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by ElFitz 1y ago
We were a bit late when we discovered wireless USB had been a thing. Still, we managed to find one pair of emitter and receiver that also transmitted HDMI, power the "receiver" side with a battery, in a backpack, and hook it up wi
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Transplanted hearts don’t regulate as well as the original one. They seem to default to a higher resting rate, with less heart rate variability. So maybe, for a temporary device, it isn’t necessary?
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Memes?(weekly.elfitz.com)
2 points by ElFitz 2y ago|1 comments
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by ElFitz 2y ago
I had some fun playing around with memes and LLMs, and although I doubt there's anything remarkable to take away from it, maybe some of you will find it amusing too.
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by ElFitz 2y ago
> but I think it's much worse, now, than it has ever been. At some point, some US employers would hire armed private security companies like Pinkerton to break strikes, often leading to multiple deaths. In other countries, the army
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by ElFitz 2y ago
And Saint-Lazare, the third busiest train station in France based on the number of daily travellers, and the oldest in Paris.
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Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library(github.com)
121 points by ElFitz 2y ago|42 comments
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by ElFitz 2y ago
And ultra-processed foods and associated dietary patterns. They may be spreading far and wide, but these have been popular in the US for longer. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/ultraprocessed-foods-bad-f... https:&#
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Yes. But it’s hard to beat processed food.
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by ElFitz 2y ago
And yet, the country with the sharpest decline is the one where the diet converged toward the US’s the earliest. It’s also the first one to shatter their health system in an effort to emulate the US one.
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by ElFitz 2y ago
I don’t know about 1password, but proton pass supports passkeys, on both iOS, Safari & Chrome (and probably others).
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Thank you!
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Thanks!
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Totally unrelated. But first Discworld, now this? I need your book recommendations, or reading list :)
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by ElFitz 2y ago
> I tried for a few minutes to find the HN thread where somebody refuted the "handwriting is better than typing" for fact recall claim. You would have found it, had you written it down. Kidding aside, is this the one? https:&#
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Yes, but LLMs are expensive to run.
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by ElFitz 2y ago
That could now be achieved by precomputing all valid moves and using outlines[0] or Structured Outputs[1] to constrain the output. [0]: https://github.com/dottxt-ai/outlines [1]: https://openai.com/inde
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by ElFitz 2y ago
No, I really haven’t. Please enlighten me.
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by ElFitz 2y ago
In most of them there is an initial probationary trial period during which you can easily fire someone without providing any justification, and with a minimal mandatory notice. It goes both ways: during that time, the employee too can quit
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Two Reports Walk into My Inbox(2lr.substack.com)
2 points by ElFitz 2y ago|0 comments
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by ElFitz 2y ago
For those interested, this might be related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976
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by ElFitz 2y ago
It is somewhat doable, using ARKit. See "TheParallaxView" on the app store. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/theparallaxview/id1352818700
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by ElFitz 2y ago
A Cloud Guru / Pluralsight has something they call "Cloud Playground" or "sandboxes". It might provide that, but I’ve never tried it myself, so I could be wrong.
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Is there even a simple way of listing all the existing resources in an AWS account? I’ve always had to check service by service, region by region. It’s tedious and error-prone.
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Risk management.
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Good to know, thanks!
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by ElFitz 2y ago
This "aliveness" debate reminds me of the "11.000 years old dog". Basically a tumour that has been spreading from one dog to another for thousands of years. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/1
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by ElFitz 2y ago
> Another kind of misconception: data transfer is a _really_ overlooked issue. […] If you want to write 20mb of data to a buffer, that's not just a memcpy, all that data has to go over the PCIe buss to the GPU […], and that's g
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Do you have any resources on that topic? I’d be interested.
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by ElFitz 2y ago
> He was a bit "get off my lawny" about the idea of running any code you didn't write, especially bash scripts in a terminal. I hacked together a CLI tool that provides an LLM a CRUD interface to my local file system for,

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