el_nahual

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by el_nahual 2y ago
Given that (with regard to greenhouse gasses) we've a) unlocked positive feedback emission loops from tropical & arctic methane and b) still pumping increasing amounts of carbon into the air, it's clear to anyone paying attent
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by el_nahual 2y ago
London is further north than Winnipeg.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
As long as you can sanitize the LLM output somehow. You should never `eval` LLM code straight from the tap!
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by el_nahual 3y ago
I drove down to Carbondale, IL last eclipse from Chicago, usually a 5 hour drive. It took 8. Not too bad! Pulled over in some country rode with a patch of clear sky. It doesn't really matter where you are: the show is up there. The mo
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by el_nahual 3y ago
I don't know about the game theory of the whole thing. If a group does want to murder a whistleblower, they presumably want to do it for two reasons: - To prevent them from testifying further - To scare other potential whistleblowers
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by el_nahual 3y ago
The problem with having business logic in the DB is not a performance problem, it's a maintainability, testing, and documentation problem.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
> Finally they seat me and remind me I only have the table 90 minutes. As someone that lives in Mexico City where dinners (and lunches!) easily last 3, 4 or even 5 hours this sounds horrifically demeaning.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Can you elaborate on which part exactly doesn't make any sense? The idea that one could rent wholesale then sublet retail (with a few value add goodies, printing, coffee, etc sprinkled in) is not "obviously" dumb to me.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
I enjoy the veritasium youtube channel but it's important to remember that videos like this are enabled by the military as recruiting and propaganda aids. The same is true of channels like Smarter Every Day when they partner with the c
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Internet-shorthand for The Featured* Article--the webpage/blog post/etc being linked. Sort of like OP, GP, etc.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
I'm a big Elixir fan, but unfortunately Phoenix is starting to suffer from an overuse of LiveView. LiveView is great, but it's sort of becoming the default way to render everything --even static pages! TFA is a good example of th
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by el_nahual 3y ago
By definition, spending on something that is consumable (like a rocket launch) is not a capital expenditure. A capital expenditure is when you buy something whose value slowly decreases with time. If a factory buys a building for $10MM, it
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by el_nahual 3y ago
I haven't read the transcript of this conversation in a long time, but thank you for sharing it. The sophistry of his argument is extreme. Yes, of course there are always "unknown unknowns"-- but the statement "there is
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by el_nahual 3y ago
It should go without saying that the 5 million Palestinians living in (Israel+Palestine), who make up 30% of the combined population, did not live in a democracy even before these changes.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Too late to edit this comment, but as evidence: at time of writing this, the top comment has a very thoughtful reply by...Jose Valim (creator of the language).
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by el_nahual 3y ago
The community is small, but that means that a reasonable question on elixirforums (not a stateless discord/slack, pun intended) has a good chance of: 1. receiving an answer from a core contributor (valim, McCord, etc) 2. Having the ans
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by el_nahual 3y ago
> To paraphrase Richard Pryor, I support anyone trying to do anything at anytime. What's the actual source quote here? Your paraphrase is excellent in and of itself.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
> To me, it’s clear that designing systems is the way to maximum ongoing profit This is a huge claim. If true, then the way to profitably find your way upward is similar to what the linked article itself is doing: Write about it, in a cr
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by el_nahual 3y ago
I wish we had a monospaced version of Comic Neue[0], which is a really nice font! [0]: https://comicneue.com/
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by el_nahual 3y ago
The cynical(?) explanation is that it is precisely because of the dismantling of standardized testing that getting rid of legacy admissions tenable...because it means schools can still proxy for class in admissions decisions (except vei
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Hijacking your thread a bit, but I have to give you feedback on your landing page copy. I don't understand what you sell! I thought you were an app for people that care about their social media reach (like, twitter tech influencers). F
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Do those campaigns increase or decrease engagement? My gut is that LLM use will decrease social media demand.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
People keep saying this is commoditize your complement but that's not what this is! Goods A and B are economic complements if, when the price of A goes down, demand for B goes up. LLMs are not complements to social media platforms. T
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Surfactants are just soap, and their mechanism of action is mechanical : they will physically remove a membrane, or clog a pore, or whatever. This is in contrast to insecticides, whose mechanism of action is toxological : they can act on
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by el_nahual 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember playing games with chiptunes, but young enough to not have known what a tracker was. This YouTube video (from the amazing Ahoy channel) is an incredible, in-depth overview of trackers, their sound and history
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Do you really only use one warmup weight when lifting heavy? Let's say I'm squatting 325lb / 140kg. I'll usually do 5/reps empty bar, 5 reps 135lb, 5 reps 225, 5 reps 275, then 3-5 "working" sets of 325 (3
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by el_nahual 3y ago
> The only exception might be a mortgage of 25-33% of a house value, I'd put 75-66% in cash. Can you explain your rationality for this? You're still allowing the bank to have senior ownership of your house except... for less mo
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by el_nahual 3y ago
This isn't the dunk you think it is since GP is a human (I presume), and he thought the solution worked.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Legacy status is different from race. I propose the following thought experiment as comparison. "I need to see a cardiologist, but there's a long waiting list. Fortunately, my dad is a cardiologist so he saw me immediately."
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by el_nahual 3y ago
It's actually right there in the name: Cascading Style Sheets. Css was never meant to be a style language (if by language we understand "a syntax with logical constructs"). It was simply meant go be the stylesheet for a g

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