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by alex_young 1y ago
In case anyone else is wondering - Robin is the ex-wife of another prominent linguist, George Lakoff. Somehow GPT-5 got this badly wrong when I first asked: Yes — George Lakoff and Robin Lakoff are related. They are siblings. Er, no.
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by alex_young 1y ago
Isn’t it clearly a horrific crime against humanity to knowingly, instantaneously, and with premeditation, murder hundreds of thousands of civilians? The normal response to this line of reasoning is that they were / could have been doin
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by alex_young 1y ago
This was the third core: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
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by alex_young 1y ago
NHS?
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by alex_young 1y ago
It’s kind of rich that he’s complaining about Facebook paying engineers ’too much’, given the history here. A decade ago Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, and Adobe all had anti poaching agreements, and Facebook wouldn’t play ball, paid people
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by alex_young 1y ago
IDK, a strap of $100 bills is $10k, so $1M would be 100 of them. Seems sizable. Looks like a strap is about .43 inches tall, so that would make your $1M about 3 and a half feet high or more than a meter tall for the non-imperial afflicted
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by alex_young 1y ago
If you can put an ugly sports car in an earth / mars orbit, surely you can put a few telescopes in some large orbit and figure out a timing source. Seems very much inside the realm of the possible.
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by alex_young 1y ago
Considering that the longest continually operating computer is in Voyager 2 and has been running for nearly 50 years I would be surprised if this was actually a problem. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records&#x
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by alex_young 1y ago
Could be more fun options: - Photos you haven’t yet known you’re in. - Photos you haven’t yet deleted. - Photos you haven’t yet thought better about taking.
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by alex_young 1y ago
Improvisation please.
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Tesla FSD doesn't stop for school buses with stop signs and red lights(bsky.app)
39 points by alex_young 1y ago|26 comments
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S.F.'s giant naked woman sculpture brought out the worst in our city(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by alex_young 2y ago|5 comments
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by alex_young 2y ago
I tried a few of the prompts and the results I see are far worse than the examples provided. Seems like there will be some room for artists yet in this brave new world.
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by alex_young 2y ago
How does Alaska do it then?
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by alex_young 2y ago
Water oceans? It’s far far from 30% isn’t it? Is there an image of a single water ocean not on Earth?
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by alex_young 2y ago
https://archive.ph/w7YYW
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by alex_young 2y ago
I’m not sure I get it. Can’t you just look at it yourself? It seems pretty real to me.
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by alex_young 2y ago
Surely Ruth Belville was the best antiquarian horologist of her or any time.
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by alex_young 2y ago
Geothermal power plants emit 99% less co2 than equivalent sized fossil fuel plants. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/geothermal/geothermal-en...
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by alex_young 2y ago
Virtual particles are. Usually they wind up touching though, which always destroys both of them.
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by alex_young 2y ago
This reminds me of the blockchain will make everything obsolete sensation of yesteryear. Why will businesses trust a black box that claims to make good decisions (most of the time) when they have existing human relationships they have vette
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by alex_young 2y ago
The realtime Whisper demo is amazing. How can I understand what's in the compiled JS though? Is there some source for that?
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by alex_young 2y ago
60 Hz sure makes it easy to keep clocks on time.
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by alex_young 2y ago
I think it’s perfect actually. Google used to (still?) have a page internally where if you clicked on “I don’t care about security” it sent you to the jobs page of a competitor that had suffered a notable breach. Very on point.
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The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed(petapixel.com)
177 points by alex_young 2y ago|138 comments
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by alex_young 2y ago
It’s still unavailable in the Apple App Store.
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by alex_young 2y ago
So a US court should make decisions not in the US interest because people in other countries use some software?
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DJI will no longer stop drones from flying over airports, wildfires, White House(theverge.com)
5 points by alex_young 2y ago|1 comments
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by alex_young 2y ago
My son is 4. He's never used a screen in any significant way. No movies / TV / cellphones / iPads. My spouse and I read to him a lot. A chapter or two a night from one of the Oz books (there are dozens of them, we&#x27
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by alex_young 2y ago
Ya’ll need to chill out. How many times does your Prime delivery happen on time? Always an hour or two behind. Same day though. Poor rocket drivers are peeing in soda bottles. That’s what’s holding this thing up. Give science some leew

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