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by wyan 1mo ago
Your examples are cases in which you know what the bill is going to be before placing your order. With LLMs, you're paying per output token, not per request, yet you don't get all the tokens.
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by wyan 1mo ago
They offer both a subscription model and a lifetime purchase. Or that used to be the case, at least. But I agree that it feels like it's getting behind.
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by wyan 1mo ago
In softness I guess? Because I wouldn't consider any of the "B" series really matte :)
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by wyan 1mo ago
How do they compare with Faber Castell 9000? (I normally write with these, in HB or 2B hardness)
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by wyan 1mo ago
How are laptop GPUs these days in terms of energy consumption? My last experience was a while ago, but the battery drained fast with them active.
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by wyan 1mo ago
I only know the Uni system of a few European countries, but generally I would expect Philosophy to be a prerequirement that you take for your entrance examinations, not during studies per se (unless you're studying humanities, of cours
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by wyan 1mo ago
Taking propranolol in this case is, in fact, an example of being a functioning adult, and a solution that also works for oral examinations.
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by wyan 3mo ago
I would claim the difference between being rejected an API request and being potentially jailed/shot is significant.
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by wyan 4mo ago
Not WW2, but GPS depends on General Relativity to calculate time differences between satellite signals and ground correctly.
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by wyan 5mo ago
Not lawmakers in this case, but judges having no understanding of what they're ruling on.
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by wyan 5mo ago
How much is it spending in the Anthropic API so far?
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by wyan 6mo ago
The fact that the oldest current law in the list is about places where nuns are allowed to be buried is quite amusing, in some sort of way.
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by wyan 6mo ago
To be fair, the BOE website often offers the consolidated version for many important laws, which includes further amendments by other laws in one text.
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by wyan 7mo ago
It says it's OSS, but I can't find a link to the source code in the website, am I just being dense?
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by wyan 7mo ago
Having been both in academia and industry, to me Stephen always sounds too academic for business, but for academia, a mix of too "industry" and a crank.
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by wyan 7mo ago
Or accelerated, since development would have ceased to be restricted to Wolfram's employees
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by wyan 7mo ago
Isn't there already Maxima which is several decades old?
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by wyan 8mo ago
The golden ratio makes for even less balanced paper than sqrt(2)
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by wyan 9mo ago
Not closer to the spoken sounds, closer to English orthography.
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by wyan 11mo ago
This was my experience too, lots of cities to choose but all of them US-based. Not even London or Berlin. I'll wait and see :)
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by wyan 1y ago
Wasn't Murex some sort of backend software for financial institutions?
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Show HN: Using AI to generate a JUCE tutorial(github.com)
1 points by wyan 1y ago|1 comments
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by wyan 1y ago
I used my $20 welcome credit and the Orchestrator mode to generate a JUCE tutorial with kilocode.ai, hopefully I can use it as a base for teaching myself to code audio plugins.
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by wyan 1y ago
Thankfully it's quite easy to go for several weeks without rebooting, but this is so annoying.
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by wyan 1y ago
The purpose of a PhD is to certify that you're able to do independent research. Many researchers retrain (or just add a research interest) in adjacent fields during their postdocs or later. At that point it's just research.
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by wyan 1y ago
This happens to me, but only while brain adapts to the new chemical balance. After that it's back to no remembering dreams.
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by wyan 1y ago
Ugaritic certainly didn't remain readable and it was alphabetic. The only reason alphabetic systems remained readable is because they remained in use.
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by wyan 1y ago
As an anecdote, there seems to be increasing evidence of correlation between infections by virii of the herpes family and dementia.
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by wyan 1y ago
It is taking decades to achieve though!
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by wyan 1y ago
OVH is pretty fairly priced, includes the DNS zones, and is EU based

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