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by carl_dr 3y ago
I think the distinction the authors are making - correctly or not, I’m not sure, plenty of rivers don’t flow to the sea - is this artificial river flows into the sea, not into other canals or rivers. The grand canal connects the Yellow and
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by carl_dr 3y ago
By searching the App Store for “ad blocker for safari”. There are loads.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
I find this fascinating. A permalink to the currently showing airport would be nice so you can share a link, plus it'll give you the ability to press back to go to the previous airport.
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GPT-4 Carpet Salesman(aiadventure.spiel.com)
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Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth API(stablediffusionapi.com)
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Realistic computer-generated handwriting(calligrapher.ai)
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by carl_dr 4y ago
If you are interested in some of the history and more usual features of Britain’s motorways, be sure to check out Auto Shenanigans on YouTube[0]. It’s delivered in a very British dry sense of humour, and is definitely more interesting than
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by carl_dr 4y ago
Magnetic north moves in a fairly predictable way. If you are in the UK you might be interested in Standup Maths’ video https://youtu.be/HcFvegnQpPo . Currently true north and magnetic north are broadly the same in the UK - a
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by carl_dr 4y ago
What’s In It For Me.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
I distinctly remember waking past a Sainsbury’s (and in the north west of England) in probably 1992 or so with a few friends - Peter Allan, Paul Lea, if you read this say hi - and we were speculating that in the not to distance future that
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by carl_dr 4y ago
Perhaps learn what RTFA means.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
I mean, you can literally check that yourself? But no, it's not strictly correct. The paper gives the masses as 1.08±0.13Me (minimum mass 0.95Me) and 1.36±0.17Me (minimum mass 1.19Me.)
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by carl_dr 4y ago
> Need to understand more about governance structure & revenue plans going forward. OpenAI was started as open-source & non-profit. Neither are still true. In other words, “show me the money.”
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by carl_dr 4y ago
> “Samsung takes the security of Galaxy devices seriously. We have issued security patches since 2016 upon being made aware of the issue“ They’ve known about it since 2016!?!
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by carl_dr 4y ago
I used the prompt ‘Calculate the permutations of the world “safer” in python’ It gave me the correct code (which shows all 120 permutations when ran in Python) : import itertools word = "safer" # Get all permutations
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by carl_dr 4y ago
> How many ways can you permute the letters in the word “safer”? < There are 24 possible ways to permute the letters in the word "safer". This can be calculated using the formula for calculating the number of permutations of
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by carl_dr 4y ago
> "It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it." That’s from The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. There are at least a couple of other examples of this line of
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by carl_dr 4y ago
> Starshield launches satellites with sensing payloads and delivers processed data directly to the user. It seems to be more about low cost sensors in space than what consumer-level Starlink is used for.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
You can even unlock new guns.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
Sure you can, you don’t have to give them Jack if you don’t want to - you can have a fully fledged play without signing up.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
> Actually it seems every app is just a browser window, so you can create an app that points to puter.com, and you'll have puter inside of puter. Yep, you can, I now have several nested Puters.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
On subsequent loads, the Draw app looked as you’d expect a draw app to look like.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
It’s working for me fwiw. iPhone 13, latest iOS.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
I somehow managed to end up with a weird version of Draw, with a Grinch in the bottom corner. I can’t reproduce now. I bet there are other Easter eggs here.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
That danger with that is prosecutors rushing cases through, messing something up, and letting the defendant go free on a technicality. Or steam rolling cases and imprisoning defendants who are innocent. The latter isn’t rare already, wait u
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by carl_dr 4y ago
> The programmer of Rensenware accidentally infected himself, and found that he was unable to get the necessary score. Brilliant.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
The first link’s response was written by a baseball team. (Edit: my mistake their counsel!) And the first example in the second link, quote ‘This one is kind of fudging the title of “lawyer letter” since the bar’s owner wrote the letter p
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by carl_dr 4y ago
On https://boingboing.net/2022/11/26/if-alessando-jodorowsky-fi... , do you see those “articles” about getting 20% off some VPN, getting your cat a laser pointer and the dollar flight club?
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by carl_dr 4y ago
“If at first you don’t succeed, lower your expectations.” A good watch, I imagine fixing the least few issues, especially with placing the pieces, would take a long time.
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by carl_dr 4y ago
Without paywall : https://archive.ph/HpOCJ

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