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by cratermoon 2mo ago
This is Muratori showing he's a solo programmer who has only ever worked on relative small, simple software that runs on a single machine.
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
There’s a reason why every nearly spacecraft intended to operate more than a couple of days and be able to maneuver and make trajectory or orbit changes has used hypergolic fuels. They don’t have burn off issues and they don’t need ignition
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
At this point, a paper airplane folded by a third grader could take on Boeing.
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Trump's Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities(nytimes.com)
8 points by cratermoon 2mo ago|1 comments
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
That sucks, sorry to hear it. Have you tried seeing if a tablet handwriting recognizer can be trained on your writing?
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-13060909/cambridge-un...
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
This almost throwaway line from the article struck me as an example of what we can do with technology, if we choose to put our billions of dollars towards it: "I downloaded the BC30 genome".
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
Stephenson mentions the Pilot G-2 Gel, and it is a great pen, especially for left-handers. I've found one that improves on it: the Pilot Acroball. It's a better G-2 and though it might be a bit hard to find at retail it can be fou
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
Don't hold the pen too tightly. Find a pen and paper combination that doesn't require force to write. Ball point pens on cheap notebook paper are notorious for requiring too much force. On quality paper with a good pen the ink wil
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
I think tablet handwriting is fine. I had some six weeks of down time a while back and took advantage of it to go through the Getty-Dubay book Write Now: the Getty-Dubay Program for Handwriting Success to improve my handwriting legibility
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
Fun examples of the strange and wonderful mess that is Date: https://jsdate.wtf/
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/ reports the area rates a 2 "average dark sky" on the Bortle scale, just short of an "excellent" score of 1. It's location halfway between Santa Rosa and Las Vegas
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=prompts-model...
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
Right up until you cut that fiber cable or gas line.
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
It also made it way orders of magnitude more expensive.
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
Revolutionary concept: have the second stage take off and fly up to meet the first stage, already in flight.
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Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used(frank.computer)
106 points by cratermoon 2mo ago|113 comments
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
Respect alone is not always enough, though.
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
We call human die-offs "war", "genocide", "drug epidemics", "pandemics". There was a spike in 2021, of course, but the world death rate has been edging up slightly every year since then.
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Command: Plug another slop faucet · mpv-player/mpv a3d4b59(github.com)
4 points by cratermoon 2mo ago|0 comments
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
Consider the following scenario. You're a beginner or with very little experience go on a popular programming forum to ask a question, in the typical way someone with little experience asks, what do you get? An answer? No, you get bad
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by cratermoon 3mo ago
This happened in rapid succession in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. First rodents and small scavengers multiplied rapidly, but then the easy food ran out and their predators showed up, and the cycle repeated. The zone is now roughly at equil
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by cratermoon 3mo ago
Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equili
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by cratermoon 3mo ago
Two questions: What are the downsides of this design compared to the traditional way? Doesn't deallocation only happen once, when the work is completed, and is it worth optimizing?
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by cratermoon 3mo ago
Everyone here is taking my comment as saying the blog post was written by AI, and that’s wrong. The author says he uses AI to write commit messages and code comments. Those are what I’m saying are not worth my time or effort to read.
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by cratermoon 3mo ago
If you can't be bothered to write it, why should I bother reading it?
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by cratermoon 3mo ago
It's worth noting that historically, Israel and Judah are iron age settlements. This makes references to the authors of the tanakh "bronze age sheepherders" wildly inaccurate at best and mostly offensively reductionist.
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by cratermoon 3mo ago
The second bullet point on the abusive aspects of phones address specifically your argument: "They tell us the onus is on us to manage their behavior. It’s our job to tiptoe around them and limit their harms. Spending too much time on
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Phone on Feminism(conversationalist.org)
7 points by cratermoon 3mo ago|4 comments
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The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us(karlbode.com)
5 points by cratermoon 3mo ago|1 comments

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