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Comment #49261914
The markers aren't words that you can sprinkle in your prose, they are a statistical bias in the selection of the words.
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Comment #49261310
I think they mean it like this: imagine you ask me a random number sequence. I give you a random number sequence. Little did you know, I used a very specific PRNG to generate it, s…
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Comment #49198246
LLMs can be very good at 2. Finding the best architecture, data structures, algorithms, looking on arXiv to see other ways to solve the problem, etc. You have to work in design mod…
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Comment #49169406
What do you mean you don't remember, your repo is from 8 months ago, this release is from 18 hours ago. And how does "Gemini couldn't get it to work" translate to "it's broken"? It…
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Comment #49169259
It's used by most users, that's what they are saying, it doesn't matter that the file format is obscure. If you make a video player based on ffmpeg you take input videos. The attac…
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Comment #49068859
Just a point about precision, Google Maps fire overlay is based on NASA Firms + some processing, and it's not perfectly accurate. It is currently marking my little town as under fi…
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Comment #48989733
How interesting I was just reading yesterday his paper "An enduring error" about how we have been miscounting the Archimedean solids for two thousand years. But also, for this conj…
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Comment #48829461
As you may have guessed, it's Latin.
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Comment #47489003
> doesn't do anything but make your life harder. No it also encourages the local market and healthy competition. This way in the future we don't fall into the same enshittification…
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Comment #47458076
I thought an industry standard was to use proxy files. Open source editor Shotcut use them for example. Create a low resolution + intra-frame only version of the file for very fast…
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Comment #47400701
This is the worst to me. It happened to me a few times already. Someone says or writes something wrong. You correct them. They get defensive and justify the error by saying it's wh…
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Comment #47074654
Social aspect. There is no need but it's more fun to spend the end of the Universe with other intelligences than each in its own place.
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Comment #47074606
It is counter intuitive but information can still travel between places that are so distant that expansion between them is faster than the speed of light. It's just extremely slow …
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Comment #45836901
Already a big problem in art, people go on witch hunt over what they think are signs of AI use. It's sad because people that are ok with AI art are still enjoying the human art jus…
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Comment #45834536
> The bandits who fall in area B1 are those individuals whose actions yield to them profits which are larger than the losses they cause to other people. Are there real life example…
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Comment #45834361
Hurting the enemy is intentional and thus has an implicit "gain" built into it, even if it's just psychological. The physical losses can be deemed acceptable because of it, if the …
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Comment #45834182
You can change sync settings on a per-profile basis. I have 6 profiles, 4 of which I synchronize between different computers. They use different sync accounts. So for example on my…
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Comment #45834158
For me that's how it works unless I already have a Firefox window opened. If I have multiple windows of different profiles already open (which happens all the time) it may add it t…
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Comment #45834135
> I usually start with the default profile, then navigate to "about:profiles" to open all I need. Just add -p in the shortcut properties to start on the profile manager.
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Comment #45834121
I do it all the time I'm not sure what you are talking about. I use Tree Style Tabs extension (obviously), so maybe the feature is coming from there? You can definitely drag and dr…
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Comment #45834100
I don't understand some of these comments. Start firefox, pick profile, opens a window in the selected profile. The only weirdness is when you have multiple windows of different pr…
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Comment #45834073
The point of profiles is that they are completely isolated from each other, like separate installs, so I don't think starting to share preferences would be great.
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Comment #45834059
I've been using profiles for 15 years and I didn't even know it was in about:config . Just add -p in your shortcut to start on the profile manager.
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Comment #45834026
Command prompt, terminal? What are you talking about? You just have to add the -p in the shortcut properties.