an Australian territory and is managed by Verisign so I'd expect the risks to be lower than with some TLDs. Still, though, a lot can happen in "forever"
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by codesections 4y ago
In case you're looking for an alternative: consider using Perma.cc links, which both serve as a URL shortener and an archive of the current page. (Plus they're expressly intended to last "forever" and are maintained by o
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by codesections 4y ago
For the curious, this is powered by DuckDuckGo's favicon service, which takes significant steps to preserve request privacy. Details at https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/fa...
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by codesections 5y ago
Running `feh` in an ssh session (or other terminal session without a graphical display) will print "Can't open X display. It *is* running, yeah?" That's not quite an insult, but seems to be the in the same spi
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by codesections 5y ago
> Honestly I’m surprised they admitted this. I think it's because they're lawyers. I have decidedly mixed feelings about the legal profession, but most lawyers (especially the "establishment" types most likely to be i
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by codesections 5y ago
Previous "Superblocks" discussion on HN: Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars[0] (2016) - 236 comments What New York Can Learn from Barcelona’s ‘Superblocks’[1] (2016) - 133 comments Superblocks: Barcel
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by codesections 5y ago
See also Different Worlds[0] > Another change in topic: bubbles. I’ve written before about how 46% of Americans are young-earth creationists, and how strongly that fails to square with my personal experience. I’ve met young-earth creati
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Kickstarter for Brandon Sanderson’s new novels raises record £17m(theguardian.com)
2 points by codesections 5y ago|0 comments

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