firstbabylonian

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by firstbabylonian 2mo ago
Somehow it is always Russian technologists and designers who sweat this type of stuff the most and want to talk about it. When I moved from Russia to a western country in my teenage years, as a fledging web developer and previously an avid
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by firstbabylonian 4mo ago
Self-hatred is not a good look.
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by firstbabylonian 6mo ago
> SSD streaming to GPU Is this solution based on what Apple describes in their 2023 paper 'LLM in a flash' [1]? 1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11514
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Praxis News: A Free News Browser for iOS(praxisnews.app)
1 points by firstbabylonian 8mo ago|0 comments
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Browsing the Unscripted Web(nbsoftware.substack.com)
5 points by firstbabylonian 8mo ago|0 comments
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What's New in Praxis 2(newbones.substack.com)
1 points by firstbabylonian 11mo ago|0 comments
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Praxis: iOS 26 Liquid Glass update and Adaptations(newbones.substack.com)
2 points by firstbabylonian 1y ago|1 comments
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
Thanks, Firefox support is in the works.
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
Thanks — there was a cookie-related bug, which should now be resolved.
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Tō Reo – A Māori Spellchecker(xn--treo-l3a.nz)
170 points by firstbabylonian 2y ago|43 comments
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
"Streaming in 0 countries. See where"
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
Thank you for this thoughtful response.
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
It’s also something that has been historically true over and over, sadly. All ‘nice’ pacifist societies ended up getting wiped out or subjugated by their uncaring neighbours. Sustainable niceness does not exist. I wonder if we should accept
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
Nothing against you personally, but since you get the same iPhone as the non-technical folks, some compromises have to be made, and they ain’t gonna be in your favour.
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
Correct, which is why allowing no-store app delivery would unleash an even greater chaos. In a world where any random website can trick a user into downloading an app via sideloading, there's no hope to protect people from 'unclea
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
Thank you for this honest response, really. I wish you the best of luck out there.
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
Does it not get exhausting to swim against the current all the time? Don't you ever wish you could let you go and let your inner little mind take control, if not just for a moment? What you describe as being genuine and authentic and o
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
We are all animals though. That's what's freeing about the internet. I'm not sure you want to take it so seriously.
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
Yes, I edited the original comment, because I realised that you took offence in it and thought that I was addressing "you" — or the OP — specifically. It was a hyperbolic statement. Does the edit make it clear? My argument is simp
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
> ability to install an app off an unsigned IPA file for free I feel like the thinking is that there must be an entity — somebody running an app store — who could be held legally responsible for any damage caused by malware distributed v
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
I am a product of the world, and so are you.
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by firstbabylonian 2y ago
The world is harsh and uncaring. Today's internet reflects that. What used to be a safe space for dorky techies is now a cross-sectional slice of the entire society, a live reel of human nature in motion.
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
> For performance reasons, Puter is built with vanilla JavaScript and jQuery. jQuery is overdue for a comeback.
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
Clean, sensible, introverted living is overrated. There's something deeply human in the whole 'awkward dance'. Not everyone is born a great dancer, but this doesn't mean that dancing is a stupid and pointless activity. P
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
If you think of Huggingface as a source of 'fundamental models', it makes sense.
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
The story is called What’s Expected of Us, and it’s an excellent piece. Link for those who haven’t read it (it’s short): https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
I don’t know how you can expect English speakers to care about this sort of thing, when the vast majority of them don’t even pay attention to how their own language is displayed in software they develop. Every organisation I’ve worked at me
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
The Silicon Valley elite lives in a bubble, what else is new
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
Chinese Thought by Roel Sterckx
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
> why didn't somebody else just do that Yeah, who doesn't have a half-decent web search engine a couple of hundred billion dollars lying around.

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