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by dan_mctree 4y ago
>Yes, you could write some hand made program. And piping software together IS a kind of hand made program. It's just going to be far faster to write that pipeline, than to write a custom program, deploy, and run it. I suppose the sp
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
As a lifelong windows dev, what exactly makes linux worth moving to? I understand that coming from a linux world, doing what you like doing in linux isn't always possible on windows. But I've never really found a use for any of th
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
That's great for those already there. For those of us still partially stuck on .Net Framework it is anything but trivial. And sure, upgrading from .Net 5 to 6 was trivial, but do you really anticipate it will now finally remain stable
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Our sight is light detection compressed into human thought Written language is human thought compressed into words Digital images are light detection compressed into bits Text to images AI compress digital images into written language Then
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
>I agree. It's like when MS tell everyone just to "upgrade to dotnet 6" or 7 or whatever! The amount of global manhours MS is throwing down the drain by constantly ending support for their versions must be absolutely stagg
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Trying to build a computer algebra system. Basically like a small version of Wolfram Alpha, but customized and accessible by my own code so I can use it for whatever I want in the way I like to. It's starting to get cool enough to be u
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
> but there is a huge amount of 20th - 21st century art that is jaw drop What would be some examples of that? Not disagreeing, would just like to have my jaw drop
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
They're talking about the image with the 4 versions of the call-divisions. They top right and bottom left there look identical to me too
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
It's likely that religions adopted sex aversion from common culture rather than the other way around. The Bible for example is much less puritan than what we associate with Christian culture (see song of songs). In contrast, things the
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
I spend significant time outside work on programming, and have no real usable public repos. The public repo route only works if what you want to build is something that's shareable. I build random experimental image processing software
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Yes, and nowadays we associate bright colors more and more with ads screaming at us for attention. This makes these colors feel cheap and tasteless, you don't want to look like an ad
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
I've used it a bit to help with creativity. For example, I wanted to brainstorm some unit designs and gameplay mechanics for a RTS game I wanted to build. I prompted GPT-3 with an interview with a game designer where unit designs and m
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
I think there's two steps of weirdness. First, many of us see dx/dy not so much as a division of values, but as just some notation for a rate of change strongly linked of f(x). Handling that algebraically seems strange. The explan
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
If it's the maximum value and constant at all distances, wouldn't the strong force be dominated by all other objects everywhere else? Or does this force only apply to particles matched up together? If so, how does this matching oc
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Have you seen the Dall-E outputs? If anything they do better than the vast majority of artists in terms of originality. Sure there's probably some people out there who can do better, but no where near the amount of people employed in t
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
It's not like most people will know they might lose everything if they sign up with google. Most rightfully expect that google, like most other companies, has customer service. By the time they realize, they're too late We need to
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
>All they need to do is make their phone app a bit more usable and no one would need the kiosks. No, please. Assuming everyone can and will use apps is a terrible idea. Apps are terrible for accessibility - People who don't have pho
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
What do you think the reasons were?
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Overlaying them, it seems the JWST images have brighter galaxy edges and gas. This makes the galaxies look bigger, which in turn could make it appear as if the galaxies are closer together. Is that what you mean with 'progressed'?
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
It might not be a cool language, but I'm surprised not to see VB anywhere here. It's still used in plenty of places, why does it not show in job listings?
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by dan_mctree 5y ago
The amount of heat in the atmosphere at any point doesn't really matter all that much for global warming. What matters is the break-even point between the amount of energy we gain from and lose to space. Since the earth emits more ener
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by dan_mctree 5y ago
When I listen to the three sinewaves, two of which are supposed to feel more similar because they a factor two apart, I don't actually get any such similarity effect. They all seem just about equally similar to each other, even when pl
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by dan_mctree 5y ago
>but it's frankly confusing that you think this simply cannot happen to your perception of subjective awareness Because subjective awareness is not a perception, they're two entirely different kinds of of concepts. Equating the
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by dan_mctree 5y ago
"This means that as the dimension grows, the central sphere will grow in radius," Am I missing something? It to me that only r*D grows as we increase the dimension, not r by itself. Since we don't seem to get r > 2a for an
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by dan_mctree 5y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not an NFT owner Why do so many here seem to be so proud of their lack of understanding of the value of NFTs? If you have an NFT, you get to do things others cannot. That's the value right there. At the very least,
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by dan_mctree 5y ago
For some reason both Republican and Democrat politicians seem more economically right-wing and more corporatist than either of their bases. I wonder if that's a natural consequence of the giant part of the voter base that feels obligat
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by dan_mctree 5y ago
My employers don't follow any of these types of dark patterns and have been remarkably relaxed around how the time and effort I put in. Despite that, I'm still constantly in stress mode and demand of myself that I'm productiv
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by dan_mctree 5y ago
>I believe that fungus are the most important life-form in this planet by far. Would love to hear more about this!
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by dan_mctree 5y ago
> If you take a photo with a camera that automatically deletes it immediately, nobody cares. It's not the act of taking a photo that people care about, If people are jumping in front of me paparazzi-style, pushing, gaping, pointing,
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by dan_mctree 5y ago
Have you considered that density may drive demand?

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