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    Comment #48996824

    > We do not show ads to users on Plus, Pro, or any Business plan, or to any users who tell us or we predict are under the age of 18. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001207-ad…

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    Comment #47324151

    Yes. The article only shows Apple-owned apps: TextEdit and Calculator. And it shows the various border radiuses for different elements straight from XCode's UI builder.

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    Comment #43350488

    Out of curiosity, which design decisions do you find questionable and what do you feel is half-baked with Pixi? It's been working well for us.

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    Comment #43340326

    And 1967 was 58 years ago, which was when the first deep neural network was trained with stochastic gradient descent. Yet, DNNs didn't take off until the 2010s when the hardware be…

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    Comment #43332473

    > you cannot use them to solve real world problems Doesn't waymo and other self-driving systems use reinforcement learning? I thought it was used in robotics as well (i.e., bipedal…

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    Comment #43103172

    I just want to give a hearty thank you for pixi. It's been an absolute godsend for us. I can't express how much of a headache it was to deal with conda environments with student co…

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    Comment #43099042

    > The main thing conda doesn't seem to have which uv has is all the "project management" stuff. Pixi[1] is an alternative conda package manager (as in it still uses conda repositor…

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    Comment #42512977

    I've been using Plex (connecting via Tailscale) with their Plexamp music player. It's been working pretty well, but I might have to give this a try to compare. Although, it's not c…

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    Comment #42437887

    Backpropagation happens after some number of inferences. You need to infer to calculate a loss function to then backprop from.

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    Comment #42414264

    > And calling teams low in the desired section is such an odd assessment. I said it ranks low in "admired" (i.e., those who use it and want to continue using it). Less than 50% of …

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    Comment #42406576

    It seemed like "productive" was used in a relative sense. Would all those people be more productive on macOS or Linux? That's not clear. Also, I thought the parent was replying to …

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    Comment #42406549

    This is the question from the survey: > What is the primary operating system in which you work? It doesn't ask anything about preference and I wager most people don't have a say in…

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    Comment #42362116

    > I don't want to have another chrome derivative that has a fancy new UI to boast. It uses WebKitGTK, not Chrome. As for why not vimium? https://nyxt-browser.com/article/nyxt-versu…

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    Comment #42362075

    > Nyxt differs fundamentally in its philosophy- rather than exposing a set of parameters for customization, Nyxt allows you to customize all functionality. Every single class, meth…

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    Comment #41646027

    They recently announced that it'll be shutting down. https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249

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    Comment #41507340

    Actually, it's probably the opposite. The searches are more than likely to make sure you're not bringing anything in that could exfiltrate data like a camera, usb drive, or even pe…

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    Comment #41221041

    Also, charm's bubbletea framework if you use golang. https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

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    Comment #41220531

    Another good Microsoft monospace font: Cascadia. Something about it just makes it super legible for me when coding in it, plus it has nerd fonts built in without needing to be patc…

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    Comment #41105507

    Could you elaborate? As far as I understand, if you treat it like Python (e.g. use defs and stick with the copy-on-modification default), you'll still see performance improvements …

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    Comment #41021972

    You may be limited for your thesis. My grad program required us to conform to either a Word or LaTeX template, of which I found the latter actually much easier to deal with. I just…

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    Comment #40503679

    Quite a few banks, like Capital One, let you create one-time-use or temporary cards in their apps. So, not really shifting trust outside of the bank providing the account to begin …

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    Comment #40490802

    It sounds like MSM.digital is the one that created the MR "experience". It's not really clear what Meta's involvement was from the article.

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    Comment #40480955

    That's sort of confusing (to me at least) because that particular header also lists MIT and Apache licenses.