civilitty

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by civilitty 3y ago
It creates a terminal pancake bias.
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by civilitty 3y ago
No kidding, I'm spending $10-20 a day on API calls just between summarization and development using aider.
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by civilitty 3y ago
> the chinampas were started as floating mats of reeds with enough soil on top to to grow crops. Every year you add a new layer of soil and fertilizer and the island sinks a little more, until eventually it is touching the bottom of the
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by civilitty 3y ago
woosh They've been exploring going on 16 years. It's time to stop exploring and start exploiting.
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by civilitty 3y ago
Situation: There are three competing Clojure development environments. Three!? Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal Clojure environment that covers everyone's use cases. Situation: There are fourteen competing Clojure developme
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by civilitty 3y ago
> they'll use it to program blow-up dolls that walk around telling everybody how great Teams is And that's how we get Cylon Terminators.
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by civilitty 3y ago
The original movie had Steve Buscemi. He kind of looks like an alien. Does that count?
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by civilitty 3y ago
That movie series is so incredibly unrealistic. If humanity kills itself, we're definitely taking the rest of the apes with us.
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by civilitty 3y ago
Not true, they’re popular all over Eastern Europe. So much so that the Krowka brand is available at nearly every Russian/Armanian/etc store in the US. It’s a staple in the candy isle along with mishka, belochka, and Alenka. Those
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by civilitty 3y ago
You're way off. Comically so. A&P passing grade is more like 70%. It's not a comparable figure to PPL ground school.
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by civilitty 3y ago
I'm not falling for that one again...
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by civilitty 3y ago
Wyoming had uranium mining and processing facilities which used the same liquid-liquid extraction tech that REE extraction uses. They might actually have the regulations and infrastructure in place to support it (and the superfund sites to
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by civilitty 3y ago
> These galaxies were once thought to be extremely rare in the early universe, but this discovery, plus more than a dozen additional candidates in the first half of COSMOS-Web data that have yet to be described in the scientific literat
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by civilitty 3y ago
I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective. Interesting rhythmic devices too, which seemed to counterpoint the humanity of the of the author’s compassionate soul which contrives through the medium of
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by civilitty 3y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that: the California Air Resources Board sets statewide rules but the permitting for prescribed burns and the final responsibility for air quality lies with the 35 air districts. They already have the p
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by civilitty 3y ago
> Nobody has ever suggested rap music is intellectually stimulating in any context, and they use a lot of words. You need less DMX and more Wu-Tang [1] [1] https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html
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by civilitty 3y ago
> It’s never been about whether piracy was stealing or not. It’s about what the courts have to say on the matter. Find yourself on the wrong end of a big copyright case and your life gets ruined, regardless of what word you use to desc
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by civilitty 3y ago
> i can't speak for anyone else but i don't exactly find myself seeking out stable diffusion output because a big colourful high-contrast image of a t. rex bursting out the center of mars surrounded by rainbow mandala constell
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by civilitty 3y ago
While Arthur Dent does read some stuff throughout the series that couldn't possibly be in English like signs on an alien planet, the full nature of the babel fish is rather vague and we don't know if it would work that way. As far
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by civilitty 3y ago
I thought we were talking about "resizeable desktop applications in the 90s"? The reason I bring up that monitor is that I had the misfortune of using dozens of desktop applications written in the 90s to control lab equipment and
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by civilitty 3y ago
> Theranos enters the chat and would like to have a word. Theranos is the perfect case in point: no biotech VC invested in Theranos. Not a single one. They avoided it like the plague because anyone who did any due diligence knew that u
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by civilitty 3y ago
Yeah you can’t replace a medieval torture device with a server side scripting language. It just doesn’t make any sense.
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by civilitty 3y ago
I was there too with a Sony GDM-FW900 monitor with 2300x1400 resolution and my experience was very negative. Both as a user and as a developer (though I was just a kid getting started in ‘99). Any software that wasn’t made by a major compan
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by civilitty 3y ago
The dirty (open?) secret is that most software tech VCs are absolutely awful at their jobs. Just completely useless except as glorified rolodexes. It’s not like biotech where they’re forced to face their ignorance head on, software allows t
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by civilitty 3y ago
The expectations of apps have skyrocketed too which is why everyone is using Electron to cope. If GUI development were still as easy as the drag and drop builders in Delphi 7 and VB6 with a bunch of static 800x600 monitors and double-click
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by civilitty 3y ago
The babel fish translated via brainwave energy and a telepathic matrix: > The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but
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by civilitty 3y ago
I'm on mobile so can't find the link but years ago there was a DARPA (iirc) program trying to solve this problem in the context of surveillance in a loud crowded room. Their conclusion was that there needed to be n+1 microphones i
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by civilitty 3y ago
"Or equivalent experience" are the magic words found on almost every job posting. Outside of a few corps like Google, the degree requirements are rarely a dealbreaker.
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by civilitty 3y ago
Great work! I just tried it on Linux for System Administrators and it did a great job properly picking up on code and config text. I noticed marker downloaded a PyTorch checkpoint called `nougat-0.1.0-small`, do you use nougat under the h
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Harry Potter and the Magical Phone(afterbabel.com)
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