fatneckbeard

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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
what do you think of rapsberry pi moving to libcamera?
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
apple has acted against principles of free speech quite often.
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
well i will agree on one thing.... corporations are constantly looking for a machine to do labor for free. life itself did not evolve just to do labor for a corporation so by trying to copy biological intelligent life, the result won't
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
yes. I used to think the Church had a honest disagreement with Galileo about heliocentricity. When I grew up I realized the Church never cared about orbits at all, what they care about is maintenance of status quo. And then when I got old,
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
there is no practical representation of the reals because their theory is based on infinite numbers and computers are finite. aka you are never going to store sqrt 2 in a register. the closest you can get is symbolic algebra packages. but a
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
thank you will revisit
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
its always going to be difficult to compete with Visual Basic since Microsoft has entire teams of people making sure Excel can run Macros built 20 years ago.
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
interesting that matrices are a kind of data structure in mathematics that has so many 'invalid' operations. in the integers basically the only thing you can do to break arithmetic is 'divide by 0' in matrices there are
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
chatgpt actually has some ideas about this question: How could the people who generate used in an ai language model be paid for their work? answer: There are several ways in which the people who generate content for an AI language model cou
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
sdl_getticks64 was undefined replaced with sdl_getticks now i just seea bunch of dots on a screen i can zoom in i see a circle i press thrust/downthrust and the circle disappears not sure i get it
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
its a joke people im trying to humorize the bureaucratic existence that most of humanity lives under.
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
im not saying its right im just saying thats how it is, apparently i shouldnt joke about that stuff because i was downvoted to minus three. our website crashes when the user types a double space. their solution is to have us tell users to s
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
i thought this was about hypercard. boy is there egg on my face!
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
thats a huge amount of work and money. at my company they just told us to stop reporting edge cases. much easier, much cheaper.
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
"So instead of String, fish will use its own string type," sigh
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
"if you are going to r1" exactly my entire point. people inside the tower just do not understand, which is why scihub came from someone outside of it
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
RIP
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
the hilarious thing is how much phd students and other work-a-day members of academia literally could not get their jobs done without sci-hub, the whole system would just grind to a halt without sci-hub.
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
its funny how huge chunks of the upper class white collar work force spent their entire youth stealing thousands upon thousands of dollars of stuff with zero punishment.
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
most Amazon departments lose money. so whatever psychopath games they are playing, its not working.
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
- You will lose your health insurance, someone in your family will have a medical emergency, you will have to declare bankruptcy and lose your house and your car, you will become homeless, get arrested by some broken windows policy wonk pol
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
GE gained a lot of share price but the company long term value was crushed, now it's splitting into three companies. If you want a lot of short term goal people to make money pumping stock, this is a great way to go. If you want to bui
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
no computer can calculate that exact distance, which is kind of Wildberger's point. Infinities are very interesting but the non-infinite maths have kind of got neglected over the past 100 years. I had to memorize Laplace transforms in
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
I like the Sharks not Dinosaurs thing. i keep see people saying "the FAA system was so old"... being old wasn't the problem, lack of maintenance is the problem. We have roads that are old, bridges that are old, buildings that
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
what if it's not a problem. what if it's a feature?
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
i copy/pasted the parent comment into chatgpt
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
yeup. and realizing that is the only way to stay sane. nobody will care if you leave, nobody cared about the last person that left, they have other priorities and software engineering is not one of them. if its that much of a problem, their
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
"When using GPT-3 or ChatGPT to generate text, you can control the length of the output by adjusting the "max length" parameter. The default value for this parameter is typically set to a relatively short length, to ensure th
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
Amazon does not make money shipping products. they are trying to destroy competition by the service equivalent of illegal dumping, using their AWS profits to eliminate competition by taking a loss on every single other part of their busines
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
that's because the dutch had a massive social movement to completely reorganize their transportation infrastructure and bulldoze segregated bicycle paths through the entire cityscape, it was called "Stop Child Murders" https

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