geocar

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by geocar 6d ago
In the 16th century, being "on the money" meant an arrow or a dart being on (or near) a specific physical coin (i.e. the money), like in a tossing or shooting bar-bet. Being on merely a money (or some money) would likely not
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by geocar 6d ago
With context these can mean different things. You might also play a piano, or hire either a player piano, or a piano player. If you are answering which instrument you play, it's the former, but if we are talking the profession it'
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by geocar 6d ago
Try making it with "a" - if thing can be "a thing" then it could be "the thing" but if it can't be "a thing" it definitely can't be "the thing" either.
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by geocar 6d ago
Hi I want to explain that arxiv is not "publishing a paper" - it's a step up perhaps from putting it on your own website, but this is not what is meant by professional academics when they talk about "publishing" (ev
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by geocar 12d ago
Okay, wait a minute. There were zero Hebrew Bibles at that time. The Bologna scroll is found seventy(ish) times in greek and hebrew (and other languages) in the Qumran caves, along with a bunch of other stuff. Each of those times is a greek
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by geocar 12d ago
> Reading any of this ancient text is like tourism. You may enjoy the "map" on page two: https://web.archive.org/web/20081031050603/http://www.tniv.c...
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by geocar 13d ago
I don’t. My software gets done. The idea that it would suddenly not be done because the compiler upgraded sounds like a potentially limitless amount of future work. Why would I want to invest in something that promises that?
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by geocar 13d ago
A lot of this is just wrong; the only things they got right is that I can read English and I have an iPhone. I’m surprised it got my timezone and location wrong. I’m less surprised they miscounted the number of speakers and my brand of gpu
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by geocar 17d ago
Cool story bro. I've got an emacs uptime measured in years, so I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'm happy that you're happy.
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by geocar 17d ago
There were no Brythonic languages 15,000 years ago. What are you talking about?
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by geocar 17d ago
It's possible to determine good values automatically: Measure your typing speed. You can do it in the background with: https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/emacs-keylogger.html and periodically update the latency paramet
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by geocar 17d ago
Bullshit. Ain’t no way you read one 100 page paper let alone two with enough understanding to make such a claim. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
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by geocar 17d ago
He seemed to know a lot about what was going on in the state of the art despite not being a fluid dynamics expert or having any in “the project”, and absolutely nothing about what his own employees did with Tristan. The most uncomfortable p
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by geocar 17d ago
> printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. It's always been a thing: We programmed on paper before we had screen editors, and so early screen editors have always had a way to murder trees on demand: In vi it
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by geocar 17d ago
> The core reason to enforce trademarks is not to fluff the corporation that holds it but to let the public be confident in the name. Nonsense. The core reason to enforce trademarks is to prove that you have it. The yo-yo used to be a tr
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by geocar 22d ago
What exactly do you think the difference is? If you have an LLM add 2+2, it is doing a tremendous number of additions and multiplications it doesn't have to, same as us, and I am not sure the LLM can answer any more questions about tha
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by geocar 22d ago
> It's never made sense to me that so many go players study AI go play in the hope of emulating it in a human game. > We're not machines. We can't do thousands of Monte Carlo tree searches per second. You sound so sure
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by geocar 23d ago
Ok, so "ad tech" is basically situations where someone pays you to run their ad network, like a newspaper or a magazine or something who sells their own ads to people. Google used to call this "Doubleclick for Publishers&quot
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by geocar 1mo ago
We also have revenue. They're a public company. You can look all this stuff up yourself.
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by geocar 1mo ago
Does it now. Azure's cost of revenue is someplace between 14% (Productivity and Business Processes) and 36% (Intelligent Cloud). Software is 1%. Looks to me like Software pays for the whole thing.
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by geocar 1mo ago
I remember FastTracker needed the overscan to tell you if you were in Edit mode or not (or I guess you could just try keyjamming). I think I saw someone announced a clone recently and I noticed they didn't implement that. Now that you
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by geocar 1mo ago
> iOS and MacOS have a large number of built-in accessibility features. Great. Which one is sending a "do I know this person?" message to my friend? Because it _used_ to be taking a screenshot. > Taking a screenshot of the s
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by geocar 1mo ago
> it doesn’t accidentally end up in a screenshot Your banking app probably has an option to disable that because it's a legal requirement in so many places: People who can't see need to use assistive tools, and that includes sc
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by geocar 1mo ago
It's an old/good trick. The linux kernel offers an ioctl to set the font tables, and has for years. I think the kms people want to remove them which is a little sad. Until then you can also use a tool called SVGATextMode to set th
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by geocar 1mo ago
> I don't know how IT got PC speaker emulation down, but they did IIRC through some sort of high precision timer magic such that it didn't need a sound card per se You can check! https://github.com/jthlim/i
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by geocar 1mo ago
I don't think it's bad enough to think of them as an adversary: I think letting the compiler do a little of the boring stuff is ok, and for the most part I am rarely surprised by this stuff. I don't -O3 and -funroll-loops and
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by geocar 1mo ago
Hi. You also might like to know about https://schismtracker.org which tries very hard to work like Impulse Tracker (especially if you enable its "classic mode") And maybe if you are a text mode linux user who liked Imp
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by geocar 1mo ago
void* and void(*)() are just not guaranteed to be the same size. If the latter is larger then those "implementation defined aspects" are what kicks in. It's nothing to do with the int. In some systems functions are smaller, s
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by geocar 1mo ago
> I had to mine function prototypes out of all the code for exactly this reason. The program that does this is called cproto and it was available back on comp.sources.unix as early as 1989 (if you find yourself with a time machine) and
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by geocar 1mo ago
> SQLite has a "lite" in the name for a reason I would not think of SQLite as "lite" anything. It's SQL In The Executable. It has a better security and data-durability track record than both Postgres and MySQL, a

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