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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
I'm not trying to be snobbish here, but what on earth is up with the formatting of this post? Plenty of people post here that aren't native English speakers, nothing wrong with that, but the grammar and spelling mistakes aren&#x27
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So much so that that one might suspect Hyperloop was almost entirely "borrowed" from this idea, which is probably what OP meant to suggest. To be fair, the description of Planetran does note that the boring itself is the unusually
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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
I only program as a hobby, but the math issues have certainly never caused problems there, which I've always been a little amused by, since everyone seems to assume amazing math is needed for programming. I DO comment the living hell o
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I've considered dyscalculia in the past, but it seems to be more a fundamental inability to understand numbers at all. That article even directly lists having trouble with math CONCEPTS, and basic things like which of two numbers is bi
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Exact same thing here. I'm actually having a moment realizing this is more common than I thought. Everyone always acted like it was the easiest thing in the world (even the ones that hated math) and that I must have brain damage or som
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It's both relieving and stunning how accurate this is to my own experience. I did TERRIBLE in high school (and college) math, almost entirely because I would constantly make little mistakes in the basic arithmetic. The broader concepts
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>Although this power could be used for good, it’s scary to think of what could happen if the “bad guys” develop or control such platforms. It wouldn’t just be a yearly 1 hour knowledge drip, but instead a firehose of propaganda. I have b
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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
Unfortunately there seem to be a LOT of people that think this way. "Now that these companies are so powerful, they can use all that power to benefit humanity! You're not like the Dark Lord Mr. Frodo, you can use the Ring's p
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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
Not only does this technically deliver on its main claimed feature, it seems to go pleasantly beyond that: A bunch of different pre-programmed movements, what seems like manual control, and even motorization of the wheels (though that might
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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
I Don't Care About Cookies ( https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ ) was on here a while back. Comes as an extension, or simply a filter list for uBlock if you prefer. Note that this assumes you just wanted an automa
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Your sites are better at being tools ordinary human beings can use to their own benefit. They are (probably) terrible at generating money via ad revenue and tricking people into buying subscriptions that are then nearly impossible to cancel
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Nothing has "failed" on a technical level. I'm sure if a company hired a bunch of highly experienced devs and said "build us the fastest, most user-friendly site ever, everything else is secondary!" you'd get a
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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
I hate the term, but for lack of a better word this reeks of consumer gaslighting. From the secondary article linked in the main one: "Cloud streaming first became available last September with an initial launch slate of more than 170
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Mostly agree. I will concede boot time is a bit slow on 10 for me, but still faster than 95 was, and yes, it doesn't matter much because of the incredible uptime. 95 would often crash multiple times PER DAY. Meanwhile I just had my Win
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Bethesda's games got less and less "immersive" and impressive in terms of gameplay over time, both because of watering down to reach a broader audience and, likely, because of some complacency due to their success. Even so, e
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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
This is well said, and accurately describes the real problem with 2077. It's not the bugs, it's that a game with revolutionary scope was promised, and the game that was delivered didn't even have typical, average scope. Also,
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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
Bit at the end is interesting. Not only are those coherent, but they actually work well in the specific story context given and are a bit funny. This seems to be yet another case of GPT quality varying wildly depending on whether or not you
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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
This is what I was thinking reading this. I've never used social media, smart phone or otherwise. But I DO really like my cheap, incredibly outdated smart phone for the simple things it provides: a camera whenever I need it that's
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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
You too eh? Over the past decade I've gone from loving reddit to actively avoiding it in most cases, but if I'm looking for specific info on a niche topic, adding "reddit" to a search is often the only way I can get real
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This makes sense, and even as I was writing the initial comment I realized suggesting GPT was a bit lazy/imprecise, but it gets the general idea across quickly, and GPT HAS been remarkable good at things other than just completing stor
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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
Interesting. Now that you mention it, I do seem to vaguely remember an article in the past year or two talking about just how automated some naval ships were getting. This also is a good reminder of the military's relationship to tech
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What puzzles me is that as of yet, there doesn't seem to be any talk of using "AI" (ie Neural Net stuff) for planning and strategy, which seems like a MUCH more powerful application than this stuff. Sure, it can learn how to
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The GUI is shockingly competent for a 1.0 crypto client. Everything is clear and easy to find. No lag. And it looks pretty to boot. This feels like a product made by people who may have actually known what they were doing. That said, well
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I remember hearing Cohen was working on a crypto ages ago and filed away in the "Neat, wake me up when it's actually real" category. Now it looks like it's actually real. I'm massively jaded about any and all crypto
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Not even a cutscene in a lot of cases: just the standard text on black background like you'd see in a movie (though some of them will do the movie thing and have little "hidden" scenes cut into the credits at points).
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by ergot_vacation 6y ago
As someone who grew up playing in VGA, EGA was always the "outdated" option I was glad to avoid (and let's be honest, most EGA artists did not have the skills of Steve Purcell). But this makes a pretty damning case in favor o