AlphaGeekZulu

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by AlphaGeekZulu 11d ago
What a sad story. Like the one about a grandfather who moves out of the house he built himself, where he lived for 30 years, to move into a nursing home, where he'll be tenderly cared for.
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by AlphaGeekZulu 2mo ago
"Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn." Bradbury describes the fully automated smart home, but its technology does obviously not extend into the garden exterior. Funny - that in reality robot vacuum cleaners and rob
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by AlphaGeekZulu 2mo ago
This was the project prompt: "Increase the payload vs. overhead mismatch in emails as much as possible and make a business from it. Do not worry about those plain text handfuls."
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by AlphaGeekZulu 3mo ago
I am always a little bit puzzled with the versions. I use Emacs from Snap on Ubuntu. I have to use the pgtk channel, because Wayland. pgtk/stable is 30.2, pgtk/edge is 32.0.50. Version 31 is not even offered on snap, in none of th
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6mo ago
Until around 2000-2004 there have even been 2 Antennas. The whole surrounding forest is a military training ground, obviously used by German Bundeswehr and US forces. There are German and US barracks on opposite ends of the area. Within the
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6mo ago
N 48.690438° E 9.086693°
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by AlphaGeekZulu 8mo ago
No, I do not get that deep. I used to exchange data on the Ti-92 plus and the Classpad. Connecting those devices is either rather outdated (serial port with USB converter) and/or comes with vendor subscriptions, which I am not willing
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by AlphaGeekZulu 8mo ago
- I have a HP 16C, mainly for doing number conversions (DEC-HEX-BIN) and binary arithmetic. - I have a HP 15C to take with me all the time (due to its small form factor). - I have a HP 48 GX as main calculator, it is most feature complete a
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by AlphaGeekZulu 9mo ago
Exactly! My original intent was to show up a paradoxon: A group of 5 European NGO activists has been put under a travel ban by the US yesterday. Two of them are german members of an organisation called "HateAid", which provides ps
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by AlphaGeekZulu 9mo ago
Logic! If the described properties define totalitarianism, then they do so for any value that can truthfully be substituted for XX. I suggest checking this for all ~195 possible values.
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by AlphaGeekZulu 9mo ago
The XX is acting in an increasingly restrictive manner, sanctioning journalists and citizens deemed pro-XX or anti-XX. Some of those targeted are reportedly unable to open bank accounts or travel. Some of them are called "stupid"
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by AlphaGeekZulu 1y ago
Ted Chiang wrote an essay about the implications of recording everything: "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o... The essay does not deal ver
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by AlphaGeekZulu 1y ago
Self-hosted GitLab for proprietary customer projects that I don’t want in the cloud. I don’t trust GitHub’s privacy promises — if only because of the risk of my own misconfiguration. The GitLab server runs on Ubuntu Server on a NUC and is a
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by AlphaGeekZulu 1y ago
Oh cool, thank you so much!!
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by AlphaGeekZulu 1y ago
For micrograd: is there more documentation available than just the source code in the Github repo?
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by AlphaGeekZulu 2y ago
Around 1980, in the age of 14, I took part in an US-/German student exchange programme of my school. As a German at that time, I received a supposedly lifelong US-Visum in my passport. Some years later, as a grown-up, I started to visi
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by AlphaGeekZulu 2y ago
"[...]And most, if not all, nuclear power disasters were due to human error.[...]" And the remaining nuclear power disasters were due to unpredictable natural disasters. So at what time exactly did we eliminate human error and unp
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by AlphaGeekZulu 2y ago
You are right. As I have come to understand, there is a difference in astronomic longitudes and geographic longitudes as they are used for navigation. The extra parameter is a good idea. As I am implementing in Rust, I will follow the stron
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by AlphaGeekZulu 2y ago
Thanks for the hints. I ordered two promising books in German language: "Astronomie" by Pearson and "Astronomie in Theorie und Praxis" (3 volumes) by Erik Wischnewski. Thats some 2000 pages of stuff to read, so let'
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Ask HN: Which astronomy textbook for beginners?
20 points by AlphaGeekZulu 2y ago|5 comments
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by AlphaGeekZulu 2y ago
And this is, what ChatGPT replied to the prompt: "Sure, here is a detailed and extensive essay on the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program, including the role of General Electric and the Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment. While aim
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by AlphaGeekZulu 2y ago
For example, try this prompt on ChatGPT: "Please write a lengthy essay about the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program, including details about the role of General Electric and the Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment. I need about 100 parag
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by AlphaGeekZulu 2y ago
Prompting an AI service, like ChatGPT, to write an essay of a certain length about a given topic, then adding imaging and publishing the output on a website.
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by AlphaGeekZulu 2y ago
The piece was definitely written by an AI. And a bad one at that. It is a redundancy nightmare. To save your time: "In 1951, the United States military initiated a program aimed at developing a nuclear-powered aircraft capable of unlim
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by AlphaGeekZulu 3y ago
I wish they would have used the term "predicted" instead of "predicts" in the title of their article (just to keep my blood pressure down).
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by AlphaGeekZulu 3y ago
1967, Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle "Debord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with it
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by AlphaGeekZulu 3y ago
> Does it offer more advanced features than just syncing files? Yes! Covers, Metadata (searchable and including custom columns and comments), reading progress, filters (important for me: tags), different layouts, virtual views. And it ca
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by AlphaGeekZulu 3y ago
I am using "Calibre Sync" on Android (Payware: US$ 5,49 and worth every penny). For viewing/annotating on Android I use Flexcil.
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by AlphaGeekZulu 3y ago
Yess, thanks! Stupid me. Installer is also hinting for the missing dependency now before installation.
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by AlphaGeekZulu 3y ago
Note: AS far as I know, Calibre does not do OCR, so a PDF with only scanned content will not work.

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