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Philpax

8,713karma·1,330submissions·October 1, 2013
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> Some project even took it to the next level and displayed a furry porn. I think anime and furry graphics are related, esp. in the weird obsession of the people to shove it to the unsuspecting peo…
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I'm going to represent the critical opinion and say: this is cute and I like the idea in theory, but if I encountered this in the wild, I would just leave the page. I explore most informational w…
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An interesting development to look forward to will be hooking them up to search engines. The proprietary models already do this, and the open equivalents are not far behind; the recent Qwen models are…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party
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Sure, yeah - but just like with a human, I can provide additional domain context that can clarify its answer. I see your point - you need to know what to provide in order to get the result you want - …
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The (V)DOM is a tree. Knowing that is useful for manipulating and composing it.
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That is how reasoning models work: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/deepseek-r1-recipe-for-o1 …
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Try it with your own photos from around the world. I used my own photos from Stockholm, San Francisco, Tvarožná, Saas-Fee, London, Bergen, Adelaide, Melbourne, Paris, and Sicily, and can confirm that …
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You say these things with such certainty. How can you be so sure?
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Er, I love Claude, but it's only topping one or two benchmarks right now. o3 and Gemini 2.5 are more capable (more "intelligent"); Claude's strengths are in its personality and gen…
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This is a much more compelling release than Llama 4! Excited to dig in and play with it.
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...why does Tiny Glade not count?
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> One can easily find a bazillion of "github repos" that distribute what is evidently directly decompiled game code with minimal cleanup. Bonus points if they also claim it is OK as long …
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LLMs can infer a lot of details from "common sense" (i.e. statistical association). As a human, I can figure out what each field's types should be, so your frontier LLM could, too: htt…
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Agreed - I have no idea what this stack is good for, or how it competes against other full-stack efforts. Would love to know more!
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My understanding is that Linux has no form of CI [0], so they don't actually have an automated way to check for compilation across all platforms and compilers. [0]: https://lwn.net…
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Yep, agreed on all accounts; I'm an advocate for Rust for Linux for these reasons, among others. My thinking was that the Linux kernel already uses a custom dialect of C with specific features th…
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No? Of all the reasons software sucks, multidisciplinary programmers are unlikely to be near the top.
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Linus was a hypocritical asshole here, but more to the point, why are they using strings for this anyway? No byte arrays / literals in their C dialect?
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The term I'm familiar with is "outliners", as is used by Logseq: https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/start%20here Unfortunately, this is quite difficult to search …
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Also https://github.com/ywelsch/duckdb-prql (by the same author!)
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This is an insane release! Lots of new features, many of which address existing pain points, and performance improvements across the board. Bevy is such an impressive endeavour, and I'm excited t…
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Is it that transparent? I did not know about the vast majority of the items on this list until I encountered it: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented …
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Thought this was about the Australian TV show, but I'd completely forgotten that was named after an actual concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_(TV_series) …
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Your tone sucks. You're being rude about them not answering questions they weren't asked yet. There are much nicer ways of going about this. Edit: Oh. All of your replies are like this. Plea…
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