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by cronin101 2y ago
The day we have a “human free military” is the day that every human on earth wakes up to find they just got enlisted without notice. Game theory only works when you have skin in the game. You think the other nations’ machines are just going
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by cronin101 2y ago
Worth remembering that airlines don’t handle your luggage themselves and instead contract it out to ground handling companies. It would be more interesting to map flight carriers/numbers to handlers (e.g. Menzies) and regions to give a
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by cronin101 3y ago
I did the same thing, used to fall asleep reading the strategy guide for at least a year before I got the game myself. I was similarly absorbed with those annual “bumper collection of cheats for video games” books that used to come with tec
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by cronin101 3y ago
The scary part is that > let the prompt create HTTP requests is batteries-included because every language model worth their salt is already able to create markdown and it’s very tempting to utilize this in order to provide layout and bre
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by cronin101 3y ago
> Now, if I could just figure out the difference between “ordering out” and “ordering in.” That’s simple: Ordering-in takeaway is something you do at home with the expectation that it is delivered. Ordering-out is getting something “to g
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by cronin101 3y ago
I’m all in favour of lowering emissions for the 1% but it’s a strange place to draw the line when their calculations suggest ~70% of emissions come from “the Everyman” that is 1st-33rd percentile. Cheap and plentiful access to lower carbon
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by cronin101 3y ago
Put another way: "When the autocomplete system ingests the play-by-play of an idiomatic game that arrives at a particular board position, it appends the suffix A" "When the autocomplete system ingests the play-by-play of a se
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by cronin101 3y ago
$1tn in savings is $660 per person over an entire year? I know purchasing power is a big thing but I’m not sure whether to interpret this as a large amount or not.
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by cronin101 3y ago
Starlink is only an extra ~10% of the Earth radius at orbit height, but optic cables slow light by ~30%. So it's actually counterintuitive but "could" be just as fast. (Depending on how far you need to send data, it will regr
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by cronin101 3y ago
Neat, I hadn’t thought about the covariance/contravariance implications of structural typing when getting irritated by this shortcoming yesterday! Small nitpick, the `KeyboardShortcutEvent` snippet at the end would be a great place to
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by cronin101 3y ago
> Yet, anyone who has lived through a cold dark nordic winter will tell you a different story. Anecdotal, but if you're taking Vitamin D, skiing in the forests, enjoying hot chocolate, and alternating between working hard and playin
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by cronin101 3y ago
Assuming the criticism is valid and not nit-picking, embrace the fact that this is free education that isn't saddling you with additional six-figure debt! Learning on the job is important, and you could treat it as such. (Pay attention
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by cronin101 3y ago
Who pays for the Red and Blue teams? Is their salary set by the amount (or lack) saved? What if the difference isn’t great? What hiring bar do you set for them (again, aligned with budget)? What you’re saying makes 110% meritocratic sense,
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by cronin101 3y ago
As someone working at Microsoft I can actually say that they have continued supporting WFH and if anything are actually leaning even heavier into WFH-facilitation (at least in my division) lately. It’s been a big success for enabling cross-
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by cronin101 3y ago
Seems like an obvious question but is there conventional wisdom on whether compilation/transpilation heavy workloads are more suited to cache size or to higher clocks? Is this a “it depends” situation? Wondering what to pick for my nex
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by cronin101 4y ago
To be fair, it didn’t “lie” about being human. It’s simulating writing text of human origin, so of course it would say that it is human by default because that’s what it “knows”. You need to have knowledge to lie, it merely has an argmax fu
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by cronin101 4y ago
This is such a non-story, mainly driven by the fact that home ownership in Nordic countries is ubiquitous (80% of Norwegians OWN their primary dwelling) combined with the high medium incomes resulting in those houses being quite expensive.
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by cronin101 4y ago
I use TS daily and I think this sort of argument doesn't give TS the credit it deserves. Sure, you _could_ use it to check that you aren't making obvious errors like this (but this seems constrained to the "convince me that i
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by cronin101 4y ago
Yup! Parser combinators are incredibly useful once you learn the basics well. They compose predictably and you can test the individual parts pretty succinctly (I usually use an inline eval'd comment in vscode to smoke test, as you can
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by cronin101 4y ago
Day 12 was a little hacky because of my foolhardy reluctance to ever use the obvious Dijkstra's Algorithm solution and always rolling my own organic recursive "flood fill" on the fly instead. -- ((start, end), heightMap
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by cronin101 4y ago
YMMV but each year I use Haskell to solve AoC and I've never needed mutation or any particularly intensive `IO/State` Monad trickery to get any day completed regardless of how far into the challenge it goes. Part of the charm of p
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by cronin101 4y ago
My first internship had me and my then flat-mate (he was independently selected for the only other internship spot, neither of us knew about the other’s application, while overseas on Erasmus study, which is uncanny) adding “pay this invoic
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by cronin101 4y ago
Yes, can confirm I was installing Win11 on my brother-in-law's new PC that I built last week and there were no default drivers for the USB wifi adapter I had attempted to reuse from his old machine. The entire process was roadblocked w
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by cronin101 4y ago
In many parts of Northern Europe, at least, February is often the absolute coldest month (most likely for snowfall in UK, for example). So for heating worries, we’re definitely not out of the woods come February.
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by cronin101 4y ago
With the US thrust into the de-facto "centre of the Anglo-sphere" (note: I am not American, as astute readers might deduce from preceding spelling), many terms are in need of an overhaul. It's particularly amusing how news o
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by cronin101 5y ago
Considering that only recently the first-wave of RTX 3xxx cards had a flaw where uncapped FPS on videogame menu screens caused them to spike current outside of the intended design envelope and completely brick the devices with unfixable dam
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by cronin101 5y ago
<pedant>The singular is "die" not "dice".</pedant>
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by cronin101 5y ago
I think GOV.UK in general does a very good job of making important information readily available. It’s however extra jarring switching between the clean/efficient style of the online messaging and the underlying public services/of
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by cronin101 5y ago
I think the point they were making is that salt when paired with adequate hydration (and offsetting losses from sweating etc.) isn't as obvious an issue. As always, balance is key. Mediterranean diets aren't skimping on salt but t
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by cronin101 5y ago
I missed out on the flash but the pressure wave rattled my front door like someone was trying to get in (and the dog was none too pleased about that).

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