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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
The podcast "Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer’s Disease?" https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-littl... discusses a lot of the academic fraud that lead to people following
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
I started wearing glasses about a year ago, and I really struggled to find frames that fit well . So, I'm learning CAD so I can 3d-print my own set of frames. My first goal is to 3d-print frames for reading glasses that I can wear in
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
I thought this would apply to marketing / SPAM. I find that I actively filter all "computer generated" attempts to contact me: Mailing lists, "engagement" notifications, ect, is pretty much ignored. I only respond t
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Anyone know if it's NACS or a proprietary connector?
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> Imagine you're running a free ice cream shop Many open-source projects aren't passion projects run for pleasure. Think of it more like ice cream shops sharing recipes, or sharing in the work of running the factory. They just
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
> Sounds like you think there’s people that shouldn’t be needed? Are they on their way to a layoff or is the company happily holding on to them? > If there are no layoffs in their future, they must be creating value you can’t yet see.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Looking at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V_8aFQUfBw , the film is impressive and has merit. Should we say that it's "animated?" I know it's an argument of semantics; yet it's nothing like the hand
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
If you were used to dial-up internet, (IE, where your computer was plugged into a phone line and made a phone call to your internet service provider,) that's a reasonable assumption to make. Some early services billed by the minute, to
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
> Wearing something that hides their face is something that people do at Carnival or because they must. It's antisocial. It creates a barrier. It isolates from other people. When I ski, I often raise my goggles to my forehead when I
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
20 years ago, everyone was whining about losing their jobs to outsourcing. Seems like the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
My $0.02: I suspect each time you submit, you're evaluated by someone different, and everyone has their own interpretation of the criteria. When you submit, assume every time that you're going up against someone who's going t
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
> This is just something I wonder about. For example a dead apple is one that was picked a year ago, sold today, kept in storage until now. This isn't new: One of the early (pre-US) exports of the colonial US was apples back to Euro
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
If anyone is still reading... I think because AI fundamentally changes what a computer is, and how we interact with the computer. A non-AI computer appeals to a certain kind of person, specifically someone who works alone. It behaves a cert
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
I still wonder if the circuitry was analog or digital, though. That could have been an analog "computer".
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> How does it buffer audio? The page says DAW integration, but I assume the inputs are analog. IE, I assume the playback is on the computer and uses whatever DAC the engineer has set up. > To cut a disk you need to pack the grooves as
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
I (mostly) stopped looking at Facebook around 2016. It just wasn't fun anymore; and at least for me, my feed was all political nonsense trying to manipulate me.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Some people are resistant to change and will make irrational and illogical arguments against any change they see as threatening. AI is just one of those. Personally, I'm still struggling to figure out when I should lean into AI, and wh
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
When I don't know how to use a specific API, or how to do a task, I'll often give some high-level instructions to Copilot (Claude's model) in Visual Studio, and then review what it comes up with very, very closely. (Including
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
> and made several videos of the furnace attempting to start and gave it to gemini I assume recorded videos and uploaded them in the Gemini phone on their app; and then probably said "what's wrong?" Gemini is very good at
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Maybe someone who knows more about the ISS than I do can answer this: Naively, I would assume that there are airlocks between the different sections of the ISS. I would also assume that they would close these airlocks while doing the kind o
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
> The lipid pneumonia outbreak was a thing exclusively associated with THC vapes Not true, see the above link.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
No, it wasn't a matter of AI needing to come up with an argument name. It's a matter of the difference between a trusted assistant who can catch mistakes, vs a sycophant who just does what their told and doesn't catch mistake
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
At this point, I wouldn't assume that any nicotine delivery system is safe. IE, e-cigarettes used to be promoted as safe, until the popcorn lung incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchiolitis_obliterans#E-
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
The problems with chewing tobacco are well-known. BTW, colon cancer is rising among men in their 40s, and there is no known reason why.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Regarding the first: I just accidentally had my AI introduce an argument to some methods; and then I realized that the argument name was the opposite of what it did. If the AI had more understanding of language, it probably would have come
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
A couple of things: "Seltzer" and "Sparkling water" often mean the same thing, but a lot of semantics are different. "Seltzer" is usually lower-cost, and often flavored. (IE, plain seltzer is basically sparklin
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
The 2nd half of the article is an explanation of the problem of reading enums referenced in attributes, specifically about how it impedes performance, which I am directly discussing, both in this thread and https://news.ycombinat
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Well, yes, it's fiction. My point is that Walter White, as a written fictional character, is written as a horrible criminal. Pay closer attention to Mike's criticism of Walter's antics; or the general contrast between Gus, wh
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
I like goofy projects like this. Too bad I've never seen most of these brands in the US.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
> We limited ourselves to ones that you could readily buy in Paris, up to the limit of what we could carry. Is Sprindrift even available in Paris? It's an American company, and from a few minutes of Googling, I doubt it's avail

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