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by rmahan 1y ago
Have you tried pdf reflow with koreader? I find it works pretty well
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by rmahan 3y ago
More training data and token lengths seem to help, given how GPT-4 scores better on a lot of standardized tests than 3 and 3.5 do. We don’t necessarily need to teach it not to lie, but just to improve accuracy through better training and tr
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by rmahan 4y ago
All of it due to having seen the answer, none of it due to reasoning, because it can’t reason
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by rmahan 4y ago
Definitely not. Electrek bought a LEV (Light Electric Vehicle) truck like this and it wasn’t. They’re unsafe for roads due to lack of many safety features
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by rmahan 4y ago
GitHub’s free code storage, static site hosting, etc. is compensation If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product.
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by rmahan 4y ago
That would essentially be at will employment, our current system. “Stopping” at two years is an improvement from our current system because employment (or rather, a salary) would be a guaranteed via a contract. People wouldn’t sign a weekly
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by rmahan 4y ago
This is a great idea for learning Go! I’ve been trying to pick it up recently and tried to do a CLI for indexing and searching through files. Reading PDFs is such a long hill to climb while trying to learn a new language. A game or somethin
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by rmahan 4y ago
Great article! Enjoyed the argument but I have a few disagreements I disagree with the response to objection 1. Look for more than a few moments at the right side picture and the shadows of the chess pieces are low quality, the shadows cont
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by rmahan 4y ago
I’m the same way, not picky as long as I can figure out where to click. I just did the reverse of KDE -> Gnome, I miss KDE here and there but I’ve been able to take the pieces I miss and replace them with gnome extensions. Gnome was fast
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by rmahan 4y ago
[citation needed]
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by rmahan 4y ago
I gave an hour presentation on the basics of CSS to my department as a junior. Other asked how I learned it so quickly and where from. I just read MDN and W3 for like a month while making slides, then played around for a bit with all I lear
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How does React concurrency improve performance in a single threaded environment?(ryanlmahan.com)
1 points by rmahan 4y ago|0 comments
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by rmahan 4y ago
A fire safe is not a fireproof safe either. Usually they are rated for up to X degrees (my personal one is 1400F) and the papers inside will start to combust around that temp.
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Drone delivery: More lift than you think(mckinsey.com)
2 points by rmahan 5y ago|0 comments
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by rmahan 5y ago
> The MetaVerse is a rehash of the Sims (or any other networked RPG game you can pick with avatars) which has now been out for ages, Clubhouse was basically an Internet conference call, WhatsApp is basically a group text/social medi
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by rmahan 5y ago
Interesting use case for an air tag. Say someone had a PO Box or mail forwarding service and you wanted to know where they live. Mail them an air tag!
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by rmahan 5y ago
The great British “baking show” or bake off, depending if pillsbury owns the trademark for bake off where you’re from.
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by rmahan 5y ago
In college I got the advice that if you couldn’t highlight text on your resume then a bot can’t read it and it might get thrown out. And if that might cause it why risk it? I think the fact it’s low cost to avoid and high cost if it occ
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by rmahan 5y ago
Go 50 miles away from your nearest city and look at the sky. There’s a ton of places people live that aren’t light polluted to a level acceptable for amateur astronomy.
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by rmahan 5y ago
What plastic did you use to 3D print it? Any worries about steam or other heat softening it over time?
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by rmahan 5y ago
Angular velocity of the edge of the plate is higher, so it is faster than the center. However this only applies to plates that have the same data density on the inside and outside rings.
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by rmahan 5y ago
Seems like he probably would have been caught either way, but would have costed and taken longer if he didn’t drop his VPN. Being one person in a closed room of people knowing about the ransom, and using PayPal over crypto to pay for a VPN
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by rmahan 5y ago
Can’t imagine a large amount of the data scientists that worked for Meta would like to work for Facebook
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by rmahan 5y ago
I think they fall into more responsibility here because they’ve also designed it to be addictive. If Facebook was easier to quit, I’d hold individuals more accountable.