CommieBobDole

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by CommieBobDole 8mo ago
"This trajectory explains why there is no crater at Köfels. The incoming angle was very low (six degrees) and means the asteroid clipped a mountain called Gamskogel above the town of Längenfeld, 11 kilometers from Köfels, and this caus
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by CommieBobDole 9mo ago
Honestly, a Moka Pot (which the author uses) might well be at the optimum point of effort vs quality for home coffeemaking.
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by CommieBobDole 9mo ago
This isn't really an impressive test; growing corn is an extremely well-documented solved problem, the sort of thing that we already know LLMs excel at. An LLM that couldn't reliably tell you what to do at each step of the corn-fa
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by CommieBobDole 9mo ago
What are birds? We just don't know.
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by CommieBobDole 9mo ago
Apparently they are not completely finished with the project - according to this article from five days ago, there are still some signal candidates currently in the process of being re-observed with the FAST radio telescope. https:/&#
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by CommieBobDole 9mo ago
I read the whole thing and enjoyed both the premise and the writing, but yeah, it would have benefited considerably from the attention of a professional editor and a couple of rounds of rewrites.
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OpenAI loses fight to keep ChatGPT logs secret in copyright case(reuters.com)
12 points by CommieBobDole 10mo ago|2 comments
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by CommieBobDole 11mo ago
My 84 year old mom uses AirPods Pro 2 as an aid for moderate hearing loss and has been satisfied. As others have noted, the difference is night and day; I went from having to yell just to be occasionally understood to being able to have a n
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by CommieBobDole 11mo ago
I question this assertion. What 'out of the way' exists in the parking lots you frequent? Every one that I can think of offhand consists of parking spaces, areas for people to walk from their cars, driving lanes and little else. A
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by CommieBobDole 11mo ago
Perhaps you suffer from D-G letterblindness.
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Waymo driverless car caught illegally passing school bus(kare11.com)
2 points by CommieBobDole 1y ago|0 comments
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He Grew Obsessed with an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks(rollingstone.com)
6 points by CommieBobDole 1y ago|0 comments
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
I wouldn't personally go that far; having recently replayed all three back-to-back, I'd say that they're just very different types of games. ME1 is a an excellent story-driven action RPG with clunky combat and issues with env
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
I'd like to point out that the student's advice, "of course the news is ridiculous propaganda, just ignore it and go about your life and focus on your friends and family" is the the response desired by the authoritarian
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
To quote Charles Issawi: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." Big projects have big problems to deal with. On small projects with no such distractions, the influe
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
The posters changed over the years as he was digging the tunnel - the final one was indeed a poster of Raquel Welch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyN63zVPQjk&t=209s
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
The article implies that it's not a liquidation or bankruptcy, though, just a sale. I don't know how you can buy a company without buying its stock from the shareholders, given that they are the owners of the company, but there mu
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
Every piece of gravel is unique and millions of years old, too.
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
>If he didn't understand the question how could he know the model answered it perfectly? Also, 'thing that I don't know about but is broadly and uncontroversially known and documented by others' is sort of dead center
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
The paper linked to in the article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652...
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Unexplained Starlight Pulses Found in Optical SETI Searches(astrobiology.com)
3 points by CommieBobDole 1y ago|1 comments
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
I will say that o3 was a little odd during that time, too - I was giving it some of my own photos to test the limits of its geolocation abilities, and it was really chummy, asking me a lot of overly-cheerful followup questions about my trav
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
Ok, 'second monitor for reading lots of text' makes sense. Shame about the price, though.
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
What exactly is the target market for a very expensive monitor with 4096 colors and an unspecified but almost certainly very slow refresh rate? I could see if they were marketing it as some sort of static display for advertising or similar,
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
If you scroll down to the bottom it appears that the author is trying to sell a book about how to be successful in the board game industry, so that's the motivation, I guess. Given that the whole article seems to be based on the premis
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
Because everybody is replying obliquely to this: You should not have to do either of those things. If your dishwasher is working properly, you should be able to put fully-dirty dishes in it and remove fully-clean, dry dishes from it. This i
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by CommieBobDole 1y ago
For what I can only assume are obscure financial reasons, Fry's kept their stores open for like a year after they'd effectively gone out of business.
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
According to the article, the drumming sound they make is for communication; pecking to find food is relatively quiet. He's drumming on the metal chimney cap because it's the loudest thing he can find.
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
I always thought it was called that because it was used by native Americans to make 'black drink' which they consumed ceremonially, tending to vomit afterwards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaupon_tea
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
"It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers"

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