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by joshvm 1y ago
Gemini has some fun failure modes. It gets "frustrated" when changes it makes doesn't work, and replies with oddly human phrases like "Well, that was unexpected" and then happily declares that (I see the issue!) &qu
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by joshvm 1y ago
I agree about Glitch, though it gets super busy. There are cafes which also serve their beans if you don't want the wait. I would also recommend Fuglen's tasting experience in Sangubashi. It's a bit theatrical, but great if y
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by joshvm 1y ago
On kissaten - 店 ten is the kanji for "store", though you might also learn 屋 ( ya , lit. roof). kissa means consume tea (喫茶), more or less. I didn't notice them on my first visit, I wasn't into coffee then, but they&#
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by joshvm 1y ago
Music is a lot easier than visual media or books though. You can listen to new songs daily and have a good knowledge of the last century's music. It's also easy to listen and concentrate while doing something else, like walking or
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by joshvm 1y ago
I imagine there are tools that will artificially slow down requests. The lazy way would be to VPN somewhere as far away as possible and throttle your bandwidth. That would get you 250ms of round trip latency for free. In Antarctica we had u
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by joshvm 1y ago
Top tip from using only high-latency satellite internet for long periods: add a significant delay to every request to problematic sites. As soon as the dopamine loop is broken, you'll find the wait so frustrating that you won't bo
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by joshvm 1y ago
Very good, generally. It's affordable by Swiss standards, which is to say expensive for tourists but remarkably good value if you're a resident on a median salary. The cost of the whole-country annual rail pass costs less than a p
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by joshvm 1y ago
At some point you'll be diffraction limited even at the scale of Earth. The larger your effective aperture, the better you can resolve. Adaptive optics helps get big telescopes closer to diffraction limited performance. That's the
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by joshvm 1y ago
This is a nice idea that often comes up in geo/ml projects. (Why not just use OSM for all your labels?) To start, OSM doesn't use Google Maps imagery for annotation due to licensing concerns. As someone else mentioned, it's r
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by joshvm 1y ago
For desktop GUI development I can't imagine not using breakpoints and stepping. Especially when you have several ways that some callback might be triggered. It's super helpful to break on a UI element signal (or slot) and then fol
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by joshvm 1y ago
There's a nice lecture from Dan Gelbart that discusses things that people thought were impossible, until they were invented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZeBWJLRXqM Creative solutions to impossible engineering pro
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by joshvm 1y ago
The first thing I asked was along the lines of "Find me an implementation of X that does not depend on framework Y, because it's not maintained". o3 thought for a minute and then returns a repository that depends on Y. In its
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by joshvm 1y ago
These do exist but they're remarkably expensive and the infrastructure is apparently terrible. Several companies sell "smart led displays" that people use to show their follower counts while streaming. There's no reason
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by joshvm 1y ago
That's a fun idea, just have it ask questions like the little IQ toys and have a yes/no button. Turns out this works reasonably well if you only allow binary responses. If you also had an "I'm not sure" or "I d
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by joshvm 1y ago
An important caveat here is yes, for coding. Apps are fine for coming up with one-liners, or doing other research. I haven't found the quality of IDE based code to be significantly better than what ChatGPT would suggest, but it's
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by joshvm 1y ago
I agree on the distillation step. They're very good at identifying what problem you're trying to solve, especially if you don't have much experience in the domain. I've found ChatGPT great for figuring out problems invol
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by joshvm 1y ago
> Whats the difference of your definition to a pub? CAMRA's definition includes "Is open to the public without membership or residency" and a bunch more that amount to "does not necessarily serve food" to disting
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by joshvm 1y ago
They exist at either end of the class spectrum. Working Men's Clubs used to be very common around the UK and many still exist. The one near my childhood home is Victorian-era and was recently refurbished. As long as I can remember it h
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by joshvm 1y ago
Having been in this situation a few times as an adult, it's a mixture of stressful and cathartic figuring out exactly what's worth keeping, storing or giving away. The best approach I've found is to standardize packing into 6
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by joshvm 1y ago
I think this is still survivor bias though, and the games that traditionally offered map editors still do. There are a lot of games nowadays that allow user-contributed levels/content if not full-on mods.
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https://wccftech.com/amd-says-8gb-vram-is-sufficient-as-majo... It was a little tongue in cheek, but this comment by Frank Azor has been circulated around (and taken out of context): > Majority of gamers are still playin
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by joshvm 1y ago
AMD recently annoyed the gaming community - who are among the most susceptible to unnecessary upgraditis - by saying that friends don't let friends buy GPUs with more than 8GB VRAM. If you look at the Steam hardware surveys, that'
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by joshvm 1y ago
I always wanted to play with Optica for Mathematica. It seems like a problem that would lend itself really well to the Wolfram way of visual + functional programming. However I've never met anyone who uses it and while academics usuall
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by joshvm 1y ago
If over 100 ug/m3 for 2 minutes, turn on, if under 10 for 10, turn off. If someone's cooking, there is a very predictable spike that peaks in the low hundreds and then decays (super-) exponentially. It was surprising to see how lo
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by joshvm 1y ago
Can't speak for OP, but just get Home Assistant running and play around. It'll work in Docker in anything, but it's a good use for an old Raspberry Pi. There isn't much more of a stack than that, and HA is by far the mos
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You can get switches that aren't any louder than typing on a laptop, these days "clicky" is just sub-category. The low profile 'choc' switches from Kailh are probably a good option to try. https://www.you
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by joshvm 1y ago
> I've purchased specialized woodworking tools online that simply involved filling out a form. I later received the parts with an invoice to send payment. You can simply not pay if you choose not to. Payment after receipt is very co
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by joshvm 1y ago
My take is that it's primarily a smart way to quickly gather lots of ELO/AB feedback about LLM responses for training, whilst also reducing people switching to ChatGPT. OpenAI has significant first mover advantage here and it&#x27
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I watched the video out of interest and it seems like that would only happen if you didn't use the dispenser flap. If you use tablets the only thing you miss is pre-washing. The argument is that cheap powder is just as good and it&#x27
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They also have far more price sensitive customers and they're competing against streaming platforms. It's not like the cost of movies and TV has gone down. But, nobody is going to pay 50 bucks for a seat unless it's a spectac

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