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Subway (the fast food chain) calls them "30cm subs", or colloquially "a thirty". The smaller sandwich is a "15cm sub", or "a fifteen".

I'd bet this is what she meant because I've done professional translation in the past. The input and output of a GPT it not a sequence of messages in turns: fundamentally the input…

Deepl's professional advantage is not in the translation itself (even though it has always been a notch above the rest), but in the UI. You can literally click any word on the tran…

You're mixing a house as personal property with the much broader claim of private property on land. It is possible to protect those two uses you mentioned, and other reasonable use…

The cones are not sensitive to a single wavelength but to a range. The green-sensitive cones overlap with the red-sensitive cones, and to a smaller extent also with the blue-sensit…

When the model is open weights you can even pass every token (including the chain of thought) though a fourth-party lightweight model like gpt-oss-safeguard to check that it has no…

They clearly didn't have the compute capacity ready to release Fable at any price that would have seemed "worth it".

There's nothing special about threads vs processes in Linux. mmap works the same, the challenge is to map the same file. You can share a path, pass a file descriptor via fork or un…

You don't rent your football field from FIFA. You can, if you wish, own the field you play at. You may have heard of football clubs: If it's too expensive you can pool resources wi…

This is because blurays, like vinyl records, are efficiently stamped into plastic from metallic masters with negligible faults. You can't do this for electronic storage.

In 1987 a supernova was observed in the sky. In a great coincidence, just months after being put into operation, a new type of detector meant to study if protons are stable, detect…

The labour theory of value is Adam Smith's, not Marx's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

The original 1953 NTSC standard specified phosphors with a way bigger gamut than sRGB, that were chosen to approximate the gamut of film projectors. Original NTSC cyans are more sa…

What would be the practical difference between an order from a party cadre in a private firm and a national security letter?

tombert should instead long QQQ and short the bits they don't like

Yet another victim of IPv4, and you still find countless detractors of IPv6 on every thread where it's mentioned.

Most feature DVDs are 8 Mbps. It's certainly blurrier than Netflix, but dark scenes, grain and textures are usually much more detailed on a DVD nonetheless.

It's often better than a 5 Mbps 1080p

I was assigned an E14 once. Compared to a T14: The case is all thick ABS. It weighs like 2.4 kg, and the weight is unbalanced. The USB-C charge only works at 20V, nothing less. Whi…

> After 24 months, one of the drives had a %95 loss, almost every picture was lost cut-off bottom half or so. If these are JPEGs with a grey or green lower half, it's likely only a…

Ceph solves the distributed consistent block storage problem very well. But I hardly ever need that problem solved, it's way more often that I need a distributed highly available b…

And how are you supposed to convert USD to USDC to local currency at par? The exchange fees end up eating any savings you got from not using the normie SWIFT network, and then at t…

Let's say the average firm has 10 workers. 90% of people are nihilists and empty lifers? Do I want to lead a business filled with losers?