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by lainga 3y ago
This is kind of weird tying-together comment, but Townscaper (referenced in btbuildem's comment []) was partly inspired by an (deterministic non-NN) application, which the creator was working on for someone else, that did just that. I
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by lainga 3y ago
For context the "long nineteenth" is usually defined as 1789 - 1914, what Anglo-Americans might think of as "Victorian" but encompassing a lot more
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by lainga 3y ago
Maybe ERNIE's a John Adams fan. All patriots were brothers once: / let us drink to the time / when they shall be brothers again. Gam bei!
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by lainga 3y ago
Sort of. None of the programming languages mentioned in the paper were actually boosted in any way, an LLM was.
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by lainga 3y ago
The romantic optimist in me will keep some hope out that that sort of thing was the Great Filter which felled so many of our unseen galactic neighbours.
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by lainga 3y ago
For a similar reason, I did my best to get comfortable with default vim rather than purtying it up with a long .vimrc.
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by lainga 3y ago
It was Bush Senior, Clinton (with PNTR), Bush Junior. The story of why the US thought PNTR was a good move is long, and has to do with the events of 1989. Also... Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao were both very different from who we have today. C
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by lainga 3y ago
In some food-chain dynamic models, the leaf-browsing gazelle and the mosquito are both "micropredators", as in they consume part of the prey organism without killing it. It's an interesting framing.
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by lainga 3y ago
How so? Would we have travel bans to prevent emissions of travelling?
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by lainga 3y ago
Thanks! I guess I'm just nervous about them thinking "this guy applies to everything... bin it".
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Ask HN: How long do I wait before applying again?
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by lainga 3y ago
Has anything replaced UML? I mean, if there are teams out there that aren't shunning design, what do they use to create architecture diagrams?
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by lainga 4y ago
I think the lake effect requires air which is colder than the water. The lowermost level of air warms and accepts water vapor, which immediately rises, re-freezes, and is entrained as ice and blown out onto land. Lake-effect precipitation
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by lainga 4y ago
> But several thousand eyars ago the Sahara was arable land. I think the desert status of the Sahara has more to do with a combination of oceanic gyre patterns and the structure of the Hadley circulation. The Sahara and other latitudes a
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by lainga 5y ago
I think you mean NANP, nanpa is somewhat different...
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by lainga 5y ago
Are they sure the French map is from 1836? It looks like Paris has its petite ceinture railway ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceintu... ) which was built in the late 1850s.
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by lainga 5y ago
Well, we did until the mid-90s. North Atlantic fishing hasn't been as unregulated as to presume "limitless supply" for about 30 years.
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by lainga 5y ago
Native professional like native-born American? In my case I pay about 300 CAD a year to EGBC and have not heard from my colleagues that getting a P.Eng in BC is a significant time-sink. You have to have 4 years of work experience, get your
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by lainga 5y ago
The attitude on (mostly American) HN is against licensing bodies, as far as I've seen in the past.
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by lainga 5y ago
I can't find an answer to this anywhere: is there a backup JWST (or parts thereof) if this one fails to launch?
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by lainga 5y ago
Why would you use bounding boxes for computing centres!
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by lainga 5y ago
The designation was not a Roman numeral but Lowell's designation for "unknown". It would have been the 9th planet if discovered, at the time Lowell coined it, anyway
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by lainga 5y ago
> "To have a maximally creative society, you have to have freedom, you have to have liberty, and therefore you will have a non-violent society. You’ll have a society that values creativity as an end in itself. ...They can gather all
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by lainga 5y ago
>to which I would ask why he cares? Do you think he didn't think enough about the reasons he stated in TFA for why he cares? Or they're not good reasons? He says, from the employer's perspective, "$200k a year can att
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by lainga 5y ago
Am I correct in thinking that, from looking at Helion's website, their design resembles the Lockheed Martin "bottle" design that popped up a few years ago?
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by lainga 5y ago
>and that's the day when Linux on notebooks just dies. That's a rather strong statement about the future of AMD as a going concern, don't you think!
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by lainga 5y ago
Male clones of themselves even!
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by lainga 5y ago
The confusion with `let` and `var` does seem confusing from a JS perspective, but it seems to be so that you can have the same mental model between WGSL and SPIR-V: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/2207
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by lainga 5y ago
To me this doesn't mean much demographically without information on what proportion of that 40% were ever married at any point, and whether they reproduced in that time. Otherwise you could just get a nation of single parents who split
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by lainga 5y ago
Famously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Llewellyn was in Paris when WWI broke out, but managed to reach Germany, and briefly fought alongside (without joining) the German Army.

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