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by _dain_ 4y ago
And then in those safe geofenced locations we could put down metal guide rails so that navigation is easier. And then use metal wheels with flanges to reduce rolling resistance. And then hook many cars together into one long vehicle. And ..
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by _dain_ 4y ago
it screws up my darkmode extension i tell you hwat
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I told you people not to turn your back on fungi and you didn't listen. now look what they're doing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31197031
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by _dain_ 4y ago
in a scientific degree you still get taught how to use lab equipment and how to do physical experiments. that doesn't make it a trade school. i don't see why CS has this aloof attitude to actually teaching students how to do stuff
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by _dain_ 4y ago
They tend to get stuck off-centre for me.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
+1 for vimium, I don't know how I used the web without it
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by _dain_ 4y ago
It's still not enough though. https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/05/release-0.10.0.html
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>But that's not what's happening. You can't "crack open" a model to find the bitmap of a piece of training data. It's not there any more than a painting you've seen is "in" your brain. A model
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> What's the difference between a human artist walking around in the world, seeing images and videos (many of which are under copyright) and then using those images as inspiration, versus an AI being fed millions of images and video
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I suspect this exchange never happened, but at any rate: When the teacher justifies the subject not on its own merits, but for its alleged nootropic effects, that's how you know it's either a waste of time or the teacher himself d
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by _dain_ 4y ago
isn't that the film MI6 based their fake iraq WMDs dossier on
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by _dain_ 4y ago
yes the energy austerity will have so many sad downstream effects, including death of sauna culture :( nuclear vandalists have a lot to answer for.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> Yes because if he were at any company, he’d have been fired. Decades ago. And then there would be no Linux kernel. So much for companies.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I'd prefer him to say this bluntly in five words rather than five hundred words of prevarication and passive aggression and doubletalk that amounts to the same thing, but that nominally adheres to some CoC speech code. I will go furthe
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by _dain_ 4y ago
the author wants to be a robot bc of bodily self-hatred, there's obviously psychiatric problems, big ones
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by _dain_ 4y ago
trust me it's political.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> How can it be unethical if the person knows full well what's coming with no surprises, and the person judged that it was in their best interest to do it? That'd be saying it's unethical to provide someone with a benefit-
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I can follow the rules every day of my life and still get murdered by selfish people like you, and you'll walk away without a scratch. And then you'll somehow find a way to make it my fault.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Where does this entitled attitude come from? You just expect everyone to scurry out of your way so you don't blindly crush us? If your vehicle is so large that you can't see other road users properly, that's your fault . You
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by _dain_ 4y ago
It's in the official documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html >Tuples are immutable sequences, typically used to store collections of heterogeneous data (such as the 2-tuples produced
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> Because tuples cannot change over time, they are (slightly) faster to create compared to lists. Like you mentioned, they are being created just to be iterated over. It is a small enough of a performance improvement that it more of a st
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by _dain_ 4y ago
they could show the linecount of each file in the repo browser
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by _dain_ 4y ago
How far ahead do you have to book? I've never noticed prices to vary depending on time ..
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>I can't wait for this to pan out. We're turning into beings of thought, where expressing ourselves will be as easy as speech. But who will listen to us, when AIs can speak better than we can?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>That gives us a rule for deciding if a line of code is too complex: >A line of code containing 6+ pieces of information should be simplified. he put it in bold.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
it's france, they call it that because of the metric system
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Since in the not too distant past we walked on all fours, wouldn't the analogous muscles in the wrist also have this ability as an atavism? Or did we lose it
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by _dain_ 4y ago
The elite don't want you to know this, but you can visit Starbucks for free
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by _dain_ 4y ago
A few months ago I had a ghastly time trying to take a bike along with me for a multi-stage train journey across the UK. Trainline is good about abstracting away the (pointless) differences between the train operating companies -- it's
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by _dain_ 4y ago
mate, they just got older . there's a stark difference in critical thinking skill between 22 year olds and 18 year olds, regardless of what degree they get (or whether they get one at all).

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