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by jstanley 2y ago
I tend not to use the assembly workbenches, I just manually position separate bodies in space at the position and orientation I want them. You can use "LinkGroup" to group a bunch of them together so that they move as one unit.
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The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out(blog.freecad.org)
379 points by jstanley 2y ago|207 comments
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by jstanley 2y ago
I made an encyclopedia where every page is generated by LLM on demand, so there's no such thing as a topic that doesn't have a page. It's like a real life hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. https://incoherency.
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by jstanley 2y ago
But if they explicitly wrote a HYPHEN instead of a HYPHEN-MINUS or some other type of minus sign, doesn't that suggest it's actually not a minus sign and the number shouldn't be negative?
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by jstanley 2y ago
It might be fun to play an iterated version of this game. Also I'd be keen to see a web ui where you can play against an ai. Not quite sure how the ai would work though. You don't necessarily want the ai to play optimally (if the
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by jstanley 2y ago
Why is it different?
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by jstanley 2y ago
With people making LLMs act as agents in the world, the line between "scraping" and "ordinary web usage" is becoming very blurred.
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by jstanley 2y ago
> We could sell our house and pocket the difference and nothing was lost financially. This is a fallacy. You're born "short housing", because you need somewhere to live. Owning a house is just cancelling out your natural s
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by jstanley 2y ago
Sure, as health supplements go, a massive long term overdose of vitamin D is a poor choice. But as deadly poisons go, it's an absolutely terrible choice!
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Profiling with Ctrl-C(yosefk.com)
88 points by jstanley 2y ago|40 comments
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by jstanley 2y ago
> Death by vitamin D, not going to happen. Perhaps she thought it was something else, but whoever was supplying her had an idea of what she was doing and instead gave her the most harmless thing they could think of.
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by jstanley 2y ago
In the UK, if you buy an accumulating ETF, then the dividends that your share of the ETF receives are considered to be income to you, even though it is automatically reinvested and not directly paid out to you. And thus you have to pay inco
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by jstanley 2y ago
There is some bad advice in here if you're in the UK. The worst is: > The bonds, too, should be bought through ETFs rather than directly. UK gilts are free of CGT, but only if you hold them directly. If you buy an ETF that holds gil
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by jstanley 2y ago
> ChatGPT ended up needing Python tooling to reliably calculate 2+2. This is untrue. ChatGPT very reliably calculates 2+2 without invoking any tooling.
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by jstanley 2y ago
It pattern-matched "scam" so you classified it as "scam" and absolved yourself of doing any further thinking. If something pattern-matches "legit" are you equally blase about sticking with your snap judgment an
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by jstanley 2y ago
What I find really infuriating is when I was the last person to post on my issue, and I'm waiting on an update from the maintainer, and the github bot threatens to close the issue on me for not posting any updates! I've started re
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by jstanley 2y ago
So what are you suggesting? Don't disable it?
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Exhalation(lightspeedmagazine.com)
1 points by jstanley 2y ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 2y ago
It wouldn't be "running around in traffic", it would be travelling on the public highway , which we in fact do allow pedestrians to do.
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by jstanley 2y ago
It sounds like the SUV is the one that is too dangerous in your scenario. If being in a golf cart is too dangerous, why do we allow pedestrians to walk around without full body armour?
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by jstanley 2y ago
Do you still need to be running the proprietary nvidia graphics driver, or is that completely unrelated?
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The Most Important Scarce Resource Is Legitimacy(vitalik.eth.limo)
1 points by jstanley 2y ago|0 comments
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Data Validation for Fun and Profit(funandprofit.ai)
1 points by jstanley 2y ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 2y ago
> with aluminum alloys that's the most important issue To you, maybe. Not to everyone. Different people have different priorities. If there was one single most important issue, we could all agree to use the single best alloy and be
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by jstanley 2y ago
Not the NYT's problem! Checkmate, AI.
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by jstanley 2y ago
> Hospital computers should not be connected to the internet. But then how will doctors google the patients' symptoms? If your answer is "they should already know all that is required to do their job without looking it up onlin
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by jstanley 2y ago
A microlight licence is available with only 25 hours of tuition, although getting even 25 hours has been very difficult this year due to the bad weather.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Daily life isn't good for the body, but if you're not going to live your life there's no point having a body.
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by jstanley 2y ago
We do have flying cars, but we call them helicopters and they're very expensive to operate.
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by jstanley 2y ago
That doesn't negate the fact that newborns have a suckling reflex.

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