Mtinie

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by Mtinie 2y ago
Perfect response. I'm chuckling, so thank you. What's also humorous to me is this entire discussion is centered around vernacular usage of a word versus the scientific definition. Cocaine is cocaine, but "cocaine" means
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by Mtinie 2y ago
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Cocaine Does the molecule C17H21NO4 exist in both the raw, dried leaves of the coca plant, and a powdered, refined extract from the same plant?
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by Mtinie 2y ago
They were using cocaine. It was a less concentrated form, sure, but it’s still using the same substance for a psychoactive effect.
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by Mtinie 2y ago
How has Geneweb worked for you? Is it straightforward enough to use if you are somewhat technical, or do the “wizards” need to have a solid understanding of OCaml to make it worthwhile? My daughter has been interested for years in delving i
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by Mtinie 2y ago
I can easily envision a scenario that would preemptively “explain” why the pagers are internally different from past models: Supplier: “Hey, we’ve got a refreshed model of the pager you wanted to buy in bulk. Interested?” Buyer: “I don’t kn
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by Mtinie 2y ago
If cost per unit isn’t a consideration, I suspect you can shrink the size of the electronic components used in the pager to make room for a 20 gram explosive charge. Pagers—especially commodity models—aren’t profitable enough to warrant cut
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by Mtinie 2y ago
You’d need to pick a day of importance to launch the chaos-sowing attack against information and social services. I’m sure there’s a useful one in early November.
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by Mtinie 2y ago
Is that a similar argument to “in the long run, digital social networks are healthy for society?” I agree with your position, and I also agree that social networks can be a net positive…I’m just not convinced society can get out of “short r
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by Mtinie 2y ago
Training weights are gold.
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by Mtinie 2y ago
Mercurial lost because it had the wrong mindshare. It was the Betamax of version control and while it had a lot of positives, it never gained the critical mass to overcome VHS.
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by Mtinie 2y ago
That depends on the year. For example: 1947 - 4064 mm // 3682.800 Beetles 1969 - 4031 mm // 3712.949 Beetles 2019 - 4287 mm // 3491.229 Beetles
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by Mtinie 2y ago
“The first example of free and open-source software is believed to be the A-2 system, developed at the UNIVAC division of Remington Rand in 1953,[6] which was released to customers with its source code.” https://en.m.wikipedia.or
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by Mtinie 2y ago
I’d assumed (like you) it meant that the H100 is ornery AND pickier about what it consumes, while the RTX4090 is playful and will eat damn near anything within reach of its mouth (with its sharp, velociraptor-like puppy teeth), whether you
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by Mtinie 2y ago
Simply out of curiosity, how large of a space are you maintaining?
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by Mtinie 2y ago
I disliked the ad. I wasn’t outraged. I take a nuanced view that it was a piece of creative poised to be an impressive addition to Apple’s advertising laurels that missed the mark because its creators failed to account for a growing cultura
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by Mtinie 2y ago
Exactly! Promote it as a modern day, virtual “Bag of Holding” and you win over the table top gamers, too. :)
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by Mtinie 2y ago
I had not considered that option, thank you for sharing that someone had. Conceptually it makes a lot more sense in reverse. “Look at every type of creative tool and instrument *contained* within this thin iPad” is inspiring. “Look at how w
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by Mtinie 2y ago
Are people really looking though? Are all open source libraries being run through extensive performance profiling to look for known heuristics? Are they being looked at line by line for aberrations? I don’t have confidence that people are
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by Mtinie 2y ago
We have always faced it, it’s just that there's more awareness of the potential issues.
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by Mtinie 2y ago
Personally, I appreciate the transcript. I don’t enjoy listening to podcasts so having access to the info without having to force myself to listen is nice.
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by Mtinie 2y ago
Discomfort noted, but I think it can work in either case. Pronounced your way, it’s the proverbial teat of knowledge for LLMs.
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by Mtinie 2y ago
Your comment tells me all I need to know about you. Obtuse commentary is worthless for discussion.
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by Mtinie 3y ago
…but if you postpone a procedure, the medical facility they work at isn’t able to keep up with their revenue targets. /s
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by Mtinie 3y ago
I’m inferring the comment you were responding to meant “Asking the customer to copy/paste the UUID from a URL to send to Support via an email or chat.” Rather than asking a customer to read it out to you.
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by Mtinie 3y ago
That’s fair but I don’t understand the relevance to my comment. Illustrators and graphic artists are in a hard spot given the commercial work they do. I’ve worked in this industry in the past and can attest that many of the contracts I exec
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by Mtinie 3y ago
> On the other hand, art is mostly created by artists who were professionally trained as artists, i.e. not as scientists. Knowledge about computer technology is typically rather limited with both artists and collectors, leading to fairly
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by Mtinie 3y ago
I use diffusion models and other generative tools to give me inspiration for works. While these aren’t solutions, per say, the tools do help me define (and refine) my approaches and offer visual options to consider.
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by Mtinie 3y ago
> Most of contemporary art is unaffected by the current AI craze. The illustrators and digital artists I know would generally disagree. As an abstract painter, I agree with you. Significant genre specificity.
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by Mtinie 3y ago
This supports with my hypothesis about human-created art, post-AI. People are deeply concerned about how their livelihoods and identities will survive the next few years. I get it, and while there’s certainly a level of existential dread th
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by Mtinie 3y ago
I think it’s reasonable to assume that it means what you described on this site.

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