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by _mitterpach 2y ago
What a great site, I love this presentation, got a genuine chuckle out of me. That said, I think months may just be one of those terrible systems that are too ingrained in our society. I still wish we could do 13*28 + 1.25 days, thirteen mo
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When Europe needed it most, the Ariane 6 rocket delivered(arstechnica.com)
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
AI tools are introducing errors in research papers. Wonder which is more common overall? Can AI spot more errors than it creates, or is it in equillibrium and a net zero? Other than these quips, I am actually a fan of this movement. Anythin
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
You can send satellites to space on Python, you can paint Mona Lisa in Windows Paint. There is a lot to be said about restrictions forcing creativity, and what I'd like to specifically highlight was Every Frame a Painting's video
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
For me, a cheap European student, this will always be the biggest upside for open-source. Free as in speech is important, sure, but free as in beer is undescribable to a young person who wants to tinker, experiment and create stuff, without
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
For any speed readers out there, is there a specific speed you have settled down on, or do you always try to improve it by a bit? My understanding is that the comprehension goes down rapidly as you increase your speed, and despite being a p
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
Great article that I disagree with fully! Like anything, universities provide a service. That service, for me currently, is getting a degree afterwards. If that service ceases, my interest in the university ceases. If the cost of such a deg
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Edge computing will enable applications like predicting when kitchen equipment—such as fryers and its notorious McFlurry ice cream machines—is likely to break down, Rice said. It is not hard to know if a machine is broken. There is an ent
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
Perhaps this is not a technology problem, but a people problem? Of course forum mods are going to be overly invested into the topic and might be a bit pedantic, but Reddit also has mods, they're also oft terrible. So why is one dying w
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
Business will always take precedence. I don't like it, never have, but if you have to decide between writting well documented code and code making money, always choose the latter. Good companies will recognise that this should be a bal
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
Maybe it will take Air Force One falling out of the sky to realise for Boeing that they are doing something wrong. I think it's understandable - nobody wants to overwork themselves at sweatshop Boeing, so they have to lower the require
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You are completely right, my bad! Fixed the source now.
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If we ignore the societal grudge held against its owner, this is not much out of the ordinary, right? SpaceX's usual experiments go along the lines of doing it once or twice in the right way, then pushing the limits as far as possible,
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
Every second, more than 100 people add ‘reddit’ to their Google searches. Reddit Pro helps your business show up where people are searching for answers to problems you can solve. What a line. Reddit is well known of its position, and I am
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
[Roy Lee, the student facing down Columbia] said he’s booked a one-way ticket out of the city and won’t even be on campus when Columbia wants to talk to him. Honestly, fair to him, he caught the interviewers with their pants down, made an
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
SOTA ChatGPT models have a hallucinaton rate of 37.1%! [1] I can't say that I have not used it in similar ways though, and it might be very often the best alternative. I just worry that in this age of misinformation, many incorrect &#x
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
Will that nuance be understood by the models? It might be understood by people, of course, but will the models take into account that some people might support Palestine because of the alleged crimes against humanity commited by the attacke
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
The same AI search results that recommend that their users eat glue or kill themselves. I don't believe this is a right move for Google, but Google does not care about that. Google cares about showing ads, and I'd love to know how
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
The list of these slow journalism sites is painfully short. I recently watched the 'documentary' about Gabi Petito's murder on Netflix. At three hour-long episodes, it was a well made series, with lots of background informati
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
Another day, another eyeballed price that in no way corresponds to actual value brought to customers nor the actual cost to the provider. 20$ for basic access, OpenAI is losing money on it. 200$ for the most advanced access, OpenAI is los
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
Not all Britons are equally likely to pick up a book. While two-thirds of women (66%) say they have read or listened to a book in the last year, just over half of men (53%) say they have. This is not necessarily unique for Britain and fee
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
Oh yeah definitely. There is a very good book about this actually, Weapons of Math Destruction , where the author Cathy O'Neil talks about exactly this - how biases are laundered through algorithms. Simply put: - Police Enforcment unf
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
I remember watching the YouTuber Northernlion play this game and you could immediately tell that Balatro was special. The mechanics, the logic, the graphics, everything just worked. Balatro is an absolute indie darling and one of the greate
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
Would this be only Meta though? I don't think they are nearly the only one who will not re-hire you or who keep a list of 'blacklisted' potential employees, I'd just assume that's a standard way of doing business. C
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
I would lie if I said I did not ever do something similar, and I am not really aware of any court cases or litigations based on copying a design. Core functionalities, sure. There is many an open source software that could actually use a li
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by _mitterpach 2y ago
Note that there have been rumours about Discord preparing to go public, I reckon this might be made in preparation for it. I think it is a wise move to offer an alternative. The design is very similar to Discord, could this possibly even go
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Yes, we are about to be treated to a second lunar landing in a week(arstechnica.com)
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With this, there is a loss of a large culture of game boxes. They used to contain so much physical art, manuals and secrets, which do seem to have been left behind. Current process is very simple and direct, and you can go from seeing a gam
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What exactly is the benefit this further integration brings to users? According to Microsoft, users can ask questions about their PC, such as "How do I set up a Bluetooth headset on this device?" and Copilot will respond with som
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NASA teams also collected data on the volume of sound made by XB-1 on the flight route. Boom says its analysis has found that no audible sonic boom reached the ground during the flight. Minimizing sonic boom has been a key goal for eng

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