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It's often said that to be outstanding, you should master two different fields then work at the intersection of those fields. For a lot of people the model of "real greatness" is L…

Closest name I can think of is "commitment and consistency". People tend to behave as they have behaved in the past, doing so is both a cognitive shortcut and a source of positive …

VB was probably the charmingest language I’ve ever used, especially for GUI. It takes the cake for “rather complex runtime” though. As I recall, they bundled the entire VB interpre…

Agree. Shimmer is currently in the "assume good faith" category and it would help everyone if commenters gave feedback and asked questions from this perspective. From what I've see…

I know a nuclear physicist who got paid to go through the scripts and turn "CHARACTER: [insert science thing here]" into dialogue

This looks excellent! It's a great interface for two things I'm struggling to make LlamaIndex do: explain and debug multi-step responses for agent flows, and cache queries aggressi…

I think that's the wrong end of the stick. When you publish research, the software you used/built on is part of the methods and needs to be cited. The authors are doing you a court…

It's an alternative, does a similar job, depends on/abstracts over langchain for some things. It's easier to use than langchain and you'll probably get moving much faster. They've …

My situation somewhat overlaps with yours. I ordered a "water flosser" from everyone's favourite ecommerce site, and use it daily in the shower. It seems to be doing something, and…

You do need to separate medium of exchange from store of value. Real estate is useless as a currency while being the primary store of value for most people. Most of your objections…

From the study, in-person schooling increases teen suicides by 12-18%. Is this fatality rate acceptable on the basis that it's "very necessary" to socialize the remaining children …

For sure it's too much to ask. Get started on Twitter: 1. go to twitter.com 2. enter your name and phone number Get started on Pleroma: https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/installa…

masto.host was an option yesterday, now it looks like it won't be an option for the next few days. I was about to install self-hosted Mastodon but the machine load and amount of ad…

That's such a strange piece of UX. As a typical user, who on average consumes content rather than produces it, what I care about is that my list of followed accounts migrates with …

Thank you, against my better judgement I've set up a self-hosted Pleroma

It looks like the Mastodon instance host Simon is using, masto.host, closed for new sign-ups 8 hours ago. Is there another recommended alternative? I don't think I have the energy …

Stability is how the aircraft reacts to disturbances (control inputs, turbulence, ...). Stable aircraft resist disturbances and settle into going where they're pointed at a predict…

I'm familiar with the industry. Everyone involved knows that you don't move so much as a mobile phone's worth of lithium without following a procedure. In my experience small viola…

I spent a bit of time trying to do it with flex sensors. Strap one to your hand, make a fist, take your nap, detect when muscle tone is lost and it unbends. I ran out of interest b…

I tried one of those, it didn't make a shred of difference. MBP 16" still throttled so hard it was frequently unusable.

If you're in Australia, find a therapist using the thing I built: https://www.oktotalk.com.au . If you fill out the questions, the site might be able to recommend you someone good …

I do the separate-email thing too and my spambox is chock full of emails to leaked addresses. The leaks seem mostly from large, upstanding companies that have had data breaches (Ad…

I find that Airpods Non-Pro will stay in when I'm on my side and when I roll over. I'm a terrible sleeper and change position a fair bit, but there's no problem falling asleep with…

> any resource recommendations or tips for writing a translation engine All the successful translation websites/apps you're familiar with use machine learning. ML stomped all over …

In our case we've already got all the stuff for serving web pages out of Django... the data model, DRF, auto scaling, access control, CI/CD. If I can use the same infrastructure to…