bitsinthesky

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   by bitsinthesky 3y ago

   "Does it take more energy to cool a house in which the AC has been off all day, than to keep the AC running at, say, 85 degrees during the day? No. Cooling a hot house down at the end of the day always takes less energy than leaving th
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   by bitsinthesky 3y ago

   What do they mean by local time? Alaskan time or respective times?
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   by bitsinthesky 3y ago

   "The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks has forecast auroral activity on Thursday in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York,
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   by bitsinthesky 3y ago

   I love how the comments have coalesced to discussing the fieggen website, ignoring bigthink.
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   by bitsinthesky 3y ago

   Oh nice. The equivalent outcome tied in a different way, my preferred way: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/turquoiseturtleknot.htm . It hasn't failed me yet, easy to tie and untie!
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   by bitsinthesky 3y ago

   Years ago I was walking through downtown when my old shoes collapsed on me. I walked into the first shoe store I saw (Ecco, good brand luckily). While trying on shoes, the clerk had the gall to ask me if I knew how to tie my shoes and then
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   by bitsinthesky 3y ago

   While theoretically interesting, in practice there is no confusion between a professional journalist operating under the brand of the BBC, and anonymous twitter users with a spare $8/month.
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   by bitsinthesky 3y ago

   Any details you can share? Sounds interesting, but I probably won't get around to reading it.
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   by bitsinthesky 3y ago

   I'd casually like to know more about how the transformer holds onto an idea of "state" for the entities in a long text. In some loose experiments i did trying to cause confusion about the entities in the Winogrande dataset, t
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    There's a reason they're fighting a war that has already killed tens of thousands and displaced millions. This is a random article comes to mind, but is just one piece of many. Russian suppression and oppression is brutal, for tho
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    I get a popup saying "Unknown Error" on Firefox/ubuntu. I disabled ublock, but still.
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    What does it refer to? Couldn't find anything on Google.
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    Oh, I didn't notice it was you sharing the article. I don't know why it hasn't generated more discussion! It's fun. How did you come across this one? How does this paper fit in with other works on children and criminal p
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    Thank you, I clicked on the link because of your comment. It's actually more interesting than I'd expect. How does societal framing in kids shows affect children? The author takes a critical tone against things he doesnt like, but
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    I at first thought this was referring to the dementia mod (youtube below), which seems interesting enough to warrant sharing here (I haven't played it), but I appreciate the artistry and learning about the MyHouse (above). https:&#x2F
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    Air quality is maximally bad with pm10 and pm2.5 readings at upwards of 719 µg/m3.
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    Is there something going on in Kaiserslautern?(breezometer.com)

    2 points by bitsinthesky 3y ago|2 comments
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    This is awesome. As a curious outside observer of Christianity, I don't know what to think about it. Is it satire? A curiosity? Ironically, the churches that are experimental and brave enough to put on this show are probably the least
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    Nice.
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    Great work! What paradigm are your models based on? If they're deep/llm, how did you shrink them?
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    Twitter on iPad Browser Broken

    3 points by bitsinthesky 3y ago|2 comments
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    This is a lot of fun
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    Please continue to speculate. You make interesting points and they're clearly supported.
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    Thank you for sharing. I have read Zweig's The World of Yesterday, which I regard very highly, but never one of his creative works. I recommend it to everyone who wants to experience a slice of life/live vicariously with an engage
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    Practice studying language vocab by converting random words in your browser to their foreign equivalent https://github.com/jsvan/-glish/blob/main/README.md
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    by bitsinthesky 3y ago

    Just to give a sense of the atmosphere on the peninsula, at the end of January, a poll came out where 76% of South Koreans supported getting their own nuclear weapons.
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    by bitsinthesky 4y ago

    I think better would be ignored and disrespected, or even more correct, that they felt the other gave them a mean look and acted rudely. Or, just acted like a jerk. Unsafe and unloved are incorrect and obfuscating.
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    by bitsinthesky 4y ago

    It surprises me that anyone can defend using speech distorted with such euphemistic, and even worse imprecise, language when dealing with another person. Respecting a person means transparency and simplicity. Allow the other person to inter
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    by bitsinthesky 4y ago

    Imagine your country was so fragile an ngo focusing on climate change or human rights could destabilize it.
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    by bitsinthesky 4y ago

    Totally. But on your final point, I imagine being public gives him more security, as security through obscurity when dealing with state actors isn't sustainable in the long run.