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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
They're also missing the winter bit, where an AC heatpump needs three ou four times less energy than a resistive heater ... oh well.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
You're doing it wrong. I bumped into this 'Short Guide to Russian literature': "Russian literature consists of suffering. Either writer suffers, or protagonist, or reader. If all three suffer simultaneously--then it is a
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
> cared for the environment It wasn't "more CO2" grade, it was "more NOx" grade. This in urban settings will actually kill more people with respiratory problems. VW's "clever hack" probably, statis
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
> Europeans from 5am-2pm PST Well, the EU is putting the kibosh on that PDQ. The precious stays at home.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
Read. Guy knows what he's doing.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
Do you have anything on those TRW floating point chips that used to titillate junior engineers in trade mag advertisements before that?
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
For example, an adder's total delay depends on a carry chain. If you have N 4-bit slices, the last slice has to wait for the carry to propagate through all N-1 previous slices. But if you duplicate all your slices, you can have the res
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No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI's Woke Coders(wmbriggs.com)
8 points by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago|3 comments
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
> pedestrian cars. That's an interesting turn of phrase ...
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
Now you've made me think of the Mac Portable, aka Boat Anchor. ("Am I chopped liver?!" yells the shade of the Osborne 1)
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
> "Human dignity does not depend on a person's abilities" That should be a hard line no one is allowed to cross. If you do, no logic will keep you from ending up in a very bad place. For instance, I'm a big fan of Ter
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
> superpower That's an anachronism, from the 19th to mid-20th century there were just "great powers", not perfectly matched but considered to be in the same class. The Ottoman empire falling off the league ("sick old
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
> bringing refuse facilities into the home Well spotted. India is apparently going through that, and they have a joke - older people complain that new generations are lost: "They dine outside and shit inside!"
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by B1FF_PSUVM 4mo ago
> [0] Ahah, China going Adam Smith on the EU. Peacefully, so far. Let's hope they don't go "opium war" on free trade.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
I remember one business class anecdote, where the conclusion of changing workplace conditions (light, music, etc. both ways) was that productivity studies increase productivity ...
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
I was never convinced by the "vision only" approach - I don't see the point of throwing out or refusing to have additional data from other sensors. I suppose that with modern ML they can just toss it in the blender and reap t
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
(Camus quoted) He will hereafter be known (and forgotten) not for what he is, but for the picture that a hurried journalist has given of him. To make a name for oneself in the literary world, it is no longer necessary to write many books.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
Oh, please. We're not cavemen here. A little coaching on internet best practices, a dash of psychological assistance, perhaps a girl scout cookie or two ...
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
You do you, John C. Calhoun of Minerva Road, Springfield, CO. An agent will be shortly with you to assist in that endeavor.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
Training/practice/collaboration matters. Eating won't make you a chef, watching movies won't make you a director, etc.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
> Our Washington Office is working energetically, on both sides of the aisle, Oh. (bit curious, when did that sprout?)
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
> spots that are actually great but not hyped up One phenomenon I noticed is that unpaid things (even if they're world class museums) often get left in the shadow of others that sell tickets - these get packaged in "city pass&q
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
> do not believe Instagram is reading Well, not when they had to pay people for it. Now, however ...
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
> now every chat message "It hurts when I do that." "Don't do that."
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
> In cars, the factory line both costs and produces all the value. Does that apply to phones?
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
Wax on, wax off.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
Die. Die better. So many clever ways to die.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
> Lua is not on base on most distros, that's sad. Also it stops being as portable. Huh? Usually programs just embed a Lua interpreter, I think. Famously light.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 5mo ago
I think it was tor.com that last year had a story where the newbie hired for the corporate HR dept ended up being the last human left after all others were replaced. Ah, here we go, courtesy of google-ml: '"Human Resources" b
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by B1FF_PSUVM 6mo ago
I've long been a fan of Pink Floyd's "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5z1D3tEHdw )

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