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by jrockway 3y ago
I think what I'd do is just build a light and outlet onto the bottom of a solar panel; cut the proper holes, drop solar panel onto roof, now there is a light bulb and outlet in your ceiling. But I have no idea if this is practical; is
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think we DO want to interrupt the flow of traffic. Cars should be slowed down in areas where a lot of people want to cross the street. Want to go fast? Do what they do; ditch the car and walk!
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by jrockway 3y ago
I had no idea! As it turns out, the reason that "curl ..." doesn't work is because it pops up a window below all of my other windows saying that certificate revocation information is unavailable, and would I like to proceed.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Did they open a bug against Chrome with the image file? I feel like any crash on user-provided data is a big deal, always a correctness problem, but potentially a security problem. "We deleted the image so the problem is fixed for us
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by jrockway 3y ago
I find the built-in commands rough. "curl https://jrock.us " to see if my website is up used to involve opening Internet Explorer to accept some sort of agreement. Now it just flashes the terminal, moves the cursor to
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by jrockway 3y ago
I hope that computerized AGIs also get the zoomies at 3AM.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Good point!
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by jrockway 3y ago
I look at it like finding a lost treasure or something like that. The government expedition with a 1 trillion dollar budget might find it first... or it might be in some guy's attic and his kid came over and happened to notice it. Sp
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah, I think this was "700 out of 730 employees signed a letter saying they'd quit, over a holiday weekend". OpenAI with no employees is not worth a whole lot.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think a lot of progress in the field of AI comes from random breakthroughs rather than evolution of existing ideas. For that reason, I think AGI will probably be another random breakthrough, and not just an LLM with more parameters. Goo
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by jrockway 3y ago
I remember a lot of noise when Loongson added support for their CPUs to Go. Go already had MIPS64, so if they had to do porting work, it might not be just a MIPS clone. I haven't looked at either architecture in detail for a long tim
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by jrockway 3y ago
Locking sessions to a single ASN is probably a good idea. I always worry about the "insider threats" where your coworker sitting next to you grabs your cookie out of the Chrome inspector while you're in the bathroom, and thi
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by jrockway 3y ago
One of my coworkers really likes Miller: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller The idea is that you get awk/grep like commands for operating on structured data.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't have a savings account but buy CDs on a regular basis. For the next two years, I have something between 5% and 6% maturing every 3 months. Apple Card Savings is 4.15%. So you can definitely do better than the Apple Card, but
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think this is the entire idea aimed at curbing inflation, right? If the government can't borrow money, they can't spend money. If they can't spend money, suppliers won't invest in upgrading their factories (or hiring
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by jrockway 3y ago
I assume this is Alamo Draft House. You can definitely go to this movie theater and not buy any food and not tip anyone. The gimmick is that you can order from your seat and the food you want is brought to you during the movie. After the
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by jrockway 3y ago
What is the actual poison that's used for a teething remedy?
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by jrockway 3y ago
The opposite is also interesting. Think about all the drugs that work in rats but not humans. If you have pet rats, they're probably invincible! (More likely is that there is no money in treating pet rats, so actually there aren&#x2
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by jrockway 3y ago
My take is that if the cancer doesn't get you, the angry subjects will. Right now, medical science is what imposes term limits on dictators. But it's likely that humanity will impose their own, like they have in less dictatorial
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by jrockway 3y ago
Maybe third-parties commingle their counterfeit knockoff AI models with Q in the fulfillment centers, and when you boot it up you have a chance of getting one of those instead of the real AI model you wanted (even though you made sure you s
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by jrockway 3y ago
The ESP32-C5 has dual band support: https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-C5 I think that 2.4GHz having longer range is a myth. When I worked on WiFi for Google Fiber we tested it pretty extensively and didn&#x
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by jrockway 3y ago
"On time" is a metric that is focused on heavily, but to me it's meaningless. The LIRR is "on time" via schedule padding; a 50 mile trip to Ronkonkoma takes 80 minutes on the fastest express train. With line speed
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by jrockway 3y ago
The MTA also has a really neat railroad tracking tool: https://radar.mta.info/ This feels like an internal app that somehow got a public URL. It has neat features like being able to make the same departure board they have
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by jrockway 3y ago
The MTA has this: https://bustime.mta.info/#B63 The CTA has this: https://www.ctabustracker.com/bustime/wireless/html/eta.jsp?... Those are the only two cities I've lived in, but the abi
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by jrockway 3y ago
The main function of the popular ESP32 microcontroller is to preserve 2.4GHz WiFi for the next 20 years.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah, that's my take as well. The less there is to configure, the better. Something I like about Go is that I don't need any project-specific settings, because there are none. (Not strictly true, as some people use gofumpt inst
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by jrockway 3y ago
That's interesting. I've been using "deno fmt" as of late and it's been fine for me. https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/tools/formatter
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by jrockway 3y ago
M-x xterm-mouse-mode was what you wanted pre-2010. I still run Emacs in the terminal (Windows desktop -> Linux VM for coding... don't ask).
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by jrockway 3y ago
My mortgage got sold to M&T Bank whose web presence is at www3.mtb.com. I love that for them. I wonder what happened to their cert/HSTS setup on www ;)
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by jrockway 3y ago
I write text in a text editor all day but would still upgrade my machine on a regular basis. I have a Threadripper and use all 32 cores everyday. I'm still debating on whether or not to upgrade to the new generation released yesterda

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