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by dmd 11mo ago
By search, since it's trivial to find any 8 digit string in the already-known digits of pi - in fact all 100 million combinations appear within the first ~2 billion digits.
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Gemini Agents(gemini.google)
2 points by dmd 11mo ago|0 comments
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by dmd 11mo ago
If a 12 month old can’t support its head that’s a big problem. That’s a 4-6 month milestone. 12 months is starting to walk.
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by dmd 11mo ago
Why wonder, when you could read the paper, a very large part of which specifically is about this very thing?
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by dmd 11mo ago
Very cool. Reminds me of things like the Blipbox myTRACKS and the CHOMPI.
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by dmd 11mo ago
Many (most, in the US; don't know about Sweden or Australia) institutions don't draw a distinction between the two and award MA regardless.
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by dmd 11mo ago
Is this the photo? https://navajotimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/dq-no-wif...
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by dmd 11mo ago
I'd really like to be able to sync my tweeks between the various computers I have Chrome on.
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by dmd 11mo ago
Or like Apollo 8 in the incredibly funny book Unsong.
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by dmd 11mo ago
> not one person stopped to pick any up. Isn't that the old joke about the economist?
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by dmd 11mo ago
You do know who would be the first person to rotate in, don't you.
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by dmd 11mo ago
Good for you. 9999 out of 10,000 people don't know what a "gmail web UI" is, or even that there's something called email that is separate from the gmail web interface.
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by dmd 11mo ago
That's just it though. You're safer strapped into a seat, doing nothing, than you are doing whatever it is you do at home. Would you be safer in your living room doing nothing, strapped to a seat, never doing anything remotely haz
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by dmd 11mo ago
Given an hour spent flying in a commercial US-flagged airliner or an hour spent in your living room, and you're (far) more likely to get hurt or die in your living room.
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by dmd 11mo ago
> Every time I board a plane, I think what a crazy thing I am doing, but then I remember that I could be safe and snug in my house To be fair, statistically, your living room is far more dangerous than the cabin of an airplane.
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by dmd 11mo ago
Please don't do this. You wouldn't shit in public. This is the same.
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by dmd 11mo ago
Clicking a link to launch an external web browser: no Viewing a webview inside the app itself: yes
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by dmd 11mo ago
well iTerm2 now has a #&*%( web browser built in...
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by dmd 1y ago
I used it to have transcribed our 2 kids x 5 years of daycare x 180 days a year worth of extensive wonderful daily reports from daycare.
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by dmd 1y ago
Same. I use this all the time, have for decades. Had no idea other people didn’t.
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by dmd 1y ago
Blue Highways was much better, IMO.
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by dmd 1y ago
You are describing a form of the XY problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
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by dmd 1y ago
They gotta have a computer too. And a source of power.
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by dmd 1y ago
This post would be a lot better if all the images weren't broken.
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by dmd 1y ago
> It's hard to imagine any country volunteering to wound its own economy so severely. Yeah, imagine shutting down all the basic research that has driven the economy for the last 75 years, in a matter of months. Crazy. Nobody would d
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by dmd 1y ago
I (1997, upstate NY) didn't even do that much. I got in the car with the instructor, we drove around the block once. I ran the stop sign because a truck was parked in front of it. The instructor didn't notice (I only noticed later
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by dmd 1y ago
I have photos showing that my dad (born 1949, never in the military) kept his watch on UTC in the early 70s.
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by dmd 1y ago
RDP/VNC don’t work when the computer is off. Or the computer’s network card is down.
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by dmd 1y ago
I’m just amazed there isn’t a nearly impenetrable Greg Egan book based on them.
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by dmd 1y ago
To that end, we should all have a cop assigned to us. One cop per citizen, with a gun pointed at our head at all times. Imagine a scenario happens where someone does something and that cop wasn't there? Better to be safe.

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