danielsamuels

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Comment · 1 month ago
OK, and how does changing your desktop OS help with that? Does NixOS grant you access to a locked bank account where Windows 11 doesn't?
Comment · 1 month ago
> [...] its chief prosecutor lost access to Microsoft services, including email

> [...] the program was aimed at refreshing the technologies used by the Dutch government in such a way that it would no longer be in a situation where it could lose access to critical systems at the whim of a foreign country

How does switching desktop OS help you retain access to email and payment services, neither of which care about your OS?

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
There's an annoying bug where, if you're building off the word the train is currently travelling on, it marks the prior word as invalid, so you can't continue building your extension (even if the train hasn't reached your intersection point yet). This means you auto-fail if the train reaches the current latest word while you're working on the next one.
Comment · 6 months ago
1MW/800V architecture = 1250A
Comment · 6 months ago
Interesting that despite Anthropic billing it at the same rate as Opus 4.6, GitHub CoPilot bills it at 7.5x rather than 3x.
Comment · 7 months ago
It's a setting that causes an extra prompt to be placed into the system prompt.
Comment · 7 months ago
This Formula 1 season, I'm putting frontier models to the test - can they use their research capabilities to accurately predict outcomes of races?
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Ironically, the site would probably say you can see 20 km from inside the basement.
Comment · 8 months ago
I'm assuming that when the project says you can see 24 km from a given location, that you can see 24 km from that location. That's not the case. Fundamentally, it doesn't do what it claims to do.

Why allow the user to select any arbitrary location on a map and give an answer when you know the answer is most likely nonsense? You don't need to compute for 2 days to accomplish that; you could just make it up.

Comment · 8 months ago
The website claims the longest line of sight in my city is 24.7km from someone's garden that is surrounded by houses. I walk past this particular spot on my way to the gym. I walk downhill from my house to get there. I seriously question the reliability of this data.
Comment · 1 year ago
For reasons that should be obvious, that's not going to work on Windows.
Comment · 1 year ago

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