jedimastert

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by jedimastert 5mo ago
> And this is not really a technical issue. It's a worldview issue no matter how much you or others try to pretend it's a technical problem or that I am violating etiquette or something. I'm actually so curious what you th
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by jedimastert 5mo ago
> There are a lot of people reading his position. One or two additional clarifying sentences to spell it out for people skimming is not such an unreasonable ask. I do think it is a bit unwarranted, actually. This isn't a press relea
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by jedimastert 5mo ago
I think it's just that the internet is particularly well suited for explanations on the intersection between mathematics and graphics
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by jedimastert 5mo ago
Related, I think Freya Holmér's "The Beauty of Bézier Curves" is in the running for one of the best educational videos on YouTube. https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw?si=K7QYf4luKhgv2mgd
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by jedimastert 5mo ago
> Meaning you do not want text generation in the web API at all, or you think the prompt API needs to be different? Not OP but I think you are misunderstanding the interaction as a whole here. The Chromium team made a proposal, then the
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by jedimastert 5mo ago
> How do we solve this? How do we make the browser ours, by the people, and for the people? Unfortunately, the answer is pretty much always "real public funding"
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by jedimastert 5mo ago
Why would they? This is an issue put up on the "standards-position" repo. They requested a position on a proposed standard, and Mozilla gave it.
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
> expanded quite rapidly into including racism and then labor practices The jump you referring to is a quote with a reference attached. But in short terms so that might be useful to Google, but in short the concept of intersectionality m
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
Honestly, the language isn't super off or abnormal in other circles, maybe it's a lot more telling that when posted on a tech-oriented site it's seen as ridiculous
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
It's not, the entire site appears to be a serious examination of technology and hacking ethics through a feminist lens
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
Gonna +1 what the other person said, but also this research group appears to be like intentionally focused on hacking and technology ethics from a feminist perspective sooooo like maybe it's just not your cup of tea to begin with? Eith
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
I think the entire point of the project and potentially the research group is looking at manufacturing while explicitly/intentionally steering away from high volume and industrial processes.
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
That's a cool project, I've actually considered something somewhere but never put the energy into actually doing the work. I'm guessing that the issue here might have been that copper as a metal is kind of difficult to trace
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
The name of the site and I think the group itself is "feminist hacking", the entire point of the research group appears to be examining the ethics of technology and hacking through a feminist lens. https://feministhacke
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
CO2 emissions from burning wood (and charcoal) can considered net-zero by some (I'm not really interested in arguing one way or the other) because all of the CO2 being released was initially trapped out of the air by the plant, not rel
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
I knew some of the basics of mahjong but didn't realize it was almost exactly like rummy, to the point that it would be very difficult to believe they aren't somehow related.
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
This is actually addressed on the BDS movement website https://bdsmovement.net/what-bds Effective boycotts work on companies that are large enough to be noticed but small enough for boycotts to have an effect, while divestm
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
Isn't this addressed on the same page you linked? > We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact. My intentionally pick companies that are large enough to
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
Depends on how you define complexity? Like when the Apollo guidance computer was made, the bottleneck was making integrated chips so they only made one, the NOR gate, and a whackton of routing to build out an entire CPU. Horribly complex ro
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
I will say that I'm also speaking from personal experience, where I was self taught for about 12 years before taking my first lessons for my piano minor in uni. A single lesson resetting some habits I'd gotten into about hand post
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Music hardware company Elektron acquired by investment company Bonnier Capital(musicradar.com)
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by jedimastert 6mo ago
> Probably almost any method is effective at learning guitar, as long as it includes the key factor - time spent practicing. There are a few pedagogical points here to keep in mind: first, there are local maxima in terms of learning some
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by jedimastert 9mo ago
Glass transition temperatures are a little bit misleading, but from personal experience even leaving a PLA print in direct sunlight under even a little tension will cause it to warp in as little as 30 minutes if you aren't careful.
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by jedimastert 9mo ago
First of all, anyone getting scammed is detrimental to society because society is made out of people and those are people getting scammed. Gambling addicts are not less important than wealthy people. Second, these markets are generating new
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by jedimastert 9mo ago
It's been shamefully long since I've updated, but https://aarontag.com
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by jedimastert 9mo ago
Why?
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by jedimastert 9mo ago
I have a personal vendetta against coal in particular because of the way it destroys the entire communities and towns. Coal got an early head start in environmentalism villainy because it has immediate and very visible environmental impacts
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by jedimastert 9mo ago
All of those energy providers appear to be public utilities, and not privately owned.
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by jedimastert 9mo ago
The current administration is actively undermining pretty much any attempt to move towards renewables.
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by jedimastert 9mo ago
They do, trains are BAFFLINGLY fuel efficient in terms of pounds of cargo. Once they get up to speed, trains can move one ton of cargo about 480 mile per gallon, vs 130 with trucks

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