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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
That is an S tier domain name/title
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
I think my main issue with it is that you don't end up with the impression of brush strokes on those areas - in a painting even big flat areas of colour tend to have clear evidence of brush strokes
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
The effect looks decent in the foreground of some pictures, particularly the wolf and the cat. It really exaggerates the depth of field in the background, though, and those areas feel like someone ran a posterise after a blur, rather than b
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
Deepseek flash (especially after the recent update) has to be one of the most slept-on models. Price-performance is ridiculous, and its available on a number of cheap coding subscriptions
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
Man, if only some sitting politicians would take up the call.
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> Language models are based on compression of information, using them as a knowledge base is entirely within capability It's also the aspect of LLMs that degrades fastest with quantisation. You can't reasonably expect accurate
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> angry at Microsoft for removing half the features in any control panel inside Windows Tbf, I'm not sure anyone is any at Microsoft for removing things. They are angry because Microsoft does not actually remove those settings, th
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
Having the menu exist at all is already well onto the slippery slope - once upon a time the screenshots went directly into the photo library, without any interstitial at all... And at the time, everyone was perfectly fine with opening the p
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> Maybe the effect is that solar panels lose efficiency when too hot They do. One of the odd fringe benefits of agrovoltaics is that the plants beneath the panel slightly lower the panel temperatures through transpiration.
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
Outside of tech circles, it's pretty normal to avoid using the uncommon prefixes. Nobody says the Earth has a 40 megameter circumference...
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
Wat. Those are some crazy benchmark scores for a 3B model
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
You strap your harness to your bootstraps, and then you can pull yourself up by your own bootstraps... right?
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> Did employees get official approval to create secondary accounts? Yeah, at orientation they told us it was an option. I don't recall more than a couple of people taking advantage - if you go to work for Meta you've probably m
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> Is it standard practice at both Apple and OpenAI for employees to use their personal icloud account for work? This doesn't seem out of line with common practices at other big tech firms. If you go work at Meta, your personal Faceb
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
Agreed. We've just seen DeepSeek post-train their ~300 billion parameter flash model to outperform their 1.6 trillion parameter pro model, in the space of a few months. There would seem to still be quite a few opportunities on the tabl
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> Most people can't justify the time commitment needed to read and then modify the code for tools they use very often. Hell, even when I can justify the time commitment for that, I can't justify the ongoing maintenance burden o
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
This is more or less what those lovely 1.5 bit quantisations are already doing
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> what is the sum of things that happened and did not happen due to photography or spreadsheets or notes In someways the problem here is the inverse one might expect. Without photography, the entire modern world does not exist - it'
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> Asking "what have note-taking apps accomplished?" is like asking "what have spreadsheets accomplished?" or "what have cameras accomplished?" I think you have to be somewhat careful with this line of reason
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> I'm very curious what organisations would have such a policy Do you provide SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, or similar certifications to your b2b customers? Then your tech stack undergoes an annual audit, and in your audit you will need to pro
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
The exception here is probably in very small companies. I'm curious to see if LLMs can usher in a new golden age of the one-programmer-one-designer-one-sales indie teams that typified so much of the 80s and 90s...
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> you've mostly increased the team's work queue rather than its throughput Amdahl’s law remains unbeaten
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
For all that Playboy may have some NSFW attached, their articles section is pretty tame. Also published a lot of good sci-fi over the years...
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
What language is the girl singing in?
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> How is the capex on 8 * MI354X even remotely justified at less than $10/h? Is anyone actually renting them out that cheap? The very cheapest on-demand price I see online is $14, and most providers are a lot higher
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
Even though none of us could actually afford to train it?
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
This is an industry that evolves extremely slowly. A decade back one of the big players in this space was still using a software emulation of their original hardware relay logic, because it was cheaper than retraining all the technicians...
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> Everything bigger is clearly meant to be consumed over multiple sittings or by multiple people. The same thing happened with crisps (potato chips). The small bags that were standard when I was a kid in the 90s can now only be found in
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
Yeah, this is a fear I keep bumping up against. Even relatively simple things like setting up pihole for my home network has pretty severe bus factor - if I get hit by a bus, no one else in the family would be able to fix the internet, shor
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by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> sleep consultant I'm not sure I believe this is a real job. Do we really need to pay consultants to tell us that babies need naps?

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