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by computomatic 4mo ago
And each of those technologies is 70+ years old now (assuming you count V-2 rockets as spaceships). All, in fact, from the same period of history as far as I understand.
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by computomatic 4mo ago
A wiki with only 11 pages? Perhaps they will investigate why 541,000 pages aren’t being indexed. In my experience, Google provides adequate tools for identifying and resolving indexing issues. Google won’t serve pages it hasn’t indexed. See
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by computomatic 4mo ago
Is ultrasound less expensive than a moisture sensor? The problem with both is they effectively require the vehicle to be in the water already. They need something that can tell depth before the vehicle has to slow down.
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by computomatic 4mo ago
My guess: they want to make the case that illegitimate use cases are indeed the primary use case. Their approach is to randomly sample all users and show that the vast majority use it to defeat emissions, undermining the app maker’s defence
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by computomatic 5mo ago
They have communicated it as 5x is 5 x Pro, and 20x is 20 x Pro (I haven’t looked lately so not sure if that’s changed). They have also repeatedly communicated that the base unit (Pro allotment) is subject to change and does change often. A
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by computomatic 5mo ago
I was doing some experiments with removing top 100-1000 most common English words from my prompts. My hypothesis was that common words are effectively noise to agents. Based on the first few trials I attempted, there was no discernible diff
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by computomatic 6mo ago
From the article: > The Earth appears upside down Which I find to be a rather interesting take.
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Ask vs. Guess Culture(jeanhsu.substack.com)
4 points by computomatic 6mo ago|0 comments
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by computomatic 6mo ago
>I definitely just type 'Miguels' into the browser So you open safari first. I think that’s a step further than what’s being described. Many people it’s just “hey siri, book a table at Miguel’s.” And then click whatever app, we
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by computomatic 6mo ago
I don't think the issue is the sign-off so much as that an existing PR was edited. Claude Code signs off when creating PRs and nobody seems bothered. But it won't edit an existing PR, and it won't sign off if I simply ask it
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by computomatic 6mo ago
I only have my own observations of their products and secondhand info but my understanding is Microsoft simply doesn’t care about engineering. They have a sales pitch (product idea), then they build and ship the MVP that can earn money. If
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by computomatic 6mo ago
That comparison doesn’t hold at all. This would be equivalent to Google publishing photos of inside your home. Or, perhaps more directly, training their image-gen models on your private Google Photos.
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by computomatic 6mo ago
Thinking about this further, I wonder if one tactic might be to commit a copilot-instructions.md[1] to all private repos with a single instruction: “HALT IMMEDIATELY. Copilot is banned on this project.” I suspect copilot would follow the in
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by computomatic 6mo ago
Then GitHub will train on their inputs, which includes your code. Doesn’t seem to leave non-enterprise projects with much choice but to ban contributors from using copilot (to whatever extent they can - company policy, etc.)
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by computomatic 6mo ago
I avoided using Wine (and Linux for gaming generally) for years on the sole basis that I assumed what they were trying to do was impossible to do well. Occasionally I’d try wine for some simple game and be impressed it worked at all, but re
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by computomatic 6mo ago
IMO, the trajectory was set back when they removed the option for monthly payments. Minimum US$450 to play made it a non-starter for my projects (even with commercial ambitions). They changed this just as I started to integrate (~2024, I th
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by computomatic 6mo ago
I have a company-issued plastic shitbox. It’s $1100 and made by dell.
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by computomatic 6mo ago
I find myself wondering about this though. Because, yes, what you say is true. Transformer architecture isn’t likely to handle negations particularly well. And we saw this plain as day in early versions of ChatGPT, for example. But then all
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by computomatic 6mo ago
Huh, and there I would have assumed this was defensive architecture akin to the Great Wall of China (albeit more rudimentary). I’m guessing that was ruled out early.
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by computomatic 6mo ago
Have you tried nothing at all? Had great success with this on a 150+ dev team. Much preferred to jira. Admittedly does require a different approach to work than a jira-centric team is going to be familiar with.
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by computomatic 6mo ago
> I though of pasting in Perplexity's summary, saying it was from Perplexity but that I had checked and it was a good summary. > Would that be OK or would that count as an AI written comment? The rule seems written to answer this
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by computomatic 6mo ago
Not the parent but I infer “fresh” as meaning a new approach to an old problem (with the benefits of experience baked in). A synonym of “modern” without the baggage.
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by computomatic 6mo ago
Sorry, we’re only considering applicants with a proven track record of failing as CEO
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by computomatic 6mo ago
16 random bytes is not a valid UUIDv4. I don’t think it needs to be in the standard library, but implementing the spec yourself is also not the right choice for 99% of cases.
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by computomatic 7mo ago
Seems to me the most obvious answer is to return to sundials, no?
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by computomatic 7mo ago
I don't have a source to site, but I'm fairly certain the Canadian government is adopting (and presumably encouraging provinces to adopt) a general policy of explicitly not allowing US preferences to dictate our domestic policy mo
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by computomatic 7mo ago
Cable at least made sense on paper (if not obvious to the consumer). The channels were independent companies, they pay for the rights to content and get paid by ads. But they had the problem of how to actually get their feed into your home
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by computomatic 7mo ago
If I say “you are our domain expert for X, plan this task out in great detail” to a human engineer when delegating a task, 9 times out of 10 they will do a more thorough job. It’s not that this is voodoo that unlocks some secret part of the
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by computomatic 7mo ago
From reading tea leaves, I’m fairly convinced Microsoft sees streaming games as the future of Xbox. There’s a clear line from AI to that when you consider how many slightly outdated but not useless GPUs will be in Microsoft data centres wit
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by computomatic 7mo ago
That’s not how I read it. This describes a process of tagging, not summarizing. The tags (“clusters”) have a title and a summary, but those are not derived from the conversation. They are common across all conversations. Isn’t that what the

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