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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
It's a state that matter can be in. Which is not the same as the technical compound word "state of matter". Which is why "state of matter" is, itself, often in the dictionary, possibly to the dismay of the Team Sing
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
Note that in the 1718 text it is not actually called "ice cream", but the recipe is titled "To ice cream". I.e. "ice" is used as a verb, the result presumably being "cream that has been iced". In the
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
It used to be iced cream, which is more descriptive. Ice cream is a shortened pronunciation.
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
I could see boiling oil being it's own word because when used as a weapon it's unlikely to actually be boiling and yet still be called "boiling oil".
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
And fittingly enough, "collocation dictionary" is not in "the" dictionary. At least not the OED. Presumably if the word thesaurus was actually "synonym dictionary" it would likewise be absent.
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
Yes, and substitution of boil ed for boil ing water has produced many terrible cups of tea. It depends on the tea, but some cannot be well made with a metal pot of water that's taken a few minutes to get from the kettle to the table.
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Three New Importers in KiCad 10: Allegro, PADS, and gEDA(kicad.org)
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
> This is a known good state; write tests to enforce this state" is something that takes minutes now instead of days. Pointing the AI agentic SLoC cannon at that sounds like a way to speedrun a set of tests that completely ossify th
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
GDP is a useless metric when so much of it basically wash trading. It's always been a dodgy metric and susceptible to gaming. But now that money is less and less connected to useful value, it's almost a sick joke.
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
Funny how across the board we have a relentless march of innovation, invention, discovery and technical prowess and yet almost everything seems constantly gets more expensive and/or worse.
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
It's always been like that. Waterfall development was worse and that's why the Agilists invented Agile. YOLOing code into a huge pile at top speed is always faster than any other workflow at first. The thing is, a gigantic YOLO&#x
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
It's 3000V, but the energy delivered can be absolutely minute on a human scale, even for the highly sensitive nervous system. But metal oxide layers (what static discharge is often blowing holes in) are not on a human scale, they&#x2
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
Depends on the pH, probably.
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by georgefrowny 9mo ago
It was very strange to me how StackOverflow consistently, every time it was mentioned everyone had exactly the same complaints and nothing changed. They can't have been unaware of the reputation or the sinking activity rates.
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by georgefrowny 9mo ago
Plus housing insulation. So many British houses are still almost entirely uninsulated. That's not an exaggeration, the roof of my house had zero insulation, solid brick walls, no under floor insulation and single glazing. The only gest
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by georgefrowny 9mo ago
Turn on TV: 3 seconds Roku boots: 10 seconds Meanwhile turn on soundbar: 3 seconds Press Roku remote button: 3 seconds until it wakes up and repairs (remote still eats batteries) Open streaming app: 5-10 seconds Select profile: 3 seconds Sc
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by georgefrowny 9mo ago
And then when China eventually produce not only RAM but the equipment to make it, it'll be shocked Pikachu all round.
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
I don't think I'm especially stupid and I try very hard not to interact with ads more then I have to, but I have often found it impossible to escape those ads without ending up being delivered to the app store page. Maybe I didn&#
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
What actual training data does contain threats of punishment like this? It's not like most of the web has explicit threats of punishment followed immediately by compliance. And only the shlockiest fan fiction would have "Do what
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
Labelling laws are Unamerican and that's why inhibiting other countries from requiring clear food labelling is a clear part of the American trade negotiation platform. > Establish new and enforceable rules to eliminate unjustified t
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
Leaking system prompts being classed as a vulnerability always seems like a security by obscurity instinct. If the prompt (or model) is wooly enough to allow subversion, you don't need the prompt to do it, it might just help a bit. Or
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
> I'm surprised they even reviewed it enough to catch it Maybe they forgot to tack it onto 5000 pages of unrelated legislation at 10pm the night before the vote.
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
Why not make it a condition of the vote in the first place? Don't understand it? No vote for you. If your constituency wanted a say, they can let you know what they think about that.
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
There is a solution. Spread-spectrum methods for digging out signals from deep in the noise floor. It's just maths, but the amount of noise you can reject that way is really nuts.
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
I disagree here. I find it much faster to read the speed from a digital speedo than an analogue one (especially as most cars compress the road legal range into under half the dial). Especially in a 20 zones, a few mph is just a tiny needle
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
It's very strange, especially on Hacker News. What's stranger to me, assuming these kids are in classrooms with analogue clocks, is that they aren't constantly subdividing the clock face in every more complex mental schemes i
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
The crystal planes indeed do have different properties which are exploited already. Some planes have better flatness and defect rates then others, and etching rates and undercutting varies according to the surface orientation and the orient
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
4000 times purer seems a questionable claim to me. 4000 times purer then what? Current Earthbound state of the art? A guy in shed with a vacuum pump and a heater? On what axis: crystal defects or contamination? High vacuums aren't at a
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
What makes it more likely that your first block ends up the next head and you're not wasting your own time on the second one if someone beats you to the first one while you're holding off?
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
The same kind of people who post "I asked ChatGPT and this is what it said" and genuinely think they are helping.

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