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:waves: from California

but it biases towards the latin alphabet. so your point is diminished.

> Pronounced FEH-too (/ˈfɛ.tuː/). Stress the first syllable. In Māori wh is an f sound, not a w. The macron in ū makes that vowel long, which is why the ASCII spelling doubles it. …

it's totally obnoxious to buy a copy of a book with notes in it and complain about those notes. 2¢

As Covered in the Hit TV Series Pied Piper, Season 1 (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNi0p7YtmyY

the infinite string must have more refined properties than infinite length. an infinite string of a repeating char doesn't encode much of interest.

then you'd imagine the inverse is possible: fabricate text that matches a fingerprint - poisoning someone's (psuedo-anonymous) reputation.

HHI and Simpsons are neat new finds. There's also this other variant of the Simpson's Index: https://www.thesimpsonsindex.com/

there are two camps: those who have spent the tokens to figure out how to wield AI, and those who haven't. unfortunately, it's not cheap to get to the former category… and i imagin…

if you want to offload the decision to a decision engine, might i recommend the following prompt to the LLM of your choice: > "which should i choose: 1 word only" the comments are …

I've not worked at Amazon, but work in other big tech. If you were my son, I'd tell you to pursue Cambridge. Amazon employment isn't that special. (i've been in industry for 18+ ye…

this is non sequitor. why isn't there really much waste in federal spending? because when you cut, nobody likes it. well, no . there is pork. a better example might be: "Half the m…

centaur / reverse centaur seems to me like glass half full / empty. tough for Cory to get one wrong, though.

i live a few miles west of core Palo Alto (technically, still in Palo Alto); Starlink is my only real choice for broadband, and it's great.

first, look beyond the top comment. then, re-read my comment: > the merits of the concept aren't discussed; the convo falls back to whataboutism. …juxtaposed to your conclusion: > …

the reason i dislike seeing these articles on HN is that: 1. strong defensive positions float to the top... which could be astroturfing. 2. the merits of the concept aren't discuss…

because i was responding to a comment about it.

agreed, it's a gem. wasn't familiar with Chianti, though!

i think it's perfect: AI allows you to go incredibly deep (you have unlimited access to context to make incredibly impactful surgical changes), or you can go incredibly broad (you …

i bought a pocketbook era lite recently, and it's a bit too locked down for my tastes - though usable. i kinda just want a dumb appliance. actually, i want a linux appliance. this …

where am i?

an agent harness built in rust with ratatui - checks out. i've built one myself. i don't maintain it, and continue to use opencode, but it was worth it to learn how agent harnesses…

> It wasn't like college students were calling cabs to go to bars in 2013. well, in 2009, we did.

the downside is mitigated by the amount of yak shaving you do. see?

butterfly is interesting because it's faster than breaststroke (mentioned) but slower than freestyle. it also consumes far more energy than any other stroke. to that end, i'm not s…