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by geor9e 3y ago
I use Feedbro. It works decently well that I haven't looked for an alternative in a long time. It's great just seeing unread posts in chronological order - no feed algorithm at all. I mainly follow Hackernews, Facebook friends (in
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by geor9e 3y ago
Ah, knocking all the chess pieces off the board and strutting away. It's funner to actually think about the interesting problem tho. I just got back from a weekend EUC race at Alameda naval tarmac, I love pushing what the things are ca
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by geor9e 3y ago
Yeah, there are some neat PC input devices outside of keyboard and mouse. Since I do a lot of 3D work I use a 6 axis knob in my left hand while I drag my mouse with my right https://www.amazon.com/3Dconnexion-3DX-700059-Spac
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by geor9e 3y ago
There's plenty of wireless standalone scroll knobs out there if this sounds like your cup of tea https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Wireless-Control-Pod-Customizat...
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by geor9e 3y ago
Since that's so wordy, I'll provide a summary: Governments that are banning Tiktok: - Taliban in Afghanistan - Congress in USA Governments that ban federal employees and military from installing third party apps on secure devices:
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by geor9e 3y ago
Thank you - you're right I did assume that. Plus the fact that my handbrake only actuates my rear drum brakes (and sends me into a fishtail drift). I didn't realize my foot pedal was also actuating that, but if so sounds like a sm
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by geor9e 3y ago
Other guy lost interest, but a wheel being able to regen brake just means theres an ungeared electric motor on it. It's basically free for the manufacturer to add the feature, so they all do it. Mechanical brakes are seperate and still
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by geor9e 3y ago
My 2009 has rear drum brakes, actuated by the handbrake. The front are disc. It sound like folks are adamant that the brake pedal actuates all 4 of my brakes. I didn't know that. Sounds plausible, I never really thought too much about
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by geor9e 3y ago
>a racecar can trivially out-brake a MotoGP Racecars are essentially wings due to the aerodynamic plate on their underbelly, sucking themselves hard downwards into the ground, that's why they can brake better than vehicles that don&
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by geor9e 3y ago
Odd - I ride EUC and bike mainly, and bike is easier to skid on accident. Opposite experience as you. It makes sense too, since on an EUC 100% of the normal force is utilized for friction force. On a bicycle you can only utilize 100% if you
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by geor9e 3y ago
>arctan(static friction coefficient) >needs this to be as close to the contact patch as possible That's not true, or perhaps you mean something other than how those words are directly interpreted? Static friction force isn't
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by geor9e 3y ago
I've been riding those daily for years. Today I am going to Alameda naval base where they've set up an EUC racetrack on the tarmac at noon. I don't know what part your'e taking issue with, but physics is best communicate
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by geor9e 3y ago
A unicycle or bicycle flipping is a Physics 101 problem. First you must lock up the wheel if you want to flip, meaning the complications of kinetic friction are irrelevant. There's a center of mass, a contact point, a velocity, and a f
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by geor9e 3y ago
We are in total agreement. I was illustrating my point that a unicycle rider avoids flipping because they never use the full braking power (lock up the wheel). The gyroscope controller won't let you - you can only brake as hard as you
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by geor9e 3y ago
That's an extremely common opinion on the internet. But I don't get it. If a 12 week bootcamp is "at least as good" as a 156 week bachelors degree, then what are people learning the remaining 144 weeks of college? I feel
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by geor9e 3y ago
I disagree. Having a single wheel has the benefit of maximizing traction. With multiple wheel vehicles, if you apply the brakes to some wheels and not others, the tires lose traction. This is because those tires don't have enough norma
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by geor9e 3y ago
I'm a hardcore cyclist too. If you're bombing down a San Francisco hill at top speed and lock the front tire, no amount of crouching behind your seat is going to leverage it from flipping. The point is physics is physics, monocycl
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by geor9e 3y ago
If you brake too hard on a bicycle, you flip over too, especially downhill. You can brake up until the point that you've popped a front wheelie. Bicyclists usually forgo most of the available braking force, by solely using the rear bra
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by geor9e 3y ago
The website seems to end with a 2015 electric unicycle but not continue on with covering that form factor. Maybe because most people don't refer to those as monowheels anymore. http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TR
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by geor9e 3y ago
I'm so confused how this works, but based on this animation I found, it seems like it just shoves the water sideways in the direction of thrust, then turns so it's cutting though the water in the opposite direction https:/&#
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by geor9e 3y ago
It's polite of them to leave the glaring error in the title. Otherwise we might confuse it for a high quality article and actually read it.
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by geor9e 3y ago
My hunch is that this is theater. The executives wanted this program as a weapon. Google didn't like being at the mercy of processor suppliers. Now they can threaten to just make their own. It could ultimately turn out to be a bluff, i
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by geor9e 3y ago
That's because these charities wait until you default on the debt, go to collections, collections finds it so hopeless that they'll collect that they sell it to another collection agency, on and on, until it's bundled as the
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by geor9e 3y ago
I don't understand why the comments are trash-talking Groq. They are the fastest LLM inference provider by a big margin. Why would they sell their hardware to any other company for any price? Keep it all for themselves and take over th
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by geor9e 3y ago
Nice. Some LLMs still have a ways to go before they learn such a basic function. Can you stump Claude with that? https://i.imgur.com/g2HCGNY.png
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by geor9e 3y ago
He addresses this in the tweet comments (it's the most common comment) and says it holds true even with byte (letter) level tokenization.
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by geor9e 3y ago
>LLMs can't do anything reliable AFIK Are you speaking just out of anecdotal experiences? Try something simple like +1 to an integer. Or swapping an ascii character. Neural nets are layers of function approximations, and plenty of t
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by geor9e 3y ago
Are you referring to the puzzle at the top of the tweet thread, where he spells out the 4 simple steps to get to the solution? Or are you referring to the $10,000 prize competition where dozens of the worlds best minds are failing to solve
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by geor9e 3y ago
I already have devices that work great with ChatGPT - my smartphone and my watch. Both have dual microphones for excellent voice interaction. Most LLMs have HTTP APIs that cost pennies a month. Theres many ways to make HTTP POST requests to
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by geor9e 3y ago
They seem like an unreliable narrator, at least by how they're describing smartphones. I don't believe the URL claim at all - on my phone I just see the domain and 5 characters after before it cuts off. A password reset type link

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