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by gcanyon 2y ago
I guess I'm unusual -- the AI-generated images stand out to me as what they are, but they don't upset me or give me a negative impression of the product. Since the pricing model is so uncommon, it would be good to get more clarity
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by gcanyon 2y ago
The telescope is still in use today, and Wikipedia says that the damage effectively reduced the telescope from a 107 inch mirror to a 106 inch mirror. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_J._Smith_Telescope
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This is hypnotic. I know that's not very insightful, but it is.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Yep, definitely not just what I said. I was saying that guaranteed it won't work out to an even distribution, not what the distribution would be.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Seems like the distribution definitely won’t be flat since the guesser can randomly choose any of the numbers from 37 to 64 as a first guess without losing anything on the large side, so Ballmer starting with any of those increases his chan
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by gcanyon 2y ago
HA! I didn't think how that might come across, but no: it's just been a long time since I last took a chemistry class, and the instructors were old back then. I'm sure they've all since passed of old age, not from beryll
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Nice, thanks!
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by gcanyon 2y ago
As I just replied, counting just the largest 100 cities covers more people than the rural population.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> most of the US population You do realize that "most" of the US population lives in cities, right? The "rural" population has remained almost constant since the 1960s, while the "urban" population has grown
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by gcanyon 2y ago
You are absolutely correct, I've never worked with a truly competent chemist -- my previous instructors are now complaining from the grave, so I'll give them a retroactive pass. As someone who aced chem but nearly failed the labs,
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Nile Red never ceases to amaze with his technical competence. If I tried to do something with beryllium I'd be dead. And the trampoline would fail.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
A chance to describe the unexpected visceral gut punch that was the first ten minutes of For All Mankind (tv series). I wouldn't have thought the US being first to the moon was that important to me, but when I saw it the other way...ma
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I was an actual libertarian once upon a time. The more I read about the actual function of government, structure, and just “civilization,” the less I was able to hold on to my libertarian values. Now I’m a ridiculously liberal democrat, sti
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I was curious since I'd never seen that thing, so I watched the video: that looks useful only if you have someone to apply it to you. Seems like there'd be a market for an automatic one where all you have to do is push a button an
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by gcanyon 2y ago
There's a reason NY is near the lowest per capita energy consumption for residential usage.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Thanks! In my case (pun intended) the AirPods will sometimes just refuse to charge. I have spent several hours holding the case open and wedging one AirPod up… slightly… to get it to charge, and another several hours trying to replicate tha
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I was going off 100 gallons per day per person, which is typical, but can obviously be improved upon. But that said, I don’t want to pay $7000 per year just for water. Plus living remotely like that is just terribly inefficient in general:
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by gcanyon 2y ago
>don't want to be more than an hour away from urgent care If it's an hour away, does it really qualify as "urgent" care?
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Average rainfall 11 to 41 inches per year -- more than I expected in AZ. Still, to have reasonable water year-round for 2 people you'd need to collect across maybe 10,000 square feet? That's not a small installation.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Obligatory "I stopped using Reddit when they killed Apollo" comment here -- I miss /r/askhistorians, and the joy of someone showing up to comment on something who is an expert in the field.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Mine sometimes don't charge in the case, and can either end up with the case fully charged and the airpods fully drained, or if they charge/discharge through the night with the airpods at a random charge and the case somewhat drai
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This wouldn't work for me; my area code is from Los Angeles, but I haven't lived there for fifteen years. I have lost my airpods, back in 2020 (it was the start of covid and I was taking off a mask in Thailand and flipped them o
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Since I've known this puzzle since childhood, my "pattern match" answer is the correct answer. I wonder if someone took it up a level and posed a puzzle that looked like this puzzle but had some other subtle complication, w
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Based on the watermarking video, it seems that your interface is actually sort of 3-dimensional? Meaning that a single column (watermarking in the video I watched) represents multiple underlying steps? I feel like to fully leverage the spre
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Seconding this -- I actually had copied "each column represents a step in the workflow and each row corresponds to an AI agent executing a task" to post a comment like this, but then checked through the comments to see if someone
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by gcanyon 2y ago
FTA, he bought the rights a long time ago. Still might need that lawyer, obviously.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Pete Buttigieg has a great take on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAk0k7QE9eQ tl;dw "Rich white men support Republicans, who tend to enact policies that benefit rich white men"
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Technology Connections did an excellent video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c tl;dw -- kettles in the U.S. only take about 4+ minutes to boil a liter of water. So when you say "now" you really
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Oh good lord -- 1. I'm sorry, I'll try to avoid this happening again. 2. I just saw an opportunity to get a quick answer to a simple question. It never occurred to me that HN wasn't better than this :-(
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by gcanyon 2y ago
But drug resistance is already really hard to develop. As you say, there are an almost unfathomable number of -- let's say staph -- bacteria running around, infecting millions of people per year, and still it's taken most of a c

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