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781.
by ctoth 3y ago
Presumably the Post-atomic horror set back technology for a while, so we should be able to expect TNG-level technology before the war. This also explains why Kirk's Enterprise uses datatapes.
782.
How the U.S. Accidentally Nuked Its Own Communications Satellite (2012/1962)(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by ctoth 3y ago|1 comments
783.
House Intel Chairman announces 'serious national security threat(cnn.com)
6 points by ctoth 3y ago|2 comments
784.
by ctoth 3y ago
Uh, your numbers agree perfectly with the article. Notice they cluster around 2, with 6.8 (not noice)% of apartments being 3 or more bedrooms.
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by ctoth 3y ago
- Cognitive effects show up well over 1000 ppm. - Current atmospheric concentration is around 417 ppm. - The rate at which atmospheric CO2 concentration increases has been approximately 2-3 ppm per year over the past decade, as observed at
786.
Review: Freewrite Alpha(freddiedeboer.substack.com)
2 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
787.
Pushing and Pulling Goals(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
788.
by ctoth 3y ago
I can't believe you are actively suggesting this. Even in this horrific case. Okay, so you train your classifier on extortion. Then you train it to detect sexual content. Then you train it to detect potential piracy. Then you train it
789.
by ctoth 3y ago
Actually if you read the study (I didn't want to give them my email either) you'll find that they can't tell generated code apart from any other code, and are just saying that code quality went down (per their metrics) in 202
790.
27 Days in Tokyo Bay: What Happened on the Diamond Princess(wired.com)
2 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
791.
by ctoth 3y ago
I thought that Georgians called their country Sakartvelo? The real question is if there are any Georgian Georgists.
792.
Small, Private Tragedies(accordingtohoyt.com)
1 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
793.
LA Times to lay off 20% of newsroom in newspaper's largest staff reduction(washingtonpost.com)
21 points by ctoth 3y ago|6 comments
794.
by ctoth 3y ago
You are treating me as if I don't understand a fundamental aspect of engineering (rude) when I am pointing out that previously such optimizations were far less tradeoffs, as evidenced by the case of earlier couches which didn't ha
795.
by ctoth 3y ago
Okay, but $3,000 for a couch sounds like a damn-reasonable budget, and apparently isn't? So can you tell me what my couch budget should be for a good couch that won't, in fact, break in three years? $3000 in 1995 dollars is approx
796.
by ctoth 3y ago
> “People have to choose between the right aesthetic, quality and price. If they want all three, good luck.” Why though? What am I supposed to do as a working professional who wants nice things as my parents had when they made far less t
797.
by ctoth 3y ago
No, 2050 isn't some sort of tipping point[0]. [0]: https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/to-avoid-the-worst-impacts-...
798.
by ctoth 3y ago
Mozilla's removal of SSB support (single-site browser[0]) which is the key missing piece here is completely mystifying. I reckon that CEO salary has to come from somewhere though. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/fire
799.
Universities Are Not on the Level(joshbarro.com)
69 points by ctoth 3y ago|56 comments
800.
by ctoth 3y ago
This may as well be titled Awesome Scissor Statements[0]. I found myself wanting to argue with the typing one as soon as I saw it went up to 2014 and so would have nothing on more modern Typescript and gradual typing and then I realized wha
801.
by ctoth 3y ago
Early 2000s, Tinyspell. Back in the XP days when a spellchecker was not a standard part of an OS, some folks glued a keylogger and spellchecker together to give universal spelling correction. It would beep when you misspelled something and
802.
by ctoth 3y ago
Hi Couchand. I'm a mediocre programmer who uses GPT for a ton. Are you volunteering to answer my questions on all the obscure stuff I ask it? Because I don't really know anybody else who will. Anyway, my email is in my profile, wr
803.
Adding a Slab Top to a Standing Desk(renaissancewoodworker.com)
1 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
804.
by ctoth 3y ago
Everybody just buying into the corporate narrative that anyone can actually own these sorts of things. Who truly owns the tales of Snow White and Cinderella? These stories didn't originate with Disney; they are part of a rich tapestry
805.
by ctoth 3y ago
I don't really care if it sits well with them. do you? In that future, why do we need them? They are already parasites feeding off our collective societal stories. Or did you think Disney came up with all those characters? Maybe the or
806.
by ctoth 3y ago
I use an open source screen reader, NVDA. It is completely open, and they produce an installer for people or you can build it yourself from Git. Can you help me understand now, if there is a bug in NVDA (which is under the GPL) and it cause
807.
by ctoth 3y ago
Right now I use Chrome because I use several PWAs. Chrome lets me install them and even gives me options to auto-start them when my system starts. Firefox doesn't seem to have equivalent functionality. Researching it some, it seems Fir
808.
In Defense of Science Fiction(noahpinion.blog)
4 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
809.
by ctoth 3y ago
From my original comment: > Is it legal or not to scrape the web? > If I scrape the web, is it legal to train a transformer on it? Why or why not? At no point did I say anything about hosting a mirror of the NYT website, with free art
810.
by ctoth 3y ago
Isn't the fundamental issue here that the NYT was available in Common Crawl? If they didn't want to share their content, why did they allow it to be scraped? If they did want to share their content, why do they care (hint: $88 bil

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