KPGv2

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by KPGv2 1y ago
> $30K Wow. That's ten years of electrical bills where I live in Texas, and you also have to deal with the increased water leakage risks, any maintenance issues, storm problems, etc.
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by KPGv2 1y ago
Who actually did the purchasing, the non-profit or the for-profit? They have similar names (OpenAI Inc vs OpenAI LLC), and the article isn't clear. Did the non-profit buy io using shares of the for-profit that it owns? Or did the for-p
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by KPGv2 1y ago
It's a reference to one of Donald Trump's defenses of his trade war with China: that tariffs are acceptable because it's immaterial if American children "have two dolls instead of 30 dolls"
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by KPGv2 1y ago
Anki has AnkiConnect which is exactly this, I think https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2055492159 IIRC Yomichan (been a long time since I needed tools like that) is a Chrome extension that lets you mouseover words an
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by KPGv2 1y ago
Isn't there a Netflix and browser tool where it'll grab subtitles for shows you're watching and create flashcards or something?
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by KPGv2 1y ago
I do this with my kids' "exam review" materials. I'll take a photo of the pages marked "study this for test" and send to Gemini and say "make a test out of this" and it'll create an exam with que
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by KPGv2 1y ago
> Because then you are calling middleware_caching_auth_broker() from 37 places No you aren't. You aren't really calling it from anywhere. The framework you're using, which you aren't writing, is calling the register
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by KPGv2 1y ago
> Technically it is correct, but in doing that you lose the essence of the word “roman” This isn't specific to concepts like "Bildungsroman." You're essentially saying "this word isn't just a word, but a wor
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by KPGv2 1y ago
And in any case, "this concept is untranslatable" is nonsense, usually born out of xenophobia or jingoism. "MY language is more expressive than those OTHERS." Every language has technical words that "cannot be tra
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by KPGv2 1y ago
It's worth noting this is normal in language. Consider the highly non-technical English "lighthouse," which has acquired a far more specific meaning than "a house made of light" or "a house that produces light&
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by KPGv2 1y ago
Can it work that way? Of course. But just because it works that way there, doesn't mean it's right . There's nothing about SEA that implies to me the pinnacle of operational efficiency.
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by KPGv2 1y ago
> Much of US banking operates almost entirely on this premise and has done so forever. I might be mistaken, but isn't banking famous for (1) the long hours (i.e., processes suck), (2) the drudgery of updating said Excel files (i.e.,
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by KPGv2 2y ago
I feel like this is a site full of educated people, for whom a citation for this claim is about as necessary as one for the claim "the President is the leader of the executive branch of the US government" Honestly, I question the
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> the bad men say the mean things You really lose all credibility when you downplay the richest man on earth openly bribing voters and the President claiming the man helped rig voting machines, and that same man makes Nazi salutes and go
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> this is now partially done by multinational corporations, wiping out local traditions. And it used to be partially done by empires, wiping out local traditions. And powerful warlords would do it, too. Monarchs, etc. Hard to say Western
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by KPGv2 2y ago
If this tickles your pickle, there's a beautiful, large book put out by Taschen called Japan 1900 that you might want to check out! I have a copy and I love it. It just can't actually go on my coffee table since I have three kids
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by KPGv2 2y ago
ICE is not the FBI. They aren't even in the same part of the federal bureaucracy (HomeSec vs DOJ). So it would behoove you not to conflate ICE's recent actions with the FBI's recent actions.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
I assume the token gets its name from figure one in this paper: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/04... Which angers me, because that's a macaron, not a macaroon.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> It's filled with those who want to make good new things It's crazy you think this is even remotely unique to SV. Broad swaths of the country (referred to as "flyover" by coastal people) are fully employed in the pro
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by KPGv2 2y ago
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by KPGv2 2y ago
And this is different from Japanese's chuuonpu (U+30FC) which is a vowel elongation mark, and it's rendered horizontally or vertically depending on whether the text direction is horizontal or vertical, respectively. ー
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by KPGv2 2y ago
space, minus, space is on the same level as manually typing two spaces after a period
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> Some style guides recommend "space, en dash, space" for this Which one does that? I threw up a little in my mouth and wish to avoid such style guides in the future!
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by KPGv2 2y ago
Really fun game. I was happy when I thought I screwed up the final level only to realize my screwup was the solution.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> 15 years later do you think these classes matter? Yes. A broad, liberal arts education made me a better, more informed citizen. One might even say I know more than the current President (certainly his supporters) about tariffs, what af
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> We look at that positively becomes it's a sunk cost, I don't care what you "look at it like." I car what the actual statistics demonstrate. Facts don't care about your feelings.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
daily life in Western Europe literally right now?
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by KPGv2 2y ago
I know a great deal about both, Turing being my scientific idol. I thought The Imitation Game was great, though not nearly enough postwar events and his trauma. I realize the title The Imitation Game was meant to be a double meaning, abou
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by KPGv2 2y ago
https://news.mit.edu/2024/fifteen-lincoln-laboratory-technol... Here are a number of things we will rely on presently.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
Europe also seems to hand out PhDs like candy compared to the US (you can earn one faster, and you're less prepared for research), and there's a lot more priority put on master's degrees, which are largely a joke in the US ou

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