urlwolf

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by urlwolf 10mo ago
Very interesting to read this. I've never had breakage, but now I'm questioning whether this is the exception, not the rule. On ubuntu, every new version broke something, sometimes updates make the computer boot to a blank screen.
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by urlwolf 10mo ago
Forgot to mention Nvidia CUDA is now a first-class citizen. Nix becomes a support target for Nvidia. How times have changed, thanks to Google scaring the bejezus of Nvidia by running Gemini on their TPUs. Nvidia may finally get their act to
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by urlwolf 10mo ago
The only linux distro where I've never experienced disruption whatsoever when a new version comes in. A testament to the validity of the approach they are using (immutability). They also have a simple way to package things, and this pr
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by urlwolf 1y ago
It's not the case anymore. HN is not reflecting it, but HarmonyOS is very much a 3rd option. Huawei got banned from using Android, and they decided to start a mobile OS from scratch. They are binary compatible with Android, so most app
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by urlwolf 1y ago
How is this different from taskwarrior? I feel the use cases are overlapping (which is a good thing as taskwarrior rewrite in rust is a mess)
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by urlwolf 1y ago
I moved to nix around Nov last year and couldn't be happier, the motto 'nix fixes that' is true. First time I can say linux is trouble free. Upgrades are painless. Dev environments, reproducible. Largest repository of package
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by urlwolf 2y ago
> these sub-societies will dwindle until there's nothing left of them, and all that's left is The Culture This would be a terrible result. Google 'urban monoculture' A pluralistic society is more resilient to catastro
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by urlwolf 2y ago
> At it's core an LLM is a sort of "situation specific simulation engine." You setup a scenario, and it then plays it out with it's own internal model of the situation, trained on predicting text in a huge variety of
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by urlwolf 2y ago
Data Science Retreat | Lead software engineer, C or lua | Berlin Germany | REMOTE --- We are building a collaborative thinking tool with live editing like google docs but outside the browser and with much simpler technology Why? Security; W
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by urlwolf 2y ago
Oh, really? Who develops firefox now?
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Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off(theregister.com)
13 points by urlwolf 2y ago|4 comments
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by urlwolf 2y ago
Thanks, I suspect the LLM companies would ignore this, and of course getting into a legal battle is beyond the means of most content producers. so perhaps the license is not the solution, and we need to create a complete world outside http.
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Ask HN: Is there any license that is designed to exclude LLMs?
35 points by urlwolf 2y ago|18 comments
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by urlwolf 2y ago
This is because GTK is C, not C++. It's much easier to write bindings from C
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by urlwolf 2y ago
I had a simillar take until I found keyd: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
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by urlwolf 2y ago
Thanks! For me, that simplicity gives me security. The browser is extremely insecure in 2024. And most of the things I want from a browser are just content, not sophisticated SPAs. I'm in me minority in that, I know. So this protocol i
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Ask HN: Are you using a Gemini browser? Would you follow a link if posted on HN?
8 points by urlwolf 2y ago|5 comments
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Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping(argdown.org)
191 points by urlwolf 2y ago|47 comments
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Some bumblebees can survive underwater for up to a week: study(accuweather.com)
3 points by urlwolf 2y ago|1 comments
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by urlwolf 2y ago
> Basically everything in your life gets a bit easier, because people are more scared to piss off someone with a lot of twitter followers This is terrifying. Status online shouldn't bleed on all those other domains. Using your influ
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Updating Chrome gets extensions to break (v. 122)
8 points by urlwolf 3y ago|1 comments
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by urlwolf 3y ago
This is a very good question, and I'm sure you will get valuable answers. My take: - More efficient than search engines at obscure problems, like configuring an unix tool. Help that you can ask 'explain step by step' - It exp
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Deutsche Telekom and brain.ai launching an alternative to Rabbit phone(globenewswire.com)
1 points by urlwolf 3y ago|0 comments
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Tell HN: Hard to change default search engine in Chrome to DuckDuckGo
25 points by urlwolf 3y ago|16 comments
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Tell HN: Niklaus Wirth, inventor of Pascal and Oberon, has died
8 points by urlwolf 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: I want to read long-form with strong, sound argumentation. Where?
2 points by urlwolf 3y ago|2 comments
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Teaching vi to secretaries brought LLMs to humanity
3 points by urlwolf 3y ago|2 comments
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37C3 video shows hardcoded backdoor on Apple ARM chips
8 points by urlwolf 3y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Is Firefox team too small to do serious security tests?
11 points by urlwolf 3y ago|7 comments
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On C popularity vs. Python, size of stdlib, package managers in languages(lof.flounder.online)
21 points by urlwolf 3y ago|18 comments

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