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by fsloth 4y ago
"Internet without connected power is pretty common around here." Oh, that's interesting! I always thought this to be an outlier scenario. What is "here"? Can you estimate the size of population to this applies?
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by fsloth 4y ago
Coding. Best example was an obnoxious 3rd party C++ API with header, and sample code that was more confusing than helpful. I fed the header and sample code to chat-gpt (was not too many lines) and then asked it to write a sample application
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by fsloth 4y ago
"There's going to be a lot of superstition and cargo cults." I'm willing to hedge my bets that an immutable functional language has a much higher tendency to remain legible than something else. But it will be a very inte
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by fsloth 4y ago
I can’t wait to outsource most of the gruntwork I need to do to ChatGPT. Last week I had it write me a poisson disk sampler over the surface of a triangle mesh with C# - and it was 100% correct. Ofc not perfect in the details but a perfect
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by fsloth 4y ago
Well, that's the part of the transform in the receiving end. Up to this point the discussion has been on the signal from the emission surface.
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by fsloth 4y ago
See for example Ian Stroud ”Boundary Representation Modelling Techniques” for a light introduction. The OpenCascade project is a fairly complete example of a complete one. But there is no ”by the book” way to do it - it requires both design
727.
by fsloth 4y ago
”Does Europe do it much differently?” Yes (Finland and afaik other nordic countries at least). The lenders use statistics, not individul spying to set their rates.
728.
by fsloth 4y ago
Holy smokes that is expensive. In my country preschool is free and it’s all around good. I don’t think we ever had to use any summer care either. Kids are now 12 and 15… the only necessary thing that is more expensive is the house since it
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by fsloth 4y ago
At least I wasn't claiming there was anything deterministic at play. I believe generally several characteristics of the Shah's regime are held to have laid ground for the revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by fsloth 4y ago
Yes, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état Of course it’s hard to say what course history would have taken without this but I fail to see how the current theocracy / securocracy could have had
731.
by fsloth 4y ago
Having kids is not terribly expensive everywhere. Not all need to have super expensive hobbies either. I guess there is a huge regional difference - starting from cost daycare.
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by fsloth 4y ago
It's not sickening, it's a poignant reflection of history, especially since the current status of Iran was effectively caused by a previous western coup to capture the oil production.
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by fsloth 4y ago
Nuclear proliferation is considered an antipattern for a reason. It's not about fairness, it's about reducing the chances of an accidental nuclear war. Yes, one factor is the power balance of incumbent nuclear states, but it does
734.
by fsloth 4y ago
” trusted curation become ever more valuable.” This might save tradtional media.
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by fsloth 4y ago
Most out-of-the box AI stories perhaps are not worth publishing and a large flood of them would then be a ddos attack on the submission process.
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by fsloth 4y ago
It sounds the fan has no basis for their claim, but due to their background they are able to craft professional claims. I guess the lesson is always expect someone try to screw you via legal pathway (if you read about history of any field t
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by fsloth 4y ago
Fwiw even companies doing software development don’t necessarily follow any rigorous axiom of meritocratic titles.
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by fsloth 4y ago
2. Would probably be "just" sinking black sea fleet with a non-nuclear bombardment or equal. The consequence needs to be a loss that has political and military significance but does not need to more than necessary. 3.& 4. Woul
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by fsloth 4y ago
Sorry, I was not being anti-winery, just pro-statistics. Yes, this is the study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... For individuals the stats are as you referred. This is differen
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by fsloth 4y ago
This! Good lighting (studio lamps) makes all material better. There are lots of guides online for various setups.
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by fsloth 4y ago
A net health risk in a population. If we plot alcohol consumption in a population where x is alcohol consumed and y is health outcomes, and start from a value of ”y=1” at ”x=0” consumption, the curve will have a negative derivative everywhe
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by fsloth 4y ago
Afaik that is debunked according to latest data but I leave the details for any medical professionl who is reading this and would like to clarify the issue. Since it’s apparently not bleedingly obvious which way it is moderate drinking is c
743.
by fsloth 4y ago
I've known people who died from skin cancer and who died from late term alcoholism with pancreatic cancer. I guess dosage matters, even though the effect would be daily available.
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by fsloth 4y ago
"the story on alcohol is much less clear and if it even true, much lower risk" What? Afaik alcohol is pretty well known to increase risks of several cancers in population. Individual response to alcohol is of course a much more co
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by fsloth 4y ago
Alcohol consumption is always a net health risk. It's also quite fun and adults should be allowed to do what they want with their bodies. But one should always be aware of the risks. The statement "alcohol is not bad for my health
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by fsloth 4y ago
Alcohol is never safe. Claims to the opposite are not correct. However, it's always good to gather more evidence and revisit facts from time to time.
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by fsloth 4y ago
So is the strategy of dying early due to alcohol consumption.
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by fsloth 4y ago
Even with low code tools the percentage of people who will develop the tool will be low compared to the number of users.
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by fsloth 4y ago
People are loud, that is the nature of public discourse. Ignore the noise. Focus on the things you find personally interesting - if they are lindy proof it does not hurt (this includes maths, science, any fundamental computational problem l
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by fsloth 4y ago
I don’t understand how float would be an implementation detail and not the the thing you are trying to operate on. If a programmer uses a float they are most certainly wanting to use a float?

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