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Manu writes about apps and businesses who claim to replace search engines by feeding the web page content to a language model and returning the response to the user: Firstly, without a search engine in the mix, the AI has no way to search for anything. So if the goal is to replace the traditional search engine then we’re already failing. Because we’re not replacing anything, we’re just hiding it behind some AI tool. The second issu....
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Exploring Battle Outcome Probabilities in 'War Room', the Board Game by Larry Harris
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williamhuster.com
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2 years ago
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War Room is a board game by Larry Harris, the designer of Axis and Allies. I see it as at least a spiritual successor to AA, if not a complete overhaul. Like AA, it’s a grand strategy game set during World War II. Players control the major Axis and Allied powers and vie for the control of territories. The ultimate goals is to capture the opposing capitals and win the war. You can see my original Python notebooks on GitHub . I previousl....
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There are a lot of different things you can mean when you say “default parameter” in MediaWiki. This article explains them all.
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There are a lot of different things you can mean when you say “default parameter” in MediaWiki. This article explains them all.
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There are a lot of different things you can mean when you say “default parameter” in MediaWiki. This article explains them all.
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There are a lot of different things you can mean when you say “default parameter” in MediaWiki. This article explains them all.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Intrepid Museum The Guggenheim American Museum of Natural History The post NYC Trip 3 Mesmerizing Museums of New York appeared first on Qusai Haider's .
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I’m currently working with a large retail banking client to help them modernize their payments infrastructure. The word “modernize” is used in just about every client interaction. It appears in all the slide decks. It’s part of the business case justification. But modernization is a relative term. The big question is: What does the client mean by modernization? The existing system is a vendor product running in an on-prem application ..
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Today I released v0.4.0 of Chronicles. It is the culmination of the last six weeks of feature work, and the first real work in two years. The release notes summarize the associated changes; here I wanted to briefly reflect on the current state of the project and future plans. Iterating on base usability I called the last release “Base Usability — Well kind of”. When I first broke up the hypothetical design of the app, I envisioned a base us..
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In part one of this series we installed Nix, set up our system configuration with nix-darwin, and installed some packages at the system level. In this post, we’ll set up home-manager . Unlike nix-darwin, home-manager is cross-platform: it works across NixOS, macOS, and anywhere else Nix can be installed. It was difficult at first for me to understand how home-manager and nix-darwin should interact. While there is definitely overlap w....
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It’s a snowy day in New York City! Nice day to post up in a warm and cozy café to watch it all go by. Open Source Paying people to work on open source is good actually (Jacob Kaplan-Moss): Anyone who believes that American capitalism properly rewards people for even just the economic value they provide to society should take some time learning about open source software. How to sustainably fund open source contributors is undoubtedly ....
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In part one of this series we installed Nix, set up our system configuration with nix-darwin, and installed some packages at the system level. In this post, we’ll set up home-manager . Unlike nix-darwin, home-manager is cross-platform: it works across NixOS, macOS, and anywhere else Nix can be installed. It was difficult at first for me to understand how home-manager and nix-darwin should interact. While there is definitely overlap w....
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Is anyone else here into type theory? I find it extremely depressing how pretty much every popular language decided to disregard pretty much all research into the topic. USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, You should always elaborate
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lainchan.org
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2 years ago
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Is anyone else here into type theory? I find it extremely depressing how pretty much every popular language decided to disregard pretty much all research into the topic.
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DRAFT: Whonix Community Survey: Shaping the Future of Whonix
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forums.whonix.org
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2 years ago
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eng
Please discuss, improve, edit the following draft. Whonix – 17 Feb 24 Whonix Community Survey: Shaping the Future of Whonix Engage in the Whonix Community Survey to shape the roadmap of Whonix's future development. 2 posts - 1 participant Read full topic
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From my experience as a maintainer of midly successful open-source projects, I have come to the conclusion that people who criticize accepting payment to work on such projects are either acting in bad faith or are incredibly naive. Anyway, Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s recent Paying people to work on open source is good is a stellar post on the topic of open-source sustainability. My fundamental position is that paying people to work on open ..
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From my experience as a maintainer of midly successful open-source projects, I have come to the conclusion that people who criticize accepting payment to work on such projects are either acting in bad faith or are incredibly naive. Anyway, Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s recent Paying people to work on open source is good is a stellar post on the topic of open-source sustainability. My fundamental position is that paying people to work on open ..
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AI: the Good, the Bad, and the Lawyers (Issue #152) 2024-02-17 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith This week’s newsletter is out! In this week’s edition: Lots of interesting AI podcasts, no Vision Pro stuff, aside from a bit of commentary from me. I’m still very ill, so please bear with me. Issue details: Title: AI: the Good, the Bad, and the Lawyers Issue: 152 Page: issue webpage Another awesome issue of the newsletter. #
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Modern day developers are no strangers to automatically generated project names, these have become common and you may run into them if you use for example: Vercel for deploying projects Fly.io Docker (Desktop) ... and many other modern tools that...
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My mountaineering days are mostly left behind, and I miss them, so now and then, I look at some YouTube videos from the field specialists. Today, the algorithm suggested I watch a truly phenomenal one by Colin Haley . What makes it so unique is the raw, unedited “I’m filming for my family” feeling that there is to it. He’s sweating, swearing, worrying and freezing like, you know, the rest of us. Colin seems a lovable, down-to-earth..
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My mountaineering days are mostly left behind, and I miss them, so now and then, I look at some YouTube videos from the field specialists. Today, the algorithm suggested I watch a truly phenomenal one by Colin Haley . What makes it so unique is the raw, unedited “I’m filming for my family” feeling that there is to it. He’s sweating, swearing, worrying and freezing like, you know, the rest of us. Colin seems a lovable, down-to-earth..
