sugarkjube

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by sugarkjube 4d ago
I looked at fossil a long time ago and liked it a lot, but settled on git as it's more "standard". I guess I will have to take a look at fossil again. Off-topic, but I kinda like the style sheet of this article.
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by sugarkjube 4d ago
looks nice but seems to be rather expensive
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by sugarkjube 5d ago
Reminds me of this old joke. A Soviet citizen and an American are sitting next to each other on a commercial flight. The American turns to the Russian and says, "I have to hand it to you — your state propaganda is very impressive. You
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by sugarkjube 24d ago
same is true for writing code : in order to get better at writing code, reading other people's code can help a lot.
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by sugarkjube 2mo ago
Indeed, it's mentioned in the article: "The measure is an environmental protection requirement to avoid discharging too much hot water into rivers already warming from the heatwave." France (and to a lesser extent large parts
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by sugarkjube 2mo ago
Looks like someone had the same idea https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/reflect-o...
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by sugarkjube 3mo ago
> For instance, when I get (got: my blood pressure is treated) migraine visual effects, I would say "lightning bolt" but thats just a textual analogue/simile. What I actually saw was more complex than that: lightning is wh
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by sugarkjube 3mo ago
Killing your customers is not the best way to stay in business
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by sugarkjube 5mo ago
> But given how essential the internet is to everything we do on a daily basis, that makes a lot of sense. Well, water is certainly more essential, yet it isn't free. Food isn't free. Shelter isn't free. Besides, the servi
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by sugarkjube 6mo ago
Not sure this was blind luck. They had a few people on the inside, who handed over Maduro to the US. May have been internal conflict in Venuzuela using US to get rid of Maduro. Maybe US also had people on the inside in Iran, but killed them
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by sugarkjube 11mo ago
Interesting. But not not only blind people. I'm gooing to try this question this weekend with some people, as h0 hypotesis i think the answer i will get would be usually like "what an odd question" or "why do you ask&quo
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by sugarkjube 11mo ago
Now that's an interesting point of view. Involving blind people would be an interesting experiment. Anyway, until the sixties the ability to play a game of chess was seen as intelligence, and until about 2-3 years ago the "turing
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by sugarkjube 1y ago
just get a foldable keyboard with your ar glasses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985513
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by sugarkjube 1y ago
101010 - I'm guessing you know, and want to find out how long it takes for someone to notice and respond.
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by sugarkjube 1y ago
> Star Trek communicator As a trekkie this was a dream come true. Unfortunately we still don't have a tricorder yet (despite Elisabeth Holmes' promise). But we do have the apps and the games, they didn't have these in star
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by sugarkjube 1y ago
Yeah, if you know it's markov, you can exploit that.
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by sugarkjube 1y ago
Got bored after 24 rounds. was up 20, 12 wins, 6 losses. If you know it's learning using markov, you can exploit that. (Just tried to imagine what the computer would do based on my/his history, and tried to switch my strategie dur
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by sugarkjube 1y ago
Whenever I go to a tech conference, I see slide after slide filled with a wall of text, or in the best case 3 to 5 bullet points with text only. A picture says more than a thousand words. As much as I'd like to use a simple markdown ba
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
How do you know whether a sunset is beautiful?
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
Shows nicely what's going on. If you ask a human, they will answer 3. Sometimes they say 4. Or 2. That's it. An LLM produces a text using an example it was trained on. They were trained with these elaborate responses, so that&#x27
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
Anyone knows if this is related to matrix.org ? Or totally unrelated?
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
Google byo yomi
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
Maybe not yet in US, but EU just launched 30-40% tarifs on chinese EV while it's car industry faces a major crisis and huge lay offs. [edit] OK, :-( i missed that US has also huge tarifs on EV.
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
> Australia has a long and not-particularly-storied history of extreme border restrictions. A joke I sometimes tell during conversations when australia comes up: "You know, Australia is a great country so I once was thinking of migr
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
I love it. This is going to be my new mantra.
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
The secret to success is not mentioning your failures. (Think about a famous photographer who's showing a few great pictures you could never have made yourself. Well, he isn't showing the 10.000 others he made but were not good en
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
Pacman packing?
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
Well, thing is, most people can't. In a lawyers view, and a judge's view, some skilled expert "hackers" can, and its called hacking. (so i guess we're all hackers) I once discussed these things with a (knowledgeable
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
Don't know about linux, but (left) alt-shift in windows does.
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
> the top end of performance is not great I wonder how much is possible on that level. Not an expert myself, but I've read a critique on RISCV ISA by a ISA designer [1] which I think mentioned several design choices that may make it

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