riversflow

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by riversflow 9d ago
Here is a link to the actual report which is better than this paywalled editorialization. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volum...
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by riversflow 9d ago
huh. goes to show how much browser selection impacts things. the OMP Qwen result is completely unresponsive in free cam on my iphone, whereas the opencode version is responsive, has multitouch zoom and multitouch pan. the glm models do re
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by riversflow 14d ago
yeah, isn’t that the main focus of discipline of software engineering?
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by riversflow 23d ago
Wouldn’t any software that is a client and relies on a proprietary server to function (like most modern AAA games) be “closed source” under this definition? Not that I agree with this definition of open source btw, just saying that there is
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by riversflow 28d ago
i would agree with your if it weren’t for this article recently published by anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta “Throughout this process, Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude
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IBM and the University of Chicago Demonstrate Quantum Advantage(newsroom.ibm.com)
3 points by riversflow 28d ago|0 comments
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by riversflow 1mo ago
you should review the data on processed meat. It's one of the least healthy things you can eat.
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by riversflow 1mo ago
yeah i'm genuinely baffled by this too. I read this attitude frequently and I'm tending towards the conclusion that its simply a loud minority of people. I don't know anyone who acts like this in real life. How is an LLM summ
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by riversflow 3mo ago
I have more energy in my 30s than my 20s
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by riversflow 3mo ago
you should see people who play competitive fps games fly through windows menus and websites. the reason I think mousing is superior to keyboard is when you attain a high skill level of eye hand coordination, you are completely adaptable to
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by riversflow 4mo ago
Is a photograph art?
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by riversflow 4mo ago
disdain for dumping industrial sludge into rivers is quite high too. if you don’t demand regulated domestic production it will just get moved to the least regulated place with the best underlying economics, I imagine you know this though…
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by riversflow 4mo ago
Nuclear bombs and ICBMs aren’t a net positive for society either, but not pursuing them is bad geopolitical strategy.
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by riversflow 4mo ago
lol, i think the LLM shows more wisdom here than the average person. Functionally, being 50m away from the car wash is at the car wash if you have a dirty car in your possession that needs cleaning . Realistically, the only reason you ex
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by riversflow 4mo ago
nah, there is no reason they should be discharging any hexavalent chromium, we have better, less insanely toxic ways of chroming things. trivalent chromium is much less toxic, hexavalent chromium should be banned world-wide. what's m
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by riversflow 4mo ago
Collecting crime data is already in their purview. Thats literally what this is. If this was an app that primarily facilitated contract murder, this would be obviously justifiable. Seems to me you and many others here just don’t actually b
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by riversflow 5mo ago
Earth's resources are finite, both in terms of raw materials and ability to absorb pollution. Stewardship of our resources entails the regulation of the things we create with those resources such that our collective consumption is cons
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by riversflow 5mo ago
> 3M Since it hasn’t been mentioned in this thread: 3M 94 primer with 3M VHB tape is truly amazing stuff for bonding things with high surface energy.
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by riversflow 5mo ago
Man, it's almost like materialism actually is a root of suffering. Who'da thunkit?
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by riversflow 5mo ago
I mean we have academia, which is essentially secular study. Moreover Atheist don't need to go to church together to indoctrinate their beliefs, that happens every day when no miracles happen and the world continues to be kill or be ki
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by riversflow 5mo ago
I’m not crazy like some people, but I’ve broken screens many times and every time it has been in a case, one time it was in a case I specifically bought for extra protection. Half of my screen breaks have been from getting out of my car wit
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by riversflow 6mo ago
In such situations I'll put it in Low Power Mode & Water Mode which works fairly well locks it down from stray input.
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by riversflow 6mo ago
> I use all the shortcuts subconsciously. I realize you probably are referencing visual studio, but at the OS level KDE plasma seems to have copped Windows hot keys wholesale. I was giving it a go recently and was delighted that even met
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by riversflow 6mo ago
Life is too short for liars.
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by riversflow 6mo ago
Here is the announcement on X. https://x.com/antigravity/status/2031835833716625883 They retoactively reduced (and introduced for Pro3.1) their weekly quotas. I've been building with Antigravity on a Pro subs
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by riversflow 7mo ago
> They came down hard on asset-flipping shovelware before the rise of AI That’s not what I remember, I remember PUBG being a viral hit that extensively used asset flipping.
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by riversflow 7mo ago
Maybe try this? I have great results on the ios keyboard by simply making two changes to the keyboard settings. I turn off auto-correct, and turn off slide to type. I made this transition when they first introduced slide to type, as that se
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by riversflow 7mo ago
Yes? Not like we can prove one way or the other.
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by riversflow 7mo ago
Amazing how often people do that. Corporations have very little incentive to be truthful and often have good reason to be dishonest. I notice it particularly wrt video games, gamers are always taking studio’s messaging as gospel and not cor
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by riversflow 7mo ago
Power seekers acquire power, not knowledge seekers. This is from Plato’s The Republic so about as old as it gets.

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