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by duskwuff 1y ago
It's not a hypothetical situation; I know people with chronic mental health conditions who find this usage of the word "sane" specifically hurtful. It's avoidable; use "reasonable" as an adjective and a phrase
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Oh, that's fun. It's even got a ghost ramp - I wonder what the original plan was there.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
No. Any type of metal wire would break under its own weight. What you're describing is essentially a space elevator. Interestingly, such a system wouldn't actually end at geostationary orbit - its center of mass needs to be in g
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by duskwuff 1y ago
A substantial amount of "nuclear waste" nowadays is low-level waste - things like old radium-dial clocks, or contaminated protective clothing from nuclear power plants, or medical waste from radiotherapy patients. The overall conc
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It's actually supported in all major browsers now, too: https://caniuse.com/apng And even in software which don't support APNG, it'll render as the first frame of the animation, which is probably a fine fallb
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I guess the author has Opinions on the tabs-versus-spaces debate. :)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Apple switched to LF line breaks in 2001 with the release of Mac OS X. Nothing uses bare CR anymore.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Character case is a locale-dependent mess; trying to represent it in the values of code points (which need to be universal) is a terrible idea. For example: in English, U+0049 and U+0069 ("I" and "i") are considered an u
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Similarly, a grave accent is sometimes used in poetry to indicate that a single vowel is voiced - e.g. in "cursèd" to indicate that the word should be pronounced as two syllables "curse-ed", rather than a single syllable
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by duskwuff 1y ago
1) Adding offsets to multi-byte sequences breaks compatibility with existing UTF-8 text, while generating text which can be decoded (incorrectly) as UTF-8. That seems like a non-starter. The alleged benefit of "eliminating overlength e
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by duskwuff 1y ago
And those that don't are often subject to outbreaks of preventable disease: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1602295
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by duskwuff 1y ago
That's less helpful than you might imagine - gzip isn't seekable by default; if all you know is the seek point, you still have to decompress everything up to that point to start decompressing from there. And if you have to do that
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by duskwuff 1y ago
That's not even the worst of it, either. Viruses evolve faster than birds; allowing the disease to spread unchecked is likely to result in more virulent strains emerging. This could potentially include strains which can infect other sp
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Unfortunately it's not exposed in the UI, but: defaults write com.apple.Finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool true
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Catheterization is the mode of access to the heart, not the entire procedure. Stenting is one procedure that can be carried out that way, but there are other procedures which can be performed that way as well, such as imaging, cardiac ablat
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Maybe I'm just jaded and demanding, but: 1) As others mentioned, two GbE interfaces seems really limited for a 2025 project. Modern FPGAs can support 100GbE and up - I don't necessarily expect that on a hobbyist-level project, of
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I'm reminded of the infamous vending machine benchmark: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840 in which some LLMs simply failed to manage the basic task of keeping a vending machine stocked with products to sell, and so
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> And the world is the same every time. The overall layout (e.g. the progression of zones) and some set pieces are fixed, but the details are randomized. Fun fact: the overall layout is configured by a PNG file, with the color of each pi
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> The challenge with benchmarking text adventures I'd argue that another major challenge is that many of the popular text adventures are described in copious detail by many online sources. A language model "playing" Adven
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Yes, many people have tried this. The inherent deference of the language models makes them ineffective DMs - they're unable to effectively enforce rules or create meaningful challenges for the player. Even if that were somehow avoided,
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Not just that - the idea is to give students a taste of what it's like to make things with their hands. 3D printing is cool too, but it's much less hands-on.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> I suspect these devices will never go beyond 14 days at a time simply because of the glue issue. The sensor chemically wears out over time too - the time limit is based on how long the manufacturer can guarantee good readings for.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Best we can do is an overpriced SBC in a decorative case running VICE. (/s)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> I didn't have access to a JTAG probe at the time (I'm not even sure the Raspberry Pi could be debugged that way) The BCM2835-based ones can - I don't know about the modern ones - but you have to change the configuration
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I'm using language like "the model may identify itself as such-and-such" as a convenient shorthand for "text generated using the model may include language which describes the speaker as such-and-such"; it's no
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> They may have been told it isn't a thinking, conscious thing -- but they don't understand it. And, in some situations, especially if the user has previously addressed the model as a person, the model will generate responses
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> why is it you can talk endlessly with ChatGPT models (specifically I'm referring to the configuration of the models and the application) about a dangerous delusion but not chemical weapons?? Because only one of these things can be
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by duskwuff 1y ago
That's not a great analogy. A person is expected to use their discretion, and can be held legally liable for their actions. A machine is not, and cannot. > Then what if their memory is so good, they repeat entire sections verbatim w
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by duskwuff 1y ago
That's called a "catchword", and it's common in many older texts (not just in Spanish). It serves two purposes - it makes it easier for a person reading the book aloud to read smoothly while turning a page, and it makes
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Same. If I invented a novel new way of encoding video and used it to pack a bunch of movies into a single file, I would fully expect to be sued if I tried distributing that file, and equally so if I let people use a web site that let them e

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