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by K0balt 1y ago
Some people are still under the impression that they live in a democratic republic under a constitutional doctrine of permissive freedom and the rule of law.
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by K0balt 1y ago
I’d say this is a perfect candidate for a web app / PWA.
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by K0balt 1y ago
That could be. It was easier than assembly, at least, and as long as you could use peek and poke you could still get into the nitty gritty when you needed to. I remember using data statements as a memory space to communicate between my mach
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by K0balt 1y ago
To be sure, the barrier to entry on professional level development is higher, but we also have chip-8, python, arduino, and other languages and systems that are arguably much more approachable than BASIC with a line only editor. Many commen
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by K0balt 1y ago
It’s truly remarkable to me that in the late 70s/early 80s it was considered that programming your own computer in basic was not something that required special skills or technical ability. It just goes to show how far out expectations
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by K0balt 1y ago
That’s great, $8.50 per chip, bonded. I’ve noticed there are a bunch of tiny chip houses in China, like 5-10 employees, that have their own chip portfolios and even transistors. Typically in niche markets, of course. I’d love to see that ki
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by K0balt 1y ago
This is kinda cool if you didn’t know this was possible, but dc-dc boost and buck (up and down) converters are -extremely- common these days, and not in any way remarkable. I recently integrated one that is a total of 4mm2 that handles up t
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by K0balt 1y ago
Of course, if people choose to create their own private torment nexus, they should absolutely be free to do so. But let’s not pretend that justifies the mass manufacturing of torment nexus starter kits , to be sold as portable Eden’s. Harmf
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by K0balt 1y ago
The process is definitely vulnerable to magical thinking. I think it is possible to avoid, though, by asking if humans can be generally good at the task in question, if working through the implied interface restrictions, and then evaluating
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by K0balt 1y ago
I think that the main reason that LLM writing fails so badly in a field one might assume it would excel in is the lack of being able to model a theory of mind for the reader. While I have seen LLMs produce some ham-fisted attempts at manipu
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by K0balt 1y ago
This is an interesting premise. I’m kinda torn between “genAI powered robots will have a ground truth reality as a reference, so they will ultimately be more grounded and effective that LLMs” and “LLMs are like drunk uncle Steve with his PH
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by K0balt 1y ago
Perhaps there are some narrow and practical applications for this technology vis a vis disabilities or industrial control, but this reads like the engineering fever-dream of everyone wired up with VR headsets and bodysuits, consuming “immer
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by K0balt 1y ago
I find that camera sensors often fail in close proximity to 2 watt láser diodes. It’s very strange.
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by K0balt 1y ago
I see your point, but personally I find no value in feeling bad about my lot in life or the balance of gifts and hardships I was given. Overall I won the genetic lottery and have no problem owning my choices. I just can’t see myself as a vi
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by K0balt 1y ago
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding the common use of “autism”? I have two autistic brothers, and my whole extended family is “on the spectrum” in social terms, but it doesn’t reach the level of a pathological diagnosis for the rest of us. It is m
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by K0balt 1y ago
This is perfectly reasonable when people know that they have no control of the government, it’s like the weather then…you just deal with it. The problem is that in the USA , we’ve been told that we have a democratic republic, and that we ha
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by K0balt 1y ago
In my understanding, Joy is the emotion of overt happiness. It elicits silly behavior, celebratory vocalisation, laughter, and hugging. Happiness is the state of satisfied being devoid of feelings of remorse, emotional pain, grief, or anger
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by K0balt 1y ago
Definitely. It would take present-self visiting past-self to make me actually understand, to be sure.
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by K0balt 1y ago
I am happy that in my 60 years of life to have achieved most of this, but would have been glad and better off having read it in my early 30s.
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by K0balt 1y ago
I would argue that perhaps you have confused happiness with joy, or I have confused happiness with a lack of sadness, or perhaps with satisfaction. While I find that joy is a fickle and fleeting thing, I feel that I am happy most of the tim
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by K0balt 1y ago
The training data is not automatically in the context scope, and on list tasks LLMs have nearly no way to ensure completeness due to their fundamental characteristics. To do a task like this with LLMs, you need to use a document for your so
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by K0balt 1y ago
At the time, I really didn’t know it was likely fraud due to the low pay aspect. Interesting though about the 6 on 6off, since it looks like they could stay 3 years? Perhaps that was so they could keep everyone “in the system” by not allowi
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by K0balt 1y ago
“Seasonal need” to work from June to December, then another “season” from January to June lol. They would be on a 6on,6 off rotation, staggered with their replacements. I do recall though that there was a huge local hiring spree a few years
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by K0balt 1y ago
Idk what visa program was is under, but home depot used to bring in immigrants to run their stores (stockers , cashiers, etc ) under a program that meant that some contractor was putting 12 people in a 3 bedroom apartment and charging them
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by K0balt 1y ago
I think my impression was way off. I edited my initial comment to reflect that. 99 percent nothingburger.
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by K0balt 1y ago
This appears to be a credible source? I cant come up with any known systems that would lead to the physics shown here. Any ideas? Edit: unlike my initial impression, I think the appearance of motion of the object of interest is actually an
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New UAP video demonstrating bizzare physics in hellfire missile interaction(youtube.com)
4 points by K0balt 1y ago|5 comments
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by K0balt 1y ago
That took a dark twist lol. Fortunately, there are plenty of worthy partners in the world, even if there are lots of ones that are a waste of time and resources.
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by K0balt 1y ago
The victim you are being manipulated by is judged on their numbers, not on how hard they tried. While what you are saying is theoretically effective, it assumes that enough people will do this to impact the business model… they won’t. So al
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by K0balt 1y ago
This exactly. We run a 100KW microgrid on Hispaniola, and most of our panels are oriented to maximise winter afternoon sun, or just pointed randomly at the sky. Random pointing gets us more power than all oriented 12 degrees south because t

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