CollinEMac

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by CollinEMac 1y ago
As I get older I find myself embracing the angel more and more. I've met a lot of programmers that got what the devil was offering by only listening to the angel.
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by CollinEMac 1y ago
Came here to say the same thing. I think the wording could be a little better.
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
I think the idea is that you'd play with a chess engine that randomizes the positions for each player.
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
I'm an Endeavour user too. It's been a really great experience so far.
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
I think AI tools will have a little less impact than electrification.
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
Super interesting to me that each localization has a different phrase. Does this imply that the phrase itself doesn't matter to the story? I've seen people online try to draw subtextual theories from the (English) phrase.
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
> The easiest way to see that gravity is not a force is to note that a force causes acceleration, but gravity does not. Maybe I'm misunderstanding as it's been a while since physics class but I'm pretty sure gravity does
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
I wish there was something like this that could somehow turn off OS keybindings. I tried letting my niece and nephew play with this once but they kept hitting the Super key, minimizing the window, alt-tabbing, etc.
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
I'm always surprised when people mention watching shows in their target language as a study method. For me, I don't understand much and my mind starts to wander pretty quickly.
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
Update: it's too late... > Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Missouri after the US Supreme Court denied a stay. > The 55-year-old was put to de
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
What exactly do you mean "real dragons"?
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
This sounds incredibly dangerous
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
This is a real problem that's hard to describe. Walking around the US (excluding large cities) just makes you feel like a jackass. It shouldn't matter but it does.
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
I think I first learned this from my endocrinologist. Anyway, this is a good guide: https://www.mountsinai.on.ca/care/lscd/sweet-talk-1/what2019...
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
I'm a Type 1 diabetic living the United States and my experiences have been a bit different. > This is called “closed loop” or “artificial pancreas”, and getting one officially is very hard or impossible: not FDA approved yet /
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by CollinEMac 2y ago
What are your software book recommendations in general? I often find that the material in the classics (programmatic programmer, mythical man-month, etc.) are so ubiquitous that I don't get much from actually reading them.
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud_factory Scammers aren't always acting on their own free will.
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
You very well may have been talking to victims of a fraud factory.
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
From the article: “The tl;dr is we just don’t know.”
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"Societal misalignments" could pose AI dangers, OpenAI CEO says(axios.com)
1 points by CollinEMac 3y ago|1 comments
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
Thanks for sharing this. The picture that's being painted online over the last few years has ultra-modern super-minimalist architects on one side and hyper-traditional maximum-maximalist architects on the other side. I haven't see
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
I'm confused by the example they gave. > What is the meaning of a life well-lived? Is the response to this based on browser data? Based on the description I was expecting queries more like: > What was the name of that pdf I downl
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
Yeah but we have a lot of languages that do that now. Some of them are even mentioned on Onyx's homepage.
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
It's a much larger percentage of their Games Division specifically. This might be a big indicator of where Amazon is headed in regard to video games.
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
It totally blew my mind when I found out Spanish has different words for these: "se" (1), "tú"/"usted" (2), "ustedes"/"vosotros" (3)
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
There's some irony in the writer recommending books and videos to help with digital hoarding. I now have two more books sitting in my Amazon wishlist. On another note, I recently started using Obsidian and it really is as good as they
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
I can't really imagine a future without Tupperware to be honest.
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
According to Amazon it's been streamed a ton. https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-ratings-r... The obvious caveat to this being that we don't know how Amazon collect this data or if i
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
> I usually delete comments, threads, or other content I put up on the internet after it has served its purpose. That means for example deleting my Reddit comments after a month or two, keeping my email inbox near empty (in case it gets
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by CollinEMac 3y ago
I've never understood the Morse code explanation. How does QWERTY help avoid Morse code errors?

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