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by bityard 5mo ago
Remembering and learning are very different activities, however. It is pretty impressive what people can learn! And some of us do have superior knowledge of what appear to be "useless" trivia as well. (Ever seen Jeopardy?) But it
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by bityard 5mo ago
If someone tried to "up-zone," wouldn't they incur enormous popular and media backlash for demolishing buildings and displacing communities that have been there for decades just so they could build high-rent luxury skyscraper
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by bityard 5mo ago
Well, we know that it's impossible to remember everything. Humans are absolutely terrible at accurately recalling things that they observed even a few minutes in the past. But we also can't remember nothing and just dump _everythi
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by bityard 5mo ago
Reading their other comments, they are under the mistaken impression that every line of code written by a human should have a dollar sign attached to it. No consideration given that lots of people contribute voluntarily to open-source proje
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by bityard 5mo ago
Heh, the author admitted that he got tired of what I'll call "curating metadata" in Obsidian, so wrote an app that handled more of it automatically. My take: you probably don't need so much metadata! I've spent an u
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by bityard 5mo ago
The last episode of WKRP was 44 years ago. What age do you believe people die or go into a nursing home?
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by bityard 5mo ago
You read the gwern article very incorrectly. It was pointing out that Lizzie's injuries were caused by _adulterated_ illegal THC vapes. While the NYT article was using weasel writing techniques to mislead readers into the conclusion th
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by bityard 5mo ago
Do you believe the NYT's activist biases will always line up perfectly with yours?
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by bityard 5mo ago
Small towns in North America are are being decimated by meth. The drug dealers move in because there are no drug task forces, just underfunded and ill-equipped sheriffs and local police. My wife and I live in the suburbs now but grew up in
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by bityard 5mo ago
I wish they'd go back to just hanging plastic testicles from the trailer hitch, honestly.
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by bityard 5mo ago
See for yourself: https://archive.org/details/manualsplus
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by bityard 5mo ago
Man. Every time I see a Reddit or HN post starting with "I got tired of..." I already know that it's going to be self-promoted AI slop.
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by bityard 5mo ago
The premise of "best" makes this a non-starter for me right away. The site says their definition of "best" is 1) fits in RAM 2) has a high benchmark score. Best for what? All models have their strengths and weaknesses. C
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by bityard 5mo ago
/r/selfhosted in particular has gone from a fun community of computing enthusiasts and developers having fun with their software and data on their own terms, to a literal self-promotion wasteland of AI-generated slop. (And I say t
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by bityard 5mo ago
Jason Scott is one of the good guys.
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by bityard 5mo ago
This is pretty much exactly what I want for Home Assistant. I yell out, "Computer! Lights!" and it toggles the lamp in the room on or off. (I mean I can do that now, I think, but probably with a much larger model.) I haven't
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by bityard 5mo ago
Since there is no GUI here, I feel like a simple plaintext chat transcript would be both 100x smaller and 100x easier to read. (Not to mention accessible.)
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by bityard 5mo ago
I did not install any network connector in Orca Slicer.
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by bityard 5mo ago
This is not an Apple competitor, this looks to me like a rebranding of Chromebook with a bunch of AI sprinkled on top. (There's very little market overlap between the Chromebook and practically any Apple product.) My guess is that they
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by bityard 5mo ago
I'm an open-source advocate (some would say zealot?) but I ended up buying a Bambu P1S a few months back because my research indicated that there were ways use it normally without creating a Bambu account, or using their slicer, or hav
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by bityard 5mo ago
Wear earplugs and adopt a dog. Best of both worlds.
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by bityard 5mo ago
You will never not hear a smoke alarm while wearing ear plugs. They are effective at attenuating noise, ineffective at eliminating it.
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by bityard 5mo ago
If there's enough earwax in there to get pushed around and compacted, then it seems like there is some other issue going on? Is having small mounds of wax per permanently living in the ear canal normal for some people? I have been wear
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by bityard 5mo ago
I've been sleeping with ear plugs for well over 10 years at this point, so I feel qualified to answer. 1. You have to find the right ear plugs for YOU. Everyone has different ear canal size, shape, sensitivity, etc. 2. They should neve
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by bityard 5mo ago
I am also a scientific anomaly. Seems there are a lot of us!
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by bityard 5mo ago
The concept of "readable" is not really relevant for experts, because, well, they are experts. Being an expert automatically means you can read almost any line of code and know everything it does. Everyone else appreciates and is
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by bityard 5mo ago
Python USED to be easy to read, before a lot of the newer features like type hints crept in. 20 years ago, Python looked like executable pseudocode.
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by bityard 5mo ago
For mouse users, clicking and dragging the scrollbar is the fastest and most intuitive way to scroll through a large document or list. (The scroll wheel, if you have one, is much slower.)
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by bityard 5mo ago
The lead is leaded solder is entirely manageable. You should keep track of it all and dispose of it properly. (I.e. not in a landfill.) Wash your hands afterwards. It doesn't vaporize, or at least not in any quantities that you should
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by bityard 5mo ago
I'm not trying to convince you of anything, but if all of your soldering experience is from parts that came out of a 40 year-old arcade cabinet, don't beat yourself up: that is definitely what I would call soldering in hard mode.

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