SamBam

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by SamBam 3y ago
It's pretty easy to turn off the when observers, simply `delete when`. Side-effect is that it will delete all the whens, so only use it if you need it!
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by SamBam 3y ago
Sure, but I guess my point was the use of the term the "intellectual crowd" (used, as above, unironically, without scare quotes, etc). "Intellectual" is a fine word for an intelligent person who does the kind of thinking
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm not sure what group specifically you're referring to derisively as the "intellectual crowd." I'm guessing that this is different from the "intelligent crowd," but I certainly regard the college profess
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by SamBam 3y ago
Only under a perfectly free market system. A great many countries have export controls in place specifically for wheat and other vital commodities. States can also set price ceilings and floors. The US, for instance, passed the temporary Wh
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by SamBam 3y ago
Since, as you said in a sister reply, even one analog computer might be slightly different from another analog computer, and thus unable to emulate it, if you had the outputs of two different computers, one analog and one digital one simula
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by SamBam 3y ago
This is exactly the problem on Firefox on Android (don't know about iOs). You tap on the address bar and are presented with a set of icons of your most-visited sites. Hitting any icon will open the site in a new tab. But it's no
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by SamBam 3y ago
Yeah, what this really shows is that flags are not nearly as precise as we sometimes imagine them to me. For instance, most old heraldic crests and flags have their official formats described in plain text: "Blazon or, three lions pa
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by SamBam 3y ago
> And their usage is quite bursty so I think you're right that a space based laser would just spend days charging Sure, but surely there will be a maximum total power storage that a satellite will have, and if that totals, say, 50 m
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by SamBam 3y ago
Actually the sun still edges out Mercury. Think of it this way: If we take the Earth as stationary and just look at the respective motions of the Sun and Mercury, then the Sun is also (roughly) stationary* and Mercury moves around and aroun
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by SamBam 3y ago
They're not lying, they're just using the word in a more imprecise manner. Recipe authors have probably been using the word "caramelize" to mean "soften and turn brown and sweet" for longer than food nerds have
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by SamBam 3y ago
Plenty of spices distribute their flavors better in oils/fats than in water. Take some szechuan peppercorns and boil them in a soup and see if you feel the ma numbing sensation. Then saute them in oil for a few minutes and then add t
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by SamBam 3y ago
The real issue is simply a vague use of the word "caramelize," not that they expect you to be at the stove a half-hour longer than they say. The vast majority of recipes that say "caramelize" simply mean "cook unt
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm half-way through Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time , and I love that the AI is called Eliza, but that also, presciently, the characters' attempts to get Eliza to do what they want feel like an early precursor of jail
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by SamBam 3y ago
It's super cool. Does the 3D tile mao extend down to the street level? I would have loved to see flying along the streets between the buildings.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Affinity is closer to a Photoshop clone. I've been using Pixelmator Pro a little recently, and I turn to it now for its AI features. Cutting a subject out of its background? It makes the "Magnetic lasso" feel like MS Paintbru
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by SamBam 3y ago
It simply redraws the shape from the last point.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Sorry, an illustration of why letting you modify and run code is a bad idea? How does this show it's a bad idea?
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by SamBam 3y ago
Yup, that's way more intuitive, and removes the artifact of the first circle looking like the points are clustered around the middle: I forked it: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1929579
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm not generally afraid of death because I think of myself as lucky to have been alive at all. It's not always easy to feel lucky like that, but it ought to be. A bigger question is: why don't we all feel lucky to have bee
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by SamBam 3y ago
I saw "mark" and immediately though "scam" (which I figured would be easy to get to from "investor," but it told me that "scam" and "mark" share only 2% similarity. I can't even go from
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by SamBam 3y ago
Well, apart from the indigenous people, the colonists (who took the land by force) and the slaves who were brought here against their will, the vast majority of the population of the United States were able to come here due to the liberal i
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by SamBam 3y ago
How many charging stations are in a typical European city? The point of this is that it can be introduced in any city, anywhere, without needing to wait for charging infrastructure to catch up.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Not if you think of it as revealing the sender's message, not writing your own.
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by SamBam 3y ago
The first panel where you literally only have to go backward then forward? There was a ton of time for me. Either something odd with your computer, or developer's timing algorithm doesn't work the same on all machines.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I mean, from the article...: > It’s unclear why Bhutan never disclosed the project to its citizens or international partners. > Rumors of government-backed bitcoin farms spread across the country in recent years. So it was secret. The
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by SamBam 3y ago
No, because if someone invents a way to power YouTube free of energy, that would be awesome, and it wouldn't detract in any way from the value of YouTube. But if someone worked out a way to generate BitCoin for free without any energy
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by SamBam 3y ago
Because it's worse for the world. They have a tremendous source of green energy, and they could sell more of it to India reduce the amount of coal and oil India burns, but instead they use it to spin motors to power computers to guess
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by SamBam 3y ago
Sending PG text to the users is already what the company started doing, so I'm not sure how that's different. Sending PG text to the AI would be for... what? Not offending the AI?
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by SamBam 3y ago
Thank you, I couldn't find where it was defined in the article.
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by SamBam 4y ago
That's not generally the case when dealing with things involving plate tectonics, which often have a build up of pressure over time (tens, hundreds, thousands of years). The tension can slowly build up at a plate boundary before snappi

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