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by Paul_Clayton 1y ago
This reminds me of a passage in Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign (Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan is speaking to Mark Vorkosigan): Her smile tilted. "Mark, you don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you o
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by Paul_Clayton 1y ago
I received the impression that being closed on Sundays was part of corporate culture, a statement of valuing something other than maximizing value extraction. A poster here commented that the franchise agreements were unique in the poster&#
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by Paul_Clayton 1y ago
The Catholic Church had similar tradeoffs with Latin, though I suspect the language and style were less motivated by majesty (though bias of use by the educated might have entered early — I am ignorant of the history). The New Testament Koi
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by Paul_Clayton 2y ago
For some reason — I am musically incompetent — "The Beach" really felt like the soundtrack was very emotive in a way that fit the story. The stately feel in "Sleepytime" may have fit the solar system motif and provided c
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by Paul_Clayton 2y ago
Listing all of the creators from whose attribution-licensed works an LLM (potentially) derived an output would seem to satisfy the letter of such licenses, but it is not clear that such would satisfy the spirit (which seems to assume a stro
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by Paul_Clayton 2y ago
The enthalpy of vaporization of water (at standard pressure) is listed by Wikipedia[1] as 2.257 kJ/g, so boiling 462 grams would require an additional 1.04 MJ, adding 26 seconds. Cerebras claims a "peak sustained system power of
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by Paul_Clayton 2y ago
Colonization would, I think, not require economic justification. Using transportation and communication barriers to facilitate isolation or at least localization may be important to some people. With vast discretionary spending, people woul
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by Paul_Clayton 2y ago
Another problematic aspect is if one has poor eyesight and wishes to use a larger font size. One ends up having to scroll horizontally for each line of text for single column pages. For two-column pages, one has to scroll back a page after
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by Paul_Clayton 2y ago
Die yield can depend on redundancy and sensitivity to process variation. Column/row redundancy for SRAM arrays is common and multicore designs provide core redundancy. Theoretically even out-of-order scheduler entries and functional