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811.
by gary_0 3y ago
You could still plausibly generate (a significant portion of), let's say, "Fire And Ice" by Robert Frost, which is only 50 words. See also: https://blogs.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/haiku-and-the-fair-use-...
812.
by gary_0 3y ago
Thought experiment: Say you make a big list of words and pleasing combinations of them (I have actually done something similar to make a fantasy RPG name generator.) Now convert that list into a Markov chain or whatever and quasi-randomly g
813.
by gary_0 3y ago
Another StarFive JH7110 board, eh? It's shaping up to be a popular chip. I wonder how hard it would be for a different chip vendor to produce a pin-compatible clone? Please, overwhelm me with cheap interchangeable RISC-V SoC's...
814.
by gary_0 3y ago
TIL. I see so much "@dang" in HN threads I assumed it actually did something.
815.
by gary_0 3y ago
The number of human DNA base pairs. The data to grow a starting zygote into a brain with a default neural template (to keep it alive and allow it to start learning), and peripheral systems (the body). As binary data, 3.2B base pairs is 800M
816.
by gary_0 3y ago
When I was about 3 I learned that the world did not revolve around me. Eventually, I learned my country wasn't special, nor the culture I was raised in. I learned the Earth was just another planet, and humans were made out of meat just
817.
by gary_0 3y ago
I make do with SumatraPDF. https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
818.
by gary_0 3y ago
The point of an experiment is to find out what you don't already know. The LHC has previously shown low-sigma hints of non-SM physics but nothing has panned out yet. At any rate, the Standard Model has clear gaps in it (quantum gravity
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by gary_0 3y ago
Cool research, but it's only 3.4σ so far and this decay is already predicted by the Standard Model.
820.
by gary_0 3y ago
https://archive.ph/yE9Lw
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by gary_0 3y ago
The Mujahideen were not the Taliban, which did not exist until 5 years after the Soviet-Afghan War. Some of the US-backed resistance fighters did go on to join the Taliban, but others opposed it and later sided with the US when they invaded
822.
by gary_0 3y ago
If I'm reading these charts right, it's more CO2 per year than at any point on the geological record .
823.
by gary_0 3y ago
I agree we should tread carefully regarding feature creep, but it's already very common to display graphical data in the terminal with ASCII art or Unicode. Adding basic bitmaps would remove the need for those hacks. Convenient termina
824.
by gary_0 3y ago
It's way more dense[0] than air, though, so not a lot of it reaches the upper atmosphere. I don't think it's 22800x more effective when produced at ground level. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u19QfJWI1oQ
825.
by gary_0 3y ago
Short of launching all the nukes, it's actually really hard to imagine a faster way to make Earth uninhabitable than humanity's GHG emissions project. (3.68×10^13 kg of CO2 in 2022 alone! Impressive!) If we could terraform planets
826.
by gary_0 3y ago
It has been proposed to intentionally resume injecting sulfates into the upper atmosphere in order to mitigate global warming[0]. (This is a horrible idea, but the jury's still out on whether it's better than the alternative.) [0]
827.
by gary_0 3y ago
The cute hand-drawn aesthetic reminded me of fun times reading Forrest Mims' electronics books.
828.
by gary_0 3y ago
Yes, but TLDs like this increase the attack surface of the system, making it easier for bad actors to exploit bugs in networked software or craft phishing-style attacks (including more opportunities for typosquatting). While com/net&#x
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by gary_0 4y ago
Some people in the auto industry want to double the voltage again (for efficiency and to reduce the weight/complexity requirements for all the wiring, especially in EVs) but the 12 volt standard is pretty entrenched. (Note that I'
830.
by gary_0 4y ago
The original BBC article is less editorialized, but just as alarming: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65339934
831.
by gary_0 4y ago
Microsoft could have kept selling me WinXP with incrementally better security, performance, and driver support and I never would have left. But they kept breaking my setup and popping up crap in my face, so now I'm gone forever.
832.
by gary_0 4y ago
Call me paranoid, but I see it as a slippery slope. And for most users that security warning is as good as a cryptographic lockdown anyways.
833.
by gary_0 4y ago
Monopoly? How about digital feudalism. "We've put ourselves in charge of protecting you, so we're going to help ourselves to a portion of everyone's gold, and make sure none of the serfs are up to anything we don't
834.
by gary_0 4y ago
Even on Windows if I send an EXE or MSI of my software to someone they get a scary security warning that prevents them from running it. The only guaranteed way around that is to be a big company (or a big open-source project). If security r
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by gary_0 4y ago
Bingo. Windows looks like a trashy billboard for Microsoft's other services because that's exactly what it is, because that's where the fresh money is.
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by gary_0 4y ago
I'm curious about your network bandwidth/load. You only serve text, right? [Edit: No, I see thumbnail images too!] Is the box in a datacenter? If not, what kind of Internet connection does it have?
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by gary_0 4y ago
There are a few cases where people have used ChatGPT to generate SVG[0], with mostly unimpressive results. I'm sure sooner or later models will be developed specifically for creating vector drawings instead of raster, including with th
838.
by gary_0 4y ago
It's like something right out of a Douglas Adams book.
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by gary_0 4y ago
I wish the Internet was exclusively this sort of thing. You know, dork stuff. The other examples of this kind of community worldbuilding I can think of are the SCP Foundation[0] and The Elemenstor Saga[1], although I suspect there may be ma
840.
by gary_0 4y ago
Humans are prone to doing dumb experiments, like the ones with radiation and nuclear bombs last century, and the one we're doing now with greenhouse gas emissions. We do what we must because we can. For the good of all of us, E

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