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by earleybird 3y ago
I like that analogy. I have one of those slicers and every time I use it I have two thoughts. First, this slices so quick and evenly. Second, there's a whole lot more I have to clean up compared to the knife.
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by earleybird 3y ago
Weights are data in the same way that instruction codes in memory is data.
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by earleybird 3y ago
And then there's New Yankee Workshop "and now let's go over to the xyz machine for <next-step>".
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by earleybird 3y ago
Also absent: Smoot's[0] :-) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
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by earleybird 3y ago
There are no ethical businesses. A lawn mower can give you a nicely manicured lawn or a trip to the ER. The lawn mower doesn't care.
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by earleybird 3y ago
In IT, when ever I hear the phrase "we don't have the luxury of planning" I know with a high probability that the project will fail.
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by earleybird 3y ago
Then someone discovers you can add a reed. Et voila, the woodwind section appears :-) Alternate ending: "suddenly jazz appears"
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by earleybird 3y ago
Was that a Minecraft reference?
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by earleybird 3y ago
anecdata - E/Rs in my locale are 6 to 8 hour waits with total time spent with triage/nurse/physician totalling maybe 15 minutes (20 if they decide you need an x-ray). Since the queue seems to vary very little it just seems w
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by earleybird 3y ago
Not for the folks north of you. I'd be happy with a form & a pencil but for the past year plus I've been told by the less than helpful dr office assistant to "Go to our website and make your appointment" which then
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by earleybird 4y ago
Parrots parrot parrots?
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by earleybird 4y ago
Until you find the devs take on why the SQL query is slow is a hallucination in the LLM sense.
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by earleybird 4y ago
And throwing snakes; not a reserve currency but apparently a useful talent.
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by earleybird 4y ago
+1 for CUPS/docker. I've been running a Brother 1018 (circa 2012) off a Raspberry PI 3 over the home network so everyone in the house can use it. It just keeps on ticking with the odd toner cartridge change.
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by earleybird 4y ago
Is there a connection to https://htmx.org/ ?
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by earleybird 4y ago
To add to sci-fi examples, Surrogates https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/
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by earleybird 4y ago
Absolutely this. 3-4x? Sibling of mine just had a minisplit installed where the unit was probably $4-$5k and the total was north of $24k. A sealed water loop where any plumber and most DIYers could manage would be miles ahead in both relia
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by earleybird 4y ago
Personal experience, once received a notification from CRA to the effect: "6 months ago we refunded you incorrectly, you owe us, oh by the way we're also charging you a penalty for our mistake.". The amount was not inconsequ
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by earleybird 4y ago
Upvote for the chuckle while reading. Yes, we can very much have a blind spot from using whatever our current toolset is.
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by earleybird 4y ago
We need your help.
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by earleybird 4y ago
For context, a gallon of gas carries about 33.4 Kwh, a Cessna 172 has a fuel capacity of 56 gallons. Topped up at take-off it's carrying the equivalent of 1.87 Mwh. That will take you about 1,200 km. I expect short range electric com
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by earleybird 4y ago
Also Okotoks Alberta[0]; Drake Landing Solar Community [0] https://www.dlsc.ca/
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by earleybird 4y ago
My all time favourite[0] I recall getting a recall notice from GM that included "until repaired, remove key from keychain". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch...
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by earleybird 4y ago
Ah yes, imprecision in specification. Having worked with some Avalanche folks, they would speak of weather observations and weather forecasts. One of the interesting things about natural language is that we can be imprecise until it matte
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by earleybird 4y ago
Great, now I have to read a bots meeting notes to confirm "that's what I meant".
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by earleybird 4y ago
I expect it is analogous to scannerless parsing - there's still a scanner, it just recognizes individual characters. It may be more about where you draw the line and how important it is to your understanding (or ability to convey the
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by earleybird 4y ago
I believe it has an analogue with Heinlein's "there are two kinds of jokes; funny always and funny one time". Subsequent uses are a bit cringe in the same way that a subsequent telling of a funny-one-time joke is.
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by earleybird 4y ago
In my locale, trades like plumbing (including gas & hvac), drywall, roofing etc range from 1 to 1.5 what contract developers from NTT, IBM et al are billed at. In absolute terms - 110 - 140 for contract devs and trades are often "
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by earleybird 4y ago
You must be thinking of OnStar :-)
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by earleybird 4y ago
For comparison, a gallon of propane is equivalent to 27Kwh[0] so that 20 lb cylinder contains about 124 Kwh equivalent. Now that's not something I'd keep inside the house but it's not too far away. [0] https://www

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