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by GuB-42 2y ago
I have seen it a few times for vacuum cleaners. Anyways, the conversion is easy: 1 mmH₂O is g Pascals, g = 9.80665, the Earth gravity, often rounded to 10. It is actually easy to calculate: 1 Pa is 1 N/m² 1 N is the force needed to acc
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by GuB-42 2y ago
"just" is not a better make, it is, well, just a command runner. Make is designed, well, to make stuff, it is a build system. But now, it is showing its age as a build system, and other, more advanced systems have taken over, thes
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by GuB-42 2y ago
If your executable is named "foo" and there is a "foo.c" somewhere, your Makefile only needs to contain "foo:" and make will figure out how to build it using its default rules. If you have more than one file (e
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by GuB-42 2y ago
I think GP means forgettable in the US. Here is the brands from the Wikipedia article: - Abarth - Alfa Romeo - Chrysler - Citroën - Dodge - DS Automobiles - Fiat - Jeep - Lancia - Maserati - Opel - Peugeot - Ram
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by GuB-42 2y ago
What the article doesn't mention is how cheap printers are. $50 for a printer/scanner combo is really cheap, inkjet printers are high-precision machines and paper is finicky. Notice how you don't find cheap knockoff printers
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by GuB-42 2y ago
The problem is that it is systemic, the CEO is just part of it, killing the CEO will just cause a new CEO to be appointed, maybe one who is even worse. If it becomes common for unpopular CEOs to get killed, this will select for CEOs who don
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by GuB-42 2y ago
And yet it may work. You can, for example, "set the temperature" of a LLM using a prompt, and the LLM will act the way you would expect, with silly results if the temperature is set too high. You didn't actually change the te
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by GuB-42 2y ago
Of course they are a bug. Just that hallucination emerge from the normal function of a LLM doesn't make it "not a bug". No programmer in their right mind will call the lack of bound checking resulting in garbled output "
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by GuB-42 2y ago
Not really surprising. Nursing is a physical job, people are heavy! Also: exposure to disease, violent patients (especially in psychiatry), slippery floors, sharp instruments, used needles...
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by GuB-42 2y ago
I prefer code names over acronyms. Like code names, acronyms are meaningless to the uninitiated, but for me code names are more memorable. Here, I don't know what "EPD" or "SAN" mean and these are terms I have to ge
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by GuB-42 2y ago
Being a grinder/grifter makes sense. That's how you climb the corporate ladder. Being a coaster/believer also makes sense, you are essentially trading status for a job you enjoy doing. They are not suckers, they will accept t
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by GuB-42 2y ago
Some reasons I can think of: - Vaccines are usually injected, injection makes most people uncomfortable. Most of them get over it, but it can be panic inducing for a small number. Among street drug users, injection is usually considered ext
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by GuB-42 2y ago
I understand why one would prefer the US way, but these are some weird arguments. I understand why you would want higher net income to enjoy a wealthy life, but for "investing in the stock market"? I also understand why you would
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by GuB-42 2y ago
You can see your "coaster score" on Hacker News, it is the number on the upper right, next to your username ;)
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by GuB-42 2y ago
You probably fell in some tourist trap or something. I hope you didn't tip. Tips are absolutely not mandatory in France. You pay for what you order at the price you see on the menu and nothing more. Small tips are appreciated but not e
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by GuB-42 2y ago
One also could say that the opposite of open source is superstition. It works with the example given in the article: OneNote is proprietary software, and it is documented, though incompletely. Had it been open source, one could see exactly
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by GuB-42 2y ago
You know the story about IR cameras that can see through clothes, it is mostly a myth but there is some truth to it as some clothes are transparent in infrared. Same idea here, with the deeper IR Webb operates on, you get to see the galaxy
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by GuB-42 2y ago
And what will it tell you? Let's say you have one guy who is morbidly obese, another who is visibly in top shape, a seriously underweight fashion model, and an average guy. Who are you going to trust the most? The obese guy obviously h
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by GuB-42 2y ago
The thing is, the last part does not just explain the joke, it is a very angry rant, and it ruins it for me because of the change of tone. Imagine in real life, someone starts making a joke, and then suddenly starts cursing and yelling. I w
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by GuB-42 2y ago
For a truly random file, your 1/50 compression scheme that will make it smaller than the original will only make it smaller by 5 or 6 bits, maybe more if you are lucky, but it is an exponential, so realistically, you won't be able
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by GuB-42 2y ago
I would even go to say that the reason Starlink exists is to use up SpaceX excessive launch capacity. With its idea of building assembly lines and reusable rockets, can launch more stuff than there is market for. So they create their own ma
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by GuB-42 2y ago
It also doesn't mention if Ballmer is able to change the number during the game. If he is only "thinking" about a number without writing it down beforehand, nothing stops him from doing it, as long as it is consistent with al
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by GuB-42 2y ago
I think print debugging is a symptom of an underlying problem. There is nothing bad about print debugging, there is no reason to avoid it if that's what works with your workflow and tools. The real question is why you are using print a
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by GuB-42 2y ago
"Amazon Web Services will also become Anthropic’s “primary cloud and training partner,” according to a blog post." So yes, if we consider Amazon datacenters to be the equivalent of an office for an AI.
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by GuB-42 2y ago
I don't believe it is the result of a LLM, more like an oversimplification, or maybe a minor fuckup on the part of the author as simple majority voting is often used in redundant systems, just not for memories as there are better ways.
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by GuB-42 2y ago
> Thus it's impossible to draw any meaningful conclusions. It would be similar to if I claimed that an LLM is an expert doctor, but in my data I've filtered out all of the times it gave incorrect medical advice. Not really, you
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by GuB-42 2y ago
I think it is closer to the reason why it is surprisingly difficult to throw a rock through a wire fence even when the rock is much smaller than the holes in the fence. We tend to underestimate the area of interaction between the rock and t
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by GuB-42 2y ago
It tends to be the opposite. Kids are usually fine, if they cross a construction site once, they would be really unlucky to have something fall on their head, even if they are careless. Professionals who work on site for thousands of hours
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by GuB-42 2y ago
When we visited Amsterdam as pedestrians, we absolutely hated these bike lane / sidewalk combinations. The problem are the often narrow, obstructed sidewalks forcing you to step into the bike lane. I wouldn't call that "incre
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by GuB-42 2y ago
> just mess with it and see what happens And even if you know every detail, that's still the best course of action, I think. Which kind of antialiasing you prefer, and how it trades with performance and resolution is highly subjecti

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