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  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • planting a single crop per field

    There's crop rotation... Or did you mean "why don't we mix different plants"?

  • Dude-tier list

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  • Because it's Arch, except no systemd, I guess.

  • South Korea has passed a major Copyright Act Amendment cracking down on manga and manhwa piracy.

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  • Note: if we throw out copyright, it's OK for LLM companies to just steal any and all data under the sun. Example: Anthropic buys books, and just digitizes them, then uses that data to train their LLMs

    It's a nasty side effect.

    On the other hand: No company can claim anything you've generated from their LLMs.

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • I had bread that tasted like a cake, and the Pop-Tarts made my teeth jump out of my mouth due to the amount of sugar they were able to concentrate in it. Can't recommend.

    Both 100% American.

    The people were very nice though, so that was something.

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • You wanted to!

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • "Poutine" makes it sound so fancy, even though it's just Loaded Fries.

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • Cuz he couldn’t get a job in France. peak comedy

    Must have been replaced by all the doctors and engineers that have been imported into France.

  • Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted

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  • toppled top figures

    Who? I know of one guy from the UK - Peter Mandelson, as named in the article and summary. Who else?

    edit: Have the Norwegian Royals been kicked yet?

    edit: Oh, I forgot about Prince Andrew!

    edit: Was that it?

  • Unredacted files reveal Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world'

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  • The claim was “Yet most AI models can recite entire Harry Potter books if prompted the right way, so that’s all bullshit.”

    In this test they did not get a model to produce an entire book with the right prompt.

    For context: These two sentences are 46 Tokens/210 Characters, as per https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer.

    50 tokens is just about two sentences. This comment is about 42 tokens itself.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • I'm a programmer and have switched to NixOS, because I can define all my configurations in code+git repo, which is great. I now have a single repo that has some parts that are shared, and some parts are host-specific (one desktop + 2 laptops, for now), and if I fix some bug (like my Samsung 990 Pro SSDs having Linux issues), I know it'll be permanently fixed, instead of having to re-figure everything out after a reinstallation.

    NixOS BTW. We're making it ours.

    edit: Steam has been a non-issue, so gaming has been great so far! Not that I've been gaming a ton, but still.

    Also, being able to use an LLM to fix stuff for me in my nixcfg repo has been great - I would NOT have been as productive with NixOS had I not have had Codex.

  • Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes

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  • Here's my quick guide to fixing slow queries:

    1. grab your query.
    2. run EXPLAIN ANALYZE <query>
    3. If there's a Parallel Seq Scan, check the Filter value (which column are we checking) - you should likely try adding an index.
    4. run CREATE INDEX ON <table>(<column>);
    5. run EXPLAIN ANALYZE <query> again to check for improvements

    Note that EXPLAIN <query> will only do a rough analysis, while EXPLAIN ANALYZE <query> will run your actual query, and analyse it.

    If you want to ANALYSE EXPLAIN an INSERT query, do this:

     SQL
        
BEGIN;
EXPLAIN ANALYZE INSERT ...;
ROLLBACK;

    A simple ROLLBACK will help you here.

    Rewriting the query will typically not do much - it might, but the chance it relatively small vs slapping an index on it.

  • CSS Optical Illusions

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  • Protip: Turn off Dark Reader for that page - it'll 'break' the optical illusions.

  • cool-retro-term 2.0.0-beta1 released

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  • This just makes me want to stay in the terminal forever!

  • Tradition is just bullying by dead people

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  • I'm not comparing actual tradition (setting up the Christmas tree to celebrate the passing of the shortest night) with a made up story.

  • Tradition is just bullying by dead people

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  • Tradition is innovation that survived long enough to stop being questioned.

    or

    Tradition is a solution that forgot the problem it solved.

    Yours feel unnecessarily disrespectful.

  • The ol' switcheroo

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  • People of the Balkans were crazy for hating the Ottoman empire.

    Almost like people want sovereignty, be self-governing and all that jazz.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

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  • Suicidal empathy.

  • I love choice. I hate choosing.

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  • Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file

    Can be determined by 1 file. Or one file and a .lock file. Or even more files. Your pick, really.

  • I love choice. I hate choosing.

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  • It’s fine for newbies.

    As someone who used it when he was a newbie: Gnome is fucking awful to learn - it's so bloody alien, it's not even funny.

    I'm now using a distro with KDE and it feels just right.

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    "Ladybird announcement" by Andreas Kling (from SerenityOS)