nephrite

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by nephrite 11mo ago
It is strange that MS added third option but lied that there was not. They could just not include it, could they?
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by nephrite 11mo ago
You're missing the point. The goal of garbage production is not to break the bots or poison LLMs, but to remove load from your own site. The author writes it in the article. He found that feeding bots garbage is the cheapest strategy,
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by nephrite 1y ago
They just reimplemented floating point with bigger mantissa and exponent. Rounding erorrs will appear with sufficiently large/small numbers.
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by nephrite 3y ago
They keep suggesting "#" and "$" but those don't work.
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by nephrite 4y ago
What I want to have, and what nobody does, is replace the computer screen with a infinite virtual screen. Same apps, windows etc. except it is in virtual reality. This way we could replace mobile phones/tablets with even smaller device
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by nephrite 4y ago
Use any character you want then use sed to replace it with tabs. Or use some macro processor.
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by nephrite 4y ago
In my setup, I use aliases or functions to have short/mnemonic names for commands. But the files on disk must always have proper extensions like .sh to quickly see what they are.
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by nephrite 4y ago
> If a user doesn't know what .ssh/ or .bash_history are, and it can hurt them to accidentally delete or modify them, why show them by default? It's like training wheels on a bike. You have permissions to prevent from acci
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by nephrite 4y ago
In Russian this phenomenon is called "бНОПНЯ" (read "b-nop-nya") and was caused by taking the word "Вопрос" (meaning: "question") in win-1251 encoding and reading it as if it was in KOI-8 encoding. Al
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by nephrite 4y ago
> having a bookmark for "Hacker News" I was punished in school for having NetHack source code in my home dir. And it was not because it was a game but because it allegedly was a hacking tool.
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by nephrite 4y ago
How long before YouTube Premium starts to show ads? Netflix already does it.
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by nephrite 4y ago
Humans created machines to do various work: to lift heavy weights, to go really fast, to fly, to float on water etc etc. It's not surprising that humans created machines that calculate real precisely, then machines that play chess and
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by nephrite 4y ago
So it wasn't an utopia. The mice had enough water and food, but they ran out of living space. It's so obvious I can't understand nobody pointed it out yet.
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by nephrite 4y ago
I haven't used an iron for ages, but old irons used dots for temperature, so the old icon represents what you would see on an actual iron.
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by nephrite 4y ago
Tags are better at connecting notes: if you want to make a two side link, it's equivalent to creating an unique tag and tagging both nodes with it. But in general you can add more nodes to a tag.
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by nephrite 5y ago
So those aren't a third sex, it's individuals with both male and female reproductive cells.
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by nephrite 5y ago
From the Wikipedia article: Prefix code: The first byte indicates the number of bytes in the sequence. Reading from a stream can instantaneously decode each individual fully received sequence, without first having to wait for either the fir
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by nephrite 5y ago
When you added all necessary features and don't know what to add you start to optimize and imporove existing features. Really, Excel could work faster and eat less memory.
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by nephrite 5y ago
So the emojis go left to right, but you have to scroll frop top to bottom, strange decision.
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by nephrite 5y ago
I open almost all links in new tabs because the sites became too large. Simple pressing "Back" in the browser takes too much time, but I can quickly switch to the previous tab.
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by nephrite 5y ago
The idea seems trivial. The original Airwick works with batteries so you just hook some SoC to it and you're done. Another pointless pretty toy.
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by nephrite 6y ago
Turing test may be a decent first approxiamtion, but not the long term goal. Consider: 1. We can't give a satisfactory definition intellect or consciousnes but 2. We know that humans have it therefore Turing test becomes the natural ch
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by nephrite 6y ago
And how does what happens in Belarus match what happens in Russia? Lukashenka and Putin are different kinds of people, they do different politics, Russian and Belarussian governments are not that alike. Just because both of them are "d
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by nephrite 6y ago
Typical https://xkcd.com/927/
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by nephrite 6y ago
Nano is great as an idea - a editor with almost no features which is small, fast and is everywhere. Howerer, it suffers from the same as all open source projects. Working on it is fun, so they add new feautres with each version. Now 'n
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by nephrite 6y ago
Many of modern aircraft is supersonic so acoustic detection would be useless, even if it technically works.
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by nephrite 6y ago
Excel works around IO problem by not having IO. User enters data into cells and the program works on them "not knowing" how the data got there.
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by nephrite 7y ago
It can be argued that since the melodies were generated by an algorithm, they are not a product of creative process and therefore not subject to copyright.
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by nephrite 7y ago
Instead of creating a web site you make your data into a archive, sign it with your key and put it anywhere (internet included, i.e. file sharing services, google mail attachments etc). You don't have a web site and server hence the
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by nephrite 7y ago
Easy: just ask the scammer where he calls from, then hang up and call them yourself. If the problem is legitimate, you get to talk to real clerk and resolve it, if not the real person will tell you that. Bonus points: tell them the phone of

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