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evolve2k

6,657karma·1,778submissions·June 27, 2009
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Would u be open to adding SMS also. I’ve never worked out an affordable way to do SMS.
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The sci-fi movie Brazil (nothing much to do with the country), is set in a beauracratic dystopic future and at the start of the movie a literal real world bug falls into “the machine that never makes …
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We’re joking right?
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> All competitors, including OpenAI, were limited to identical hardware provided by AtCoder, ensuring a level playing field between human and AI contestants. The power of this chosen hardware will …
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I can’t find the quote right now; but it’s along the lines. LLM’s can help with the first 80% of coding which is introducing bugs, but terrible at the other 80% of the time which is removing said bugs…
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This being to mind the open source game 0AD ( https://play0ad.com ). I could be misremembering but I’m pretty sure the lighthouse is one of the wonders you can build in the game. Check i…
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I agree. Max, strongly encourage you to remove the AI images. Not everyone is bothered but a significant number of people are. You 100% didn’t vibe code this, but the AI images give that sort of impre…
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The cost of obtaining the alternative; Creative Commons use images or even just inserting emojis is already free. Your argument doesn’t hold up.
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Sort of not much to say. This was an obvious issue right from the start.
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I’d recommend you look at Fedora Atomic Kinote. It’s running KDE plasma but has a very robust upgrade path with fallback if things fail that make for a good daily driver, still running KDE plasma. ht…
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How are UK’s free speech laws?
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Logically you don’t want the tool to be sending on harsh or nasty messages or even just disregukatung and retaumatising participants. As such you want the tool to filter what is said and not pass ever…
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Best activity I saw was say 10 front on pics of dogs faces. Print them out and for each image slice the image into vertical slices. (The 10 original images are the training data) Then you can make up …
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I saw AirBNB’s current ad that’s all AI “aesthetic” and I figuratively puked in my mouth. We’ve reached corporate AI slops bleeds into design systems. Hard no from me.
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Context from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25462717
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Friends of mine really like spending time outdoors in nature, hiking trails, finding nice spots to just sit and be in nature. Interestingly for me, they often carry a hammock with them and when they f…
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Wait, are these 800 lines of code? Am I the only one seeing that as a major code smell? Assuming these are code files, the issue is not AI processing power but rather bread and butter coding practices…
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Mastodon runs on Rails and currently utilises and relies on Redis and Sidekiq. I’ve heard redis/sidekiq adds some additional complication and workload to setting up and maintaining a mastodon ins…
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A few people are talking about multiple issues in the open mapping space. Today (bear with me), I was looking at a tool called SwiftWave it lets you run your own Platform as a Service. The only reason…
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> some try anyway In Australia this number is statistically insignificant, so inconsequential. Right wing commentators have attempted to mirror US talking points on “stolen elections” but the recen…
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Yes in Australia you can vote at ANY polling station. If you vote outside your local area there is extra steps and you need to let them know. They usually ask everyone; “if you’re voting outside of ar…
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Ps. Im not the creator, just an amused fan. Helped me pick which polling station Im heading to! Big decisions tomorrow Australia.
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