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    Comment #49222237

    going on a bit of a tangent here - some discussion there seems to be imply that AI bots mostly use IPv4s, which makes sense to me given that they are probably bots hosted by some c…

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    Comment #49148668

    I also enjoyed it. Something about the writing really made me enjoy it, it was so different from the llm text i read all day long

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    Comment #48106851

    will claude platform on aws offer the same nerfed (dumb) opus 4.5/4.6/4.7 of the recent weeks, or will it be possible to use opus 4.5/4.6 from february/march?

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    Comment #48100797

    This is very similar to SBE encoder/decoder flyweights over raw memory? What are the differences?

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    Comment #48086036

    > Maybe it arrives while the first request is still running. Now your idempotency layer is part of your concurrency control. I recently designed a system where this had to be taken…

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    Comment #47531003

    funnily enough, I talked recently to someone working on the swift compiler (not an Apple employee) to make Swift functions differentiable. So its not all dead yet

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    Comment #47114865

    > In the Write-Only Code story, that same engineer becomes a systems designer, a constraint writer, and a trade-off manager. This is also what I see my job to be shifting towards, …

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    Comment #46973376

    interesting. Do you have an example of what exactly it outputs and how you store that? how do you use the outputs? As a pointer to a new agent with fresh context to get them up to …

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    Comment #46912405

    uninstall the app. Works really well to me. The conscious effort of reinstalling it is enough to prevent me from doing it. Whereas using the awfully implemented screentime guards, …

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    Comment #46877910

    select in finder the file that currently opens with XCode, then press Cmd+i. It opens the information panel. There in the Open with section, you can chose the app and then also Cha…

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    Comment #46872693

    How is heritabiltity of life span useful if by the time the lifespan becomes known (eg at 80yrs old) the inheritance is not possible anymore (eg menopause)?

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    Comment #46830532

    Maybe.. or maybe you underestimate the insanities you can find in real life too (the model isnt that creative unfortunately). See here, 5 different no-parking signs for the same 2 …

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    Comment #46830337

    I have to say both the leafless trees and electrical box spawning is very on point for what you would find in eg Belgium. Check this full blown ugly building/container that spawned…

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    Comment #46781585

    Im not sure I like that market in particular, but probably polymarket is indeed the best one… assuming the market will resolve fairly

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    Comment #46778202

    Exactly. I would prefer to remain invested as I dont want to time the market. But I would prefer if I could meaningfully reduce exposure to OpenAI and the consequences of their pos…

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    Comment #46778072

    As a retail investor mostly invested into broad ETFs (All World), is there any way I can get short exposure to OpenAI? Being short Oracle/Nvidia/Microsoft?

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    Comment #46673134

    Hi David, have you looked into alternatives to 3DGS like https://meshsplatting.github.io/ that promise better results and faster training?

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    Comment #46633255

    I was about to write the same. I scrolled through it but I dont understand what it is.

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    Comment #46576681

    Same for me. Also never happened to me before

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    Comment #46438215

    I like this a lot. Every time I am forced to open Notion or Slite, I just wish so much it would just be .md files in a git repository.

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    Comment #46259525

    one way is by using schemas to communicate between them that are backwards compatible. eg with avro its quite nice

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    Comment #45758131

    <1MB is also relatively easy to reach with swiftui apps. I had two fully working ones in the app store below 1MB. They are removed now since I didnt pay the yearly 100€

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    Comment #43985298

    i am still skeptical about HDR as pretty much all HDR content I see online is awful. But this post makes me believe that Lux/Halide can pull of HDR in a way that I will like. I am …

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    Comment #43762828

    entry level macbook air (m4) is same price as it used to be (in luxembourg): 1 159,36 €