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by PostOnce 1y ago
Today we asked Gemini CLI to check if any of the files in /home/user/dirname contained a word. It churned for >5 minutes and didn't solve the problem. grep, of course, solved the problem in under a second. AGI is goin
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by PostOnce 1y ago
Parachute Sam into an island of cannibals, come back in 5 years, and he'll be king. Unless, of course, one of the cannibals is Mark Zuckerberg; then he might just get eaten.
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by PostOnce 1y ago
This is a total tangent, but I am amazed by the image at the top of the article. I did not know until today that theatrical sets were ever first designed as models or dioramas, and that one is especially beautiful. I have now embarked on a
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by PostOnce 1y ago
Owing money you don't have has disadvantages even without interest . For example, if you make 5000 dollars a month and get a 5000 dollar BNPL loan for a stereo, payment due in a month, then even without interest, you now either starve
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by PostOnce 1y ago
boring and/or utterly fascinating, depending on the viewer -- safety engineering, whether that's airplanes, submarines, chemical plants, or whatever, is totally fascinating. Making something work is difficult, making it work safe
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by PostOnce 1y ago
Obviously there are edge cases. Debt can be a form of insurance for the individual. However, I stood in line behind someone who financed a bowl of noodles with afterpay, and it got me thinking. Those are the folks I'm talking about.
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by PostOnce 1y ago
Theoretically, credit should be used for one thing: to make more money. (not less) However, instead of using it to buy or construct a machine to triple what you can produce in an hour, the average person is using it to delay having to work
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by PostOnce 1y ago
Late reply but I hadn't considered that, it's an interesting problem, it might be worthwhile to just buy a second American-standard optical table, if the cost is only a few thousand dollars, and most of the money is spent on other
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by PostOnce 1y ago
Am I to believe someone smart enough to developing these kinds of optical systems will find it very difficult to multiply one number by another to convert to metric?
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by PostOnce 1y ago
I believe this is cut from whole cloth and has no historical basis in matauranga Māori. It's worth noting that Māori did not have writing, and that whatever this classification system is, it's not Māori per se, it's just Māor
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by PostOnce 1y ago
Or you could just have real money in an insured bank And your cold wallet could be the stock market or real estate or private equity Then you're much safer and just as wealthy
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by PostOnce 1y ago
What did you try? It might be worth talking about here to try to gain some insight. B2B products, unless miraculous, do not generally "take off" without a lot of hard work, meetings, trade shows, client demos, etc, at least so far
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by PostOnce 1y ago
I do think medicine is a special category because people need it, whereas if there is a 36 month gap between a novel's first printing and second, I (being the radical copyright reform advocate I consider myself) wouldn't think we
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by PostOnce 1y ago
If I refuse to make it available (commercially or otherwise)? Absolutely. Copyright exists to incentivize production and distribution . I can see it argued that, being less critical than medicine, perhaps a book or software could be "
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by PostOnce 1y ago
It's no moral stretch to say that if society pays tax to provide police and courts to enforce intellectual property rights for pharmaceuticals to encourage production of pharmaceuticals (note: not because of some "moral right&
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by PostOnce 1y ago
Citizen science, also known as science, has no incentive to falsify results to advance their career since they're already happily employed in an unrelated field.
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by PostOnce 1y ago
I as a child, a teen, and a young adult thought I hated math, I got bad grades and it bored me. I dropped out of school. I later went to college and took remedial algebra twice. Math in school was purposeless and rigid, a rote procedure to
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by PostOnce 2y ago
Ghibli art is famous because ghibli art means ghibli movies. It is more beautiful in motion than still, the beauty is in part due to the emotion evoked by the story. There were a million Doom clones, none of which were as good as Doom. The
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by PostOnce 2y ago
If every user of free software donated for all the free software they use, people's monthly donation bill for their "free" software would be hundreds of dollars or more.
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by PostOnce 2y ago
It seems like we could get some good estimates based on non-census data. For example cellular data or ad data, rf emissions, CO2 or other chemical emissions, satellite photography of human activity (mowing, cropping, logging, building, etc)
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by PostOnce 2y ago
> I am not sure why most people think autopilot is hands of the wheel without looking. Well, because they named it autopilot . Autopilot means it pilots... automatically. Automatic pilot. Not Manual Pilot, not with intervention, automa
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by PostOnce 2y ago
We could do it. We could fundraise to cast a bronze of him and put it anywhere we like. It wouldn't take that many people or that much time, in the grand scheme of things. Actually, the world might be a nicer place with more statues an
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by PostOnce 2y ago
To enrage or endear at all costs, the engagement justifies the means. It is ironic that an article railing against people doing all they can for engagement ends with... a call to engage. Sign up for my newsletter.
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by PostOnce 2y ago
The newer gen kindles nag you every time you go to the menu to change books, even in airplane mode. Maybe this can be turned off if you register it, but I'm tired of having to sign up to some company's ever-changing digital contra
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by PostOnce 2y ago
I couldn't find a way, I was hoping someone better at firmware hacking could help me out but my repeated searches have turned up little
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by PostOnce 2y ago
I dropped out in the first semester of 9th grade and even I know the word gaol, because I read books written before last year.
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by PostOnce 2y ago
Still can't remove the stupid "cloud not available" nag if your kindle isn't online though, which of course it shouldn't be or they'll delete your copy of 1984.
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by PostOnce 2y ago
More like computer-human parasitism; it weakens the host. It also only affects those with a "weak immune system" i.e. those whose bullshit filter doesn't function. AI is here to stay for some tasks (segment anything, diffusio
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by PostOnce 2y ago
"My watch is a security risk and my refrigerator uses 3 gigabytes of data a day." "I can't access my todo list because azure is down" We should go back to analog. We're wasting our time.
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by PostOnce 2y ago
People will complain about anything and everything, but those aren't the people that matter to a project like this. The people that matter to a project like this are the people who find it interesting. Linux was a hobby project once. S

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