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by jakear 5y ago
Doesn’t the entire NFT market rely on trusting that the company you bought your “certified original one of a kind URL pointing to the image they host” doesn’t cease to exist?
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by jakear 5y ago
Yes this. As someone who was “gifted” in school but with a father who teaches mild/moderate learning disabilities, the skill sets of the two ends of the spectrum of teachers are dramatically different. “Gifted” student teachers can t
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by jakear 5y ago
> Perhaps it is as impossible to predict if a program will ever finish as it is to create a functional genome that cannot get cancer? Quite interesting. Though the hard part about the Halting problem is its infinite time scope. With a li
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by jakear 5y ago
Any suggestions?
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by jakear 5y ago
True, though I’ve explained it a bit backwards here. The true goal is to find algorithms that produce meshes which visually mimic plants. The thinking above is that doing so would result in a new visual classification phylogeny. Such a clas
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by jakear 5y ago
I understand how and why they have the naming system they do, I just am claiming that it’s become less and less helpful for amateur identification in favor of what scientists consider useful. I propose an alternative naming convention based
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by jakear 5y ago
I don’t see much of an issue with Disney getting paid for the new content they produce. If I want to watch the new Bad Batch episodes, I can either pay for a Disney+ subscription and increase the official view count, thereby increasing the
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by jakear 5y ago
The D pad overlaid on mobile doesn’t seem to handle touch ending events. Once I press once that key is shown as activated forever and it appears as if the game sees it as such as well.
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by jakear 5y ago
I’ve become increasingly interested in what I think would be called “computational botany” if it were to be fleshed out. In looking at this and articles like it, and speaking with both trained and amateur botanists, a common thread is that
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by jakear 5y ago
The problem is it’s rather incomprehensible what it would mean to not be in a “simulation”, for sufficiently lax definitions of simulation. At the absolute core, simulations are differential equations. I believe it was Turing who said som
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by jakear 5y ago
It's awe-inspiring how much more quickly a human brain can learn versus a computer. These companies have expended tens of thousands of engineer-hours of some one the best minds in the industry to build models derived from tens of thous
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by jakear 5y ago
Well thats... limiting. But reasonable I suppose. If you go the sum type route would you then need to implement identify specifically for the sum type?
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by jakear 5y ago
How does it pick which identity to use? If I compress the empty list is that a translation by 0,0 a dilation by 1, or a rotation by 0? I don't love the ambiguity here.
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by jakear 5y ago
I'd have liked to see an implementation of `compress` in the DSL. As the author mentions, n-fold is pretty easily implemented in pure lisp by reading a "static" identity property of the transformation's prototype. In com
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by jakear 5y ago
Theres cost-benefit tradeoffs for sure. It'd be nice to be able to do a big bisect without needing to flash the dependencies every iteration, but if it comes at the cost of making everything else slower (more bandwidth, more disk I&#x2
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by jakear 5y ago
Teslas are also heavier than many trucks (including mine) so this isn't surprising. That doesn't mean I want something even lighter.
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by jakear 5y ago
As much as I’d like to roll down I-5 in an M1 Abrams I think the economics of pulling a shitload of metal out of the earth and moving it around really fast will present significant damping to the system you describe. As for the “lightweight
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by jakear 5y ago
As I said, momentum. Are you familiar with newton's laws?
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by jakear 5y ago
This is why I drive a big truck. When egomaniacs can trick the government into allowing them to set their half baked creations loose on public roads using unknowing and unwilling third parties as test subjects, I want to be the dominant ter
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by jakear 5y ago
Don't expect the crypto fanatics of Twitter hacks to exercise discretion. Remember the 2020 doubling scam [1]? Hundreds of high profile accounts hijacked and the best they could do is the most ancient trick in the book. I have to wonde
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by jakear 5y ago
So instead of downloading the current set of dependencies after cloning, you download every dependency ever used while cloning? And you do this to "save bandwidth"? Doesn't make much sense. (Yes I know about shallow clones, b
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by jakear 5y ago
> more powerful than any local government I’ll believe that when I see FB agents smashing down doors to imprison (/kill) activists.
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by jakear 5y ago
We think therefore we are -- aren't we?
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by jakear 5y ago
Tech companies also pay for health insurance, sick leave, and ma/pa leave. Sure pensions aren't a big thing, but increased savings from increased salary can make up for that (not to mention 401k).
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by jakear 5y ago
Unfortunately that same rule also stipulates that at each stage of the musical work being rendered to a digital medium, transferred to an unknown location, then played back using unknown equipment, a portion of the magic is irrecoverably lo
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by jakear 5y ago
Huh... so for the past couple weeks there was a top level "discover" tab on the iPhone app (so Home/Discover/Search/Your Library), and when you clicked it it would just a random song in a weird full-app video playba
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by jakear 5y ago
Got my family on a family account for Apple Music a while back, then at some point picked up a personal Spotify account to test the waters for their generated playlists, support for networked devices (chromecast/smart tv's), and A
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by jakear 5y ago
That or I check the online playlist.
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by jakear 5y ago
Radio stations solved the problem and they make money doing it, so I say yes discovery is a viable product - but not in a way tech companies have been able to automate.
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by jakear 5y ago
When you have enough cash on hand to buy one, chances are you already have investments in money-returning assets, and you're diversifying into entertainment-returning ones. No point making a bunch of money just to spend it all on makin

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