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by jes5199 4y ago
my favorite is a little command line helper called “o”. it’s a helper for copy and rename commands. If I want to edit a misspelled filename I can just type o mv mispelled.txt and it will make an interactive prompt that looks like: mv mispel
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by jes5199 4y ago
at this point, I think that bezier curves are ugly. I just want a car with an actual shape, not something that looks like a used bar of soap.
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by jes5199 4y ago
LLMs are very intelligent they just need to try harder
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by jes5199 4y ago
how often do human drivers crash?
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by jes5199 4y ago
AI-as-extreme-compression seems like a subfield with a lot of fascinating applications. Kinda like how MP3 used a perceptual model to define what sounds were least important, AI compression could have a conceptual model of what features wer
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by jes5199 4y ago
can you recommend some specific power supplies? I’ve got a project that’s been stalled out for long time because I don’t know the right way to power it
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by jes5199 4y ago
my macs absolutely start to degrade after about 18 months, and I try to keep them limping along for a few more months. I think it’s usually the battery crapping out that causes everything else to sort of overheat and suck
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by jes5199 4y ago
why would you ever want that turned off??
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by jes5199 4y ago
I read this again, a couple years ago. The assumption that increasing MIPS alone would drive societal change felt quaint, like it was an idea from the 1990s preserved in a time capsule. But things have gotten strange since then, and tech is
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by jes5199 4y ago
maybe that’s true today but within five years I bet the economics will have pushed you and your neighbors to install at least some amount of solar and batteries
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by jes5199 4y ago
The densely populated cities are going to be the hardest to transition - but in rural and suburban areas it may already be cheaper to generate and store your own power than to get it from the grid, most of the year
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by jes5199 4y ago
for a while I had my laptop set up to take a photograph and and screenshot every ten minutes. The information was completely useless, but I got some great candid photos of myself
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by jes5199 4y ago
counterexamples: python ruby perl clojure C C++
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by jes5199 4y ago
I’ve always felt like the contrast was too low, feels harder to read
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by jes5199 4y ago
I don't know, I get kind of bored of taking good, documentary pictures. Sometimes I just wanna see something weird, enjoy a process, see what happens
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by jes5199 4y ago
I have worked with a lot of Stanford grads and only some of them were competent programmers
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by jes5199 4y ago
ah yes, "seconds", the "second minúte part of an hour", i.e. 1/60th of 1/60th of 1/24th of the average time it takes the Earth to rotate towards Sol. very sensible default.
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by jes5199 4y ago
yes
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by jes5199 4y ago
I'm trying to picture what the cost of a LiPo battery array was 20 years ago, in 2002
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by jes5199 4y ago
for now, EV makers have amazing margins, because they're competing against expensive ICE cars. once they're competing against each other, it'll change pretty fast
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by jes5199 4y ago
you don’t need a slider, just look at a photograph of a thermometer with both scales on it
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by jes5199 5y ago
aw, good old sensei. That’s a blast from the past
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by jes5199 5y ago
I’ve been trying to reverse engineer the app described in this article: https://www.inputmag.com/features/tropetrainer-thomas-buchle... , which happens to have been originally written in Delphi, I believe
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by jes5199 5y ago
I wasn’t expecting to hear any new _why mythology after all this time! Thank you, this is amazing
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by jes5199 5y ago
the twitter UI lets you type a bunch of tweets in a row. You get used to it other formats of text start to feel overwrought, unnecessarily verbose, full of meaningless filler
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by jes5199 5y ago
it’s a little more complicated than that, because “burning the man” and “zone trip” were separate events that merged into one giant thing
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by jes5199 5y ago
it can have more than one purpose
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by jes5199 5y ago
I think it’s an intentional distraction. The vector map stuff is a reply to last week’s news cycle where the FTC and the NHTSA are both probing the safety of the self-driving systems, but the robot announcement is to make sure no one d
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by jes5199 5y ago
yes, there is always the option to return to violence, for anyone who’d prefer to be nasty, brutish, and short.
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by jes5199 5y ago
yes true. property, especially real estate, is a legal construct created by the state. In older eras this was more explicit, property existed “at the pleasure of the Queen” or whatever. Now we rely on a nebulous social consensus reinforced

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