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whbrown

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    Comment #45597588

    To be fair, you'd have to also import this crate to get the result he wanted: https://docs.rs/unicode-segmentation/latest/unicode_segmenta...

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    Comment #44259463

    'girl math'? really? It's literally a bunch of old men and always has been.

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    Comment #44209495

    Isn't it quite possible they replaced that Flash model with a distilled version, saving money rather than increasing quality? This just speaks to the value of open-weights more tha…

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    Comment #44084777

    Who says you need to use a top model to produce cybersecurity slop? Did this person use o3? https://hackerone.com/reports/3125832

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    Comment #43828567

    Running the 3 bit quant of https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GGUF now on a 128GB macbook.

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    Comment #43343064

    Those sound like the sort of issues which could be caused by your server silently truncating the middle of your prompts. By default, Ollama uses a context window size of 2048 token…

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    Comment #43332333

    Evidently they simply aren't respecting the .gitignore when choosing which file contents to post to their servers, https://forum.cursor.com/t/env-file-question/60165/9 Regardless o…

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    Comment #42715202

    > As someone who is actually friends with Brad Pitt on Facebook and have given him money Are you telling us you fell for the same pig butchering scam?

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    Comment #42394789

    Is there a difference anymore?

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    Comment #41970251

    really makes you wonder what Babbage was trying to achieve with his Difference Machine...

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    Comment #41409232

    I doubt all the tracked job titles are in the example, but they do aggregate job titles to the category of 'Software Development': https://github.com/hiring-lab/job_postings_tracke…

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    Comment #41218005

    There are even some benchmarks which have caught 'lazy coding' regressions with their latest models[1]. I recall my best experience with their models was last year with an early ve…

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    Comment #41206239

    Why make it a link if you aren't linking to anything?

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    Comment #38550052

    > Would you not agree that a game like this is ideal in terms of what can be done with photography, videography and storytelling? Nope, that would have to be boxing—just go watch R…

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    Comment #38488469

    Can anyone help demystify the licensing? Besides the ACCEPTABLE_USE_POLICY, there's a CC BY-NC 4.0 (NonCommercial) license, a 'SEAMLESS_LICENSE' (NonCommercial), but also an MIT li…

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    Comment #37805301

    Since it's a normal distribution with a mean of 7500, and a standard deviation of 3000 multiplied by daily volume—it would only cause a negative change less than 1% of the time. Th…

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    Comment #34795257

    > But like okay, if you are so great why can I only watch at 1x playback speed for video? Maybe they updated this recently since you last tried, but you can most certainly change t…

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    Comment #34168554

    Seems that their api for their web app is currently returning a 503 from POST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/onboarding/sso_init.json Response payload: {"errors":[{"message":"Over cap…

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    Comment #30318642

    > Utilitarians think morality lies in outcomes - the whats. But whatever I am is completely orthogonal - I believe it lies in the story surrounding the outcome, the hows and the wh…

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    Comment #28979073

    Probably no more labor than any other organic farm, which is to say, far more than most people expect but tolerable. And upstate New York is quite agreeable even in the height of s…

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    Comment #28656273

    No need to speculate, how about crows trained to pick up cigarette butts? It's probably up to the bank, and of course rather challenging for them to pay their income taxes as we al…

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    Comment #28616118

    That simply reflects the fact that 5.5 billion is 55,000 times larger than 100,000. Anything you do to have even the tiniest effect on the consumption of nearly the entire world's …

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