heraclius1729

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by heraclius1729 9mo ago
It's not very frequently updated, and there's not a lot on it, but here's mine! domainofheraclius.info
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by heraclius1729 1y ago
Regarding sniffing out "networker"s. At one of the first "networking" events I attended, I spoke for a bit with a particular person. An hour or two later, we ended up in the same circle and he proceeded to rattle off fro
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by heraclius1729 1y ago
Can you be a little more specific about what you consider gross? I only read the article because of your comment; I got curious. Most of it just seems like common courtesy, and a few fairly standard body language tricks.
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by heraclius1729 1y ago
Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction by Edward Fesser I stumbled across this completely by accident while doing research for a history of science class I was designing years ago. It took... a while... to stop saying "but
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by heraclius1729 2y ago
Oh! I didn't know that actually. That's useful information.
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by heraclius1729 2y ago
These days, I personally haven't had any issues with odd scanners or printers and getting them to work. Years ago it was nightmarish, but now it tends to be a lot easier than Windows in my experience. My scanner still doesn't wo
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by heraclius1729 2y ago
> In both cases, asking for forgiveness (dereferencing a null pointer and then recovering) instead of permission (checking if the pointer is null before dereferencing it) is an optimization. Comparing all pointers with null would slow do
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Using eqn for static website equation generation(douglasrumbaugh.com)
39 points by heraclius1729 2y ago|7 comments
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by heraclius1729 2y ago
Privet. Freakin' privet. I have spent countless hours trying to eradicate the descendants of a privet hedge that my great grandfather planted a hundred years ago; they've been taking over the nearby forest. Talk about generational
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by heraclius1729 2y ago
He sure got a gift for naming things. Between his S3XY cars and the Big Falcon Rocket from back in the day.
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by heraclius1729 2y ago
Not to mention that the cost per search in terms of compute and energy is so much smaller for web search than for running an LLM. I forget the exact numbers now, but it was orders of magnitude as I recall. Search engines are just cheaper to
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by heraclius1729 2y ago
That's an interesting positive spin on what is clearly a cost-cutting feature. I'm on the unlimited search tier, so it hasn't really been a big deal, but it's worth noting that clicking the "more results" butto
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by heraclius1729 2y ago
I agree! I love a nice big dial--my car still has them for volume, heat, etc., and I cannot imagine dealing with one that didn't.
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by heraclius1729 2y ago
The fact that you can do stuff like this with a typesetting system has always amused me. Back when I was in grad school for mechanical engineering, some other people in my research group were doing computational mechanics. We would always j
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by heraclius1729 2y ago
If any entity needs some effort put into process streamlining and efficiency, it's the US government. But, seriously... Why, oh why, did it have to be called "DOGE"?
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by heraclius1729 2y ago
"In the meantime, you can still buy blank cartridges and GB Interceptors from FerranteCraft's Etsy store, but everything else will have to be bought from the publisher's website. " [emphasis mine] This is really the sol
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by heraclius1729 3y ago
Right, but just because it doesn't appear to be dangerous doesn't mean it won't be in the long term. Unless there've been studies already done on the effects of long term exposure, I'm inclined to be cautious. Thing
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by heraclius1729 3y ago
I didn't think of that. This seems like a very good idea. Put the lights where the people aren't , but where the pathogens will be circulating.
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by heraclius1729 3y ago
UV light is also pretty bad for humans, is it not? Sunburn, skin-cancer, and all that. I seem to recall a recent mistake where some UV disinfectant lights were used at an event, resulting in sunburns and eye problems for many attendees. The