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by jstanley 2y ago
Really cool puzzle, thanks for making this. I noticed a small bug: I asked for a hint, when I went back to the menu and then visited the large puzzle again, the hint was gone, but when I clicked "hint" again, it appeared twice.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Then you could show some example scenes that render wrong the "standard" way but are fixed by the reverse z idea.
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The solar-powered aircraft flying high in the atmosphere [video](youtube.com)
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by jstanley 2y ago
If you don't leave a gap then you're forcing the people in the other lane to slow down and disrupt the flow of traffic. It is a mistake to think that one of the two input lanes is more entitled to the output lane than the other.
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by jstanley 2y ago
You're not forced to brake if you can see that 2 lanes go down to 1 and you therefore anticipate that the cars in the other lane are going to have to merge into your lane and you leave a gap to allow them to do so.
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by jstanley 2y ago
When it's a duty that others have imposed on you, it becomes a form of oppression rather than free action. Instead of feeling good about helping everyone, you feel bad about being bossed around by everyone. The "socially-enforce
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by jstanley 2y ago
It's inside a complicated box that you can't reach.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Thanks
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by jstanley 2y ago
Two economists were walking down the street. The first economist spotted a £20 note on the ground and stopped to pick it up. The second economist asked "why are you stopping?". The first economist said "to pick up this £20 no
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by jstanley 2y ago
Very nice, coincidentally I have been thinking about making a similar tool lately, but I'd make it quite a bit more conservative. I'd want to be able to define a model like "I think the fair value of a company is its net curr
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by jstanley 2y ago
What's the warning at the start all about? Aren't they violating their own terms by serving it publicly on the internet? > THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIREC
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by jstanley 2y ago
No, I'm not sure. But if I weren't using TLS I would be sure that they definitely could ! This is exactly the type of argument the post you replied to was talking about. If one option might be vulnerable, and the other is definit
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by jstanley 2y ago
> Have you tried browsing the web recently on a vintage computer running a 90’s browser? It works on only a minority of sites. Compared to gopher which works on even fewer?
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by jstanley 2y ago
You wouldn't normally be physically manufacturing CPUs yourself. Most likely you'd be supplying an "IP core", which is basically just software. More niche than that, if you actually wanted to supply physical chips, you w
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by jstanley 2y ago
> how is it misinformative to state that the scope of all human existence occupies only a vanishingly-small fraction of the physical space, or temporal lifespan, of the universe? Physical space is only one way to measure things. Humans m
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by jstanley 2y ago
> Photograph of a model of the bottom of the drill hole shows that lines are spaced closer together (arrow). This may be due to abrasive having become finer as drilling continued. Anyone who has drilled brittle materials will know why th
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by jstanley 2y ago
> The idea is that it's irresponsible to diffuse the limited amount of effort by launching your own desktop environment project rather than contributing your talents to one of KDE or GNOME. This is totally wrong. The free software w
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by jstanley 2y ago
Because it says "In the full version of this paper[4], we prove [...]".
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by jstanley 2y ago
People don't like cyclists because their only interaction with cyclists is when they're holding up traffic.
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by jstanley 3y ago
Why do LLMs make working on modern web crap less enjoyable?
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by jstanley 3y ago
All parts would be spinning at the same angular velocity, so unless it's really far away from its centre of rotation (expensive, inconvenient) you'd experience more acceleration near the centre than at the edges. Maybe that doesn&
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by jstanley 3y ago
But if that's your standard then the laptop you're connecting from is not trusted either, and then you're not even allowed to use your own keys. You're allowed to draw sensible boundaries.
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by jstanley 3y ago
I think it's prompted with a bunch of context information (like, "you are a helpful, harmless, honest AI assistant created by OpenAI, your knowledge cutoff date is ..., please answer the user's questions"). If you really
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by jstanley 3y ago
Can you explain the credit thing? Surely a credit provider is just lending you money? Money is fungible. If I have £100 already, and someone lends me an extra £100, and then I buy two things that both cost £100, and one of them is faulty, h
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by jstanley 3y ago
The post is pretty close to being guilty of the very problem it is pointing out.
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by jstanley 3y ago
Why is it that when you read news published in English it tends to be from an English-speaking country?
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by jstanley 3y ago
In the UK you'd say "queue" instead of "line", if I'm interpreting the context correctly.
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by jstanley 3y ago
When something reliably kills mice do we routinely proceed to human trials? If not, how do we know that things that are harmful to mice are harmful to humans any more often than things that are helpful to mice are helpful to humans?
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by jstanley 3y ago
> when customers report sometimes IRQ flags "go missing" under load? I wish! More likely customers would report that it's "not working properly". (I mean, not that it's their responsibility to know why it&
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by jstanley 3y ago
Yeah, and there used to be "subsistence farming" and "living in the forest" and "making everything out of sticks and stones because we don't know any better". How far back do you want to go to find the opt

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