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Re:Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
on Friday July 03, 2026 @03:09PM (#48778771)
They do say the cards were purchased when they were cheaper. They debuted at less than nine grand apparently.
Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:09PM (#45736569)
Why is the man's wife worried about being sent to collections? She owes nothing to the hospital, the dead man's estate owes money. Let the hospital line up with the other creditors. She shouldn't be paying her late husband's hospital bills out of her own funds.
Re:No more "check mail from other accounts" in Gmail web
on Thursday October 02, 2025 @04:52AM (#45447541)
This isn't the same thing. Yes Gmail provides IMAP so you can read it from other clients. The issue here is that Gmail cannot use IMAP to ingest email from other accounts, as it can (or could) using POP3.
The 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet
Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
on Monday June 02, 2025 @05:30PM (#44163271)
Seconded. I am very much still in the mode of copying from the chat window and then editing. I would like to have whatever she is having.
Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
on Monday June 02, 2025 @05:25PM (#44163206)
So we replace the task of writing tedious boilerplate with the task of reading the AI's tedious boilerplate. Which takes just as long. And leaves you with less understanding. And is more boring.
Re:How to program a text adventure in C
on Sunday April 27, 2025 @05:53AM (#43810677)
The Inform Designer's Manual is mostly about Inform 6 programming, but has a lot of material on game design.
https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf
Crimes Against Mimesis was a famous tract in its day. I don't know how things have moved on since then.
https://www.rickandviv.net/index.php/2004/08/18/crimes-again...
Tuning Out the Algorithm at WFMU
Re:How to Win an Argument with a Toddler
on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @12:24PM (#43695099)
"You are a total wimp for wanting gloves in this weather! Here they are though, you weakling."
Russia UK agreement to tend war graves transcends bitter international relations
Re:Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks
on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @07:43AM (#41707122)
New Complete Vegetarian by Rose Elliot is a well used book in our kitchen.
Re:Global EV Charging Points with Open Charge Map
on Thursday September 26, 2024 @06:32PM (#41664226)
I invested in a Chargemap pass for my trip to France this summer. One card which works in nearly every French charger. Plug in, tap the card and it starts charging. Tap the card again to stop. That's it. Cost 20 euros for the card, and I think the rates are a little more than the native apps. But not enough to bother me. Highly recommended. You still have to deal with idle charges though.
Re:Proposal to change default annotation processing policy in JDK 23
on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @06:14AM (#40510324)
Lombok has come up a bit in this discussion. Are there any other popular Java libraries or frameworks that are affected?
Re:Why Make Art in the Dark?
on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:37AM (#40341623)
Many of these places weren't homes. The vast majority of prehistoric people did not live in caves. And many places with art are nearly inaccessible, and completely dark.
Re:Why Make Art in the Dark?
on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:34AM (#40341603)
Many caves with art in are extremely inaccessible. You need to explain why someone would risk their life and crawl through tiny openings in the pitch black to reach a specific location in order to make their art.
I can not believe that educated people think you can explore and explain human culture without considering "spiritual" stuff.
Re:The Man in Seat 61
on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:36AM (#39641399)
This site helped me take the family from London to Rome via the beautiful Bernina Pass between Switzerland and Italy. Invaluable!
Re:WWII: Failed novelist becomes a spy for Germany, makes up a fake sp...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:31AM (#39641349)
And then Our Man In Havana inspire le Carré to write the Tailor Of Panama. It's a story that keeps on giving!
Re:Clouds Vanish During a Solar Eclipse, and We Know Why
on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @02:49AM (#39535201)
They certainly didn't vanish for me in Cornwall in
1999. I hope you have better luck in the US in April!
Re:Baruch Spinoza and the art of thinking in dangerous times
on Thursday February 08, 2024 @07:01PM (#39309546)
https://www.routledge.com/Why-Its-OK-to-Eat-Meat/Shahar/p/bo...
Why It's Ok To Eat Meat
By a philosophy professor at the University of New Orleans.
Re:A parliament of owls and a murder of crows: How groups of birds got...
on Monday January 29, 2024 @04:40AM (#39174477)
Interesting that the list of fowls and beasts also includes (if I'm reading it right):
A bevy of ladies, A herd of harlots.
Re:Fifi's Big Adventure
on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:31PM (#38234756)
Podcast discussion with the creator: https://monsterfeet.com/grue/notes/55
Fifi's Big Adventure
I always remember my friend who works in VFX telling me he spent all week working on James Bond riding a pig. Which gave me some high hopes for the movie!
Re:It Is Time to End the War on Remote Work
on Saturday October 14, 2023 @01:41AM (#37878348)
Wasn't the control every other year before COVID?
Re:Specter of AI-Generated 'Leaked Songs' Is Tearing the Harry Styles ...
on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:36PM (#37488798)
We know what happens when a pop group doesn't perform on their own records.
Re:The Fontana
on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:18AM (#36874582)
Another reference book I've always loved is Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. It's been around since 1870, and you can always flick through it and find something interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer%27s_Dictionary_of_Phras...
Re:The Matasano Crypto Challenges (2014)
on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @07:48AM (#36402689)
Thanks, yes - might well be the CryptoHack suggestion. If so it's certainly been redesigned since I last looked.
Re:The Matasano Crypto Challenges (2014)
on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @06:52AM (#36402201)
There was another crypto challenge like this somewhere, it had a similar start IIRC, building up from simple encodings to basic cyphers, but you had to put your answer for one question into the website to reveal the next question.
I lost the link before I ever got too far in, any ideas what I am remembering?
Thanks