daniel-thompson

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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
I tend to agree with Randall Munroe on this: > You'll never find a programming language that frees you from the burden of clarifying your ideas. ( https://xkcd.com/568/ )
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
For someone only tangentially familiar with this space, how is this different than e.g. https://github.com/nerdyrodent/VQGAN-CLIP which you can also run at home? Is it the quality of the generated images?
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
The PyTorch M1 GPU backend is a WIP, see the ops coverage list at https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/77764
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> Conveniently, he cannot stand trial in France, which has also called for his arrest based on their own investigations, because he chose to become an international fugitive in Lebanon. (Without getting into value judgments about the mer
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
https://archive.ph/DnP1T
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
It uses a multichannel ambient light sensor, which is not a camera. https://www.ifixit.com/News/54122/macbook-pro-2021-teardown
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Textbook example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> The chief executive officer of Pearson Plc, one of the world’s largest textbook publishers, said he hopes technology like non-fungible tokens and the blockchain could help the company take a cut from secondhand sales of its materials a
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Sidenote: the author of Mitsuba is also a contributor to https://www.pbr-book.org/ , which is a great (graduate-level) introduction to this topic.
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
I think the parent is answering OP's question - which is about the _gunman_'s justification. The parent explaining behavior is not the same thing as the parent defending or justifying it.
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Moxie Marlinspike is a widely-respected security hacker and parent's comment is referring to this post of his -> https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> We will rescind a number of accepted offers. > [...] > And at the end of the day, I think you’ll be proud to have helped Coinbase navigate this next part of its journey. If my eyes could roll any further they would fall out the b
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Not exactly what you're asking, since C/C++ doesn't expose this functionality, but ISPC (a C-derived language that exposes a CUDA-like SPMD model over the vector lanes in your CPU) has some standard library functions to prefe
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> Compared to what? What does it even mean to say that? Compared to 0.
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
YMMV but it's worked for me.
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
A grey-hat method of dealing with this would be to dispute it with Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian and choose a plausible dispute reason ("I never knew about it" or whatever). Regardless of the merits of the claim, it's lik
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Great explanation, thanks!
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Not familiar at all with this codebase, but one thing to note is that it does make heavy use of the unsafe keyword^. https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/search?q=unsafe
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
This is the kind of question that makes me believe in the Great Filter¹. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Very interesting. The previously-released M87 image had just a single "shadow", but this one (of Sag A*) has multiple bright "lumps". Maybe it's in the linked papers which I haven't gotten to yet, but why the d
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> What Is the Cost of Attendance? > Probably less than you think. > ... > Total Cost of Attendance $82,760 How in the world can someone write this copy with a straight face?
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Can you elaborate on this.
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
> CEO Tim Cook called in-person collaboration benefits "irreplaceable" and in an email, the executive team talked about the importance of "the serendipity that comes from bumping into colleagues" during in-person work
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
With the font and colors it kinda looks like AOL Instant Messenger
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
It's been better written about elsewhere, but the fifth-gen 2021 M1 MBPs are a really good (if not timely) course correction from the fourth-gen (2016 - 2020) debacle. Solid keyboard, no useless touch bar, most all the ports back inclu
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by daniel-thompson 4y ago
Getting strong flashbacks to that West Wing episode 20 years ago^ where Albie Duncan touches on this: "'Free trade is essential for human rights'. The end of that sentence is, 'we hope... because nothing else has worked.
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
What the letter from Feynman to Wolfram^ actually said was: > You say you want to create your own environment - but you will not be doing that: you will create (perhaps!) an environment that you might like to work in - but you will not b
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
> how will Facebook grow? Probably by buying the next up and coming networks, just like they did with Instagram and Whatsapp.
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
Too late for your interview tonight, but talk to your doctor about beta blockers^ for situational anxiety. They dramatically reduce the physical symptoms of anxiety, are generally safe to use, and should be very cheap. https://en
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
Not listed here is the most important product Microsoft has made IMHO: Microsoft 3D Movie Maker^, which I and my buddies in junior high had a lot of fun with in the 90s. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Movie_Maker

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