dumpsterlid

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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Well, it depends.. are you talking about significantly mitigating harmful uses of stable diffusion or completely stopping them? The latter... of course it isnt going to happen but there are plenty of practical things that can be done to mit
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Well yes, the pitch of any violin note except an open string is set by where the finger is placed. However, being perfectly in tune is also a big red herring kind of thing. People, especially people who like seeing math in music, get obsess
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
GW = 1000000 kW This article I found randomly (so I would only roughly consider this ballpark right) stated natural gas construction cost $812 per kW https://proest.com/construction/cost-estimates/power-plants&#x2F
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I mean the Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondance is that lambda calculus, proofs/logic and category theory are all just different ways of talking about the same thing for the most part
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Exactly when I see a pickup drive by that that is dented or scratched up and has a bunch of shit in the back... ya know is a vehicle that has been used for stuff a truck makes sense for and I think that is great. (These trucks are usually s
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Yah but even then, I suspect a 4x4 suv would be better suited than a pickup for that... its just people use absolute incredible shit tier beater trucks for plowing similar to how people use shit tier cars to deliver pizzas. I dont think its
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"Rust, failed fasteners, etc has to bias that crash to make it even worse for the old car." Did you see that bel air in the video? It is in beautiful condition as far as I can tell. Besides, things like rust would make the car cru
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Yah but that is a bit of an extreme situation, you can't blame an intelligent sentient being that needs stimulation and freedom from turning murderous after it was abducted from its family in the wild and caged up in a tiny pool for an
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Yah I would love someone to convince me this isn't like touchscreen interfaces becoming prevalent in cars over physical control surfaces. It is sold as technological advancement that is good for everyone but in reality it is just corpo
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Time spent designing a tool is time spent not using the tool to make art and honestly the types of brains that are good at designing art tools... often have very formulaic and structurally rigid ways of thinking about creating art (they ten
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Photography didn't replace drawing and painting. Also if you are doing something interesting with digital photography it is definitely not just pressing a button.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I would argue the minivan is the most comically underloved vehicle in the US given how perfectly it fulfills what people want from their vehicle. There is little reason to buy a ute style vehicle over a minivan in my opinion. I had to buy a
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"Even for people in the car, some older car designs put the drivers legs under the engine block. In a head on collision at speed, the legs were the crumple zone (meanwhile the steering column was being pushed through your torso)."
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Pickups are actually one of the worst vehicles imaginable in the snow. You have to throw a lot of weight in the rear to get traction, the wheelbase is long so that spinning out of control is far more likely and terrifying, trucks are super
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I would say crocs and pickup trucks are opposite. Many many people hate crocs and how they look but they are in many regards actually an extremely practical shoe for most peoples' day to day life. The opposite is true for trucks.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Sort of comfortably, for how big trucks are they barely provide adequate passenger space.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"The most resilient people I know came from rough-and-tumble upbringings like you describe." This is such a casually violent thing to say. You know why the most resilient people you know came from rough-and-tumble upbringings? Bec
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Look, I am sure your life was very hard, it sounds like you worked your ass off... but things can get much worse. Also you could have health complications or get hit by a car getting to work one day and have everything come crashing apart a
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I used "lol" twice in very close proximity, I am sorry.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Honestly people wanting to make a hobby project from scratch and then brag about it in a blog post to make themselves look like a more savy programmer/techie (hey, not blaming people, when it is done well it is way better than a resume
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I like orgzly but in my opinion orgro is even better. I think a critical point of usability with mobile has been met with org mode.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Yeah you are gonna need to cite your sources on way more cops = increased public safety. Further you are going to need to prove that the astronomical amount of money spent on police departments wouldn't better reduce crime if spent on
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Also lets not forget that the NYC metro moves more people daily than the entire air travel network in the US does. It moves an incredible amount of humans at a scale that cars and airplanes just can't even begin to approach in a millio
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I am so bored of people repeating the "but... trains will never work for rancher joe out in North Dakota! The US is too big for mass transit and trains". Yes there are very empty places in the US, turns out though that the vast ma
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"Public transport being bad and crime filled, is not the fault of public transport. Its a symptom of systematic failure to do even the most basic city planning, in fact maybe the historically worst example of city planning I can imagin
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"They are now used extensively by homeless for a variety of activities." Good, everytime a homeless person uses a public bathroom it is a net savings on health, safety and environmental impact because many of those people are deni
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"The 'US social safety net' has little to do with this - violent, opportunistic thugs use public transport to bring huge quantities of drugs into SF every day using BART, while terrorizing passengers largely with impunity. Th
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"Public transit is a reflection of the society in which it's located" Exactly which is why shitting on public transit for revealing the flaws of the society it is in instead of having a conversation about those flaws and the
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I would probably point to the fact that younger (and unlucky older people) are getting crushed under the boot of the ultrarich of the world and the falling power of the working class has reached a critical point where the rich are just pull
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
To be fair the NIMBY cruelty of it all must really kind of sneak up on you when all you do is watch CNN or something for news

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