armoredkitten

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by armoredkitten 5y ago
I'm vegan, and I'm on board with lab-grown meat. Or at least, I don't have any ethical issues with it, provided the energy costs are not insane. That said...after six years of being vegan and maybe another six (I think?) as v
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
>Just watch how stupid cats are in cat videos — except when they are hunting. Uhh, I dunno man, I saw a video of a cat playing the keyboard once, seemed pretty smart to me
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
I've been using btrfs and btrbk for a few months now and really enjoy it. I love that snapshots are easy to make, and btrbk is a fairly simple way to schedule taking snapshots and transferring them to another machine, as well as set up
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
I think the author ends up missing something about the social aspect that has shifted in video games. Other comments rightly point out that social interaction in video games is not at all a new phenomenon. But I do think the rise of Twitch
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
I have no idea if there's research directly linking the two areas together, but what you're describing sounds more like a form of synesthesia than this more general effect. When I think of "bouba" and "kiki" I
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
Tom Scott's 3-part series (on YouTube) a few years back on "How to be popular on the Internet"[0] has similar advice. There are higher-cost and lower-cost ideas, but given the amount of randomness inherent to getting popular,
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
Bad design, but if you hold your mouse over the "[] money" logo at the top, the word "safe" appears. I don't really understand why someone would choose to create a design that actively hides their own branding...but
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
I have to believe that there's been research on this in the economics literature...right?? Like, maybe research on "patent trolls" specifically hasn't been studied (or perhaps it has), but there has to be research on the
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
Psychological science uses this technique a lot. It's not perfect, of course there's lots of noise because of both of the issues you raise (in addition to other issues like how to develop questions to measure nebulous things like
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
The article is not talking about NFTs, it's talking about the use of blockchain for tracking real, physical goods. Some of it may also be relevant for discussing NFTs. But the article is not about NFTs.
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
Science is a method of using a combination of theorization and observation to model the world in ways that help us predict future observations. Models are built by carefully accounting for (both with theory and statistics) and apportioning
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
I find the meltiness is really what kills it for me, in most cases. If you're wanting something to add to a charcuterie board or to put out with your appetizers, there are a lot of great cashew-based cheeses that do a pretty good job a
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
I find it interesting to see the emphasis on algorithmic discovery here. I know that's Spotify's game, but podcasts just work much differently than how many people consume music content. Podcasts fit much more in the subscription
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
No, it says "the pop-up will appear even when Microsoft Edge is the default browser... The company is not targeting people who use Google Chrome and Firefox as default browsers." I.e., it shows up for everyone, not just people who
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
>And I think you can use it with grafana too. You can indeed; I use InfluxDB and Grafana to provide some stats on my home server. Pretty easy to set up, and Grafana just uses the Flux query language to pull the data from Influx.
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
Actually, the submission title is referencing the original title of the article, but the author edited it and left a note at the bottom: >Update 5th March 2021: The original headline of this piece was “Open source projects should run off
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
My best understanding (which, it's been a while since I took classes about it) is that there are some functions that tend to be more lateralized to one hemisphere or another -- with language being the prime example. However, some peopl
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
Bias of various forms in the datasets we use can absolutely be a big issue, and this is a pretty good summary of some of those areas. However, I think it's important to look beyond just the data and also look into the assumptions and c
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
I've got a PhD in psychology. I have things. I. could. say. about this topic. But I would like to emphasize, in the strongest of terms, that Cronbach's alpha is not a measurement of test-retest reliability. Cronbach's alpha i
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
Universities around the world collectively pay billions of dollars to gain access to journals, many of which their own researchers contribute to. The University of California cut ties with Elsevier because of the extremely high cost of ac
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
>I would not eat a vegan burger, never bbq a vegan steak. But chili or spaghetti bolognese with vegan ground meat can be really delicious since flavors and texture are overpowered by other ingredients anyways. Same with lots of sandwich
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
I agree that Google is still just a better search engine, and that sucks. But I still try to do my search on DDG first -- if I find what I'm looking for, great! If I haven't found it after a few seconds, I open Google and search t
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
Brb, gotta go plug in my pants
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
Heaven's Vault is a great game, for anyone interested in playing an archaeologist who has to translate an ancient language and uncover secrets of a lost civilization.
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
>I don't have anything other than personal experience to back this up, but I would be surprised if it's not a completely subjective experience—one person's synesthesia probably doesn't match another person's, per
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
Ethics? I'm pretty sure cats are above such pedestrian concerns.
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
I have tried feed readers on and off over the years, and never really stuck with it. It just felt like too much coming in with no rest. (This was largely before social media...now that sentiment feels quaint.) But I've recently gotten
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
Linux is definitely improving when it comes to gaming. A lot more games either support it natively, or they work quite well using Proton. Like you say, anti-hack/cheat algorithms on multiplayer games can be a problem. I dual-boot with
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
You make it sound as if GPT-3 is just the same GPT-2 model with some extra Enterprise-y features thrown in. They're completely different models, trained on different data, and vastly different sizes. GPT-2 had 1.5B parameters, and GPT-
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
Could you give some examples where you run into these issues with Firefox? I've seen these comments made before and, as someone who's used FF for years, I just....don't recall ever having particular issues with websites not l

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