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by kortex 3y ago
> But yes, I agree it’s not the right choice for me and many others who want to have full ownership over our data, The whole point of Signal is you have full ownership of your data. You said you can transfer the data to another devic
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by kortex 3y ago
> One of their jobs (like the invisible waiter at a high end restaurant that makes dirty utensils go away) is to "retrieve" anything that the astronauts "put down". This is fascinating. I'm not quite following wh
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by kortex 3y ago
Maybe it's because I started as a chemist, where you look at patents all the time, but yes I've absolutely looked at patents for inspiration, to figure out how things work, to attack certain problems, etc.
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by kortex 3y ago
This is also the work that introduced the idea of the game theoretical focal point, aka Schelling point https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)
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by kortex 3y ago
I think like all things, it depends on the quality of the product. There are definitely cheap ferrofluids with mediocre surfactants that break down over time. But I also suspect (never looked, just inferring from the myriad of surfactants o
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by kortex 3y ago
I actually think we are mostly on the right path, with the greatest exception being the current cost and overhead required to train the very best language models. But we are already seeing smaller, fine-tunable, user-deployable models. I
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by kortex 3y ago
Just run SponsorBlock or similar then. If you still want to support creators, you can tune the plugin to only skip filler, or as I do, just prompt with a Skip button and I can choose to jump as needed.
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by kortex 3y ago
You don't need monochromatic green light - that was just the test condition to find the best wavelength. Broad spectrum sunlight should do the trick.
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by kortex 3y ago
Great points. I think fundamentally you and I have different operating definitions of authenticity. Though I do want to clarify > The systemization of everything (through what you call "radical self-expression") is creating a
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by kortex 3y ago
Maybe this is my own neurospice speaking but...What even is authenticity? Do we even see authenticity in public? Any awareness that we are being observed introduces some amount of Hawthorne effect. Probably the most genuine folks are the
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by kortex 3y ago
Why are diesels so uncommon among piston aircraft, it's almost always avgas? Is it just "because that's how it's always been" or are there actual engineering reasons diesel are inferior? Cursory searching suggests i
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by kortex 3y ago
A Bloom or cuckoo filter would allow for efficient tracking of nonces (depending if the security model prefers false positives with 4xx/resend, or false negatives)
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by kortex 3y ago
That interferes with the ability to send multiple requests in-flight at the same time.
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by kortex 3y ago
So implement your own Transport over UDP/QUIC?
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by kortex 3y ago
Python's reference counting garbage collector would also need concurrency controls.
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by kortex 3y ago
It's the intensity of it that strikes me. It's not just a matter of not liking their new stuff. I've encountered many folks that are basically mad the band changed directions. Almost as if the band owes it to the world to k
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by kortex 3y ago
My surface level take is they are similar to M-estimators. Whereas M-estimators are more mathematically rigorous, Windsorized metrics might be easier to compute manually. It does feel like it's a very early 20th century technique. Nowa
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by kortex 3y ago
Oxygen is an indicator of life, but not a strong one, as there are many processes which could create an oxygen atmosphere. What is a strong indicator is the presence of both oxidizing (oxygen, ozone) and reducing (hydrogen, methane, dimet
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by kortex 3y ago
I don't understand why bands get so much animosity for "leaving their roots". IM make amazing, unique music and put on one hell of a live show. Is it as "pure" psytrance as Astral Projection et al? No but why does i
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by kortex 3y ago
Not just electronic, but basically ALL genres on spotify: https://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
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by kortex 3y ago
> Many casual listeners cannot even detect such a small change in tempo. I DJ both electronic formats as well as "general pop hits" nights. People may not consciously tell, but you take a well know track, and speed it up 3-5% (
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by kortex 3y ago
Yep, this is a linguistic problem, not a technical one. "C is not a low level language" implies that the hi/lo boundary lies below C. What's below C? IR, Asm, and opcodes. IRs like LLVMIR and various bytecodes. Well, tho
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by kortex 3y ago
The whole reason async is even a thing is due to slow, side-effect producing operations. Of course pure functions are easy to parallelize. I don't think folks so much "shoe horn async where it is unnecessary" as the red/
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by kortex 3y ago
Maybe a better analogy is nitromethane. If you put it in your honda civic, you will blow up your engine. You put it in a top-fuel dragster which cranks out thousands of hp and needs an engine rebuild after each race.
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by kortex 3y ago
Folks have made flipping machines than can achieve near perfect reliability. Same guy mentioned in the paper. https://www.npr.org/2004/02/24/1697475/the-not-so-random-coi...
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by kortex 3y ago
I did this once, it's not trivial. If you don't impedance match correctly, the colors get all wonky. It's a fairly specialized skill and more challenging than your typical solder job. Honestly easier to take the monitor apart
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by kortex 3y ago
That ever-so-slightly off-center rotation bothers me to a supreme degree... but I guess it's fitting for the whole platform writ large.
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by kortex 3y ago
Have you heard about the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon before? You will now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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by kortex 3y ago
I dabble in live audio. There's a huge amount that still could be done in the audio input space. Mic quality could be greatly increased for not much money, but most manufacturers stuff the cheapest component then can find into any he
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My friend did the math for a high-falutin position at a San Fran tech company requiring 3 days a week in office, and flying from New York to Cali every week was cost competitive.

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