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by stevesimmons 5mo ago
Also, need to bear in mind that 25-30 years ago, laptops were 10x more expensive than today. For my postdoc in 1995, my industry sponsor bought me a then top-of-the range Dell Latitude XP with 100MHz 80486, integrated 80487 coprocessor and
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by stevesimmons 5mo ago
That's only true for spot pricing, right? Longer term supply contracts can embody more "strategic" criteria.
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by stevesimmons 5mo ago
... because you may have signed a longer term contract that might in turn guarantee offtake from you rather than the other farmer? This marginal price is only for the spot market right? So the key question is more what % of the mix is spot
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by stevesimmons 5mo ago
Standard for a UK layout keyboard. shift-3 is £
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by stevesimmons 6mo ago
There have been recent articles in the FT about a man (who surname, funnily enough, sounds like swindle) who was an advisor to Palantir while also being chair of 4 NHS Trusts and pushing the trusts to put more of their data into Palantir. D
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by stevesimmons 6mo ago
Surely it's a bit early to declare "astonishing success of ... destroying Iran's capability to wage future wars". As far as I can see, the US has managed to replace an older Ayatollah Khomeini with a younger Ayatollah Kh
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by stevesimmons 7mo ago
That's not majority of trips, it's by distance travelled. Basically in the Netherlands, if you're within 5-10km, you go by bike. If public transport is reasonable, which it mostly is in urban areas, you take it. You'd al
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by stevesimmons 7mo ago
- me, also in 2010, when a junior colleague ("what would he know?") spent his bonus on bitcoin.
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by stevesimmons 7mo ago
USearch has a sqlite extension that supports various metrics on including Hamming distance on standard sqlite BLOB columns. It gets similar performance and is very convenient. (There's also an indexed variant that does faster lookups,
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by stevesimmons 8mo ago
How exactly does GDPR prevent you from complying with cybersecurity laws? For instance, one of GDPR's 6 lawful bases for processing data is in order to comply with legal obligations. If you're going to make strong claims like that
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by stevesimmons 8mo ago
We totally found this doing financial document analysis. It's so quick to do an LLM-based "put this document into this schema" proof-of-concept. Then you run it on 100,000 real documents. And so you find there actually are so
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by stevesimmons 9mo ago
Only for those inputs that are compressible. If a compressor can compress every input of length N bits into fewer than N bits, then at least 2 of the 2^N possible inputs have the same output. Thus there cannot exist a universal compressor.
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by stevesimmons 9mo ago
You can also use the =LET(...) formula to define named variables: =LET( filterCriteria, "Fred", filteredRange, FILTER(A2:D8,A2:A8=filterCriteria), IF(ISBLANK(filteredRange),"-", filteredRang
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by stevesimmons 9mo ago
Am I going mad or do some of those old.reddit comments slope downhill?
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by stevesimmons 10mo ago
> The Outlook is Superficially Stable, defined here as “By outward appearances stable unless, you know, things happen. Then we’ll downgrade after the shit hits the fan.”
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by stevesimmons 10mo ago
Really only if you ask for your data to be deleted too
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by stevesimmons 10mo ago
Why do you think the current government would be the slightest bit interested in solutions to housing, inflation or healthcare if Epstein wasn't an issue?
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by stevesimmons 10mo ago
A nice Easter egg in the Gemini 3 docs [1]: If you are transferring a conversation trace from another model, ... to bypass strict validation in these specific scenarios, populate the field with this specific dummy string: "t
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by stevesimmons 10mo ago
In contrast to Microsoft, who puts Copilot buttons everywhere and succeeds only in annoying their customers.
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by stevesimmons 10mo ago
It's worth noting these notes are 11 years old. The first give-away was the comment that in Python 3/2 is an integer, which is indeed true in Python 2 but not in Py3. For modern users of Z3, you'd want to do `pip install z3-s
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by stevesimmons 10mo ago
> gas sets the price in the merit order so we don’t want it on 24/7 I never quite understood the logic for this. Sure, if you overlay a simple upward sloping cost curve on a downward sloping demand-price curve, the market-clearing p
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by stevesimmons 10mo ago
WSL gives a pretty great Linux dev experience under Windows. As for "a large portion of the software industry is iOS native apps"... How about plugging in some assumptions here and then multiplying them together: 1. Mobile app sha
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by stevesimmons 10mo ago
Surprised their ads don't show customers getting pissed about a huge, distracting Copilot icon right in the middle of their Word document, with no ability to turn it off...
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by stevesimmons 10mo ago
For Python, you can read the PEP documents - Python Enhancement Proposals - and see the discussion of what was suggested, pros and cons, work done to determine the preferred implementation, and the final decision. https://peps.py
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by stevesimmons 10mo ago
And paradoxically, the more he tries to influence British politics, the more people become aware of his efforts, and think more negatively of him. Plus who in UK would buy a Tesla now? Other than because it was discounted.
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by stevesimmons 11mo ago
I am in the UK. I got Microsoft's emails, did not want Microsoft's forced imposition of Copilot in my Office subscription (regardless of price), found the classic option mentioned in online forums, and managed to switch to it just
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by stevesimmons 11mo ago
As someone who up to now has mainly watched Django from the sidelines, as it were, this looks great. What's are your plans for supporting Django v6? (I appreciate it's just gone alpha now, and planned prod release is not for two m
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by stevesimmons 11mo ago
This is the kind of comment that makes HN special and precious. Thank you.
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by stevesimmons 11mo ago
If you want to add signatures, the best option is to use a PDF viewer that supports that directly (FoxIt Reader, for one). That saves the original PDF plus an annotation for the signature. Second best is print using "Save as PDF".
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by stevesimmons 11mo ago
Same for me... I had been tracking Datastar for months, waiting for the 1.0.0 release. But my enthusiasm for Datastar has now evaporated. I've been bitten by the open-source-but-not-really bait and switch too many times before.

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