jamalaramala

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by jamalaramala 1y ago
How designers see the icons / how I see the icons https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*X5Zz-PxT8087KG2...
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by jamalaramala 1y ago
Oh my god, this is ugly as fuck. It reminds me a study about the perception of beauty among students of arts. Before they start their studies, their perception of beauty is similar to everyone's. But as they go through their course, th
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by jamalaramala 1y ago
* Step 1: Ask for $100,000 to fund the start-up * Step 2: Open source project * Step 3: Find other streams of revenue (donations, grants, subscriptions, sponsorships)
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by jamalaramala 1y ago
Yes, $100K was a relatively small sum -- but the company that owned the rights was going bankrupt, and Blender was going to die. For a lucrative game, a reasonable value would be 2 to 4 years of earnings. For example: if the product makes $
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by jamalaramala 1y ago
Blender had moderate success when it was closed source, but not enough to pay its development, so it was going to die. After its creator raised €100,000 to release it under the GPL, Blender became the leading open-source 3D tool it is today
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by jamalaramala 1y ago
You'll probably love [TIC-80]( https://tic80.com/ ).
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by jamalaramala 1y ago
Looks like a really nice and polished project! A note to the author -- if you ever considered going open source, you could use the same strategy used by Ton Roosendaal to open source Blender: In July 2002, Ton launched a campaign called &qu
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by jamalaramala 1y ago
They were essential for branching with GOTO and GOSUB. Example: 10 PRINT "HELLO "; 20 GOTO 10 This would create an infinite loop that you could break with Ctrl+C. You could then type: 15 PRINT "WORLD "
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by jamalaramala 1y ago
Chinese EV makers are very popular in Europe and Asia.
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
There was an interesting text, by Isaac Asimov, where he explained in a very clear way the historical importance of logarithms -- they allowed Kepler to finalize his work by replacing tables of multiplications (which were difficult and erro
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
The election of Donald Trump shows that the world needs to become independent from the U.S. This is a video about Digital Sovereignty in Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWS8J2Zs7KQ
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
It probably depends on the benchmark you choose; according to Chatbot Arena, Deepseek-R1 ranks similarly to o1-2024-12-17; and Grok3 is just 3% above these models in "Arena Score" points.
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
This Youtube channel has amazing explanations, starting with: How Transistors Run Code? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjneAhCy2N4
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
> Even more concerning was Devin’s tendency to press forward with tasks that weren’t actually possible. (...) > Devin spent over a day attempting various approaches and hallucinating features that didn’t exist. One of the big problems
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
Not all bugs are crashes. It could be a copy text or price calculation.
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
It definitely is; but this bureaucracy can be useful when the company has thousands of developers.
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
> The question is: Why companies moved from monolithic to microservices? What do they try to avoid? One of the main reasons why companies move from monoliths to microservices is to promote ownership and accountability in large codebases.
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
According to the article, Section 702 sunset on December 31, 2017.
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
Why would one encrypt dates ? They are public domain!!!
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
Curiously, the easiest Google product to move away from is "google" (search): I have been using DuckDuckGo for years , both for searching and browsing. I love the ability to burn the cookies after each session! But I haven&#x27
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
> I guess it’s hard to imagine new features or even incremental quality updates as a viable business idea. There is market for privacy; but the missing piece, after so many years, is how to synchronize calendars in a seamless way.
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
From the article: > 1. GPT1, GPT2, GPT3, Codex, InstructGPT, GPT4 papers. Self explanatory. (...) > 2. Claude 3 and Gemini 1 papers to understand the competition. (...) > 3. LLaMA 1, Llama 2, Llama 3 papers to understand the leadin
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
You should use this as a sign that people don't understand "creating an account" as part of the game.
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
Kudos to the author for the amazing idea! The only problem I see is that projects don't fit so nicely in the division between languages (Pythonia, Javaland, Clojuria, etc) and applications (Gamedonia, AILandia, etc). There's a lot
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
Sometimes, before you merge your changes into master, you may want to re-organize your commits in logical chunks. For example, if you are working in two different files -- you can reorder the commits so they appear together, and then combin
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
I think it is a good practice to clean up your branch before you merge it into master. So instead of: * Change 1 * Fix typo * Change 2 * Another typo * Change 3 * That didn't work * Ops, I did it again * Rev
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
Great idea for a little app. <3 I don't see a problem with in-app purchases, but have you considered offering the unlocked app for free under Google Play Pass?
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Against Tricky Questions for LLMs: A Case for Simple and Transparent Benchmarks
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
Good thing that Europe can buy arms and oil from the US!
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by jamalaramala 2y ago
It took 30 years for computers go from entire rooms to desktops, and another 30 years to go from desktops to our pockets. I don't know if we can extrapolate, but I can imagine AI inference on our desktops for $500 in a few years...

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