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by kqr 4mo ago
But it's not an additional Steam Machine, it's a potential additional Steam Machine. In expectation, I'm sure it's more like 1/1000th of a Steam Machine.
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Learning Some Logarithms (2023)(entropicthoughts.com)
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A Game of Robot Telephone(poyo.co)
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GLM 5.2 playing text adventures(entropicthoughts.com)
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by kqr 4mo ago
Mainly that the advice was more structured, maybe? Note that I was exercising before, only I didn't do it for health. But I also didn't suffer from any obvious problems. What I got out of every medical organisation in the world th
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by kqr 4mo ago
I recently read Attia's Outlive which is about what sort of lifestyle makes one more resilient against diseases of old age. I'm not in a position to verify more than a few of the factual claims made by the author (and a lot of i
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by kqr 4mo ago
I also recommend this demonstration from 1949, in that excellent style they used back then with large scale physical models and stop-motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMW-QWPZEm0
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by kqr 4mo ago
> dired-dwim-target Aha! That's what's been missing in my life! Thank you.
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by kqr 4mo ago
But you can get the best of both worlds by using Evil. That gets you Emacs-the-platform with Vim-the-editor.
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by kqr 4mo ago
In the settings menu you can move the rudder wheel to the left. I don't know why that's not the default.
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by kqr 4mo ago
Ah, thanks. At least one of them is apparently already receiving recurring donations from me!
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by kqr 4mo ago
That's sad. Is there a way I can fund them without going through FSF? I tried looking into it before but it seemed like FSF was the only alternative, so I assumed it was well-managed.
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by kqr 4mo ago
I think it depends on which parts of the ecosystem you use. The org publication/export logic has changed a few times in the past 10 years. If you relied on quirks in that in your configuration you would have had to fix your code to rep
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by kqr 4mo ago
Is sunrise commander stable these days? I tried using it maybe a decade ago and back then it had a tendency to mess up window layouts and leave weird buffers around. I notice there's now a GitHub repository which has two spurts of work
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by kqr 4mo ago
That would be a problem if the Emacs project needed to attract new users that aren't "the kind of person to invest time in" their editor. I'm not sure it does. Emacs has a healthy user base of people like you and I a
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by kqr 4mo ago
Which part of it doesn't click? Attending the Recurse center means you commit to spending a few weeks on spare time programming projects and you get to work on these projects around other people who do the same. Do the concepts of meet
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by kqr 4mo ago
This explains a lot of why I think Arabic looks so beautiful on the page. I also love the way it can sound when spoken. Shame I don't have reason good enough to take the years I would need to learn it.
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by kqr 4mo ago
I think least significant first is the most natural order for written numbers (and it makes addition easier.) I had always assumed that was what was intended with Arabic numbers, only silly Europeans made a mistake when they borrowed the po
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TinyWind(tinywind.io)
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Estimating No-Cot Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models(lesswrong.com)
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Even "illegible" Mythos reasoning traces seem pretty legible(lesswrong.com)
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by kqr 4mo ago
This is my impression too. Whenever it needs permissions outside of a small set of defaults I've allowed, it's often because it's trying to do something ridiculous that it doesn't need to do. I think the yoloist counter-
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by kqr 4mo ago
That is also a good book containing a few practical applications of queueing theory, but it won't do anything to help you analyse your own systems on a more fundamental level.
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by kqr 4mo ago
I'm not sure how you came away with that impression. Three out of three reviewers say they overall enjoyed the book. The complaints fall mostly into four buckets: - "I wish the book was simpler" (Jesse) - "I wish the boo
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by kqr 4mo ago
Once you've read this, pick up Harchol–Balter's book Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action . It's a really good introduction to the depth of this topic, and you'll come out with
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by kqr 4mo ago
This is an important point. My light-bulb moment was when I talked to a product owner in a previous job, and I expressed surprise around an expensive planned change, because it didn't seem that valuable to our customers. He said, &qu
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by kqr 4mo ago
The main function of a traffic signal is the green phase, not the red phase. A traffic signal increases throughput by allowing drivers to ignore crossing traffic. (If safety/the red phase was the purpose, the intersection would use a r
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by kqr 4mo ago
Well, it's differently safer. It's impossible to make categorical statements of more or less safe with automation because it depends massively on the design.
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by kqr 4mo ago
> afternoon brain fog Check the CO2 levels in your office. They can get ridiculously high indoors when humans gather in the same room. It's not dangerous, but it makes people tired, they stop taking initiative, and less creative.
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by kqr 4mo ago
> removing test requirements from admissions, under an argument largely related to equity. It's been a failure everywhere [...] among all application components, test scores are the single greatest predictor of a student’s future Y

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