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by addaon 1y ago
> Isn't that explanation of why wings work completely wrong? This is an LLM. "Wrong" is not a concept that applies, as it requires understanding. The explanation is quite /probable/, as evidenced by the fact that
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by addaon 1y ago
> gravity at the surface Unfortunately that "surface" is gaseous…
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by addaon 1y ago
> Piloting an aircraft with an autopilot requires a MINIMUM of 1500 hours of instruction and experience as well as multiple levels of certification (VFR, IFR, multi-engine, and specific type certification). What? A full private pilot lic
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by addaon 1y ago
> Be warned, there are fraudulent sellers on Amazon If you're one of today's 10,000 learning this for the first time, congratulations. For everyone else, this is a reminder that you probably shouldn't use Amazon for anythi
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by addaon 1y ago
I'm in a small town (5000 people) on the Utah/Arizona border. The internet options are better, cheaper, and more reliable than I had in old town Mountain View, Palo Alto, or Sunnyvale. I go with the symmetric 1 gig with static IP,
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by addaon 1y ago
> There are lots of despotic and tyrannical regimes in the world, under which companies must operate because people live there who must try to make a living. Right, but there's lots of companies in the world. Lots more than there ar
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by addaon 1y ago
> Can you tell me which car is Python, so I can add it to my shopping list? The Hummer H3. When the Hummer came out it did a few things exceptionally well — better than anything else — although there were plenty of areas (speed, aestheti
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by addaon 1y ago
> What’s not to like about such interactions? The at-best-coincidental correlation with accuracy and truth.
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by addaon 1y ago
And would the driver’s actions have been different if they had understood that? Was their lack of understanding coincidence, correlated with their Tesla ownership by no fault of Tesla, or deliberately engineered by Tesla’s marketing approac
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by addaon 1y ago
> Autopilot is cruise control. When you understand this, claiming that Tesla is partially at fault here does not match the existing expectations of other driver assistance tech. The problem is for several years they actively targeted a c
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by addaon 1y ago
> This hurts competent people who want to have responsibility and the freedom that brings. Perhaps, but does it hurt more or less than getting life-changing injuries and your partner killed by a Tesla?
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by addaon 1y ago
> That's a good question to ask to an AI What makes you say that? By what metric?
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by addaon 1y ago
> I think the brute-force was done by making non-semantic changes like variable names and changing the order of the declarations. Yep. You have 17 bits of entropy just in the names of three single-letter variables.
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by addaon 1y ago
Not Robert Anton Wilson the writer, who passed away a couple decades ago, but Robert Wilson the playwright. fnord
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by addaon 1y ago
Multiple lists. On the list of strongest by magnitude, it would be in a three-way tie for 7th if there's no further revision to the magnitude estimate (which there usually is). It would be second by magnitude on the list of deadliest e
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by addaon 1y ago
The thing to realize is that interns cost companies far, far more in time spent in mentorship than they add in value, even ignoring compensation. The reason to invest in an intern is to help a promising engineer mature, while simultaneously
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by addaon 1y ago
What are your goals for an internship? What are you trying to gain? Just pocket cash? General experience? A trial run with a company you'd consider going full time for? What are your college plans?
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by addaon 1y ago
But they are funded in part by the national (federal) government, and are available nationally (across the nation); contrast with for example New York Public Radio which does not have national aspirations, being focused instead on... New Yo
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by addaon 1y ago
And had 120 members across ~15 states on day one, yes.
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by addaon 1y ago
No, but it conventionally indicates either that, or (a goal of) national presence; for example the National Association of Realtors has members in all fifty states of the (US) nation, not just in one dude's apartment.
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by addaon 1y ago
In what way are they "national"? They have no clear association with national authorities for any nation. Their contact info is a personal phone number, and (the same) personal e-mail address for all roles; combined with a squares
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by addaon 1y ago
Huh, I sort of assumed that they used the same permission ("pop crap up on my lock screen"). Didn't occur to me they were different. Thanks.
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by addaon 1y ago
> I get almost zero notifications on iOS, you can just disable them. There are a couple exceptions but they are high-signal and business purpose. The one that gets me is Uber. For several minutes a month while traveling, I really want th
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by addaon 1y ago
> It's the amperage that kills. Yes, in reality, 240V circuits are likely to have higher-amperage devices attached. One milliamp at 240V will not kill you. If a circuit is formed from a 240 V source, through you, to a low-impedance
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by addaon 1y ago
It rather depends how specific the flavor of the ingredient is, though. Not everything has generic versions. "Maker's Mark" instead of "bourbon" probably doesn't add anything to a recipe -- exploring other bour
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by addaon 1y ago
What's the story for an insulator? Silicon's pretty awesome, but in many ways silicon dioxide (grown in place) is the real magic.
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by addaon 1y ago
Agreed.
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by addaon 1y ago
Unfortunately, this was three nights ago.
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by addaon 1y ago
I have never poured them into a cereal bowl with whole milk and used a spoon. Or so I claim.
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by addaon 1y ago
#1) Good Maraschino cherries or similar.

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