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by dahart 2mo ago
> for if his height be increased inordinately he will fall and be crushed under his own weight > scaled-up wooden houses would not support their own roofs Hmmm this argument fails to mention giraffes, elephants or dinosaurs. (Edit: oo
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by dahart 2mo ago
So Raph, how do you draw these things? I’m not sure exactly where I’d start given an equation of the curvature or tangent (I assume?) angle. The pen tool link talks about “auto points”, giving the impression that it’s a sort of Bezier subdi
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by dahart 2mo ago
> early IBM computers shipped with pretty simple, magnetically driven dynamic speakers Yes the PC & donkey.bas were monophonic design, but the PCjr shipped with 3-channel polyphonic sound plus a noise generator. It might have been ca
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by dahart 2mo ago
If by processing cores you mean Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), keep in mind that each SM is 128 threads, so 16 SMs is 2k threads - or 2048 single precision math ops per cycle. The 32 core avx512-enabled CPU is 512 math ops per cycle, if y
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by dahart 2mo ago
I never considered using my tinnitus as a perfect pitch reference. I’m pretty sure my tone changes over time, so it might not work for me, but I’m at least going to try. I love mynoise, and Neuormodulator masks my tinnitus, but the T is usu
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by dahart 2mo ago
> it’s nasty … add fecal matter … you really think when you poop it just lands neatly in the bowl and nothing goes in the air? Mine does, but I like to aim in the bowl. You’re not pooing in handstand pose, are you? No, wait, you’re right
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by dahart 2mo ago
> from ontological knowledge (naming and categorising) The example clearly is discussing naming and not categorizing, which is precisely why Feynman’s anecdote is not fully applicable to the Linnaeus system. > They have unity I ag
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by dahart 2mo ago
Yeah there is a little bit of irony versus the common narratives, though if you ask Google what type of economy these two countries are, it will tell you the Netherlands is a “social market economy” and China is a “socialist market economy”
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by dahart 2mo ago
> If there were another labelling system, it would have the same problems and would only serve to split the humans into multiple ways of doing the same thing. If that were true, then you’re saying Linnaeus has the same problems as before
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by dahart 2mo ago
> You mean ethnicity I meant race. We’re only talking about skin color here. “Today, race refers to a group sharing some outward physical characteristics and some commonalities of culture and history. Ethnicity refers to markers acquired
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by dahart 2mo ago
Yes, true! Though cranking saturation doesn’t brighten colors (much… at least it’s not supposed to), and maybe interestingly, light brown isn’t quite orange. There might some asymmetry in color names. So it might not be that surprising that
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by dahart 2mo ago
> What colors are we? The short answer is maybe something like “brown” and the long answer is very, very long. Pete Shirley (author of Ray Tracing In One Weekend) is also a part time color scientist, and he clued me into the fact that if
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by dahart 2mo ago
> at least have some kind of idea about your intended output. Isn’t that what a prompt literally is?
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by dahart 2mo ago
I think you’ve made incorrect assumptions, you’re wrong about some things here. Nobody said small waste should not be fixed, they said it wouldn’t move the needle. “We should stop waste” is a tautology. Nobody here has disagreed with that,
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by dahart 2mo ago
> nor have I given that impression, to find individual examples of government waste and specifically fix those Yes, you did. You gave that impression when you said OP was right to point out the list of specific items. People weren’t disa
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by dahart 2mo ago
Then we can have a discussion about how to fix it. You can’t even start with a discussion about fixes until you have nailed down the exact problem… obviously . It would help immensely to find some factually valid examples. If we had congre
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by dahart 2mo ago
What need is there? What small-potato line items are wasteful?
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by dahart 2mo ago
It’s hard to have any serious discussion if you don’t care what’s true and simply have unsupported opinions. How do you actually know the government is wasting money? Do you have any first hand knowledge? How do you propose to fix the waste
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by dahart 2mo ago
You’re digging in your heels only because people here are trying to point out facts that you assume are challenging your broader point, and not because you believe the items are true? Why not actually find out if they’re true or not? I have
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by dahart 2mo ago
You did defend the specific items, you said so explicitly, you used the word “specific” in your previous comment, your first sentence said you are now “more convinced the OP was right to point out those specific items”. These specific ite
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by dahart 2mo ago
That’s pure straw man. There isn’t anyone against the working class in this thread, and there is anti-intellectualism in this thread. I don’t doubt there are some academics who are jerks, but you’re incorrectly assuming something about all
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by dahart 2mo ago
> your understanding is not required Whoa, how quickly have we forgotten how the AI is trained? > You get a fancy house […] society to labor just to support your class and its lifestyle. Wait, how much money do you think math teachers
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by dahart 2mo ago
I don’t want my tax dollars wasted. We do agree on that, right? The government does waste some money. We agree on that too, right? I’m open to hearing why you think @bilsbie’s list is valid. I’m skeptical, and I’ll offer some reasons why, b
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by dahart 2mo ago
The broad point above by @bilsbie is wrong. Fake made up items completely undermine the point’s credibility, and science spending in the U.S. provides a return on investment, it’s not losing money. That is pure political propaganda and not
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by dahart 2mo ago
Are you not aware that science research has a positive return on investment to the economy? Consider reviewing https://www.goldengooseaward.org/ Making fun of science that politicians, wanna be politicians, and conservative
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by dahart 2mo ago
> Is he like one of those “experts know he’s a big deal in his niche but non-experts never heard about him” kind of guys? Depends on what you mean. Is Bezier famous enough, or are we talking Stephen Hawking or Billie Eilish famous? Only
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by dahart 2mo ago
> In my dream world, the robots do all the boring jobs and humans spend all their time being creative, connecting with one another, learning about the universe, and sharing our ideas and creations in a great big prosperous circle. Bertra
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by dahart 2mo ago
Turing Complete was super fun and is amazing. It felt like a years worth of computer engineering class packed into a week’s worth of well designed gameplay. IIRC someone built a working 32 bit RISC-V CPU with it. (Maybe this one? https:&#x
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by dahart 2mo ago
Works for me without issues. Unless it was edited, I assume the Steam Store is pretty unlikely to have expired or invalid certs.
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by dahart 2mo ago
Out of curiosity, why’s that? I don’t know formal methods nor the relationship to python.

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