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by istjohn 3y ago
A global cooling system is easily conceivable. The ISS uses radiators to dissipate heat into outer space. We could do the same. We could concentrate heat with heat pumps and pump hot steam, molten salt, or plasma up a space elevator and rad
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by istjohn 3y ago
The future is Amish
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by istjohn 3y ago
I suppose that would be replacement rate if there were 42% more women than men in China. But according to Wikipedia there actually 4.5% more men than women.
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by istjohn 3y ago
We've been waiting over a decade for regulation to come to the social media space. Why do you think the government will be any different with AI?
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by istjohn 3y ago
In no particular order: 1. To pirate content without getting sent threat letters or being sued 2. To prevent your ISP or the wifi access point or anyone else from seeing which domains you are connecting to and selling that data 3. To preven
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Linus Pauling is another example. The only person to ever receive two unshared Nobel prizes, considered one of the top 20 scientists of all time, and he was a huge proponent of megavitamin pseudoscience.
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by istjohn 3y ago
Glad to hear that's changed. There were strident statements from the developer on Github last time I researched it to the effect that implementing '!'-style history expansion was contrary to the fish philosophy and that peopl
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by istjohn 3y ago
I quit fish because I missed being able to `sudo !!` to rerun the previous command with sudo. There's an alternative way to do it (something like up arrow, ctrl-i, "sudo", enter), but I can never remember it when I need it, w
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by istjohn 3y ago
I was suprised at how smooth Obsidian's vim-mode is.
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by istjohn 3y ago
Even the full original wording doesn't align with what you later said: > Overall though, we use PhDs/psychiatrists/master-level coaches to supervise, create protocols, trainings, etc. and use coaches to deliver. (Not AI).
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by istjohn 3y ago
Cosmic rays or other random sources of data corruption?
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If you don't mind sharing, how did you get off the streets?
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by istjohn 3y ago
Do you have any experience with sanoid/syncoid? What does Zrepl give you over them?
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by istjohn 3y ago
Does anyone know how zrepl compares to sanoid/syncoid other than that zrepl is written in Go and sanoid/syncoid are Perl scripts?
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I read somewhere that snapshots are actually around 5 MB. Still not a lot, but a lot more than a few KB. A year's worth of hourly snapshots comes to over 40 GB just in snapshot overhead.
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by istjohn 3y ago
I recently powered up a 2012 Macbook Air with SSD after 7 years and had no data loss.
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I recently recovered data from a 2012 Macbook Air SSD that was powered off for 7 years with no data loss.
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Why would they ever sell anything when they can just use them as collateral for loans and avoid ever paying taxes.
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If you have multiple backups, you don't have to trust anyone.
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by istjohn 3y ago
In case you weren't aware: Timeshift > System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can b
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by istjohn 3y ago
How many fonts are there? A couple hundred? Plus bold and italics.
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The web started as a graph of hyperlinked documents, and that use case hasn't gone away. SPA's aren't the internet.
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If you tell them it makes you uncomfortable when you chew, they will probably grind down the filling for you at no charge--at least mine did.
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The DSM-5 does not use the terms dependence or addiction as standalone diagnostic categories. It unifies them under the concept of "substance use disorders," describing a spectrum of use and classifying severity based on the numbe
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True enough, but I'm not terribly impressed that the author was able to find one stupid judge statement. There are probably other judges vowing to reject kritical arguments out of hand, which is just as indefensible.
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American slavery was one of the cruelest forms of slavery in recorded history. > A quote from a letter by Isabella Gibbons, who had been enslaved by professors at the University of Virginia, is now engraved on the university's Memor
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I'd rather my request fail with an error than have it be silently truncated.
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You'd twist it 60 degrees, not 120 degrees, right?
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How does sentence-transformers compare to OpenAI embeddings? How long does it take to generate an embedding on a CPU?
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The selection effect is real, but there is very real value in a university education, too. The author was raised by a single mom and did not have amazing grades in high school. He's watched the door to the middle class that he walked t

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