distortedsignal

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   by distortedsignal 3y ago

   Interesting. I'll be watching this. Thanks for the project!
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   by distortedsignal 3y ago

   I agree broadly. I think this helps to narrow down what pricing for these types of expenses should be, though. If I'm trying to spend $1000 on a PC (the last time I built a PC was in 2013, can you tell?) and I don't have intimate
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   by distortedsignal 3y ago

   I don’t think this would be zero-loss diodes - it would probably superconduct in some x-axis while being non-superconducting in the y- and z-axis. Even then, it’s not clear to me what the conductivity is like in the non-superconducting axie
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   by distortedsignal 3y ago

   Instant Gratification by Dance Gavin Dance is one of my top albums of all time.
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   by distortedsignal 3y ago

   I would guess that it'll take a month or two to repro the procedure. The paper was uploaded in the last week, so we're still probably a few weeks out on peer review.
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   by distortedsignal 3y ago

   All of those elements are so common - this should be easy to test. We'll see.
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   by distortedsignal 3y ago

   I think this is the Ouroboros of curiosity - discovery, investigation, disappointment, amnesia. If it doesn't catch, we don't really remember it. This seems very human.
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   by distortedsignal 3y ago

   Sorry, I misunderstood.
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   by distortedsignal 3y ago

   Yeah - but that's a different problem. How many barbers are there in your city? How many taxi drivers? Now - how should Google satisfy all of those people? I'll confess that I don't have the answer here. But if you're tr
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    Help me out here - could you give me examples of "what laptops people consider the best" pages that <i>aren't</i> in the top of Google? I still don't understand, and I want to.
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    We've all had our denvercoder9 moment, for sure.
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    Yeah - I think that "commercialization and commodification" is kind of what I've attributed this to. I think the webring concept is probably the best way to get away from this, but it's not trivial to find those hidden g
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    I want to point out - if you get to the seventh page of Google, it's been known for some time that those results are... specious at best. Check out this xkcd from almost a decade ago: https://xkcd.com/1334/ https
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    Ok, I'll try that. Top results (excluding sponsors b/c UBlock Origin): PC Gamer The Verge Games Radar Youtube (channel: Jarrod's Tech) A giant ad showing some laptops to buy Youtube (channel: PC Builder) RTINGS.com PC Magazin
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    Tried this test three ways - from my wifi, on my phone's LTE connection, and via a VPN that my family uses, all in private windows to prevent Google using my local cache. All found my LinkedIn in the top 2 slots. It seems pretty stable
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    I'm not sure that I agree. My brother tried to set me up with a girl last week. She has a pretty uncommon name. Googled her. Found... a lot of stuff. I have a VERY common name. Think multiple (relatively) famous people (photographers,
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    I like to call "not being afraid to look dumb" "weaponizing my own stupidity." I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but if you aren't worried about looking like a dope from time-to-time, you can help the a
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    On my (2020 intel) MBP, SSD IO is VERY power hungry. Usually the culprit is Firefox, but my company is on the MS office suite, so sometimes it’s Outlook or Teams. It’s frustrating.
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    I’ll push back on this, at least in its current iteration. I just asked it to list some restaurants near my apartment (major intersection in San Jose) and it wasn’t particularly close. While there are several restaurants less than half a mi
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    Since Orb specifies a full rotation of the card during descent, how would the destructive play be ruled? I would imagine that there's some kind of group theory argument that if each individual piece of the card turns over, then the ent
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    You might be conflating two things. One is Chaos Orb, a card in the original Magic sets. https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multive... One is Chaos Confetti, a card in one of the Un- sets that yo
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    That's neat! Is there an arXiv link to the paper? It looks like the Nature link requires a subscription.
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    Delightful. Thank you!
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    I think these types of projects are super cool, and being someone who was BORN IN THE 1980s, I really like the Desktop Analogy. Is there somewhere that I can look at several of these web-based desktop environments at the same time? Is there
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    How do you know which conflict you're going to fight next? Each of these commanders may be better suited to a different conflict. The commander who is competent in one conflict may be a buffoon in a different conflict. Even winning bat
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    If I'm a lawyer, I hope that my opponent fabricates cases. Judges don't generally take kindly to that kind of thing, and that is only going to help my side. Aside from that, it seems pretty trivial to prove that the cases don&#x27
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    https://store.steampowered.com/valveindex
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    Chapel website: https://chapel-lang.org/ Looks like there's a workshop set up for tomorrow to help people get started with the language: https://chapel-lang.org/CHIUW2023.html
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    Chapel: Programming Language for Parallel Computing(youtube.com)

    4 points by distortedsignal 3y ago|2 comments
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    by distortedsignal 3y ago

    Shouldn't both of those be NaN? Does Erlang have a NaN?