ctoth

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931.
by ctoth 3y ago
> "You and I can sit at home. I can sit anywhere. Let’s say at the local Starbucks coffee. I shake your hands. You feel my hand shaking. I give you a hug, and you feel my intimacy. And even if we speak a different language, we can u
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Zoom’s CEO thinks Zoom sucks for building trust, leaked audio reveals(arstechnica.com)
76 points by ctoth 3y ago|59 comments
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by ctoth 3y ago
As we all know, computers stay the same and rarely improve.
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by ctoth 3y ago
There's a phrase you should probably learn. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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by ctoth 3y ago
Sure, that makes sense. Except how is it an "ongoing controversy" that one of the cars hit someone, while being driven by a safety driver? There's providing context, then there's digging for anything that might stick t
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by ctoth 3y ago
It's like this paragraph is obligatory: > Waymo has had fewer headline-worthy troubles. In May, one of its cars struck and killed a small dog. A few years ago, a driverless Waymo car with a human safety driver operating the wheel hi
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by ctoth 3y ago
That is way easier than the stuff I was reading before which said I needed some sort of 3rd party paid component for it, nice.
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Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known(nytimes.com)
6 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 3y ago
Last time I looked at this I couldn't really find an easy standard way to make HTTPS API calls and parse JSON, but only spent an hour or two playing with it. Can you point me at the canonical way to do this? What's the Requests of
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by ctoth 3y ago
Sure, housing takes ~20%. But while you are sitting in your nicely electrified house, watching Netflix, You're still using that datacenter's power. All the people in all their nice electrified houses are looking for electrified en
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by ctoth 3y ago
This seems remarkably low given the utility we get out of them. I was expecting at least an order of magnitude more. The headline particularly seems weird given the actual numbers. Lots of things take 2% of power, why not target them?
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Listening to Dylan During Covid-19(newpol.org)
1 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 3y ago
Flying awfully close to the biodeterminism sun with this one, aren't they? I somehow thought such research was taboo in the current environment.
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by ctoth 3y ago
Or, like, you could just not do things like texting and letting the passenger hold the wheel while you drive while blind people like me have to navigate around your one ton death machines. Crazy idea I know.
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by ctoth 3y ago
Welp, found the bad driver.
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What the Heck Happened in 2012?(theintrinsicperspective.com)
54 points by ctoth 3y ago|8 comments
947.
by ctoth 3y ago
> there are plenty of nice places where the houses are 60K. Citation super needed. Where in the US can I buy a house for $60,000? Does it have a roof?
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Out of Africa, a New World War?(bloomberg.com)
2 points by ctoth 3y ago|3 comments
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Anthropic CEO – $10B Models, OpenAI, Scaling, & AGI in 2 Years(dwarkeshpatel.com)
4 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
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Why Therapy Is Broken(wired.com)
2 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
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Getting Started With SDR (software defined radio): Tutorial(austinsnerdythings.com)
3 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
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Blind Soldering Basics(ski.org)
1 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 3y ago
Here are some instructions I put in the How would you like ChatGPT to respond field? Adapted from a set originally shared by Zvi: - Be highly organized - Suggest solutions that I didn’t think about —be proactive and anticipate my needs - Tr
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by ctoth 3y ago
I'm pretty sure this doesn't address the key point, that OpenAI and others apparently used a giant dump of pirated epubs as one of their training sources.
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Secret biological lab uncovered in Reedley with bioengineered Covid-19 mice(sjvsun.com)
27 points by ctoth 3y ago|1 comments
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Temporal trends in sperm count: a systematic review (2017)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 3y ago
I notice you used the strong emotional word "ruining" when talking about the effect on Python of this change. Why do you believe an obscure runtime concurrency detail which will make more things possible will "ruin" the
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by ctoth 3y ago
Except they're not at all analogous situations. In python 2 -> 3, if a new version of a library came out Python 3 only, you couldn't use both it, and your old Python 2 code at the same time. Here, you can use the GIL until ever
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Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough(nytimes.com)
6 points by ctoth 3y ago|5 comments
960.
by ctoth 3y ago
> Since you're not required to listen to pop music, Is there a trick I'm missing to avoid this in {Ubers, grocery stores, bars, ...}? If so I'd love to know about it! Note: am blind, so can't constantly wear earplugs.

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