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by divbzero 7d ago
“You would never sell anything to any of those people ever again.”
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by divbzero 9d ago
There are some in actual use though, for example this rotor ship that has docked at the Port of Vancouver: https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/what-is-this-strange-ship-...
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by divbzero 11d ago
The underlying classifier, BirdNET, is a traditional neural network and not an LLM: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101236
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by divbzero 11d ago
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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by divbzero 12d ago
fm = Foundation Models https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/334/
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LZ Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter(energy.gov)
2 points by divbzero 23d ago|0 comments
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Syria, eyeing role as Middle East hub, offers options to bypass Hormuz(washingtonpost.com)
25 points by divbzero 23d ago|8 comments
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by divbzero 25d ago
Quite an interesting selection committee: Neal Stephenson Gwern Branwen Matt Huang
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The Hugging Face attack surprised me(planned-obsolescence.org)
2 points by divbzero 27d ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 27d ago
This geographic puzzle feels like the modern day version of the Seven Bridges of Königsberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_Königsberg
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Trump's Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer(notus.org)
18 points by divbzero 29d ago|5 comments
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Centuries-old hunger stones are emerging as Europe's rivers recede(dw.com)
2 points by divbzero 1mo ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 1mo ago
It was a $1 million donation to Vanderbilt in April 2020 to support three COVID research projects, including one related to the Moderna vaccine: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
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by divbzero 1mo ago
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has been gifting free books to kids from birth to age 5 for over three decades: https://imaginationlibrary.com/
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by divbzero 1mo ago
It’s a matter of preference: Everything OP says about GUI development getting easier is also true about TUI development getting easier.
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code(wired.com)
29 points by divbzero 1mo ago|1 comments
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by divbzero 1mo ago
> What makes Github special is the ecosystem and integrations. Sentry, Linear, and so many other tools have special UX around Github. You need centralization (or at the very least, a standard) for that. I think “a standard” is the key
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by divbzero 1mo ago
You can set latitude and longitude after opening settings with the gear icon.
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by divbzero 1mo ago
> Nope, not unless you are in the center of a timezone! … and you do not live with daylight saving time.
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The U.S. military needs tungsten, but pristine NASA site may stand in the way(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by divbzero 2mo ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 2mo ago
Casino games are rarely zero house edge. Is there a way you signaled this feature to problem solvers? Did the game prove to be successful?
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by divbzero 2mo ago
Why not 30°? Is 14° as far as you can turn before the ends of icosahedron hit the top and bottom of the landscape sheet of paper?
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New airliner sets record flying 24 hrs nonstop from Australia to France(arstechnica.com)
18 points by divbzero 2mo ago|5 comments
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by divbzero 2mo ago
Pyrocumulonimbus [1] appears to be the most extreme version of pyrocumulus [2] which, coincidentally, was observed halfway around the world in Washington State this week [3]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonim
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The Galaxy Card Is Samsung's Answer to the Apple Card(wired.com)
1 points by divbzero 2mo ago|0 comments
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How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues(smithsonianmag.com)
274 points by divbzero 2mo ago|222 comments
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Greece's Parthenon gets a facelift, revealing a look not seen for 220 years(apnews.com)
2 points by divbzero 3mo ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 3mo ago
I agree with the analysis of lead service lines, but serving static files is lot cheaper than replacing underground pipes—so much cheaper that I think it’s qualitatively different.
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by divbzero 3mo ago
A balanced answer that’s often true these days is: you’ve found that LLMs are impressively useful in some cases but fall dramatically short in others.
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by divbzero 4mo ago
I totally missed the memo that Homebrew has supported Linux since 2019. https://brew.sh/2019/02/02/homebrew-2.0.0/

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