euroderf

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by euroderf 1mo ago
> The government is already looking for a great excuse to criminalize open source models. Sounds interesting+scary. Do you have some source for this ?
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by euroderf 1mo ago
If tasked with this, I would start with an image of a piano keyboard and ask: Why the hell does it look so weird ? Black and white keys in some infernally strange layout ? WHY ? Which takes you very quickly to equal temperament and perfect
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by euroderf 1mo ago
> The simplest and easiest geopolitical strategy that is available to any country: switch completely to renewables (solar, maybe wind) This lessens the impact of attacks on transformers too. A serious point of vulnerability.
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by euroderf 1mo ago
Proving Riemann sure would clean up a lot of contingent/dependent number theory.
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by euroderf 1mo ago
So the business challenge is to balance sizable investments and relatively small marginal costs. Not so different from other digital goods.
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by euroderf 1mo ago
Why didn't I see any of these in Lynch's Dune ? Totally appropriate.
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by euroderf 1mo ago
In the USA ? I ask because the EU is putting effort into harmonising signaling (and all railway comms) across the union and it seems to be a fairly imposing task.
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by euroderf 1mo ago
I watched a talk by Lee Smolin and he seems to have a great take on how physics relates to life. That moment to moment the universe supports and runs on spontaneity and free will. I'd love to find a really good summation of his ideas.
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by euroderf 1mo ago
Eggs stave off hunger SO well. When I'm gonna be on the road, the only breakfast that fits the bill is 3 or 4 eggs - no more overpriced stale barfy airport-style crap for me, thank you very much!
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by euroderf 1mo ago
The Jetsons' Rosey was never seen cleaning the bathroom, was she/it ? Some things are too implausible even for childrens' science fiction.
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by euroderf 1mo ago
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!... see only the Great Oz.
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by euroderf 1mo ago
I know nothing about a purported interwebz phenom called Mr Beast. In case it arises.. is his stuff safe for a 6yo ?
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by euroderf 1mo ago
Consciousness requires qualia. My 0,02€.
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by euroderf 1mo ago
In Helsinki, three minutes max.
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by euroderf 1mo ago
> Why is the y-axis not starting at 0% for all measures? Honestly, look at the graphs you see today. Nobody starts at zero any more, with the two stacked tildes interrupting the vertical axis to indicate an omitted range. I imagine this
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by euroderf 2mo ago
In my decades on teh interwebz I've never read a good in-depth look at the Mac trackpad. It intrigues me always, how it pops back at your finger on a click, until one of those rare times that the machine locks up completely and then...
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by euroderf 2mo ago
pronounced "by-kesht"
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by euroderf 2mo ago
... and setting the terms for future "user engagement".
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by euroderf 2mo ago
oh, spoiler.
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by euroderf 2mo ago
In the Lynch version the mentat Thufir has a short rap where he is getting the house's defensive systems in order. Cool stuff. "Sector six-eighty, copy the sixth the sum of the eighth quadrant of the ninth plus eight-four circles
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by euroderf 2mo ago
You'll want to read about SAGE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment
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by euroderf 2mo ago
very OT: lately I'm seeing "wreaked" a lot but what about "wrought".
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by euroderf 2mo ago
For "fix" substitute "assemble": there's the Ikea model.
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by euroderf 2mo ago
Shouldn't this return errors to the "other processes [that] had open file descriptors pointing to new" ?
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by euroderf 2mo ago
When this system of classification is mapped to politics, does anything actionable emerge ?
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by euroderf 2mo ago
What? I thought the auto industry had standardised long ago on yellow for turn signals. When did this red-blinker information abomination make it to market ?
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by euroderf 2mo ago
Make America SRO-Compatible Again.
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by euroderf 2mo ago
My experience in the US is that you can take a broken item to a reputable shop and the guy will spend a minute or two messing with it and then he'll give you an on-the-spot estimate of repairability and price. In Finland, the standard
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by euroderf 2mo ago
Hey Alexa, change all paperclip production to coconut production.
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by euroderf 2mo ago
Is it really THAT terribly difficult to replace "SELECT vars FROM table..." with "FROM table SELECT vars...", so that tools can provide suggestions ?

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