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I am sympathetic to the sentiment, but the argument does not hold water.

the fact remains some of my money can end up empowering politics I find repugnant

are you paying taxes? are you using gasoline? are you paying for amazon?

Some ratio of your money will always go toward something you hate. The big question is: is for a mulvad subscription that ratio bigger than for the alternative? The next question is: how is the ratio for things you like?

America was supposed to be the next step of humanity, a new land stripped from the ills of the old wor

wat

i switched from bambu a1 combo to snapmaker u1 and i am very happy. I installed paxx12 custom firmware, and now i am even happier.

for instance, see MMAcevedo aka Miguel https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

Swift --(claude)--> Plasmoid --(claude)--> CLI --(claude)--> Rust-Port --(claude)--> Intercal

Is this the human centipede of programming?

> People had this "why you probably can't run a GPT-4 (or even GPT-3.5) class model on your MBP anytime soon" conversation before.

that sounds like a win-win to me.

on one hand 95% of users get an improved experience. While a competitor gets the chance to build a business for the remaining 5%.

<10 Stars is a strong signal, that a repo is not relevant to anyone except maybe the maintainer. This fact does not change even if other repos have bough 10.000 stars.

i am building yet another ai powered language-learning app. user uploads random texts, and the ai gives grammar and vocab hints, so the user can try to translate it on their own. Basically google lens, but without the final translation.

ironically the difficult part wasnt the OCR or the textanalyses, but finding the exact position of the text in the input image.

when i did openscad, i just did a minowski hull with a 4sided bipyramid (aka rotated cube) to get chamfers for my cubes.

bonus: minowski hull with a round pyramid adds chamfers in the vertical and fillets in the horizontal, which is what i want for 3d printing most of the time. additionally it closes small overhangs, and it makes fonts smoother (i.e. fonts don't extrude in a 90degree angle, and get 45degree instead, and print better on vertical faces)

disclaimer: I havent used openscad for about a year and my memory may be fuzzy

edit: i am not saying minowsky hull would directly solve your problem, but maybe the algorithm gives you inspiration to solve your numerical issues

I don't think open source can get a big market share but it can give you a nice niche market of tech enthusiasts

companies and governments in Europe start embracing digital sovereignty. Governments start to realize, that US corporations lie, when they say they won't spy on governments officials.

I am not saying, that Europe WILL increase opensource and sovereignty, but odds are good, that a cultural shift away from US-dependence will happen soon, which would include embracing of Opensource

did you have issues with banking apps, authenticator apps or outlook on workprofile?

I ask, because when I was using cyanogenmod a hundred years ago, banking apps were a major pain. And now I am using outlook on a flagship with stockrom, and outlook on workprofile is still a major pain, and I can easily imagine, it working even worse on grapheneos.

is this whataboutism?

Yes. You have to treat the model like an eager yet incompetent worker, i.e. don't go full yolo mode and review everything they do.

I selfhost for >10 years, but only for receiving, i.e. I can not send anything from my domain, because I thought that would have been to much stress to set up.

My setup: I have a root server with DNS attached to it. On there is a postfix, with a minimal config that forwards all emails to my real address on posteo.eu. And posteo has not given me any trouble with any of my emails at all.

I use this setup, so I can easily give new email-addresses to individual web services, and it gives me the option to selectively block these addresses.

Last year I brought the big abo from proton, which includes throwaway mailadresses, and I am thinking about migrating my mail setup there.

No one buys a Porsche because they want a sensible car for their family or they need something with large storage

I know two porsche-owners personally. One sometimes uses his porsche (non SUV, but the small fast one) to go on family vacations (with the kids cramped at the too small back seats, which seems funny to me). The other has an SUV and lives in the country with bad roads; They sometimes use their porsche to commute to work and for everyday-stuff like shopping.

I can give you an example of when I am glad I rebased

I think the question was about situations where you were glad to rebase, when you could have merged instead

we do annual unannounced firedrills and now one dies as a consequence.

how are some tracks more profitable to spotify than others?

which is a problem for professionals

dont worry, leadership will find another metric to turn into a target, after the old metric has stopped working for a decade or two.

From this point, everyone outside the US should stop using iPhones to prevent surveillance from the American empire.

yes.

From another angle, the iPhones are primarily made in China AND India via third-party factories, so no one should ever use iPhones any more.

also yes.

I like to browse HN via "/front" and "Go back day" and then look at the couple of top posts for each day. I don't see such a day-by-day view on TPE.

What is the "official" acronym? TPE? TP? TecPeu?

What is language policy? (e.g. it would be nice if people would post any language they want, and the system shows other users what language the link is, and then offers an alternative link to a translated version. I imagine this would be hard to implement in a way that is robust way, but maybe you when user submit a link, they can set the language themselves)

Consolidating streaming services down to a handful of offerings will make price competition more fierce because they'll have richer catalogs to do battle with.

this is not how markets usually work.

exactly.

pick your battles. You decide what extra work is worth your effort.

learn to say "no", by which i mean "yes, but...". e.g. "can you look at this production issue?" --> "yes, but it is outside my comfort zone, so i will have to charge at least 8 extra hours of overtime towards that issue".

I use the tasks that come with my email account/calendar. It integrates well with thunderbird and android-apps.

I am surpised, that no one here seems to use it, since it seems like an obvious choice.

people seem downvote you, but I think this is a good example of how discussions SHOULD work.

A: makes a strong claim, suggesting it to be well known

B: doubts

[100 people provide credible sources]

Also congrats for being 1 of 10000 today i guess https://xkcd.com/1053/

if you assume all the computational pathways happen in parallel on a GPU, that doesn't necessarily increase the time the model spends thinking about the question

The layout of the NN is actually quite complex, which a large amount of information calculate beside the token-themselves, and the weights (think "latent vectors").

I recommend the 3b1b youtube-series on the topic.

your 7yo can multiply a 5digit number with another 5digit number with >95% accuracy?

iirc some european countries are currently exploring the idea of "law as code", i.e. law in a machine-readable format that can be parsed algorithmically. iirc austria already made some progress by converting some of their lawbooks to such a format. (I remember being in a presentation about that topic, and I explicitly asked about some actual laws being converted, and they actually showed some of these laws, but I can not find publicly available sources I could link, except some general corporate statements like this https://wwwdev.unisys.com/our-clients/advancing-public-servi... ). EU seems to work on something similar, e.g. https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/endorse...