pilaf
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Comment · 26 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Sometime last year I googled for a comparison between two rockets, one of which is nicknamed "Escorpio", to which Google's AI overview assumed I wanted a comparison between a space rocket and a small arthropod, complete with detailed stats about max speeds (thousands of km/h vs. a few meters/h), cost (several millions of dollars vs. a few dollars at a pet shop), etc.
Comment · 1 month ago
Interesting how the background is almost identical to two of the Astra pelicans'.
Comment · 3 months ago
Been there. The place is tiny, but very well curated, and packed floor to ceiling with interesting gadgets, some of which you are even allowed to touch. They also sometimes organize small flea markets, the one time I visited they had one for vintage headphones going on.
Comment · 3 months ago
Soccer is hard because it's competitive though. Kicking a ball around and putting it between two posts is easy enough, but it gets hard as soon as you have someone trying to do the same in the opposite direction better than you.
Tools should be as easy as they can afford to be without making serious compromises. I have no idea how much room Blender has for becoming easier, but if there is any it should be taken.
Comment · 7 months ago
Very nice project! That browser tab is staying open for days.
I found a small mistake, the Argentina 2000 list [1] shows "Babasónicos - Ella usó mi cabeza como un revolver", but the actual song by Babasónicos (the one that plays) is titled "Cómo eran las cosas", and "Ella usó mi cabeza como un revolver" is a song by Soda Stereo.
Comment · 8 months ago
This Rails commit from May 2010 mentions gitkeeps and it's a few months older than your SO post, so it seems you're absolved from guilt:
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/785493ffed41abcca0686b...
Comment · 9 months ago
I entered plankton, which technically isn't an animal and so it rejected it like any other random word, but then after I lost it offered me a link to the Wikipedia article on plankton. Very thoughtful.
Comment · 9 months ago
It pulls its data from Wikidata, which is very thorough, so I'd be more surprised if you managed to enter an animal it didn't know.
Comment · 9 months ago
Perhaps the key word is "wooden"? Which is not to say much older wooden tools didn't exist, but it's likely extremely rare that they would be preserved this long.
Comment · 9 months ago
Hokkaido got some back in November: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16155623
Comment · 10 months ago
https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html
> mise can be used as a drop-in replacement for asdf. It supports the same .tool-versions files that you may have used with asdf and can use asdf plugins through the asdf backend.
> It will not, however, reuse existing asdf directories (so you'll need to either reinstall them or move them), and 100% compatibility is not a design goal. That said, if you're coming from asdf-bash (0.15 and below), mise actually has fewer breaking changes than asdf-go (0.16 and above) despite 100% compatibility not being a design goal of mise.
> Casual users coming from asdf have generally found mise to just be a faster, easier to use asdf.
Comment · 10 months ago
Why into Word specifically?
Comment · 10 months ago
> You might have noticed that there aren’t any vowels in the alphabet
Then in the next table:
> 𓄿 is pronounced “ah” as in “yacht”
> 𓇋 is pronounced “ee” as in “feet”
> 𓅱 𓏲 is pronounced “oo” as in “blue”
Are those vowel-sounding hieroglyphs only used in special occasions?
Also, does anyone know what the reason for omitting vowels altogether may have been?
- Sun on top right
- Cloud on top left
- Three "speed lines"
- Two feathers on top of the head
- Eye rendered as a black circle with smaller white circle inside
I wonder if the pelican benchmark is converging across models due to past results being used in training.