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by bhickey 4y ago
> Is he the one who came across as a pretty bad husband and father? I don't think so. The film had footage of Steve Wiebe telling his kid he couldn't help with the potty because he was busy gaming.
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by bhickey 4y ago
Karl is wrong in his claim that the stick appears to be an 8-way stick. Directionality is determined by a restrictor plate mounted on the underside of joystick assembly. Here's an example: https://www.ultimarc.com/arcad
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by bhickey 4y ago
I asked rms and Hal Abelson about this a few years ago. Stallman said: > The term "MIT license" is a confusion. It is used to describe two different licenses; see https://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
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by bhickey 4y ago
Agreed. This is useless. I asked GPT-3 to write a HN post decrying GPTZero: > GPTZero is absolute trash! It can't even detect plagarism correctly. It's a complete joke and waste of time! Don't bother with it! You'd be
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by bhickey 4y ago
My freshman advisor was a famous[1] organic chemist. He told me that he would do isolate THC, then elongate its carbon tail to induce a more powerful, longer lasting high. When I asked him, he responded that he had no concerns about his abi
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by bhickey 4y ago
I built a demo for NPC background chatter using GPT-J-6B. Each call took about three seconds. I expect this technology to be usable interactively in a year or two, but we aren't quite there yet.
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by bhickey 4y ago
This is the same firm handling the CoPilot litigation.
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by bhickey 4y ago
It's unclear to me why CC-BY isn't sufficient for SRD material. I'm glad that Paizo is throwing off the yoke of Hasbro altogether, but I don't have a good understanding for what a new license will do that CC doesn't
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by bhickey 4y ago
This has echos of Boston Market, which soaked franchisees and shareholders instead of trying to make a profit on receipts. https://www.benzinga.com/news/11/12/2181341/a-lesson-in-hist...
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by bhickey 4y ago
https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
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by bhickey 4y ago
That's a misleading way of putting it. Tesla said "you have to wear our uniform shirt [because you started wearing pro-union shirts]" and the NLRB told them to get stuffed.
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by bhickey 4y ago
> Can you give some examples of such a pure language? BPF and eBPF, though this feels unsatisfying.
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by bhickey 4y ago
> not just with side effects I think you're using "side effects" in a colloquial sense while I'm using it in a PL sense. Pure code is deterministic, operating only on its params. Impure code—code with side effects—is
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by bhickey 4y ago
Haskell is largely pure. There's nothing in place to stop a dependency from putting unsafePerformIO on blast. If a dependency can only do pure functional computation then the worst things it can do are like (1+1=4) or diverge. From you
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by bhickey 4y ago
Can you elaborate on the incentives of package managers? The problem I see with Rust is that it's just really easy to add dependebcies in a way that is difficult in C++. I don't follow your point about purity. A dependency in a si
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by bhickey 4y ago
Some months ago after recoiling in horror from a vulnerability in rust I arrived at the grim realization that the "supply chain attack" problem is intractable in impure languages. When a transitive dependency can do anything it wi
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by bhickey 4y ago
> typically enough for a person of his calibre to research approximate solutions good enough for him to run some experiments And it's hard to overstate his caliber. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the name, Nick mentored Cl
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by bhickey 4y ago
Looks like there's a quantum speedup: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03581 IIRC there's no epsilon approximation.
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by bhickey 4y ago
My greatest contribution to scientific progress came in 2010 when I was having lunch with Nick. He described an admixture problem to me, summarizing: "I've got observed populations and I want to build a tree where I pick points fo
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by bhickey 4y ago
I'm surprised that the prize wasn't awarded jointly with Reich.
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by bhickey 4y ago
Yep, he's an expert in antenna design and some high voltage electronics that I don't understand. We've done a couple of projects together designing arcade hardware and have a really interesting project in the pipe.
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by bhickey 5y ago
> As I mention in a few other comments, the goal here is to build multiple systems of evaluation Regardless of your intentions, barring significant evidence to the contrary, you're going to be making yet another arbitrary ranking sy
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by bhickey 5y ago
Having done this before myself, let me preface this by saying that I want you to succeed. Publishing short fiction is a thankless, time consuming slog. > Terrible for readers, as stories are all locked behind paid magazines We must be re
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by bhickey 5y ago
You don't seem to be thinking of it in these terms, so I'll spell it out: You're running a science fiction magazine where only one author gets paid for their work. This is exploitative. There will be a backlash from professi
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by bhickey 5y ago
Here's the underlying study: Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 transmission to household contacts during dominance of Delta variant (B.1.617.2), the Netherlands, August to September 2021 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go
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by bhickey 5y ago
> The unvaccinated are banned as means to put social and financial pressure on individuals to get the vaccine. It is an unfortunate misconception that any of the currently-approved intramuscular vaccines reduce transmission to a meaningf
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by bhickey 5y ago
Some months back I built http://keylight.us to use my second monitor as a light during video meetings.
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by bhickey 5y ago
About six years ago I had a resource manager deny me a database instance the very same day it became available for flex in another product area. I tried to "Hey Mister" resources from someone in that group to no avail. Eventually
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by bhickey 5y ago
The problem with the Station wasn't the lack of egress, it was the lack of identified egress, a choke point at the main entrance which triggered a crowd collapse, pyrotecnics and combustible foam.
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by bhickey 5y ago
> What's the theory behind them? Greater Fool Theory underpins crypto currencies. NFTs are a variation on them designed to evade securities regulation. With crypto pogs you're either the con man or the mark.

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