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by gcanyon 2y ago
I used nitrous oxide just one time, and it wasn't to get high: this was before the web, and I had read somewhere that the feeling of the need to breathe is not a result of lack of oxygen, but a buildup of carbon dioxide. My friends wer
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> superior alternatives for anesthesia Two of my kids were born using nitrous as anesthesia. This was years ago in San Diego, CA. I very clearly remember leaning in to my struggling wife and trying to motivate her: "Honey, remember,
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Sure, I'm just saying there's a way to put unlocking the phone in the hands of someone who at least is not under the control of a hostile authority.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
For this use case there needs to be a reasonably quick way to erase/permanently lock a phone. Or maybe it needs to be something that is both 1. Less severe than that 2. Secure against personal inducements 3. More automatic. So maybe so
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by gcanyon 2y ago
"Hextraction is a free-form board game for any number of people where players compete to race a ball across a customizable board, strategically placing hexagonal tiles to create paths and obstacles. Players can 3D-print their own tiles
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I'm not saying this specific problem isn't solvable, just that it is an example of the problem I'm thinking of. That said, there are tremendous advantages to supporting remote learning. Simply requiring in person has far gr
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> It has an effective context window of 2M tokens, and can index projects of 20M tokens and beyond using tree-sitter project maps (30+ languages are supported). It can effectively find relevant context in massive million-line projects li
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Giving student aid beyond just free classes enables students who would otherwise need to spend time working to support themselves to instead attend school to get a better life. Generally that's considered a good thing, not worthy of th
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This is an example of what I've been thinking about/warning about for several years now: we are entering a post-truth era, where there is increasingly no way to know what is real and what is not. When I've thought about it, t
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by gcanyon 2y ago
It would be about as easy, and certainly less painful, to just have a video processor remove and smooth over filler words in real time. If the filler words are excessive it would slow down the apparent rate of speech, but obviously not the
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I'm genuinely curious what you think the "right" level of debt is, and how you justify your answer. The U.S. has only been debt-free once in its history, so obviously "zero" isn't the answer. And it seems self-
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by gcanyon 2y ago
...and of course I missed a word. I meant to type: "no one can say what does move and what does not"
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Four letters is an interesting constraint, but it doesn't guarantee simplicity. I'd replace > no one can say who's held fast with "no one can what does move and what does not"
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Yeah, I figured that restricting to puzzles with only one solution would be a significant constraint; I'm not advocating for it.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I wondered if you were working to assure there is only one solution; from today's puzzle I see not, since I found "another." It would be great to be able to start over. It would be great to keep track of how many distinct sol
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Since it's a single-molecule thick, could this potentially be stacked thousands, or millions, thick to deliver ridiculous capacity? I assume heat dissipation would be a factor, but the article doesn't mention it.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> It's slow and inefficient Is there any reason to think this won't improve with time? The Intel 4004 was "slow and inefficient" too?
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Several people have suggested that LLMs might end up ad-supported. I'll point out that "ad supported" might be incredibly subtle/insidious when applied to LLMs: An LLM-based "adsense" could: 1. Maintain
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Time Measurement (6 Total): 1. Day and night indication for reference city 2. Second time zone hours and minutes (on 24-hour display) 3. World time indication for 24 cities 4. Second time zone day and night indication
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Nice! It was hard, and I really liked the break-in (spoilers) with the Q and U.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
It’s a super-interesting idea, but GoT seems highly cherry picked: the vast majority of all works would never leave copyright if the requirement was that they clear even $1000.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Not that it should impact the validity of my argument, but I have sold commercial software in the past, and it is absurd that that software will be copyrighted through most of the 21st-century.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Yeah, of course their style isn't static, but I was taking Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) as a point where much of their visual style was pretty well-established.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> Mr. Trump may find all this in-your-face diplomacy satisfying now. I'm pretty sure Donald Trump would have failed the marshmallow test, both as a child and yesterday.
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Total recall: A brilliant memory helps chickadees survive(knowablemagazine.org)
3 points by gcanyon 2y ago|1 comments
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by gcanyon 2y ago
It's interesting to hear people side with the artists when in previous discussions on this forum I've gotten significant approval/agreement arguing that copyright is far too long. As I've argued in the past, I think copy
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by gcanyon 2y ago
It bugs me than e.g. the owl's ears benefit from a dramatic change in color that isn't related to anything outlined by the circles.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
From memory, having last seen it in the '80s: "Why do you wear that toy on your head?" "Because if I wear it anywhere else, it...chafes" "What's that?" "A laser beam, bozo!" "What are w
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by gcanyon 2y ago
The second article: https://glthr.com/myst-graph-2
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I've only read maybe 30 pages of the book, but I think the article misses the point (I hope) the book is making: there are regulations that serve a purpose, and regulations that don't, and we can, to at least some extent, tell the

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