hirundo

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by hirundo 4y ago
I loved it too. But somehow I wish he'd ended it there, and I never had to know how Woodrow dies. The book didn't need to be shorter, but the rest of the series may have diminished it. I feel that way about Dune too. On the other
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by hirundo 4y ago
"We pledge that we will not weaponize our advanced-mobility general-purpose robots or the software we develop that enables advanced robotics and we will not support others to do so." So the pledge does not cover any special-purpos
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by hirundo 4y ago
The natives were NIMBYs too, but the YIYBY settlers were more numerous and better armed.
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by hirundo 4y ago
DaVinci is in good company. Another such slacker was Newton, who spent all of that time on alchemy but never did transmute lead into gold.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Syndrome implies malady. Better words for this style as applied to Leonardo would be Power/Capacity/Knack/Talent/Aptitude.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Such is the cost of "free". I de-gmailed over to fastmail, which isn't free, and isn't building wormholes into their perfectly adequate spam filter.
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by hirundo 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Who...
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by hirundo 4y ago
Robert Crumb, "A Short History of America"
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by hirundo 4y ago
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/06/d9/20/06d920e0b7ac5d60664d...
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by hirundo 4y ago
The best humans play at an Elo rating of 2800. “Stockfish,” the most powerful chess engine, has an estimated rating of more than 3500. This may be the most terrifying statement I've read all year. From parity to ovewhelming dom
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by hirundo 4y ago
Go on, go change your ideology right now. Like for real. With actual, deeply-held genuine belief. Did it work? You can't distinguish ideology from religion so easily. Religion is just what we call ideology on a theological topic.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Maybe not concrete but this feels like a clear policy preference: Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
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by hirundo 4y ago
My standard test prompt has become "John Wayne as Captain America". Your images were returned > 10x faster than on other stable diffusion generators and generated many more images. But they were of lower quality than I've
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by hirundo 4y ago
Dear Hckr news, I'm one of those overly curious weirdoes who just has to know what every `DEAD undefined` is for, so now I have to click through on each. You used to display the headlines, and I could dismiss most of them by doing noth
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by hirundo 4y ago
Actual question: The U.S. has many laws that prohibit discrimination against or require common carriers to do business with members of various groups. Among those groups are races, genders, religions and nationalities. Why would groups defi
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by hirundo 4y ago
That part is fine. The part that isn't is where they require you to give your personal information to a third party who has very weak controls on how they share it. Your endorsement makes me interested in trying the service, but I have
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by hirundo 4y ago
If it was unbreakable it would be inconsistent with "laws" like Moore's and Gilder's.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I'd call the photo request a reasonable precaution in the context of hiring fraud. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32996457 That would be incompatible with a blind audition but those are rare.
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by hirundo 4y ago
The title is misleading, in that fasting is very different than "fasting-mimicking" which is the phrase in the original title and the topic of the paper.
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by hirundo 4y ago
"Contrary to the often-repeated trope that humans never learn from history, we can and we should learn lessons from the past" -- Text from the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, that archaeologists just haven't found yet
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by hirundo 4y ago
My local small hardware store keeps its router bits in a locked display cabinet ... with the key in the lock. Which reminds me of a covid mask worn under the chin. There is no easy one size fits all balance between security and convenience.
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by hirundo 4y ago
An AR augment as described is basically a geo-linked URL, and should be treated the same way as any other URL. For the most part we can link to whatever we want, and "decorate" it with our commentary. Adding a reference to a point
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by hirundo 4y ago
Count me out. I still use a monochrome laser printer occasionally for personal business, and have fun covering the walls with prints from a big photo printer. James Webb's Neptune is the latest.
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Association between meatless diet and depressive episodes(sciencedirect.com)
74 points by hirundo 4y ago|144 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
The importance is in the "accountability" of accounting. By forcing each entry to cross accounts, you make each account reconcilable with the others. "Books" are no longer independent because they can be cross-checked. W
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by hirundo 4y ago
What would an England colonized by India look like? That's a Bollywood movie I'd pay to watch.
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by hirundo 4y ago
271ms down / 67 up. Uhg. I've repeated this 6x now over an hour or so, same very similar results.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I just now did a speedtest.net run on my Starlink connection, with no other network traffic running: 14.22 Mbs down / 8.76 Mpbs up. OK, that's pretty crap. But before Starlink my best option was DSL at around 8 down / 1.5 up.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I know it was just used as an example, but in reality when I see code like this I think "I really don't want to reinvent URL parsing for this, I'll import the library for that instead," resulting in much cleaner code. Bu
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Fifth Circuit Social Media Decision Stands on Firm Ground(reason.com)
2 points by hirundo 4y ago|0 comments

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