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ekropotin

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    Comment #48039894

    > He ended up promoted to management. I bet, with such qualities he is VP by now.

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    Comment #48010251

    That’s the only book you need to read, really. All modern books on this topic are derivatives of it.

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    Comment #47938781

    Fascinating! Thanks for breaking it down.

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    Comment #47930486

    Not that I fan of CCP, nor I know details of this situation, but isn’t barring people under investigation from leaving the country a pretty normal legal practice?

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    Comment #47885004

    Apple innovate in hardware. What Google innovated during the last decade?

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    Comment #47883932

    Interestingly enough, Tailscale, that is build on top of Wireguard, work flawlessly on Mac.

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    Comment #47868045

    neovim or eMacs are the best text editors as up today.

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    Comment #47856911

    The idea of blaming something you can choice not to do is quite strange.

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    Comment #47829457

    Why just don’t send books on the email associated with your kindle?

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    Comment #47828564

    Even tho I probably never will get paid for writing Rust, I have zero regrets about learning it - it tough me really think about data ownership in programs.

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    Comment #47820268

    I personally don’t see its being a case, based on my observation. There is this town nearby where I live - super white, gives old money type of vibe, very expensive real estate. It…

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    Comment #47820177

    Was the mom Asian? Asking because my pre-teen daughter has a lot of Asian friends and I clearly see a pattern of hyper vigilance among their moms.

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    Comment #47698705

    From what I understand, macOS uses weird kernel implementation, which is almost open source, but not 100%

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    Comment #47668808

    Just reinforces the golden rule of not doing business with friends or family.

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    Comment #47655156

    Cold showers - good for immune system. Heat expose - good as well. I guess what doesn’t kills us - makes us stronger is true after all.

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    Comment #47655127

    Im genuinely curious what is a use-case for 25GB Internet in a typical Switzerland household?

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    Comment #47642724

    It absolutely doesn’t look as sharp as 4k, even on 22” inch screen

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    Comment #47636350

    I find the title very misleading. Linux containers typically means LXC, but when in readme you say it’s intended for running OCI-based containers.

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    Comment #47623272

    I think you are re-inventing the wheel https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

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    Comment #47594240

    Are we going to see a trillion dollar IPO?

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    Comment #47592076

    So we do at least agree on the fact that quality of human language embeddings transition depends on how good target language is represented in the training dataset? Even if it happ…

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    Comment #47591493

    > it’s clearly not the case that these things only make use of Spanish training data when you prompt them in Spanish. It’s not! And I’ve never said that. Anyways, I’m not even sure…

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    Comment #47588515

    It’s just a subjective observation. It just can’t be a case simply because how ML works. In short, the more diverse and high quality texts with reasoning reach examples were in the…

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    Comment #47587049

    Because 90% of training data was in English and therefore the model perform best in this language.

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    Comment #47581130

    That’s good to know your personal preferences. Please keep us posted!