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by japhyr 10mo ago
Fully autonomous driving in all conditions in all locations is clearly a hard problem that's still not solved. I'm very happy with any company that clearly spells out the situations where their tech works, and the situations where
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by japhyr 10mo ago
> you can't regulate away ALL parenting This is absolutely true. However, when you do away with the kind of regulation a healthy society needs, you can't then blame everything on parents. Regulation has been presented as a bad
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by japhyr 10mo ago
How did you deal with reproducibility when your tests use randomized data? Do you run with a random seed or something, so you can reproduce failures when they come up?
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by japhyr 10mo ago
I was a classroom teacher from 1994-2019, so I watched the transition through the advent of phones until just before Covid. It's not as simple as it seems, for a few reasons. One, there's the very real pressure from parents to be
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by japhyr 11mo ago
I live near mountains, rolling hills, and lots of farmland. There are many stretches where you can see a car coming from a mile away, long before anyone's high beams are noticeable. But in that darkness, my truck picks up those headlig
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by japhyr 11mo ago
> Mostly I'm hoping that automatic high-beams, like some Ford trucks I've seen do well, proliferate more! I have a 2021 Tacoma, and its automatic high-beam adjustment is terrible. It does a reasonable job of turning high beams
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Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team(squidfunk.github.io)
168 points by japhyr 11mo ago|62 comments
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by japhyr 11mo ago
> Because if that's not at least a "maybe", I feel like chatGPT did provide comfort in a dire situation here. That's a pretty concerning take. You can provide comfort to someone who is despondent, and you can do it in
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by japhyr 11mo ago
> But ChatGPT doesn't advertise itself like that. One of the big problems is how OpenAI is presenting itself to the general public. They don't advertise ChatGPT as a licensed therapist, but their messaging about potential issue
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by japhyr 11mo ago
I started teaching in the 90s, and left classroom teaching in 2019. This is how I saw it play out in every school I was aware of. People think "just ban phones". But there are so many factors at play, it has to be a coordinated ef
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by japhyr 1y ago
> DEI is an immoral, hate based and anti-truth ideology. Much of the DEI work stems from people looking around a decade or so ago at tech conferences, and noticing that they were almost entirely comprised of men. There's way too muc
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by japhyr 1y ago
We had a largish cooler for fishing. I ended up putting a towel in the bottom of the cooler to absorb vibrations, closed the lid over the power cord. I checked the temperature a bunch at first to check for overheating, but it wasn't an
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by japhyr 1y ago
I built a physical version of this back when I was teaching HS math and science. I used two bicycle hubs, and attached metal arms to each. I put an LED on the second hub, and the end of the second arm. For the demonstration, I'd have i
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by japhyr 1y ago
I get that this is a joke, but the bigger issue is that there's no easy fix for this because other humans are using AI tools in a way that destroys their ability to meaningfully work on a team with competent people. There are a lot of
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AI for the Rest of Us(wsvincent.com)
3 points by japhyr 1y ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 1y ago
> any issues or pull requests be well understood by the submitter I really like this phrasing, particularly in regards to PRs. I think I'll find a way to incorporate this into my projects. Even for smaller, non-critical projects, it
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by japhyr 1y ago
That is interesting! They look like they're roughly in the same plane. Is it safe to assume they're roughly in the same plane, or could they be really distant along the line of sight? The similarity in size makes me think they are
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by japhyr 1y ago
It's also about seeing no value in a natural resource other than what you can extract from it, or how much you can profit if you buy it and put up a bigger gate.
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by japhyr 1y ago
To me, Merlin is the shining example of what "a computer in everyone's pocket" could have been. Such an amazing app that connects so many people more intimately with the world around them. I get occasional nudges to support t
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by japhyr 1y ago
I've been trying for a long time to understand all the anti-education, anti-science sentiment we've been seeing in the US for so long now. I think a lot of it comes from how much college is emphasized over everything else in k-12
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by japhyr 1y ago
A long time ago I had trouble waking up without hitting snooze a bunch of times. So I started setting my alarm for the latest possible time I could get up and still get to where I needed to be. I aimed to get up the first time I woke up nat
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by japhyr 2y ago
I supervised a small climbing wall for one year in the mid 2000s. I was really strict about our belay test, but we had some flexibility built in. If you had experience climbing, you could show us your technique and we'd pass you if you
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by japhyr 2y ago
django-simple-deploy, a tool for making your initial Django deployment easier across a variety of platforms. It's plugin-based, so it should cover a growing set of platforms and deployment approaches. I just made the 1.0 release this m
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by japhyr 2y ago
I've tried other tools. But I'm on GitHub most days, so it's been a seamless way to keep track of some things that would otherwise disappear into a calendar, or some tool that I don't use as often.
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by japhyr 2y ago
There's a not-entirely-small part of me that hopes Issues breaks entirely for long enough that people at GitHub rethink their implementation. GH issues have been so useful for the better part of a decade, that I have an empty repo call
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by japhyr 2y ago
I crossed North America four times in my twenties before I had a kid. I was a teacher, and rode west to east for two summers. Then I quite my job, and circled North America on a bike. It was the best choice I ever could have made. I'd
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by japhyr 2y ago
> insurers can insure them again because they are cheap I believe the main part of what the insurance payout covers is rebuilding. And rebuilding is what's expensive, moreso now than ever. So I think housing prices would crash in an
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by japhyr 2y ago
"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification , are permitted provided that the following conditions are met..." https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause
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by japhyr 2y ago
> Just means that when I'm cruising in the right lane with autopilot I have to take over if a car tries to merge. Which brings it right back to the original criticism of Tesla's "self driving" program. What you'r
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by japhyr 2y ago
This is amazing. One issue I ran into though, is after just a minute or two with about five lines on the screen, I get a growing hum that makes me have to close out the tab. Is anyone else running into that?

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