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by bartislartfast 3y ago
not in NL but my parents have the same problem - glass roofed extension stops the installation I dont understand why they can't just access the roof from the other side, climb over the apex and down. They walk all around on the roof on
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> Don't get me started on cars that display usage in kWh/h per 100km. Yes, you read that right. ICEs use litres per 100km which I think is where this comes from. And I hate it. miles-per-gallon is much easier to understand I th
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Did you read the article? Quote: > It's fair to say that my experiment isn't rational because of the sub-optimal solar conditions. Yet, I'm unreasonably obsessed by solar power and I wanted to make it work, even if it didn
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
code reviews are not the be-all and end-all of a coding job. in-person interview can give you some insight into what it might be like to work with a person day to day, it has more value than a take-home test in a lot of ways.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
I'm not sure exactly what this is supposed to be
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Recently had to hire a new dev, and one of the submissions used chatGPT to generate a solution for our take-home test. The really clever thing was, they did a line by line breakdown of the solution chatGPT came up with, keeping certain part
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
from "fainne" which means ring. Making fake rings was apparently a common enough scam that it gave its name to fawney which became phony
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
phony? did I spell it wrong?
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
Jokes on them! I'm old and lazy.
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
The origin of Shenanigan as "sionnach uighm" is very questionable. Seems like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Hooligan definitely does come from Irish, from a troublesome family O'Houlihan A few other interestin
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
> guess we'll see well, we probably won't
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
> the moment you have guns, action and death So no John Wick fanfic then
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
Anyone can already watch Seinfeld forever since the DVDs came out
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
no more than fan-fiction, it would be a popularity contest. "Firefly season 2 by rustyBones447 is the best one"
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
> Incidentally, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 already give us this capability with smaller pieces of fiction. You can literally alter any short story like I described above, today. Anyone can. And somehow, I don't see any takers. I think people
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
can we add a "new" button? I have to refresh to do it a second time
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
> With self-generated movies (shows, books, games, ...), there will be no process of discovery to enjoy, no immersion to experience. There will be nothing to share or discuss with others, as everyone will have their own version of the st
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
I'm sure we're not the only ones. Probably half the AI industry wants to be able to do that
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
Maybe OpenAI doesn't get it, but Midjourney has no problems showing me Mickey Mouse https://preview.redd.it/n6wdyhyz9dra1.png?width=960&crop=sma... https://preview.redd.it/9djj6tdflu3a1.png?width=10
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
we're only a few years away from getting season 2 of firefly, as it would have looked in 2004
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
How far away are we from an AI which can hallucinate and simulate. The year is 2026 "hey, how can I watch 'avatar 3 - tokyo drift' today? it's not out yet." "easy, just go onto ftp.disney.com and download it&qu
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
This is great, I've found four shows I never knew about in the first 30 seconds! Now I can add them to my endless list of things I need to do =)
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
coming soon: rooftop mercurial panels
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
Does that mean you could use light from Mercury to start a fire?
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
a 5cm lens from a dollar store can burn things in the focal point
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
I've had that same thought. How far away are we from true "video on demand" - Show me the second season of Firefly, set after the events of Serenity - Remake Flash Gordon in the style of John Carpenter, with Roddy Piper as Fl
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
ok, bad example. maybe the CME will take out the alien fleet
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
In the short term, I'm concerned about the energy required to run things like ChatGPT and how everyone is cramming it into everything. Soon every todolist app on your phone will need a supercomputer running in the background to auto ar
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
there would also be a raging debate about the fairness of who should pay for the meteor. politicians would use it to score points on opponents, and try to claim that if elected they would get country X to pay more for the meteor since they
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by bartislartfast 4y ago
the two examples we hear are - meteors with 100% certainty of hitting - climate change I'd like to hear opinions on other thing. would nations unite against alien invasion? a solar flare? killer robots?

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