pavlus

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by pavlus 2mo ago
Cold air is more dense, than hot air. In winter the difference between the room air temperature and outdoor air temperature is much bigger, so the density difference is much bigger, making Archimedes force stronger and the airflow stronger
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by pavlus 3mo ago
I've actually tried something like that, with two tools: * push("What I'm about to do"), * pop("What I've achieved"). "Push" marks the position in current context after the call and returns &quot
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by pavlus 4mo ago
It doesn't work in other languages. Searching the same in my native language (literal translation of "disregard definition") leads to (translated): > I understand. Write what exactly your request is, or enter the text that
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by pavlus 4mo ago
You will be right, but we already see this blame-shifting with "AI deleted my production"/"AI told me to do it" and washing it away with "AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses". They will try to
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by pavlus 4mo ago
> the correlation between $just_bought_thing and $will_buy_another is very, very high This looks like an argument against advertising the same thing. Why would you advertise something, they were already going to buy? But showing an ad be
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by pavlus 4mo ago
I'd add: since the AI is now referring the product "as if" it's an honest advice from a secondary source, they would be exempt from the usual advertisement rules. Effectively, if you were to search "the best oatmeal
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by pavlus 4mo ago
I'd assume they meant self-hosted inference.
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by pavlus 4mo ago
If it's a subsidiary - they can't capitalize on the big name in marketing. If it's a subscription - they don't get the "buy now, play never" customers from Steam. I think it will be a win regardless.
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by pavlus 4mo ago
I think it's the right moment to acknowledge that Epic Games handled discontinuation of Unreal series well and responsibly [0] and how standalone servers were good for community. * When GameSpy announced shutdown, patches were released
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by pavlus 5mo ago
I don't believe there is a country in the world, where parking on bike lanes is explicitly allowed. Merging before turns and stops for drop/pickup/load/unload sure. But not parking.
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by pavlus 6mo ago
Yes, this is the bias we are looking for. If you can't quit vim, don't know how your frontend communicates with your backend, can't type on a regular qwerty keyboard without looking at letters, or navigate UI without mouse, n
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by pavlus 6mo ago
It's not about using vim, it's about when you had to sudoedit a config on a server you visited the first time, and it had vim as default EDITOR, so you have to know how to exit it and open nano, or whatever you use. It's abou
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by pavlus 6mo ago
I'd say, their degree is BS. You can't finish Uni as a EE, without using a scope a few times.
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by pavlus 6mo ago
That rant is especially funny, because its author (probonopd) was responsible for some of the things he was ranting about, by ignoring pull requests to his projects, that would resolve them.
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by pavlus 6mo ago
> Further, it's reported that it takes dozens of FPVs to kill a single "hedgehog tank", which brings the total cost of one kill to a rough parity with "classic", "expensive" systems like the Javelin, ex
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by pavlus 6mo ago
> They still can't produce a domestic ballistic missile at scale, because it's genuinely hard Also, because it costs a lot and there are only two benefits of ballistic over cruise (if you exclude delivering nuclear payloads, wh
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by pavlus 6mo ago
Your microwave is leaky, and/or not grounded, but since you don't experience static, I assume you have grounding at your house. Without grounding static and mains hum is quite noticeable. Try touching the body of your pc and liste
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by pavlus 6mo ago
* They don't need charging, but you will hear static regularly when attaching/detaching/touching things. Also, they pick up RF interference (TBF, BT ones also drop packets in RF-noisy environments, but they seem to be more re
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by pavlus 6mo ago
It could know by respecting the DNT flag and don't even ask in the first place.
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by pavlus 6mo ago
Why would they decide on "who", if nobody shows enough effort to signal on "what"? Whining doesn't count while the result is achieved, because "it works" and "don't fix it if it ain't broke
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by pavlus 7mo ago
Too little, too late.
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by pavlus 7mo ago
PAC-3s are definitely used against ballistics, and russians are making more ballistics now than ever with China's equipment. Drones and ballistics. Cruise missiles can be intercepted by much more simple systems, including fighter jets,
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by pavlus 7mo ago
There is a tool invented lately, that's very good for solving problems, that are well-researched and had been solved multiple times already. This tool is actually why there is a RAM shortage in the world right now. Some even say, this
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by pavlus 7mo ago
That would affect sexual selection, which can have consequences for the following generations, if there will be any.
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by pavlus 7mo ago
Sometimes it's "who". Teams can ignore the elephant in the room, and be grateful if someone moves it away at the same time.
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by pavlus 8mo ago
I imagine, it could actually be useful for architects, to see how other people and environment will butcher their creation, so they could learn how to make it better with that in mind. Edit: oh, it's right there at the bottom of the pa
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by pavlus 8mo ago
I'm carrying my 13 Pro without a case, to see it's Alpine Green glory and feel the matte finish on the back. It's been perfectly fine for the last almost 4 years, some minor scratches on the steel edges I fixed with a sandpap
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by pavlus 8mo ago
Would you like to work for a company, where CEO is busy reprimanding people looking for a job, instead of doing his actual job, anyway?
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by pavlus 8mo ago
Using spray-and-pray job-sites allows employers to analyze the market, so they can feel the quality, quantity and the price of proposition, to negotiate wages and assess if they can afford to hire to grow, or shrink to get lean. Connecting
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by pavlus 8mo ago
> huge number of people who seem to be unable to get good results out of LLMs for code Could it be, they use other definition of "good"?

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