DowsingSpoon

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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
This feels like a massive straw man.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
>universal suffrage is a stupid idea without universal risk/ skin in the game Can you clarify this statement? I don’t understand what you mean.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
In some states in the US, you can just shoot home invaders. That is, the use of deadly force is appropriate for protecting one’s self and family from a home invasion, and there is no additional duty to retreat from your own home. It’s a sha
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
Yes. But. The Shire’s prosperity was established in text to have been supported (in secret) by the efforts of the Rangers. Recall that Bilbo ran into evil, “cannibal” trolls barely outside of the borders of the Shire. This kind of threat wo
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
>AI is a […] social good. Citation needed.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
I’ve also heard this referred to as Abandoned Memory, or sometimes a Space Leak. It’s a common class of bug in a reference counted language, like Objective-C, where cycles need special consideration.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
This article is almost irrelevant because here we are in 2024, barreling towards a future where there are approximately zero real journalists, and all news is written by an LLM. No reader wants this, but it’s clear it’s coming and it’s comi
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
What’s “fair” about these ear buds? Is that a statement of quality? Because, if so then that’s not a strong selling point. “Meet the world's most repairable premium earbuds.” Okay, if you’re going to lead with This as your flagship fea
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by DowsingSpoon 3y ago
Why?
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by DowsingSpoon 3y ago
Things like sports statistics and directories of phone numbers are not copyrightable. Maybe models fall into a similar category. Could be. It’ll be interesting to see how this shakes out over the next few years.
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by DowsingSpoon 3y ago
>you can train an AI on copyrighted material just like people can learn from copyrighted material. No amount of whining and hand wringing from engineers will ever make this true. This is for the courts to decide. A reasonable interpretat
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by DowsingSpoon 3y ago
I don’t really feel like spending my Saturday doing some nebulous research project. Can you just tell me. Who are the funders and why is that relevant?
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by DowsingSpoon 3y ago
This whole fiasco leaves me shocked and surprised. I never considered that Reddit would sink themselves this way. It’s incredible. Until the AMA, I really had hope they’d back off and implement a sane API pricing model. That apps like Apoll
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by DowsingSpoon 3y ago
It’s entirely possible that the model and all of its outputs will be determined to be derivative works of the training inputs. If that happens then, oh boy, not good things for anyone using it, I’m sure.
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by DowsingSpoon 3y ago
This is a very weird way of saying the that Apple charger is priced competitively and isn’t over priced at all.
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by DowsingSpoon 3y ago
I don’t find it amusing or ironic. That both of those things are true at the same time is telling. There are too many self-driving cars in certain places like SF. This is noticeable, and is a problem, because self-driving cars are incompete
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by DowsingSpoon 3y ago
This fiasco may push me away from Reddit altogether. Though, it seems Reddit could greatly improve the situation by allowing individual users to buy API access for their account. For example, make this a perk of Reddit Premium or a separate
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by DowsingSpoon 3y ago
Ben Eater is a treasure. His videos are educational and entertaining. His project kits are excellent. Highly recommend.
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by DowsingSpoon 4y ago
I think one of the main arguments in favor of RISC-V is the permissive licensing. A lot of the people moving to RISC-V are absolutely weighting this heavily in their decisions. The RISC-V folks would probably tell you that the compressed in
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by DowsingSpoon 4y ago
<pedant>Significant figures are important too.</pedant>
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by DowsingSpoon 4y ago
Well don’t leave us in the dark. Speak your mind.
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by DowsingSpoon 4y ago
It’s well documented that there were no poor people at all prior to the publishing of The Wealth of Nations in 1776. /s
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by DowsingSpoon 4y ago
>Perhaps "Tesla Autopilot" can be the first Marketing Lie to vanish from the list: "Almond Milk", "Veggie Patties", "RNA Vaccine"... I don't care about Autopilot and instead want to comment on
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by DowsingSpoon 4y ago
Look, I think I agree with you that aquifers running dry is a very serious problem. However, I don’t understand why you believe desalination would not alleviate California’s problems with water. If California could be convinced to build eno
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by DowsingSpoon 4y ago
Well, you were wrong. Much of the area is California chaparral and woodlands, not deserts. The Mojave and Sonoran deserts are at the far South end of the state.
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by DowsingSpoon 4y ago
>Why don't phone makers optimize for power efficiency? They do. I don't know what misunderstandings could lead you to believe that phone makers don't already spend significant effort and resources on power efficiency.
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by DowsingSpoon 4y ago
You’re going to love this: https://mitxela.com/projects/melting_kicad
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by DowsingSpoon 5y ago
Your argument doesn’t make the point you think it does. If someone maliciously placed convincing fake road signs on the road then they could easily cause severe injury or death. This would be a serious problem, not to be taken lightly.
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by DowsingSpoon 5y ago
I build “74 series logic” computers as a hobby. It’s a lot of fun! It’s not difficult to buy old 74x181 and 74x182 ICs on eBay. You can even get sixteen-bit ALUs like the IDT 7831 for decent prices. Build a register file from a bank of regi
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by DowsingSpoon 5y ago
Kicad has an autorouter? Are you talking about FreeRouting?

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