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by cthalupa 3y ago
There have always been multiple cultures. This is such a weird statement I don't even really know how to argue against it since to me it seems so self evident, but I suppose I'll try. Since the subject is music, I suppose we can s
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I'm convinced it's not that we stagnate in our ability to like new things, it's just that we stop exposing ourselves to it, and it's reinforced by the algorithms focusing on stuff we do like when we rely on them for reco
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I'd still recommend reviewing the output more closely, particularly in top-level paragraphs. > Designed from the ground up, Kyoo stands out as a powerful alternative to Plex and Jellyfin. This sentence doesn't really mean anyth
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by cthalupa 3y ago
It's entirely the cost/perf of access to the larger amounts of VRAM that keeps rendering on CPUs now. GPUs are strictly better in almost every way for rendering (We could have some arguments about technical precision, FP calculati
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I mean, a single sophon could have eliminated humanity by itself using a fraction of the power presented as being possible in the books, in hundreds of different ways. But I do think it's worth suspending disbelief a bit to try and enj
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by cthalupa 3y ago
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/... TSA is supposed to let it through if it's below 0.3 D9-THC GCMS will detect THCA if derivatized - https://www.cannabissciencetec
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by cthalupa 3y ago
johncarlosbaez is about as real deal of a physicist as they come, and pdonis is a nuclear engineer with a degree from MIT who is a longstanding mentor on the largest physics discussion forum in the world. I'd recommend reading their po
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Not sure how accurate my apple watch is, but I see minimal variance in my REM sleep between nights when I smoke and when I don't. Alcohol very much screws up with my sleep though, and my total sleep score plummets if I go to bed drunk.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I've also lost a friend to a heroin overdose, and as best we can tell it was unintentional and the result of a significant difference in purity/dose from what he was expecting. It's the sort of thing legalization and regulati
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Blanket legalization without any supporting infrastructure seems dicey. Portugal had fairly promising results early on when they had funding for all of the assistance programs, etc., but this money ran out and the taxes raised as part of th
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I originally started smoking to help with my insomnia, and it was effective for quite some time. However, I also learned that I just generally enjoy being high, and am reasonably functional on it, so I started smoking for general relaxation
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by cthalupa 3y ago
In the USA, marijuana is functionally legal through most of the country due to the hemp bill and the existence of things like THCA and Delta-8 THC. Because of how a product is defined as marijuana vs. hemp, products high in THCA but below t
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> As a Schedule 1 drug, marijuana is in the same category as some of the hardest drugs like heroin and LSD, which means it’s classified as being more dangerous than fentanyl and methamphetamine. LSD is another drug where it is absurd it
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by cthalupa 3y ago
There's quite a lot of arguments back and forth about it through this whole thread if you really want to dive into it. The cliff notes is effectively that gravity is not a force in GR. It is considered a force in newtonian physics, and
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by cthalupa 3y ago
It's unfortunate that Unreal Engine is so bad at UI/UX these days. I was playing UT99 with some friends the other day and was struck by just how powerful, intuitive, and flexible it's UI/UX was, both in-game and through
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Very true. I suppose I should have clarified that source available in the context of a lot of these formerly open source projects, and not as a blanket term.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I think you're underestimating the impact that the webhosting industry had on the popularity of Apache httpd, all of these related ecosystem projects like PHP, MySQL, etc., and even Linux itself. How many small businesses launched beca
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by cthalupa 3y ago
The world would be a very different place if, say, the people that wrote apache httpd felt this way. I don't know what it would look like, so I won't weigh in on whether or not it would be a good or a bad thing. But it would assur
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I believe the sarcasm is around Sentry and implying that it's redis usage is poorly optimized. I'm not familiar with Sentry, but it looks like the self hosted version makes use of redis as part of it's underlying stack.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Nope. This is tied to the whole "Free as in speech, not beer" thing. Open Source has core definitions around the freedoms (the "speech") allowed to people when making use of that source code. Source available makes the s
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I mean, this is how it is for any domain that is sufficiently deep. It's not like we don't have similar examples in computer science - when talking with laypeople, we provide generalizations and abstractions. There are still unsol
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by cthalupa 3y ago
There isn't a model out there that doesn't break down at some point. Looking at gravity, we can compare what General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics say about the center of a black hole. Remember, both GR and QM have both been ab
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I like Loop Quantum Gravity, if only because I really enjoy reading Carlo Rovelli's stuff and listening to his talks, but it's really not going any better than String Theory is. Smolin's not wrong in ST getting too many resou
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by cthalupa 3y ago
You say this, but it's perfectly normal in heavily populated parts of the world to do this. It's not like he found some street stand that popped up for one night only and no one else ever did it again. I've had plenty of raw
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Depends on how much you're eating. They still contain chitin and human stomachs don't like chitin. You can end up with pretty severe stomach discomfort from eating a lot of them raw. Button and cremini mushrooms are actually the s
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I've been using my AVP pretty regularly since release day. I'm using it less now that the novelty is wearing off, but still fairly often. Things I like: 1) It really is an upgrade vs. working on just my 16" MBP screen. I&#x27
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I would agree that it isn't a great place to be in, but I don't know that I necessarily agree with the comparison to movies/books/anime/etc. There's always been plenty of places to discuss smaller movies or sho
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by cthalupa 3y ago
VR porn is largely just WebXR on webpages or SBS VR 180 videos. WebXR has been available on the Vision Pro since day 1 if you enabled it in the Safari advanced options and there are now multiple video apps that can handle SBS VR 180 playbac
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> and it's not a common acronym at all It's everywhere in LLM circles these days, and has been for months. I would agree that they should define it - I think any professional project should be defining acronyms on first use on
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I have no idea if massive context will kill RAGs, but an article written by someone who sells vector databases for a living is not the most conflict-of-interest free source.

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