jgtrosh

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by jgtrosh 3y ago
The 11km/h central lane was wicked fast. It was really exciting as a kid... But always broken.
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
> There is preliminary evidence that the protective effect of outdoor activities on the development of myopia is due, at least in part, to the effect of long hours of exposure to daylight on the production and the release of retinal dopa
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
You can disagree with the economics of that strategy, but you can't call them hypocrits for put their money where their mouth is
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
> This is nonsense. The French Academy is adding new words to the dictionary every year. True—though they are, indeed, working on the 9th edition since the 80s. They have currently completed A–S (up to Spermatophytes).
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
you can say « les vécés » (or « le vatér » if you're an old Belgian man maybe), but more common are « les toilettes », « les chiottes » (vulgar but very common)
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Obligatory quatro is twice bigger yet (and all are compatible together!) Also Wikipedia mentions duplex and not duplus, but whatever
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Another amazing track 0, which is described in the (extensively long) album title as having been “lost”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_of_the_Remixes
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
And then we'd witness the market decide whether the company value was provided by its board or its employees
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
You already see a lot of USD, euros, and Brazilian Reals in Argentina (especially avenida Florida of course)
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
No idea, but this makes me wonder how we'd even go about getting training data. And it reminds me one time I built a poc editor[0] which saves deleted content so you can get a similar view to manuscripts in which the author strikes out
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
I feel there's an important difference : we humans can, to some extent, analyse what we just said (or were about to say) (or what we just typed and didn't press send yet!) and conceptualise it as a whole to evaluate its veracity.
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
This only talks of an overload of unknown people surrounding you in cities, but surely the www is for many a strong contributer to that sentiment as well.
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
password-store does have some strong merits stemming from its Bash implementation, but from having followed its newsletter for a few years (and made a few changes in a fork) it also brought its fair share of bugs and weirdness.
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Origami scarab [[[[[[[[FFCFF]]RR]RR]R]RR]R]]
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
In case people are wondering which architecture their Android is (to avoid downloading the bulky universal APK), I found mine is aarch64 with `lscpu` on Termux. Not sure if there's a more straightforward & universal way of finding
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Not an elderly or disabled person, I probably even fit some people's definition of a touch screen wizard since I regularly use swiping keyboards without looking, but I really can't be bothered with those weird slidey gestures betw
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
I understand you mean compose as a generic term for a symbol modifier? But for the compose key, the word composition is used as a synonym of combination , and that of a set of symbols; which is not the case of shifting each symbol into a
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Not really: shift must be used simultaneously and you only input a single key to be shifted, while compose takes a (“dead”?) sequence of inputs to be combined.
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
*Until one day a rocket crash landed on their planet (which caused them to create one in the first place)
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
I guess the "&" is quite distinctive, and the letters are have different vert/hori stroke widths, and a few minor other details. But still, in comparison, the normal logo is way more distinctive and ... pretty, imo
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
In Japanese: いいえ(īe)
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
And this article describes a simplified version of the NES Tetris randomiser. The actual one is barely distinguishable from the described one, but is technically a bit biased[0]. I made a small script to compare randomiser probabilities a c
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Technically, all interesting. Ethically, if you don't only think “fuck Google”, I feel like it's reasonable to stop after the first optimization (“pass the real browser test to get regular browser speeds”). There you're not “
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Ok, it was apparently not the initial intent, but he did simulate that behaviour, and "Many academics believed that the program would be able to positively influence the lives of many people, particularly those with psychological issue
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
One of the first chatbots, ELIZA[0] from 1966, attempted to offer psychotherapeutic assistance to users. I feel like since this was one of the first applications of chatbots, it would have been strongly iterated upon. But I'm not sure
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Fast.com was created specifically to pinpoint the throttling that was actively applied to Netflix in many occurrences back then. It seems to be mostly gone, especially since streaming video now accounts for >50% of web traffic you can&#x
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
My guess is that HPC systems which run applications whose performance strongly depends on efficient data scatter gather will immediately disable the mitigation.
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
This is a very good article giving an overview of telephone technology and the technical aspects of fighting against spam calling, with comparisons to email spam. I don't think the editorialised title (“computers are broken”) is partic
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
According to Wikipedia: > On 3 August 2023, the Korean LK-99 Verification Committee requested a high-quality sample from the original research team. However, the team responded that they would only provide the sample once the review proc
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Only if it doesn't only rely on a master password

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