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Isn0gud··on Unexpected productivity boost of Rust
And then each time you refactor your code, your work doubled as you now also need to refactor your tests.
Isn0gud··on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
Which solutions are you referring to? With access that is highly diverse and changing, this is still an unsolved problem to my knowledge.
Isn0gud··on Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device
The ikea vindstyrka sensor is 50$, how is this 4x the price?
Isn0gud··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
They might be smart about it like you said, but they might also just be stupid. And the theory that they are smart about it is based on a whole bunch more assumptions...
Isn0gud··on Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app
This is not local, but uses the Tavily cloud (https://tavily.com/) ?!
Isn0gud··on Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics
Doesn't sound like solved problem to me if you have to employ more than four different mitigation strategies.
Isn0gud··on Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta
Cookie prompts is the best example of bad faith compliance. Please inform yourself and don't spread this narritive further.
Isn0gud··on Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions
Don't love your job, it will never love you back.
Isn0gud··on Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation enables heart regeneration in adult mice
Is there also research on the relative importance in exercise?
Isn0gud··on Europe Needs Digital Public Spaces That Are Independently Moderated and Hosted
Why?
Isn0gud··on A CSS framework to recreate Windows 7 GUI
No the average user has the exact same problems.
Isn0gud··on Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime
No he is not
Isn0gud··on How image search works at Dropbox
Google Photos also takes quite a bit with loading older thumbnails, especially a few years ago.
Isn0gud··on How image search works at Dropbox
Do these complex queries work on google photos, apple photos or whatever the state of the art image search is? With search, performance is key which makes anything O(n^2) unusable.
Isn0gud··on EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint
> “Once again, they want all the benefits of the App Store but don’t think they should have to pay anything for that.”

lol , it's not like there is an alternative...

Isn0gud··on Facebook Joins the Rust Foundation
How does this comparison make any sense?

I'd definitely prefer oil and gas companies that offset carbon emissions over oil and gas companies that don't. (Not going into how much pr that is over how much it's actually worth anything)

Isn0gud··on Facebook Joins the Rust Foundation
Why? On the tech side, engineers at facebook have contributed some great open source work.
Isn0gud··on Brian Armstrong seeking cofounder on HN (2012)
Yeah, if you know the future, just play the lottery, its much quicker!
Isn0gud··on Berlin rent cap overturned by Germany's top court
Well, it's not like new people will find affordable housing now...
Isn0gud··on TTS: Text-to-Speech for All
It seems like this is another dead mozilla project now, given that the people who worked on this started a new project: https://github.com/coqui-ai
Isn0gud··on How to Lose Money
That is literally what he was saying...
Isn0gud··on Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple
On a side note; Not having a Swedish ID in Sweden makes a lot of things very cumbersome and some even impossible, having one makes one of the most straightforward and convenient bureaucracy systems I have experienced.
Isn0gud··on Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned
Doesn't really make sense to buy at this price point though. Looks like one can rent an apartment of that size for 1200 EUR a month in Munich.
Isn0gud··on Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch
You might be interested in a project, doing exactly that: https://voice.mozilla.org/

Audio data of people reading prompts is quite common, what is missing for robust voice recognition is plenty of data of e.g. people screaming it across the room. There is only so much physics simulations can do.

Isn0gud··on Actix – Actor Framework for Rust
In the Actor model, all function calls are async and have no return value, between the Actors. Each Actor is single threaded (OOP) program. It provides a nice approach to deal with parallel programming.

Object oriented programming is a language feature while the Actor paradigm can be build on top of OOP to ease the mental burden of parallel programming.

Isn0gud··on Show HN: HuggingFace – Fast tokenization library for deep-learning NLP pipelines
I thought transformers are mainly used for multi-word embeddings?!
Isn0gud··on GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe
But you can make certain ways how services are provided illegal. How is that not enforceable?
Isn0gud··on My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting
It is free to use locally, only the sync feature is a paid upgrade. And the data stays local.
Isn0gud··on TeX Live 2019
For macOS, there is a small BasicTex package: https://tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html

It is missing most packages though, but only ~76M.

Isn0gud··on Google Coral Edge TPU
That's whataboutism and not an argument...
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