colechristensen

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by colechristensen 2mo ago
A butcher block desk with 4x4s for legs is pretty simple and forgiving. Matching the quality of appearance of a lot of other IKEA furniture would require quite a bit more skill and tools. Like a Kallax, unless you're a real wizard yo
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
I'd watch that bumbling buddy cop movie
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
There are several technical and nontechnical definitions of "successful" making it a pretty meaningless statement
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
There is a balance that needs to be struck between freedoms and rule of law and it's quite rare to be able to actually have discussions about how to strike that balance because most folks willing to discuss have a simplistic but vagu
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
>You sure they didn't lose governmental contracts because of it? I'm sure they got MORE government contracts because of it by turning themselves into headline news for weeks.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
I'm pretty convinced Anthropic was intentionally antagonizing the government in order to get high level attention, media coverage, and government contacts to hep "fix" the problem. Far from irreparable harm it was a marketin
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Most of my interactions with AWS docs end up being pretty useless, as in they are information-free. Like describing how to fill out a form and press next in a wizard which boil down to "fill out the Name field with a name and press ne
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
>Why can't they expedite for special cases? They can, the preliminary injunction is a thing that can be invoked very quickly to stop actions before the law decides. Anthropic didn't suffer any irreparable harm and they're
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
You're kind of saying the only way to do it is in software or hardware :) An alternative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectively_extended_real_lin... The projectively extended real line defines division by zero
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
to be fair, it's also that just with some severe restrictions on filenames
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
This is... well it's mostly a joke. It's funny but you can indeed use and interact with DNS as a file store or have a file system based control over records. Both DNS and S3 or any filesystem really... they're just key/
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Oh there's geological evidence of these things happening in the pacific northwest, the waves and water scouring the landscape in an unimaginable fashion left evidence to be seen today. Like 1000 Niagra falls for a month straight. Out
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Yes this is exactly the kind of thing i'm talking about and in the time frame which is at least plausible to make its way through mythology to modern day (not so much for the flooding of a dry mediterranean sea five million years ago)
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
This seems like an argument someone who wasn't conscious would make, it's not impossible that not everyone is conscious. Or someone who takes panpsychism to an extreme degree.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
The great flood myths across the world are quite possibly ancestral memories of this kind of flood on a continental scale. Retreating ice age glaciers would make lakes the size of states held at bay by an impromptu dam of various kinds of
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
It's not difficult from a conceptual engineering perspective but it is difficult from an industrial scale perspective. It requires a tremendous amount of hardware and energy and precision equipment.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Mass spec is about separating things by mass... exactly what enrichment requires. A mass spec used as an instrument measures the components of a substance, this is just the same concept for actual separation of components not just to look a
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
You also evolved in a world with radiation and have repair mechanisms in place so it makes sense that the "realized" damage is not necessarily linear.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
You have to be up to date on the exposure of a "chest xray" because tech improvements have considerably changed this in our lifetimes.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
There have also been developments that have reduced radiation doses 30-90% per imaging event with the transition from film to digital xrays and the progression of the various digital sensors continued to reduce doses. Current leading edge
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
No it's just a value add to their existing data products and a moat against the big n LLM companies. The "news" part of the business is relatively small compared to everything else the do. Like how Bloomberg does news but
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
The leadership of nations requires you to put pressure on the thoughts and minds of your people, left to their own devices those minds will simply be shaped by someone else. The morality in it comes from your motivation and methods. Secre
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
“educate, inspire, and strengthen the hearts and wills of free men.” Funny how times have changed and more or less everyone on every side is fighting for the strength and survival of their own groupthink and little more.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
If you're so disinterested why are you talking about it now? Better to focus your attention on something you're not going to be so dismissive and negative about unless your hobby is being an asshole.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
So would a primitive human.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
I'm pretty convinced we could discuss philosophy with octopus friends if they didn't all die immediately after reproducing.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
You don't particularly need calculations, just have friends around the world or even a couple hundred miles away, get on a video call to prove the world is round. Whatever your pet theory of how the sun moves across the "flat&quo
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
If you've tried 20 things, you've probably won that lottery. It's an easy lottery to win.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
My first task at my first real tech job was setting up an ejabberd server
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
"I mean ALPR's have worked wonders in my town" Among those wonders being nearly 200,000 tickets. There are claims of safety improvements but strangely zero actual statistics about improved safety, measured speed is a proxy fo

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