idiocrat

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by idiocrat 2y ago
For practice you can buy several fire extinguishers at a hardware store and then walk in your neighborhood trying to convince people to buy the extinguishers from you. Such a field experience is very valuable.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
One interesting/funny thing that Japanese visitors to Europe/USA observe is that people in bookstores and libraries are turning their heads to the side in front of the bookshelves.
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by idiocrat 2y ago
Have not read this article behind the paywall. I assumed that in India many buildings are not being finished, because there will be some kind of taxation upon finishing the building construction. So it makes sense to keep the upper floor in
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by idiocrat 2y ago
> Authorities reportedly believe the smuggler went to the lengths he did in an effort to avoid Japan’s 10-percent import tariff. To my understanding, when selling in Japan, the smugglers will need to either declare the capital gain tax,
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by idiocrat 3y ago
Chipping in dnGrep. Allows to grep inside XLSX and Word files. http://dngrep.github.io/
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by idiocrat 3y ago
4:1 I know what you did here. I am taking my Mg/K supplements to keep up my attention.
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by idiocrat 3y ago
Just imagine the air drag in that mesh/roost.
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by idiocrat 3y ago
Waiting for the AI judges and the AI executioners. End-to-end fully automated pipeline.
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by idiocrat 3y ago
Don't miss out on "Meet the Feebles (1989)" https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0097858/
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by idiocrat 3y ago
Please take a look at this animation. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-speed-of-li...
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by idiocrat 3y ago
A thought experiment. It has been said that if a modern "average" human were transported back in time, it would be difficult for that person to build anything useful, because of the lack of material manufacturing (c.f. "Toast
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by idiocrat 3y ago
The trick with my Lenovo 300W notebook in the airplanes is as following. At first, with the adapter disconnected from the notebook, I charge the capacitors inside of the adapter by connecting and re-connecting repeatedly (1-2 seconds interv
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by idiocrat 3y ago
Sorry to be that guy again, but can I have my "Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0" back please? (When the world was still simple and the future was yet in the future). Some time ago a fellow NH user has proposed an interesting i
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by idiocrat 3y ago
I suddenly stopped worrying about both LISP and FORTH, when my CS professor mentioned (around 1995) that it would be trivial to write a transformer between the LISP and FORTH.
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by idiocrat 3y ago
In a range of 100-150 US$ a piece. Perhaps 500-800 US$ for 5 finished keyboards. Similar to this Omnikey Ultra T, in a similar build quality, but with few keys rearranged. I wish the F11 and F12 on the life side to be below F9 and F10 keys.
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by idiocrat 3y ago
Is there a way to ask for a reasonably-priced custom made keyboard? I have a key layout in mind, and I just want a ready product, not to fiddle with hardware and firmware myself. The order lot is very tiny of maybe 4-5 pcs. The layout is qu
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by idiocrat 3y ago
Interesting. One of the few movies you can fully watch in both directions. The music character makes the distinct atmosphere. I just made a small peek and I could find new some visual details, which I was glossing over on the forward versio
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by idiocrat 3y ago
Yes, thought the same. Once the LLMs are going, why do I need to call anybody myself? Let AIs personas do everything on my behalf. Just make a good insurance policy, that if my AI persona screws something up, I will not be liable.
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by idiocrat 3y ago
An interesting reprint in 2003 https://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/understanding-natural-langu... "Computers still cannot understand natural language as well as young children can. Why is it so hard?" Source: AI
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by idiocrat 3y ago
"He saw that gas can explode." This ambiguous sentence stuck in my head some 30 years ago, when the AI was popular at that time. There was a research paper discussing the issue of ambiguity.
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by idiocrat 4y ago
It still will be a timing game. What if I want to click on the new object in 300 ms time period? I need to wait 300 ms to do so, this is a flow issue. If 1 billion current MS Windows users would make daily 1000 UI operations, but each time
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by idiocrat 4y ago
- Multi-threaded UI updates, where the elements being shifted from the expected position (after a background update), causing the mouse clicks to miss the expected element. Need to delay the clicks and wait until the UI updates are settled,
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by idiocrat 4y ago
I am "shocked" how much human collective time is wasted on inefficient software and configurations, including: - UI animations sliding/folding (e.g. 1Hz interactivity vs 120Hz interactivity). - MS Windows default keyboard set
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by idiocrat 4y ago
Interesting. "KSUIDs are larger than UUIDs and Flake IDs, weighing in at 160 bits. They consist of a 32-bit timestamp and a 128-bit randomly generated payload." TTTTTTTTRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR T-Timestamp R-Random There a
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The Great European Firewall(eur-lex.europa.eu)
5 points by idiocrat 4y ago|2 comments
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by idiocrat 4y ago
Europa proposes the new law to protect online child sexual abuse. An effective implementation will require installment of the Great European Firewall. "(6) Online child sexual abuse frequently involves the misuse of information society
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by idiocrat 4y ago
Her camera's zoom has some bouncing bug.
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by idiocrat 4y ago
> Starbucks coffee prices To my understanding, the price of coffee is mostly determined by the rent (prime location) and the staff costs. I see this so, that if I go to a coffee shop and buy an expensive coffee, I just pay for renting a
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by idiocrat 4y ago
(For MS SQL server) If UUIDs are not sequential (i.e. random), there could be performance problems to used those as PK with an underlying clustered index (CI). The CIs work best with sequential values. Inserting a random value into a CI wil
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by idiocrat 4y ago
The oxygen is the ultimate killer, it has absolute 100% mortality. It causes your body to metabolize, age and die. You could live forever if you would stop breathing oxygen.

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