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I think 404 Media has an ethical obligation to provide Proton Mail’s response outside the article’s paywall. The word “Helped” in the headline is more sensational than stating that…

I was able to have AI generate an image that made this, but not by diffusion/autoregressive but by having it write Python code to create the image. ChatGPT made a nice looking cloc…

Using LLM to control your machine has amazing potential for accessibility.

This seems like a strong candidate for a Constitutional amendment. Twelve amendments were ratified in the 20th century—about once a decade since the end of the Civil War. However, …

I can't load the article, so this is likely off topic, but the memory came rushing back when I read this headline. I attended a wedding that got hit by a major flash flood that req…

I've not worked with the Adafruit PN532, but for an extra $10 you can get a Pepper C1 USB from Eccel which is very easy to work with. It is a stand-alone device, so you don't have …

Is it the same? On the Models page of the API docs it says that GPT-4 is using the June 13th which would be different than the March 23rd.

Check out Fossil SCM, from the creator of SQLite.

Many great anecdotes in this thread. Many regarding lack of access to a computer while designing code. Mine is as a child wanting to try to work on the computer every moment I was …

I'm 5 days late to your disagreement, but regardless: I think the choice of word "dishonest" implies that CGs post was fraudulent in nature, and was a poor word choice unless RR ha…

The program was written in 1988. I ran the text through LZSS which was published in 1982, so was available before 1988. I used a 1989 public domain version by Haruhiko Okumura, whi…

The article says that you win points but there is no way to win money back or get payouts. What is legal is not the same thing as what is moral (and vice versa). No illegal alterna…

I might be misunderstanding what you are saying, but if there are less than 600k homeless people in America and over 15 million vacant homes, it doesn't seem to be "caused by the p…

I wasn't familiar with Kalman, and I tried to understand it by reading the primers on this website and it wasn't clicking for me. Last night I was thinking about the sample graphs,…

Counterfeits: In August 2014, I purchased from Amazon, shipped from Amazon (just checked my order history to verify), an Apple MagSafe Power Adapter. It was clearly counterfeit. I …

I did gaming math in Vegas for what I believe to be the biggest gaming math consultancy in Nevada (at least at the time). The games were divided between Table, Slot, and Video Poke…

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You are a faster reader than me. The October update has around 4,700 words plus plenty of images to digest. I understand you likely mean to review the highlights, but a non-trivial…

Not yet, but it is on my todo list. There are multiple projects/companies/groups that I am the bus factor of 1 for any of the technical parts (hosting, code repository, etc). This …

For those that need a reliable drive, ignore every drive listed that doesn't have a 5 year warranty and that pretty much filters out all the scams. edit: and filter for new and use…

A lot of people commenting that MS should not have went with Qualcomm on this device, although I don't think this locks Windows into Qualcomm. More importantly, I'm super curious t…

My guess is that they are using what would otherwise be a marketing budget. If that is the case, then I'd say it is worth it and working. I'd bet more people have heard of POP_OS t…

I'm downloading it from: https://releases.ubuntu.com/kinetic/ https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.10/

For the use case of this post, revision/version control of notes (markdown/text), I recently started using Fossil [0]. I've wanted a reason to use Fossil for quite some time, and t…