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by swerling 2y ago
Thanks for the smile OP. How soon until the 1/25-scale cray C90 gets as many MIPS as the original? Seems like the one he built is within shouting distance.
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by swerling 4y ago
On GPT-3.5 and now on GPT-4, I told it a line I could remember from a sonnet, and asked it to give me which sonnet it came from. It failed, and fabricated a sonnet that was a mashup of other sonnets. It seems like maybe GPT-4 is not good at
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The Right to Forget Those That Request to Be Forgotten (Because: Apple IAP)
1 points by swerling 6y ago|2 comments
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by swerling 6y ago
Apple announced it way back in about 2011 or 2012. Here is the sequence of events for our company: 2012-ish: apple requires IAP be an option if you have payment subscriptions. This date might be slightly off, I think it was way back then. 2
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by swerling 6y ago
I think this is wrong, and really the crux of the problem. The app store is not a platform, it is a marketplace. Apple has used control of that marketplace to impose a technology that we would not otherwise use and adds no value to our prod
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by swerling 6y ago
Point taken. But I would suggest, for that point to really resonate, Apple would have to make some changes in how they enforce these rules, and other aspects of IAP: 1. Provide a grace period Apple blocked our app release one release after
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by swerling 6y ago
When people look at this issue they tend to fixate on the 30/15% 'tax'. Is it fair? Is it not? The commission is not nothing, obviously, but misses a larger point. Apple did to Hey what they did to our company. One day we sub
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by swerling 8y ago
Rather than repair it in space, would it be easier to bring it back to earth, refurbish it and relaunch? That would be $120M plus refurbish costs. Or am I underestimating how hard it would be to bring it back to the ground?
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by swerling 8y ago
The ruby version looked a bit odd to me. It would be unusual to not use regex in this context. I'm not sure if this is in the spirit of the test, but using regex reduced the time from 27s to 0.04s on my machine. require 'ben
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by swerling 9y ago
Sorry about that. Put it back in the post under the list.
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by swerling 9y ago
From wsj.com: "...some site-selection experts to speculate Mr. Bezos may choose a location where an influx of workers could help promote political change..." Playing with that notion. Premise: 50k tech workers would have more impa
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The Night Zombie Smartphones Took Down 911(wsj.com)
1 points by swerling 10y ago|0 comments
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by swerling 10y ago
I've got an 80-year-old row house in Queens, NY. Family of 4, no pets. Our electricity usage is well below yours. We don't make a huge effort to conserve, and I don't believe our house is particularly well insulated. We have
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by swerling 11y ago
This is fantastic. Feature request: drag a rectangle over a group of dots, and see them as a text list of websites. As is it's hard to see all the sites that are in a dense dot cluster.
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by swerling 14y ago
That would be the sixteenth amendment to The Constitution of the United States of America.
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by swerling 15y ago
Beautifully done, I love this. I look forward to reading the code. Thanks.
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by swerling 17y ago
The Rails backlash sometimes seems bigger then the hype ever was, and is cloying (so savvy, so de riguer). But this article is not one of those (you might think so from its title). The error messages really could use some TLC.
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by swerling 17y ago
Mu. The question is unasked.
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by swerling 17y ago
> 'For fun, I placed a second large message > halfway through the newspaper: "Stop > counting. Tell the experimenter you have > seen this and win £250." Again, the unlucky > people missed the opportunit
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by swerling 17y ago
While the article does not go into specifics about the "Science" involved, it is not hard to find hard science that show unequivocally that only lowering calories lowers weight, eg. this one from the New England Journal of Medicine: http:/
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by swerling 17y ago
Exactly. California is, hands down, the innovation capital of the world, and has been for decades. Whatever lunacy the political winds are blowing these last few years doesn't undo the accomplishments of the last 100 years: the movie indust