denismi

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by denismi 7d ago
What amount of bitcoin buys "generate highly accurate empirical measurements for the transmissibility rates of this novel virus across realistic human populations"? How about mortality rates? The loop required to make language m
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by denismi 9d ago
No you can't, I just tried it. I deleted all of my history and "paused" history tracking. Then I reloaded https://www.youtube.com . My expectation: A feed of the pages I'm subscribed to. My experience: A blank
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by denismi 1mo ago
I have not used an adblocker for many years. Ad servers seem to generally just nope out of serving me ads on their own when I have Firefox's tracking protection cranked up. Between that and Kagi down-ranking shitty ad-infested domains,
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by denismi 1mo ago
> This is like saying my Intel Pentium 3 matches Apple M5 in perf/watt ... if it was within orders of magnitude of being true, perhaps.
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by denismi 1mo ago
The article you're quoting [1] concerns itself with the creation of systemic "encryption-breaking" capabilities and exploits which said law bends over backwards to expressly prohibit [2]. [1] https://fee.org/a
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by denismi 2mo ago
On OpenRouter it seemed to only affect a couple of specific providers. Ignoring them has made it s non issue for me.
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by denismi 2mo ago
Didn't Neo4J pivot away from being a boring embedded DB which you point at a path and then traverse through Node objects, and decide to become some kind of paid platform with a client-server protocol and proprietary query DSL? I rememb
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by denismi 3mo ago
> Ask Fable to conduct an adversarial /ultareview of their PR and send the same wall of text back to them. Not necessary. Use Haiku. The response doesn't need to be good , it just needs to be substantial. Presumably the goal h
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by denismi 3mo ago
Coming from Australia, which has a more sensible electoral system, I instinctively think about "preference flows" of the minority candidates when I look at these numbers. Trump was 316,571 short of majority, Harris was 2,601,538.
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by denismi 4mo ago
> He didn’t win a majority of the votes Donald Trump plus candidates who withdrew from the race and endorsed Donald Trump DID get a majority of votes though.
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by denismi 4mo ago
As someone who runs Firefox on both Linux and Android, with Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled, and tries to use web over native mobile apps wherever possible ... I really don't feel this at all?
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by denismi 4mo ago
The first unwatched video from the user's followed/subscribed channels. Chronological, reverse chronological, sorted alphabetically, by the user's channel prioritisation, by likes, by views... whatever the user chooses. And t
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by denismi 5mo ago
Hmm.. pacman -Ss ollama | wc -l 16 pacman -Ss llama.cpp | wc -l 0 pacman -Ss lmstudio | wc -l 0 Maybe some day.
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by denismi 6mo ago
I am quite confident that the following was NOT LLM: > New users were signing up but not doing anything, they weren’t creating an org, a project, or a deployment, they just left an account sitting there. Surely the LLM version is: > N
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by denismi 7mo ago
> the only artifact left is the diff You also have code comments, docs in the repo, the commit message, the description and comments on the PR, the description and comments on your Issue tracker. Providing context for a change is a solve
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by denismi 8mo ago
"The Brutal Choice" Is there an established name for this LLMism? I don't need a "Reality Check" or a "Hard Truth". The thought can be concluded without this performative honesty nonsense or the emotive hy
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by denismi 8mo ago
> Not paying musicians anything at all if they don't have enough streams ... 1000 plays in a year? We're taking a handful of people (Close friends? A proud mother? The artist themselves?) listening a few times a week. If an art
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by denismi 9mo ago
Outside of work, I'm a very sporadic coder. On some side-projects where I'm using Actions, I'll have an inspired few days of progress followed by completely idle weeks/months/quarters. Losing free Actions doesn&#x27
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by denismi 9mo ago
This legislation left it entirely up to the service providers to determine implementation, and so far they don't seem particularly motivated to disrupt my usage by asking me to prove my age. My suspicion is that fairly simple heuristic
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by denismi 9mo ago
Australia is a Five Eyes country, with carte blanche access to data that the incumbent social media companies freely share with all the acronym deep-state authorities. Could you elaborate further on how preventing a sizeable proportion of i
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by denismi 9mo ago
So far I haven't been KYCd by anything. Aside from YouTube I don't particularly engage with any of these often, but my Google, Facebook, Discord, Twitter, Bluesky, (current) Reddit, Slack, Telegram accounts all seem to be BAU with
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by denismi 10mo ago
> Out of the five options available, only one is European (the one I am using). What I don't like is how I cannot add my own custom endpoint. What if I run Mistral locally (with Ollama, for example) and want to use that? Set up your
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by denismi 10mo ago
I got different IDs in regular browsing vs my first incognito window vs my second incognito window.
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by denismi 1y ago
It is fucking wild that we need to resort to putting pig kidneys into humans to squeeze out a few more months of life, while tens of millions of perfectly good human organs are burned or left to rot in the ground each year.
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by denismi 1y ago
I recently moved away from pass after a decade or so. Two main reasons: 1. This laptop up was set up with flatpak versions of all GUI applications, including Firefox, and the browser plugin just doesn't work. I persisted with the work-
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by denismi 1y ago
This pre-election BBC summary - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy343z53l1o - pretty clearly spells out what has eventuated, describing it as a "central campaign pledge": > Trump has made tariffs a
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by denismi 1y ago
The em-dash everywhere. The constant bullet-lists with bolded titles. The emoji-annotated asides for emphasis.
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by denismi 1y ago
Convenient timing! I've moved my credentials over from pass to Vaultwarden about a month ago (after discovering the pass Android app was abandoned and pulled off app stores), and spent the last two weeks since discovering Pocket ID mig
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by denismi 1y ago
I've pulled the trigger. When Pebble died I decided that I'd rather less smart and more battery than more smart and less battery, so I got a Withings watch and have been reasonably happy since. But this looks really good now and I
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by denismi 1y ago
> The latest Daikin indoor units have a built-in WiFi module which only allows control through their cloud infrastructure. Which ones? My Alira X from a couple of years ago is currently talking directly to Home Assistant over WiFi. For a

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