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by derefr 2y ago
Rx actually stands for "recipe"! Which makes sense, if you remember that there used to not be such a thing as pre-compounded drugs. Rather, a prescription was literally a recipe a doctor would write out for you to give to your fri
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by derefr 2y ago
If anyone is wondering what the parent poster is talking about — the abbreviation PHICH (which isn't mentioned in the referenced project, but is just an example of a weird mobile-network acronym) expands to "Physical channel Hybri
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by derefr 2y ago
I have a feeling that mostly went away not because society got any more considerate, but rather because glasses became much more commonplace, due to the explosion in prevalence of nearsightedness.
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by derefr 2y ago
Remember that extradition treaties exist. Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, is a New Zealand citizen who has never lived in the United States, who was nevertheless pursued by the United States for breaking US copyright law (through a
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by derefr 2y ago
It very likely will be, yes. I would personally suggest that this site probably "wants" accounts. Yes, with CAPTCHAs (on registration.) If you want to be able to ban people who abuse your service, you'll need some thing-tha
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by derefr 2y ago
I like it, but this could do with being just the slightest bit more specific: > Don't break the law, don't post illegal shit, don't be an asshole. The law in which country? All countries? Do I have to avoid uploading dep
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by derefr 2y ago
Question: is storing full new row-tuple versions something fundamental to Postgres as a whole, or is it just a property of the default storage engine / “table access method”?
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by derefr 2y ago
I would love to see a deep dive on what features / architectural paradigms the Golang runtime shares with Plan9. Has anything like that been written? One that always sticks out to me personally is the use in Go of the term "dial&q
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by derefr 2y ago
One not-oft-mentioned thing melatonin seems to do (at least in my own experience) is that it cancels out the effects of earlier-consumed caffeine in preventing sleep. So if you're overtired and awake only because of caffeine, melaton
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by derefr 2y ago
> is not one of the top 5 used features in Photoshop I mean, is there any Photoshop feature that’s come to dominate people’s workflows so quickly? People (e.g. photographers) who use Photoshop “in anger” for professional use-cases, and w
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by derefr 2y ago
Taking a flight as an opportunity to indulge in a moment of blissful idleness is great... on a three-hour flight. But on a 14-hour trans-continental flight, you've gotta have something to do. If nothing else, to distract you from how
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by derefr 2y ago
In order to actually catch a cheater mid-match rather than long after the match is already over, you'd need the servers that players are interacting through to have enough CPU grunt-force to do that kind of analysis "faster than r
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by derefr 2y ago
You're talking about intentionally-created bureaucracies. I don't think very many of these exist! The majority of the time, bureaucracies aren't prescriptive , a structure imposed; but rather, they're descriptive — th
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by derefr 2y ago
> If they swam there, no. Invasive species have to be introduced by humans, by definition! So what do you call it if humans introduce a species to an island A that's really close to another island B — and then the species happens
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by derefr 2y ago
The article's implicit conceit is that a bureaucracy is just an attempt to abstract away what is in actuality a bunch of distinct self-interested obstructionist fiefdoms — that each do all they can to prevent the organization from 1.
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by derefr 2y ago
Not even filters; every text2image model ever created thusfar, can be very easily nudged with a few keywords into generating outputs in a specific visual style (e.g. artwork matching the signature style of any artist it has seen the some
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> Most probably they employ overseas, underpaid workers with non-standard English accents and so they include text-to-speach in the production process to smoothen the end result. Might also be an AI voice-changer (i.e. speech2speech) mod
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> came across several very senior engineers who insisted on writing code with factories and builders and obscure design patterns which made no sense to me. In a large-enough Java codebase, with good software engineering being done, you
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by derefr 2y ago
This honestly sounds like a problem I would expect to be solved by white-labelled AliExpress junk products, whose manufacturers can just ignore the licensing issues entirely, because they’re able to hide their IP violations behind reselli
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LLMs are always going to generate output (prose or code) in the same style as the training data. The Java training data corpus is both bloated/Enterprise-y, and mostly written by junior engineers or even students (because there are so
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by derefr 2y ago
What I'm talking about here is the fact that you need a longer + multi-shot prompt to get a dumber model to do the same thing a smarter model will do with a shorter + zero-shot prompt. Pretend for a moment that Transformers don't
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by derefr 2y ago
I mean, a blockchain does have to be a blockchain to be a "distributed, permissionless, uncensorable, indefinitely-durable ledger." Blockchains are at a local optimum in their own design space. They're the Pareto-optimal fo
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by derefr 2y ago
Big models take up more VRAM just to have the weights sitting around hot in memory, yes. But running two concurrent inferences on the same hot model, doesn't require that you have two full copies of the model in memory. You only ne
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For some reason, there is no current software implementation of a "globally consensus-replicated, peer-to-peer, append-only, signed-message log store, with Turing-complete programmable matviews that pump by reducing over the store&#x27
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by derefr 2y ago
Yes, and the point where that became enforced, was pretty much the point where casinos in the US were sold off from the gangs that generally owned them up to that point, to “entertainment tycoons” who turned them into the “arcades for adult
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A casino isn't a "knowing participant" to any specific crime — no criminal comes up to them and makes a deal to launder money through the casino. But casinos (for example) have a tacit agreement with the "criminal in
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It’s a cache; it was going to expire after a TTL anyway.
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by derefr 2y ago
Interesting, but not surprising — DNA, and the cellular nucleus itself, aren't truly required to make our cells "go". (At least over the span of a few days.) That is, after all, what radiation poisoning is: a complete des
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Even if they did, they still might have ended up catching and eating the bacterium right at your fingertip. (Heck, that's not even an edge-case — fingertips and other extremeties served by the tiniest of bloodflow channels, get wounded
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When I say "blood cells", I mean "all blood cells", not specifically "red blood cells." Anywhere your blood plasma flows, all types of blood cells are carried along with it. As such, to prevent infarction, ev

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