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My mountaineering days are mostly left behind, and I miss them, so now and then, I look at some YouTube videos from the field specialists. Today, the algorithm suggested I watch a truly phenomenal one by Colin Haley . What makes it so unique is the raw, unedited “I’m filming for my family” feeling that there is to it. He’s sweating, swearing, worrying and freezing like, you know, the rest of us. Colin seems a lovable, down-to-earth..
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Yesterday’s OpenAI launch of Sora is, as is always the case with OpenAI, mind-boggling. Marquees Browniee’s comment is spot-on, so much so as he’s obviously involved in the video-making scene. I don’t think content creators are at risk with Sora, not anytime soon, but, as Marquees repeatedly notes in the video above, just one year ago we thought AI-generated video was a joke.
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Yesterday’s OpenAI launch of Sora is, as is always the case with OpenAI, mind-boggling. Marquees Browniee’s comment is spot-on, so much so as he’s obviously involved in the video-making scene. I don’t think content creators are at risk with Sora, not anytime soon, but, as Marquees repeatedly notes in the video above, just one year ago we thought AI-generated video was a joke.
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An Efficient Way to Check for Existence of Multiple Values in SQL
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blog.jooq.org
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2 years ago
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In a previous blog post, we’ve advertised the use of SQL EXISTS rather than COUNT(*) to check for existence of a value in SQL. I.e. to check if in the Sakila database, actors called WAHLBERG have played in any films, instead of: Do this: (Depending on your dialect you may require a FROM DUAL clause, … Continue reading An Efficient Way to Check for Existence of Multiple Values in SQL →
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Herbert Lui writes about his experience getting writing feedback from editors: My editors were giving me comments and suggestions on all of these posts, but I noticed a tension: as I accepted these changes and resolved comments, they would effectively disappear into a basement-equivalent dropdown menu, never to see the light of day again. I would lose the majority of the feedback that I received. But it’s difficult to learn from your....
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What are real-life examples of using Python decorators? How can you harness their power in your code? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Assumed Audience : Hackers and anyone interested in Yzena’s software. Epistemic Status : Confident because it’s my choice anyway. Introduction Yzena is my business. It’s a software business, obviously. In July 2022, I wrote about how Yzena will version software . I have made a few tweaks since then, so I am writing an update. I do repeat information in this post so that it stands alone and remains a reference document f..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers and anyone interested in Yzena’s software. Epistemic Status : Confident because it’s my choice anyway. Introduction Yzena is my business. It’s a software business, obviously. In July 2022, I wrote about how Yzena will version software . I have made a few tweaks since then, so I am writing an update. I do repeat information in this post so that it stands alone and remains a reference document f..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers and anyone interested in Yzena’s software. Epistemic Status : Confident because it’s my choice anyway. Introduction Yzena is my business. It’s a software business, obviously. In July 2022, I wrote about how Yzena will version software . I have made a few tweaks since then, so I am writing an update. I do repeat information in this post so that it stands alone and remains a reference document f..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers and anyone interested in Yzena’s software. Epistemic Status : Confident because it’s my choice anyway. Introduction Yzena is my business. It’s a software business, obviously. In July 2022, I wrote about how Yzena will version software . I have made a few tweaks since then, so I am writing an update. I do repeat information in this post so that it stands alone and remains a reference document f..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers and anyone interested in Yzena’s software. Epistemic Status : Confident because it’s my choice anyway. Introduction Yzena is my business. It’s a software business, obviously. In July 2022, I wrote about how Yzena will version software . I have made a few tweaks since then, so I am writing an update. I do repeat information in this post so that it stands alone and remains a reference document f..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers and anyone interested in Yzena’s software. Epistemic Status : Confident because it’s my choice anyway. Introduction Yzena is my business. It’s a software business, obviously. In July 2022, I wrote about how Yzena will version software . I have made a few tweaks since then, so I am writing an update. I do repeat information in this post so that it stands alone and remains a reference document f..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers, programmers, and code architects. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction There is a man I admire. His name is Dr. David Chisnall . Well, there was an article complaining about Semantic Versioning , and Dr. Chisnall decided to weigh in . He started like this: I should write a blog about this somewhere so I can cite it and stop repeating it… I have been waiting two months for that blog..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers, programmers, and code architects. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction There is a man I admire. His name is Dr. David Chisnall . Well, there was an article complaining about Semantic Versioning , and Dr. Chisnall decided to weigh in . He started like this: I should write a blog about this somewhere so I can cite it and stop repeating it… I have been waiting two months for that blog..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers, programmers, and code architects. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction There is a man I admire. His name is Dr. David Chisnall . Well, there was an article complaining about Semantic Versioning , and Dr. Chisnall decided to weigh in . He started like this: I should write a blog about this somewhere so I can cite it and stop repeating it… I have been waiting two months for that blog..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers, programmers, and code architects. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction There is a man I admire. His name is Dr. David Chisnall . Well, there was an article complaining about Semantic Versioning , and Dr. Chisnall decided to weigh in . He started like this: I should write a blog about this somewhere so I can cite it and stop repeating it… I have been waiting two months for that blog..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers, programmers, and code architects. Epistemic Status : Confident. Introduction There is a man I admire. His name is Dr. David Chisnall . Well, there was an article complaining about Semantic Versioning , and Dr. Chisnall decided to weigh in . He started like this: I should write a blog about this somewhere so I can cite it and stop repeating it… I have been waiting two months for that blog..
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