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5,951karma·4,108submissions·November 9, 2014
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Yes But how important?
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> The era of building websites solely for Google traffic and monetizing them through ads and affiliate marketing has ended. Yay! Quite an assertion, I hope it is true
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Interesting I have noticed this too, but have a different problem The "flow state" has never been where I want to be, it is where I make my worst mistakes and where the details swamp the big…
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> The main bottleneck at this point is the cost of all of the token Are you using Chinese models? Quite a bit cheaper, but maybe still too expensive?
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> You don't need the world's stolen information to run a small project containing locally trained data you collected. Local training? Is that feasible?
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> chinese models without safety filters (it could be used to create software exploits) Any decent coding setup can create software exploits. That bird has flown.
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I loved it. Different tastes
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This is good work. Ethical consumption in a capitalist economy is unachievable...but we can optimise
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The only thing I use Amazon for is price guidance - is that hardware $1, $2, $10 or $100? I have not bought from them since 2005. There is no need
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> There are pretty trivial ways to use binary floating point values that don't result in 0.1 + 0.2 producing 0.30000...4 Not across all architectures and operating systems there are not Listen…
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> JS engines treat numbers as 53 bit signed floats Please do not use Javascript for finance applications. Just do not do it Save it for user interface elements and dancing whizzimagigs, where it wi…
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Never use floats for financial calculations. Because hard won experience. "Floats" are simulations of Real Numbers, and Reals are uncountable. Not what you want for finance, where everythi…
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In a cot. Not a double bed, in its on room
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> Hopefully the book has something more damning than that. Hopefully? Buy it, or borrow it, and read it. Remove doubt
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I am confused. What is this about?
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Yes, very true But in the long term, we are all dead
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Until they scantion Brazil It can happen to anyone
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Damn, USA, you being foolish. The world economy is not a zero sum gain, we all do better when we do better Cooperate with China, love and cherish them. Unlike us of European heritage, they are not imp…
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> It's been a few years since I worked on a large rust project with tons of deps, but I don't recall there being a big problem. The problem was ignored, perhaps? Not every project is vuln…
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> What problem does stdx actually solve? Even a small rust programme can end up importing hundreds of crates. For many applications you need to investigate and verify your dependencies. A substanti…
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I am a supporter of Kerkour's efforts > are Rust developers going to seriously entertain an alternative "standard library" curated by one developer. No. Absolutely not But this is a …
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> The blog has been on a downward spiral for years, it's doomed, let it go. Argumentum ad hominem, yuk > the fundamental mistake of assuming that they’re trustworthy and we’d trust them no …
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> As in why would I trust a random git repo It is one repo to trust, rather than hundreds That is the reason
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> stealing some code Strong words. Care to back them up?
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> Don't stay honest to those don't value it. IMO you are either honest or you are not
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