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Tipping isn't about feedback mechanisms(twitter.com)
1 points by big_toast 11mo ago|1 comments
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by big_toast 11mo ago
Uber founder explaining tipping logic. I haven't seen such a precise formulation around the logic for including tipping in e-delivery/PoS platforms. I'd be curious if someone more familiar with economic theory thinks the stat
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by big_toast 11mo ago
The openai/whisper repo and paper referenced by the model card seem to be saying it's transformer based.
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by big_toast 11mo ago
It’s an encoder-decoder transformer trained on audio (language?) and transcription. Seems kinda weird for it not to meet the definition in a tautological way even if it’s not the typical sense or doesn’t tend to be used for autoregressive t
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by big_toast 11mo ago
I think part of getting by with a lower PPD is the IRL pixels are fixed and have hard boundaries that OS affordances have co-evolved with. (pixel alignment via lots of rectangular things - windows, buttons; text rendering w/ that in mi
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by big_toast 1y ago
macOS exposes a lot of affordances to code/xrpc/services/etc that Shortcuts (and previously automator) used. They let you do basically anything you'd want on macOS programmatically, without going through accessibility fr
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by big_toast 1y ago
I assume this comment in relation to the starting from a stop being unpleasant? If it's w.r.t. effect of low max power on low cumulative generation, I agree it does seem like a little silly to arbitrage your power generation this way.
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by big_toast 1y ago
Does that assume no pedaling though? In my experience the pain of starts and stops dominates the joy of steady state pedaling. Presumably the 3Wh/km is free/"exercise" or some portion. Whereas the .24Wh (re-gainable w&#x
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by big_toast 1y ago
Not a big cyclist but is that still true for lower speed city riding (typical to flat european cycling prone countries), hillier SF, or mountain biking? It seems obviously true to typical racing or distance scenarios. And i notice the wind
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by big_toast 1y ago
I dunno, a whole subtree of the internet died and I’m not sure it really came back. It was a beautiful Galápagos Islands.
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by big_toast 1y ago
Wait, does lima do isolation in a macos context too? It looks like linux vms, which apple's container-cli (among others) covers at a basic level. I'd like apple to start providing macOS images that weren't the whole OS.. unle
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by big_toast 1y ago
(Surely this issue must've been discussed/debated elsewhere ad nauseum because it seems an odd design decision to leave out such a common macos binding...) But having only used ghostty as-is and getting bamboozled by the copy past
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by big_toast 1y ago
Is this more of an accounting thing? Is there some (tax?) efficiency where OpenAI could take money from another source, then pay it to Nvidia, and receive GPUs. But instead taking investment from Nvidia acts as a discount in some way. (In a
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by big_toast 1y ago
I don't really get the syncing situation with apple. And it's really hard to tell when they've resolved bugs in one app or introduced new ones elsewhere. The Safari reading list can't even sync properly between devices f
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by big_toast 1y ago
This is such a cool effect but I'm afraid its novelty is conflicting with its affordances. Have you seen cases where people are using it in a more familiar manner? Like, they've moved on from the newness but there's still a b
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Notebooks · Thomas Edison Papers Digital Edition(edisondigital.rutgers.edu)
3 points by big_toast 1y ago|1 comments
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by big_toast 1y ago
This collection of Thomas Edison's notebooks reminds me of John Carmack's .plan files. Are there other similar iconic collections (more modern preferably)? And in the SaaS era, are these archives just not going to exist?
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by big_toast 1y ago
This is the problem with podcasts, but also modern media, in general. You have to play softball or be ideologically homogeneous to get access. Anything else has a negative k for a variety of reasons.
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by big_toast 1y ago
Some people will be too young to know the commoditize[1] your complements wisdom of yesteryear. It's hard for me to tell if consumers end up net ahead after things settle. I'm surprised we haven't heard about OpenAI pushing a
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by big_toast 1y ago
"This stuff never seemed to catch on." A little confused. In the US, Volvo EVs are pretty popular (80% owned by Geely). Tencent owns most of Riot Games and a large stake in Epic Games. The GE appliances division is I think fully o
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by big_toast 1y ago
Is the turn you're referring to the one where lane 1 (the inner left) then merges into lane 2 after the receiving block segment starts? (John Daly Blvd. onto Park Plaza Dr. southbound) I wonder how something like that is represented to
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by big_toast 1y ago
Just like all the normies who don't use web browsers, email, podcasts, calendars, jpeg image standards. Like how btc and ethereum finally died out and companies aren't adopting stable coins. Yes.. non-starters, too complicated and
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by big_toast 1y ago
Saved? Seems like it harmed the migration to more free protocol oriented services. One company controlling the algorithm and API to a global conversation. Verified badges getting ranked priority in replies and For You. A DM function that ba
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by big_toast 1y ago
Is it a coincidence that this shows up as John Smedley launches a new MMO (yesterday)? As much as I loved EverQuest, it has informed my view that the world is full of addictive substances. And most people probably need a disinterested third
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by big_toast 1y ago
Eh, maybe not quite? I think the budget day article does a good job contextualizing all its data and guides you through it intuitively. It's more like an essay that has the dashboard woven into it. In 4 months if the fees change or BTC
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by big_toast 1y ago
This page's design is great and what I thought tufte-ian journalism would have led to. Using the presentation of quasi-mathematical facts in relatively grokkable formats to explain the state of the world in a way that can update itself
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by big_toast 1y ago
I’ve really enjoyed the recent latent space podcasts. I don’t think there is any person†/podcast (or perhaps other content) approaching your general output while maintaining the high SNR. I am continually amazed at the volume and value
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by big_toast 2y ago
I see. So it sounds like you have the MBP set to the non-retina setting then passed to quest via immersed? (ie if you look at the laptop screen IRL everything is very small) But in the headset it functions almost as though it was nearly a 5
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by big_toast 2y ago
Do you have an opinion on how close the Quest 3 + Immersed can get to replicating an 8k 54" tv at 36" away? I know the VR panels are ~30 PPD (and there's other issues) and I'm asking for something that's ~60 PPD. Bu