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by flir 2y ago
Nah, it was faster, lighter and better. I say this as someone who has been back on Firefox for years at this point.
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by flir 2y ago
The consumer has a right to replacement or repair for six years after purchase in certain circumstances - see https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/somethings-gone-w... - any warranty the seller chooses to supply
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by flir 2y ago
> This book changed my life. Ditto! I thought science was... all about the end state? You mix these two chemicals together, you get these products. You solve a math problem, you get an answer. The idea that the interesting bit was the p
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by flir 2y ago
Follow-up idea, probably silly: Robogranny Olympics. Allow people to submit their own bots, Micromouse/koth.org/Battlecode-style. Bots are run on random phone numbers for several weeks, and are ranked on average call length (total
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by flir 2y ago
Why is information gain the correct metric? We're talking about marketing here. Shouldn't it be conversions or awareness or something?
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by flir 2y ago
> It may convey a certain life extension benefit. I think it would be more interesting if it doesn't affect lifespan. It would be a really counter-intuitive result (to me).
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by flir 2y ago
As long as the scammer's paying to route the call, I'm ok with this. And the telcos' fitness function for their pool of robogrannies should be time-spent-on-call. Making it uneconomic is the way to kill it.
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by flir 2y ago
> evolutionary algorithms, updates are by natural selection, diffusion models, updates by denoising but are they not both fitness functions? couldn't an EA use something akin to denoising as its fitness function and still be an EA?
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by flir 2y ago
I'm thinking about how Etsy took "the good bit" of Ebay and ran with it. Or how tyre-and-exhaust shops take "the profitable bit" of being a mechanic and run with it. I know there's a name for this, but it elude
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by flir 2y ago
I dunno. Everybody's got their own personal long tail, and everybody's got a different long tail. (I don't think the open web is dead, but it's looking awfully unwell).
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by flir 2y ago
> That is a strawman. There are huge numbers of websites (including authoritative ones like governments and universities) and a lot of content. Ya know... a search engine that was limited to *.gov, *.edu and country equivalents (*.ac.uk,
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by flir 2y ago
Candide. Fun fact (and nothing to do with the article): The country was pissed at Byng. The road to London was lined with pitchfork-wielding yokels for pretty much the first fifteen miles. I don't think he did anything wrong but I ca
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by flir 2y ago
I really chewed up my original comment. "a mudslide or a storm" was supposed to bind to the bit about organic fossils, not the bit about inorganic artifacts. I think "rapid" might be a relative term (I'm thinking of
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by flir 2y ago
This is "build one to throw away" writ small.
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by flir 2y ago
I feel like everyone's jumping over the worked stone. We're assuming a technological civilization here, but without accidental geoengineering or even surviving artifacts. Flaked flint and pottery get everywhere . It just doesn&#x
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by flir 2y ago
Wait, wait, I thought mud was great for preserving fossils? Eg that Albertan Nodosaur fossil that turned up recently. And if they're working stone, the evidence won't even need a preservation step, because it was never organic - j
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by flir 2y ago
They lost the anti-immigration vote to Reform. That shows, to me, that the voters that cared about that topic could see the difference between their rhetoric and their actions.
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by flir 2y ago
I do that constantly. jq's syntax is especially opaque to me. "I've got some JSON formatted like <this>. Give me a jq command that does <that>. Google, but better.
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by flir 2y ago
Google has FoMO...
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by flir 2y ago
A terraced street in London can have a metric boat-load of social isolation and no cars. I don't think it's (necessarily) the car or the literal distance between houses. At the very least, it's a multi-faceted problem.
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by flir 2y ago
That's a nice quote. Evocative. Is it possible to support the goal of vibrant, interconnected communities, to understand all their advantages, but still want to live at least a quarter-mile away from the nearest human? Asking for a fri
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by flir 2y ago
Well... a thorough "meh" to Google. Thanks for the info though, one less thing for me to care about.
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by flir 2y ago
Ceci n'est pas une théière
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by flir 2y ago
Postel's law
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by flir 2y ago
> 422: Unprocessable Content I honestly would have thought 400 Bad Request would cover that? Might be too generic though. Is "422" "ok, I admit it's formatted correctly, but I can't process it for some higher-lev
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by flir 2y ago
That's... really interesting. There's a catch-all in there, for anyone wondering. Which makes me wonder why the Company Name rule was for "computer code". Why not just use the same "if we don't like it you can&
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by flir 2y ago
> feels like more like exercising artisanship that only the experts would see value in Same as linting and refactoring, then.
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by flir 2y ago
Ok, they blocked you putting the HTML in the company name, but what about the director's name? I mean, if it's your legal name, and there's a legal requirement that the names of company directors be published... I feel like t
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by flir 2y ago
> Children in particular were way smaller back then I noticed this in the records of the Royal Navy in the 19th century - after a few years of the Navy feeding them, a lot of those kids had just shot up.
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by flir 2y ago
Many years ago I did a couple of hundred variations on the mona lisa in photoshop, and stacked them as a gif. As the eyes remained unchanged in each frame, they gave a fixed point you could focus on while the rest of the face strobed chaoti

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