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by bigiain 8mo ago
Because "When the last tree has fallen and the rivers are poisoned you cannot eat money, on no." -- Aurora, The Seed
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Looks like you need at least a quarter terabyte or so of ram to run that though? (At todays ram prices upgrading to that for me would pay for a _lot_ of tokens...)
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Speaking of Jules Vern and Round The World. A new sailing record was set recently, which didn't _quite_ beat 40 days - it took them 40 days and almost 11 hours. If you've ever seen a SailGP boat flying up out of the water on their
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by bigiain 9mo ago
Am I the only one cynically thinking that "Russia, Iran, DPRK, PRC, etc" is the "But think of the chiiildren!!!" excuse for doing this? And when Google say "IPIDEA’s proxy infrastructure is a little-known component
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by bigiain 9mo ago
An example of common terms that disagrees with that somewhat, is "CAD/CAM" where the design component is clearly distinct from the manufacturing component. I do agree that historically, software aimed at building 3d models fo
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by bigiain 9mo ago
Came to post that. I like her meta observation, that using ChatGPT for 2 years rots your brain so badly you somehow think it's a good idea to write an article like this, with your real name and professional/academic reputation att
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by bigiain 9mo ago
Annealing.
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by bigiain 9mo ago
So this is Gas Town, just without the "Steve Yegge makes a quarter of a million on a memecoin pump-n-dump" step (yet)?
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by bigiain 9mo ago
I have friends who fly in paragliding competitions. Look up "male external catheter".
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by bigiain 9mo ago
Yep. Sometimes it's better to keep everybody away from the bikeshed until it's fully finished and painted.
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by bigiain 9mo ago
"the patient records database was accessible via the internet; there was no firewall and, perhaps most egregiously, it was secured with a blank password, so anyone could just press enter and open it" There _should_ be a bunch of p
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by bigiain 9mo ago
<Renee Good's family joined the chat>
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by bigiain 9mo ago
A live music venue near me plays this when it's time for people to GTFO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I
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by bigiain 9mo ago
I'm now imagining a sub-genre community like the 3D printer Benchy racing people. A friendly competition to see who can build the fastest robot that can open a small range of the most commonly used locks.
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by bigiain 9mo ago
I'd be surprised? If you have spare time, I'd be fascinated to see what their website magic quote tool tells you if you just upload your 3d files. Based on other projects I've seen using them I'd guess under $100...
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by bigiain 9mo ago
I have a related question, how far are you turning the thumbscrews when making adjustments? I think M3 standard thread pitch is 0.5mm, so to a first approximation that almost 1000 wavelengths (if I have the SI units right in my head, and I&
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by bigiain 9mo ago
I suspect they'd be fairly cheap to get made at somewhere like JLCCNC. Or maybe get them to 3D print them in metal for you? I wonder if they have enough different metal choices that you could build a thermal expansion compensated versi
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by bigiain 9mo ago
I have proposed elsewhere that for companies like Flock doing surveillance of the public, it should be legally required for every company executive and board member to have their cameras, ALPR systems, audio surveillance, drone systems, etc
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by bigiain 9mo ago
Interestingly, sail cloth (for sail boat sails) is measured in ounces per square yard, and is just referred to by the weight with the square yard assumed - like "8oz Nylon mainsail" or "4oz ripstop spinnaker". (Or at lea
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by bigiain 9mo ago
I, for one, look forward to the new 5oz "Donald Trump Freedom Nickel". Probably resulting from a deal he did with the Big Trousers lobby groups to wear out coin pockets faster. (I would have made a gag about a 7g replacement nicke
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by bigiain 9mo ago
Cheese _is_ delicious. (But I doubt the cheese I find so delicious is that same as the cheese that's so prevalent in American diets...)
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by bigiain 9mo ago
> You just hire more staff. Every Googler on the planet just laughed and downed another Tequila shot.
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by bigiain 9mo ago
I wonder if this needs frontier models? Or, if it does _now_, how long it'll be before it' will work well using downloadable models that'll run on, say, a new car's worth of Mac Studios with a bunch of RAM in them to all
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by bigiain 10mo ago
FWIW, my perspective is from Australia, not EU.
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by bigiain 10mo ago
That's a choice. But it's not everyone's choice. And with <waves hands wildly around>, the non-USA choice is rapidly becoming more popular - at least among the people I know and talk to outside the US.
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Last I heard, the QCbros were still trying to find the prime factors of 15. (I remember using quantum algorithms to find prime factors 25 years or more ago, using the Quantum::Suppositions Perl module.)
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by bigiain 10mo ago
I do that on my phone. It's almost as easy to tap an ocr-ed url in my photos app as it is to click a link on a web page. (On my laptop, I'm just as likely to spend half a day writing a scraper or reverse engineering the javascript
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by bigiain 10mo ago
They moved from platform USA/Surveillance-Capitalism to platform non-USA/Privacy. That's a big deal to some of us. Especially important it the demonstration that your privacy which Google et al, are so insistent on monetizing
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by bigiain 10mo ago
For me, "overindulgent and annoying" is way too harsh. But they feel _sooooo_ slow and I kind of resent "missing out" on the other books I could have read while the audiobook plods along (even at chipmunk 2x babble speed
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by bigiain 10mo ago
That to me, feels opposite the the article's advice. And I too, often watch youtube at 1.5x or 2x speed, and dislike audiobooks because I read so much faster that I can possibly listen to them, and there's always an ever growing l

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