IsTom

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by IsTom 8mo ago
> Moving the knob of a vertical slider to the upper end universally means „brighter“ or „louder“, not „less bright“ or „more silent“. Except for the organ drawbars?
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by IsTom 8mo ago
In nature there's few things laying around that resonate particularly well.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
OP probably means watt-hours.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
I think a lot of what the author has an issue with is related to the Great Vowel Shift, not necessarily loanwords.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
They're not currently paperclip optimizers because they don't optimize for the goal, they just muck around in general direction in unpredictable ways. Chaos monkeys on the internet.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
> don't even have free speech Only in ways that don't matter to scientists. Not many of them denying the holocaust.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
Ah, the good old True, False, FileNotFound.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
I think that the problem is that LLMs are good at making plausible-looking text and discerning if a random post is good or bad requires effort. And it's really bad when signal-to-noise ratio is low, due to slop being easier to make.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
> the model of capitalism They've got capital, but I'd argue that they're long way from model capitalism since some time. There's both over- (regulatory capture) and under regulation (consumer and environment protecti
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by IsTom 8mo ago
HN is only a name, in reality it's VC news.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
All you need then is a few bots to upvote each other.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
As somebody very far away from any even partially autonomous cars, what kind of laws do they break?
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by IsTom 8mo ago
Trams are pretty ok
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by IsTom 8mo ago
N=1 and not singing in a choir, I could probably sing tenor parts if I trained, but to me bass feels more satisfying, doubly so going low with throat singing.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
Well, somebody has suggested nuking a tornado before. Why not a vulcano?
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by IsTom 8mo ago
A little tongue-in-cheek, but it's also an issue with windows, that it's owned by an untrustworthy company.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
As far as we've seen, universe seems to be very flat so far.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
> in the design of Notepad++ One could argue it's an issue with windows where you can't just pull updates using a package manager/app store.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
All in all, because of light cones there can be no large-scale growth faster than x^3. And more like x^2 if you want to expand something more than just empty space.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
If they were, I'd assume that there wouldn't be anyone in the universe to observe that.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
Having to write boilerplate code is a sign that libraries are just not up to the level they should be. That can be solved the regular old way.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
I wonder what that would look like on an absolute scale instead of relative %. Might be that just the market grew really big, really fast.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
I think OP means leak of linux quake port source
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by IsTom 8mo ago
That's not something that will affect the next quarter, so for US companies it might as well be something that happens in Narnia.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
It's about queueing work, not running all these queries at the same time. You can run pgbouncer or you can have a pool on your backend. Having more connections won't make it go faster, so that really seems like a low-priority thin
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by IsTom 8mo ago
That many long-running transactions seem like a pretty unusual workload to me and potentially running into isolation issues. I can see running a few of these, but not a lot, especially at the same time?
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by IsTom 8mo ago
You can't process significantly many more queries than you've got CPU cores at the same time anyway.
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by IsTom 9mo ago
Bitcoin is completely removed from fundamentals and if there's a major sentiment shift it will be race to the bottom to sell first or lose more money.
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by IsTom 9mo ago
> Unlike Android My experience with android apps seems to be different. Every other app seems to be asking for contacts or calling or access to files.
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by IsTom 9mo ago
Sunlight is unevenly distributed in the arctic during the year to say the least.

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