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esoltys commented on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time cbc.ca/news/canada/britis... · Posted by u/ireflect

esoltys · 10 days ago

Why now? From the Govt of BC press release: "The Interpretation Amendment Act, which is the legal framework that enables the Province to adopt permanent DST, became law in 2019. At the time, government chose not to bring it into force in order to co-ordinate timing with neighbouring U.S. states in the same time zone.

Recent actions from the U.S. have shifted how B.C. approaches decisions that merit alignment, including on time zones. Making this change now reflects the current preferences and needs of British Columbians, and helps ensure the province is well-positioned to thrive, even when circumstances across the border evolve."

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026AG0013-000209

esoltys commented on Acme Weather acmeweather.com/blog/intr... · Posted by u/cryptoz

basicoperation · 20 days ago

The site doesn’t make it clear, but it’s not available worldwide. The App Store doesn’t tell you where exactly it is available, but it’s not in the UK.

This surprised me seeing as one of the example images shows Europe, including the south coast of Britain.

esoltys · 19 days ago

In Canada it's $35/yr and I don't see any indication of the 2-week trial that's mentioned on their website. Probably can still cancel within two weeks, but it simply has a Subscribe button before you can do anything.

esoltys commented on Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rbanffy

andai · a year ago

What local models is everyone using?

The last one I used was Llama 3.1 8B which was pretty good (I have an old laptop).

Has there been any major development since then?

esoltys · a year ago

I like [mistral-nemo](https://ollama.com/library/mistral-nemo) "A state-of-the-art 12B model with 128k context length, built by Mistral AI in collaboration with NVIDIA."

esoltys commented on g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains github.com/bklieger-groq/... · Posted by u/gfortaine

esoltys · a year ago

For fun I forked the project to run Llama-3.1 7B or other models using Ollama locally. It doesn't get strawberry right, but it can figure out 0.9 is bigger.

https://github.com/esoltys/o1lama

esoltys commented on AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography theverge.com/2024/8/22/24... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

allears · 2 years ago

This is silly. Our "trust" in photography ended as soon as it was invented. Photo editing has been a reality long before computers came around.

esoltys · 2 years ago

I made this point on Threads and Nilay's response was "yes making visual lies trivial to make is bad". It's never been photos that made "truth", it's been the source of the photos. You trust a photo from a photojournalist. You don't trust a photo from some rando in your social feed.

esoltys commented on Snapchat for Web newsroom.snap.com/snapcha... · Posted by u/tech234a

esoltys · 4 years ago

"Snapchat for Web is available to Snapchat+ subscribers now in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, and Snapchatters across Australia, and New Zealand. We can’t wait to bring it to our entire global community soon."

esoltys commented on Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference mashable.com/article/rsa-... · Posted by u/wglb

supernova87a · 5 years ago

I don't mean to distract from the main conversation, but I want to talk about how insidiously evil it is that NFTs can be coded to send the original creator a percentage $ cut off of every subsequent transaction for all time.

If that's not hard coding wealth inequality and a new class of asset owners, I don't know what is. This is disturbing, along with the whole thing itself anyway.

Imagine if cryptocurrency started doing that?

esoltys · 5 years ago

When I think of "percentage $ cut off of every subsequent transaction" I think of Artist's Resale Right, or "Droit de suite" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_de_suite

esoltys commented on Show HN: Tilepad for Twitter – Twitter in Pinterest Layout chrome.google.com/webstor... · Posted by u/laxk

laxk · 11 years ago

This is my early alpha version of the Chrome Extension - Tilepad for Twitter.

What will be done more / What I'm working now:

* automatically change the number of columns depending on the width of the window * buggy markup tweets (sometimes) * settings: don't show promoted tweets, show images instead of links, block certain tweets in #discovery mode(no duplicates) * bugs!

I will be glad to hear any comments, suggestions, bugs, questions and so on.

Thanks.

esoltys · 11 years ago

From the About text: "Set of different things and pipyakas that increase hang time on Twitter." What does "pipyakas" mean?

esoltys commented on Amazon Zocalo aws.amazon.com/zocalo/... · Posted by u/lowbloodsugar

omaranto · 12 years ago

ISTR?

esoltys · 12 years ago

"I Seem To Recall"

esoltys commented on Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook haskelldata.com/... · Posted by u/lelf

esoltys · 12 years ago

Just as a side note... Nice illustrations by Lonku http://lonku.tumblr.com/

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