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by Mtinie 3y ago
The panels do but that just means the far more efficient, next gen panels that come on the market five years from now will be purchased and used to replace the original set. So in reality, the often cited “20-40 years of utilization” they
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by Mtinie 3y ago
Without a private key that is readily accessible? Worthless,
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by Mtinie 3y ago
> This phenomenon is directly responsible for the rise of Incels in America. I’d argue that it’s due to social media, not the iPhone. I can believe that a reasonable number of guys being “bubble shamed” into inceldom, but as a driver for
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by Mtinie 3y ago
Am I understanding correctly that your concern was that the course is too close to reality to be useful?
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by Mtinie 3y ago
Material choices for vehicle bodies matter significantly. CT is an outlier with its stainless steel skin.
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by Mtinie 3y ago
Sidebar question for you: What educational background and/or practical experience route would someone have to get into the field? Is this a “requires electrical||mechanical engineering degree” role or can it be learned via apprenticesh
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by Mtinie 3y ago
> Maybe you can only have 100 connections and you can’t post links or rants. Just life updates and photos. Many I’ve been exposed to wouldn’t know what to post if it wasn’t regurgitated content or rants. We could go back to the early day
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by Mtinie 3y ago
You are welcome to join us in Northern Virginia in the summer if you’d like to experience the halcyon days of cicadas you remember. On the plus side, they compete with my tinnitus and make it far less noticeable.
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by Mtinie 3y ago
I agree it’s very handy. To provide one answer to the question in your final sentence: “Closed walls hide many sins.”
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by Mtinie 3y ago
Here's an attempt at using transformations between languages to see what happens: Prompt: "A unicorn and a rainbow walk into a tavern on Venus" GPT4V instructions: "Write a prompt for an AI to make this image. Take this
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by Mtinie 3y ago
I was curious if two subject prompts behaved different from three subject, so I've run three additional tests, each with the same three subjects and general prompt structure + instructions, but swapping the position of each subject in
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by Mtinie 3y ago
> "[...]the final result is more cohesive around a single them than the original idea." That's an observation worth investigating. Here's another set of data points to see if there's more to it... Input prompt: &
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by Mtinie 3y ago
Here's a second run of the same starting prompt, this time using the "make it more whimsical" modifier. It makes a difference and I find it fascinating what parts of the prompt/image gain prominence during the evolutions
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by Mtinie 3y ago
I figured this would quickly go off the rails into surreal territory, but instead it ended up being progressive technological de-evolution. Starting prompt: "A futuristic hybrid of a steam engine train and a DaVinci flying machine&quo
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by Mtinie 3y ago
> They’re just saying that because it sounds better than that the strip looks cooler at night. For me, I’m all on board with “‘The Strip’ is built for showing off after the Sun goes down” is a much better marketing point than “European f
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by Mtinie 3y ago
That was a definite trial by fire period of accessing the internet. I imagine there exist similar areas today but I’m experienced enough to know I don’t need to go in search of them.
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by Mtinie 3y ago
/ alt.binaries.* enters the chat
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by Mtinie 3y ago
“In the second video of the article the first box picked is crushed by the chopsticks.” Addressed a bit farther into the article, which I was thankful for because I had the same initial reaction: “ You may have noticed that the boxes in the
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by Mtinie 3y ago
“However, generating text, audio, or images in the specific style of an individual creator seems like a slippery slope that ultimately deserves some kind of renumeration.” Human artists already do this, extensively. We handle it by making t
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by Mtinie 3y ago
It’s the recognition, not solely the value, which it is being conveyed. $2.50 is still worth more than $0.00. Does that distinction matters to the person who the $2.00 and $0.50 is handed to? That’s an exercise left up to the reader to try.
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by Mtinie 3y ago
“ It's appears they are convinced some meaningful part of the "Right to Repair" can't be stopped and of course as competent strategists they are, Apple can't be caught "of the wrong side of history" so the
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by Mtinie 3y ago
I suspect it’s because profits only exist in an “up” market while reduced costs provide benefits whether the market is up or down.
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by Mtinie 3y ago
> […] numbers will look different, as my car was stolen this morning. Recognizing the limitations of an Internet comment, I’m sincerely sorry you need to deal with the headache of a stolen vehicle.
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by Mtinie 3y ago
Quite a few through the centuries, with the moderate to large quakes originated from the Apennine mountains’ Mount Vettore fault about 80KM away from the city. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236950808_Beyond_t
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by Mtinie 3y ago
/awaits sounds of departure /hears none /looks up “Oh. You are still here and obviously don’t agree.” /listens to a hint of an argument “Fine. Prove me wrong. You’d like to use a sophisticated data model to prove your da
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by Mtinie 3y ago
Can you foresee a scenario where a review site could legitimately exist without turning to synthetic reviews, dark UI patterns, or outright brand extortion?
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by Mtinie 3y ago
As a depositor, you might be better off. As an investor, I presume you’d be better off with the current situation, even when there are occasional hair cuts.
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by Mtinie 4y ago
Was the Voyager series designed and optimized to get outside the heliosphere and into interstellar space as fast as possible? I just don’t have context to know whether covering 159 AU over ~45 years is exceptionally fast (for human-made obj
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by Mtinie 4y ago
(Unsolicited comment and suggestion) I’ve had similar thoughts in the past but figured out I personally do better when I channel the doubt into excitement for anyone’s’ potential claim. I’m happy that a human—or humans, in this case—believe
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by Mtinie 4y ago
> I met a CTO of a startup sometime ago that moved their entire operations from GCP to AWS because they were "more familiar with it". That's all. Without knowing which startup you are referring to its hard to make a judgem

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