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Comment #46885120
Looks to me like they're using an LLM for _translation_, not for generating a response. The model output even says "Here's the _translation_" (emphasis mine).
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Comment #46443524
KDE Connect works fine for me and does more than clipboard (files, mouse sharing etc.).
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Comment #45081376
Minio used to be de facto here, but they did a bait and switch recently and removed the UI from the free version. Garage is probably closest to best in class for open source on pre…
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Comment #39849854
There's a couple of computerphile videos on this: nerfs: https://youtu.be/wKsoGiENBHU Gaussian platting: https://youtu.be/VkIJbpdTujE
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Comment #39333703
Yeah, I think for learning, the 4(?) octaves is probably sufficient. And cost is probably due to first gen, yeah. Plus, hardware development is pricey, I think.
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Comment #39333457
There's also https://plugandplink.com/ , which includes a hardware component to help the person learning (lights on the snake). The app also includes preprepared videos and lessons…
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Comment #36371432
I've always assumed it's a nod to the original underground signage which had offset capital letters ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/London_U... ).
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Comment #27244530
The community edition of PyCharm is pretty widely regarded. VSCode is also pretty good but I would say it's more of an impressive text editor than an IDE.
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Comment #19162970
Huh, I didn't know that! Thanks.
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Comment #19161087
Shorter still: sort -u
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Comment #19105673
> Is that proper english? The rate of a rate is the acceleration, so it's valid English, but probably not what was meant.
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Comment #19025769
Thunderbird works well for me. Interfaces with GMail IMAP. Has a nice quick filter and all the usuals (filtering, folders, labels). The calendar interfaces with your Google calenda…
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Comment #18449464
Uh, did it? I mean, it talked about kids and YouTube in the last couple of paragraphs, which is an aspect to consider, but the rest of the article focused on the study, its limitat…
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Comment #18355416
Wouldn't it be easier to add the touch screen to an existing form factor and OS than to add all those things to an iPad?
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Comment #18355121
Don't all those things on your wish list just make it like every existing OS/machine?
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Comment #17607680
I use my Nextcloud install (since it provides a WebDAV interface). In the options under the Sync tab, I select WebDAV as the File Syncing type and for the URL I put: my.nextcloud.s…
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Comment #16383242
Someone even went so far as to build a FUSE filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS
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Comment #16280970
Ocean sciences would be good (oceanography, marine biology, remote sensing), but I'm not sure to what level of detail you're willing to split subjects.
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Comment #16177263
> They have a great approach to recommend inviting surprising and unexpected people. I don't work in publishing or journalism and have been twice, for example. Fair enough. > Same …
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Comment #16176597
Honestly, this sounds awful to me. 1. Invite-only increases the likelihood of an echo chamber, in my mind. I go to conferences to find out about things that arean't already on my r…
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Comment #16115155
There is a crippled version of IFS (the ECMWF forecast model) which has the data assimilation code removed available [0], thought its licence terms are pretty restrictive for most …
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Comment #15958844
If you're using Python anyway, you can use scipy's triangulation module to avoid having to compile triangle: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.14.0/reference/generated/... The tri…
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Comment #15417933
It takes a fraction of a second to pop up (maybe a few hundred milliseconds).
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Comment #15417819
> Showing me where the link points when I hover the mouse over it is something so fundamental to browsing I just can't figure out why it was ever removed Firefox 57 (and maybe prev…