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by gcanyon 2y ago
Does anyone know if there's something similar for mysql?
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I think they were going for "the right stuff"
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I think it's possible to slice preferences endlessly, and I do think I'm a bit unusual. I gave ChatGPT a list of my favorite SF novels, and a brief description of why, and asked for similar works. It recommended 10 novels, three o
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> Apple is not known for leaving money on the table like that. True -- although I will say the M series chips were a step change in performance and efficiency from the Intel processors they replaced, and Apple didn't charge a premiu
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I think Apple stumbled into a problem here, and I hope they solve it: reasonably priced Macs are -- by the new standards set by modern LLMs -- severely memory-constrained. MacBook Airs max out at 24GB. MacBook Pros go to 32GB for $2200, 48G
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Sure, that's your choice/preference, so good for you (sincerely).
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I wonder (hope) that for any given issue, the majority of the internet/the training data, and therefore the model's output, will be fairly near to the truth. Maybe not for every topic, but most. E.g., the models won't report
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> Maybe we don't really appreciate something unless we appreciate it is hard in a visceral way. Count me out of that "we" -- I appreciate the artist who put in the work because they put in the work to make the thing I like
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by gcanyon 2y ago
The initial prompt was: Write a out a list of statements about how each generation thinks the next is lazy because they have it easy. For example, people who had to memorize trig or log tables would think those who had books to refer to wer
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by gcanyon 2y ago
He is! But I don't call him names; that's lazy.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I lived in Bangkok for two years. The most conventional things I did while there were Ayyuthaya (the buddha head in the roots of the bodhi tree), Hua Hin (beach town), Kanchanaburi (Bridge on the River Kwai), and Koh Samet (an island). That
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by gcanyon 2y ago
1. Socrates criticized writing itself: in Plato's Phaedrus he said it would "create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories" (274e-275b) 2. Leonard Euler criticized the use of logar
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I included information screen -- just didn't want to type out Apple and Android car software. And backup cameras are more recent than 20 years mostly.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Correction: it appears there is a 90-day presidential delay written into the law, so we're not quite at god-emperor status yet...
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Hence "few". Two if there are real elections in 2026, and the dems retake a majority. "few" if there aren't, or they don't -- in that case maybe 3-4 if term limits hold, or "who knows?" if as you say
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Trump has clearly neutered both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court. Welcome to a unitary government, with one god-emperor and no checks nor balances. It's going to be a wild two (few?) years.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Anytime there are such large numbers of "undecideds" it's likely they are low-information, and an opportunity for Trump (or any unscrupulous politician, but really, Trump) to lie to them and turn them to whatever side they wi
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> the number of seniors who have nothing going on other than making hospital/pharmacy visits is ridiculous As someone who is part way down this slope, let me tell you: it's not like you're fine, you're fine, you'
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Ronald Reagan used to tell a story like this from his sportscasting days. In particular he mentioned one time the wire system was delayed, and the only way to keep the "game" going without possibly affecting the outcome wrongly wa
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Rick vs. Heistotron (starts with an annoying pre-roll, hence the start-at-9-seconds parameter) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyOAxh4Iybg&t=9
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Claude summary of the Supreme Court opinion at: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf 1. Background on TikTok: - Launched in 2017, TikTok has over 170 million U.S. users and 1 billion worl
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by gcanyon 2y ago
The new Prius is really good-looking (to my eye at least), especially in person: I don't think the photos (I've seen) do it justice. Fun comparisons to the car Burt Reynolds drove in Smokey and the Bandit: Compared to the 1977 Po
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I have added this to-do to my time-travel list -- thanks!
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Reading the original post led me to this article on your site: https://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/#full This is just to say I found it incredibly compelling and moving; I hope mentioning it doesn'
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A drone punched a hole into an LA firefighting plane(techcrunch.com)
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> “Everyone equates the Skynet with the T900 terminator, but those are two very different problems with different solutions.” while this is my personal opinion, the latter one (T900) is a harder problem. So based on this, Skynet had to h
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by gcanyon 2y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33351135/ tl;dr: Higher (yes, higher) sodium intake correlated with longer life expectancy and lower mortality but the study was observational and not a basis for dietary recommendations
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I can do magic eyes, but this technique doesn't work for me. My left eye is dominant enough that the whole image just looks like what my left eye is seeing.
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I am so remarkably one-eye dominant (my left) that the first image just looks like the right cat to me about 98% of the time. Every once in a bit I'll see the flicker, but even then it's faint and hard to notice.

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