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by dTal 3y ago
I have a tiny Sansa Clip+ mp3 player, flashed with Rockbox, which I use with a nice pair of Bose wired earbuds. It's an incredibly low-friction device. It has physical buttons so you can operate it without looking at it. It lasts for m
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by dTal 3y ago
Man, this horse has been dead for decades. Stop flogging it. Male and female brains differ, subtly but robustly and testably, along a variety of axes. The notion that these differences might be down to socialization was never motivated by s
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by dTal 3y ago
I have actually come to prefer the all-castoring design. It requires more skill, but less force and the acheivable performance is superior. To turn a cart with fixed wheels, you must apply torque to the push bar. As well as being too narrow
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by dTal 3y ago
> Getting dragged sideways both wears flat spots in the wheels and it can bend the castors or pop the soft part of the wheel of its rim. This may be an American problem. In the UK and many European countries, shopping carts ("trolle
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by dTal 3y ago
While it's true that acid rain is not caused by CO2 per se, it is generally caused by products of combustion. The context was specifically the other harmful effects of the root cause - burning fossil fuels - which a solar shield wo
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by dTal 3y ago
It's not a "store" of value if you can't get the value back out - merely a "sink" of value. Both rare metals and intricate mechanisms possess scarcity, but of the two only one can be melted down - the other is
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by dTal 3y ago
> Its denomination is 1,766 Cameroonian francs, equivalent to approximately 11.70 Polish zloty or €2.69. But “its real value is significantly higher than its nominal one”, says the mint. That is a shame and a wasted opportunity. Nobody w
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by dTal 3y ago
$7 trillion is a lot of money. For a sense of scale, $7 trillion is 30x the entire Apollo program. If we, collectively as a society, are going to speculatively plow $7 trillion into some transformative technological moonshot, I can think
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by dTal 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/603/
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by dTal 3y ago
Would it actually break though? It's my understanding that glibc attempts to preserve backwards compatibility, such that binaries built under older versions will work under newer versions. As far as I know it's not a hard commitme
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by dTal 3y ago
There was nothing to imply that the original comment held any misconceptions about the difference between fascism and authoritarianism (nor is it especially relevant in context) so the rush to "correct" it signals a somewhat disqu
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by dTal 3y ago
A big value proposition of LLMs is their ability to synthesize and remix. Sure, you can access viral sequences today, but with an LLM you might be able to say "given these covid variants, make me a version as deadly as the first one an
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by dTal 3y ago
There's a limit to the amount , but not to the duration (in theory). It can hold on to something it considers important for an arbitrary amount of time.
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by dTal 3y ago
A hack? The entire point of encryption is to permit messages to be sent over insecure channels, no?
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GGUFs quants can punch above their weights now(old.reddit.com)
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by dTal 3y ago
>As a vintage costume collector, Rivers Cofield recognized it as a dress from the 1880s — but despite its age, its delicate embroidery, bronze silk and metallic buttons appeared intact... She haggled the price down to $100 from $125. The
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by dTal 3y ago
I think the word they're looking for is "buying stuff".
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by dTal 3y ago
It might, indirectly, by giving them "skin in the game". Once personally inconvenienced by being forced to adopt green technologies, politicians may be more inclined to invest in making those technologies less inconvenient. We mig
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by dTal 3y ago
Because art is less rigorous and therefore lower hanging fruit.
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by dTal 3y ago
Life is an extremely interesting and complex phenomenon worthy of study. It's not a counterexample to the observation that structure and complexity indicate interesting phenomena, rather than "coincidence".
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by dTal 3y ago
It seems like a pretty direct homage to the Infinite Improbability Drive from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is created from thin air by working out exactly how improbable such a device is and plugging this number into a fini
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by dTal 3y ago
"Even if" is an odd phrasing. Why would you expect that to be possible? LLMs don't have direct access to their training set. Having a book in the training set just means they emit text in the style of the book - it's not
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by dTal 3y ago
The proposition that no one has written a worthwhile book or had a new insight in the past 24 years is so laughably indefensible that it stuns me to see someone put it forth in earnest. To engage with it risks dignifying it beyond its statu
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by dTal 3y ago
I must interject with a gentle observation. Your eloquent reiteration of the original post's sentiments, while adorned with a delightful medley of flowery language, seems to mirror the very essence of an automated response. The harmoni
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by dTal 3y ago
This sounds a lot like the mixture-of-experts architecture, and the current best-performing language models (GPT-4, mixtral-8x7b) already use this architecture. So congratulations, you win!
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by dTal 3y ago
>since decompression must be lossless, it's unclear to me if this approach could really help here. All lossy compression can be made lossless by storing a residual. A modern language transformer is well suited to compression because
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by dTal 3y ago
> With each version of macOS it's getting harder and harder to load kernel extensions. Apple strongly discourages it thus making software distributions that use 'macfuse' difficult to install. omg that's terrible, App
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by dTal 3y ago
Films are "polarizing" for many reasons, and this article attempts to categorize some of them - Low-Budget Cult Classics, Inescapable Franchise Films, Horror Movies That Went Mainstream... But there is one film in that list that d
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by dTal 3y ago
I don't see how requiring someone to set up a little webpage filters out cranks. If anything I might expect it to favor them.
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by dTal 3y ago
Given that he previously renewed his passport without issue, one wonders what procedures have changed in the State Department. Have they recently started doing deeper background checks? Could this be related to the alluded recent rise in &q

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