Balooga

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by Balooga 2mo ago
> operating on land, in the air, in space, on, or under water Thunderbirds are Go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_mBUaPsX6o
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by Balooga 2mo ago
The side effect of drastic muscle loss isn't quickly reversible though. Because muscle is about 3x as expensive to maintain as fat, unless you are on some major strength training to maintain, muscle is the very first thing that your bo
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by Balooga 2mo ago
I can speak only for myself. But when I was overweight, the heels of my feet would crack into such deep fissures that I could remove skin like thick pieces of jerky. I lost 90 pounds and now the heels of my feet are as soft and supple as a
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by Balooga 2mo ago
It puts a finger on the scale. Which unfortunately lasts as long as the person takes the drug. What happens when they stop taking it, unless they were on some serious strength trailing, is that they will have lost all the muscle they need t
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by Balooga 2mo ago
This research already exists though. Obesity and being overweight increases the risk of sleep apnea, strokes, heart disease, diabetes, mental health problems, etc. etc
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by Balooga 2mo ago
If the original larger bar contained more calories as well as higher quality ingredients requiring more time to digest, then the older bar may actually have been the healthier option.
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by Balooga 2mo ago
Like everything in life, it depends. Due to ingredients, the old larger Mars may well have a lower glycemic index than the smaller newer bars. I'm not saying that eating the old bar is like eating a banana. But ingredients-wise, the ne
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by Balooga 2mo ago
> It feels exactly like if all the emacs users in the world tried to force all vim users to use emacs. That's why emacs has a vim mode[1]. [1] - https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
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by Balooga 2mo ago
> We cannot possibly expect all parents to take proper care of their kids. This has never been the case and never will. That's why we have schools and other institutions that oversee our growth within society. "It takes a villa
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by Balooga 2mo ago
A reason is different performance metrics. One bonus depends on "make number go up". The other realizes that making "number go up" degrades the experience for the product as a whole. An example. I worked for many years a
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by Balooga 2mo ago
> Code is just detailed specifications on how things should operate. The spec defines how things should operate. Code defines how things operate. The problem being that if there is only code, then any change to system behaviour is always
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by Balooga 2mo ago
When "using an LLM", means the human has to substantially alter the output of the LLM for the work to be eligible for copyright. Agreed. But this makes the LLM tool different to other tools. If I author a novel using a word proces
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by Balooga 2mo ago
When you create a work using a tool, you own the copyright. When you create a work using an LLM, there is no copyright. So then isn't an LLM less than a tool?
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by Balooga 2mo ago
In my head "make" implies copyright. If you make it then copyright belongs to you unless you sign that away. You prompted, the LLM made. The output of the LLM is not eligible for copyright. You can perhaps copyright the prompt. Th
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by Balooga 2mo ago
Not to be an arse, but didn't you have access to Stack Overflow with all questions/answers prior to LLMs?
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by Balooga 3mo ago
FYI; In South Africa, the 5 1/4 inch is a "floppy". The 3 1/2 inch is a "stiffy". I don't understand why this isn't so everywhere.
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by Balooga 3mo ago
Uh oh. You could be genetically predisposed to have to listen to everyone's problems.
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by Balooga 3mo ago
They know, because in their personal capacity, they hate interacting with AI customer service agents from other companies. But their bonus depends on driving down costs in their company.
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by Balooga 4mo ago
In aerospace related industries there is a culture of writing and reading of requirements. I system engineered for a major US satellite TV provider, and just the specification that defined the protocol for transmitting guide data over the s
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by Balooga 4mo ago
I used to work in Burbank and lived approximately 34 miles away, across Los Angeles. It could take almost three hours for me to drive home on a Friday afternoon on the freeway. This was before Covid, and traffic has only gotten worse.
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by Balooga 4mo ago
Costco? [Edit] -- And I've frequented several independent coffee shops that are cashless.
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by Balooga 5mo ago
I like to think back on this scene from Galaxy Quest, when the team sits around the conference table[1]. "I have one job on this lousy ship, it's stupid , but I'm gonna do it! Okay?" -- Sigourney Weaver [1] - https:&#x
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by Balooga 5mo ago
That way of teaching got us to the moon, created transistors, produced the internet, smartphones, quantum computers, the very AI that everyone is talking about, vaccines, sent probes into space, cured diseases, fed millions, jumbo jets, bas
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by Balooga 5mo ago
> It might be borderline exploitative, but I have noticed that elderly individuals want a "solution" rather than a lesson. Or they may have just aged out of fucks[1] [1] - https://www.blog.lifebranches.com/p&#x2
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by Balooga 5mo ago
My Dad could never build the metal model to understand that common concepts like copy/paste would work almost identically across different native Windows applications; "How do I copy/paste in an email?", "How do I c
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by Balooga 6mo ago
And is "model collapse" a thing when LLMs are trained on 100% LLM-generated code? Fun times ahead.
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by Balooga 10mo ago
There is OpenGOAL[1]. A re-implementation of the language that Naughty Dog used to created Jak and Daxter. [1] https://opengoal.dev/
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by Balooga 1y ago
Keep in mind that Fielding used his "REST" principles to drive work on the release of HTTP 1.1 in 1999. He subsequently codified these RESTful principles in his dissertation in 2000. The first JSON message was sent in 2001. The re
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by Balooga 1y ago
> You describe how web pages work, web pages are intended for human interactions Exactly, yes! The first few sentences from Wikipedia... "REST (Representational State Transfer) is a software architectural style that was created to d
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by Balooga 1y ago
Then that does not conform to the HTTP spec. GET endpoints must be safe, idempotent, cachable. Opening up a site to cases were web crawlers/scrapers may wreak havoc.

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