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by chongli 2y ago
I have to say, of all programming languages, C is the one which gets the most strident opposition to the most minor of changes. I would love to read your reasoning because so far I have not been able to understand the stiff resistance to wh
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by chongli 2y ago
It's all down to the design of suburbs. Many cities have bylaws and zoning regulations that prohibit human-centric suburbs from being built [1]. Older neighbourhoods (prior to these ill-advised laws) are incredibly livable and naturall
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by chongli 2y ago
But surely the Shepherd would be aware of your soul's needs as well, and could pretend that your help is required somewhere in the system. I think most people wouldn’t be fooled by this. People intuitively understand when their work
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by chongli 2y ago
Volunteering is the answer to this! Work directly with people in need and give something back to your community.
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by chongli 2y ago
I do not do that. I use the reverse sear technique popularized by Kenji Lopez-Alt. This involves heating the steak to near-doneness over indirect heat, followed by an intense sear over direct heat. A brief rest period in between allows an e
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by chongli 2y ago
I think the issue is that the weight of the lid and top grill pressing down on the steak squeezes a lot more juice out than if you grilled the steak on regular grill that heats from below.
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by chongli 2y ago
Sure, though if you buy a stolen car in a private sale you have no recourse when the police show up to return it to the original owner. If you bought it from a registered dealership then you can be compensated for it.
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by chongli 2y ago
My Zojirushi is the easiest to clean appliance I’ve ever owned. Just take the cooking bowl out and wash it with a damp cloth. Takes all of 30 seconds.
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by chongli 2y ago
They do that to preserve data. If you’re making a complex image with all sorts of layers and masks and then you save to a JPEG, you lose all that information as the image is flattened and compressed. Saving in the native format lets you be
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by chongli 2y ago
Isn't it the case that once you use unsafe even a single time, you lose all of Rust's nice guarantees? As far as I'm aware, inside the unsafe block you can do whatever you want which means all of the nice memory-safety proper
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by chongli 2y ago
No not really. It's not even rare that a human confidently says and believes something and really has no idea what he/she's talking about. Like you’re doing right now? People say “I don’t know” all the time. Especially chil
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by chongli 2y ago
Humans have the ability to admit when they do not know something. We say “sorry, I don’t know, let me get back to you.” LLMs cannot do this. They either have the right answer in the book or they make up nonsense (hallucinate). And they do n
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by chongli 2y ago
Booting from ROM was pretty common back in the day. A lot of machines from the "golden age of micros" (late 1970s - early 1980s) would boot right up into a BASIC prompt. A full graphical interface was something else though! That&#
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by chongli 2y ago
The Chinese Room is a perfect analogy for what's going on with LLMs. The book is not infinite, it's flawed. And that's the point: we keep bumping into the rough edges of LLMs with their hallucinations and faulty reasoning bec
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by chongli 2y ago
Even if you’re a pure Dennettian functionalist you still commit to a functional difference between signals in transit (or at rest) and signals being processed and interpreted. Holding a cassette tape with a recording of a symphony is not th
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by chongli 2y ago
Electrical signals are not the same as subjective experiences. While a machine may be able to record and play back these signals for humans to experience, that does not imply that the experiences themselves are recorded nor that the machine
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by chongli 2y ago
No, text can only refer to them. There is not a text on this planet that encodes what the heat of the sun feels like on your skin. A person who had never been outdoors could never experience that sensation by reading text.
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by chongli 2y ago
Your example proves my point. If there are no judges, the government has to let you go free. They don’t force anyone to become a judge. What about the victims' right to justice and to be secure against violations of their rights (bod
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by chongli 2y ago
3D printers don't have anywhere near the resolution of 2D printers. Take something like a $300 Epson photo printer [1]. It has 5760 x 1440 dpi with 6 colours! [1] https://epson.ca/For-Home/Printers/Photo/
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by chongli 2y ago
It's actually even more complicated than that. Modern printers include a raster image processor (RIP) [1]. This specialized software converts vector graphics, text, and pixel-based images into a raster dot pattern that controls the pri
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by chongli 2y ago
I don't think so, unless you're talking about professional-grade printers for businesses who print a LOT and look at the TCO of printers before buying them. Consumers buy literally the cheapest printer available at the store. Manu
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by chongli 2y ago
It's the American version of "Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"!!! [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJIQm9qH-w
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by chongli 2y ago
A word of caution for cooking tough meats like brisket: temperature doesn't tell the whole story. People online will talk about "the stall" but it doesn't actually exist. You'll find the temperature graph over time
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by chongli 2y ago
The CI predictive thermometer actually does one better than the time@temp method for food safety. It integrates the temperature with respect to time (a method it calls SafeCook) and it does so with its estimate of the core temperature (base
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by chongli 2y ago
Yes. I have one and I love it! Everyone I recommend it to balks at the price however.
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by chongli 2y ago
Street food vendors go back millennia. They’ve never been called restaurants but they’ve always been in the primary business of selling food. The main difference a restaurant brings is the addition of a seating / dining space. I strong
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by chongli 2y ago
But it has an O(n^2) cost for a particular input Even worse is the fact for naive implementations (such as students might come up with) the worst case behaviour occurs in very common cases such as sorting already sorted lists or reverse-s
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by chongli 2y ago
Being a PK (as well as a thief/PK hybrid) in UO is some of the most fun I've ever had in a video game. There's nothing quite like the adrenaline rush of being a fugitive and surviving, picking people off and scavenging what y
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by chongli 2y ago
Same! I played a ton of UO and met many friends on it. Never played any of the single-player series for more than a few minutes. Played some Ultima Underworld which appeals to me but it didn't stick. I have played a lot of Ultima-inspi
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by chongli 2y ago
The speed of fibre optic cabling has more to do with signal integrity and bandwidth than any difference in propagation delay. In fact, in some cases a signal can travel faster on a copper wire (0.8c) than it can through an optical fibre (0.

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