lmpdev

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by lmpdev 2y ago
Use it or lose it! I’ve lost a great deal of working memory over the past few years as I’m just too reliant on offloading anything more than 2-3 bits of info onto a notepad or input box If you ever observe a fine-dining waiter, they can e
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If it’s anything like it was 10-15 years ago, YouTube.
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Reminds me of DFW’s Infinite Jest (although I wouldn’t describe it as brief or vague)
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The only problem with this is the fact that the 99%+ of issues with software products aren’t the fact that a parsimonious language was used and tightly coupled to the compiler The vast majority of issues is missed edge cases between what th
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Aren’t Debian and Arch philosophic opposites though? Arch is bleeding edge yet permanently issue prone, Debian is stable and conservative/slow in updating? Seems odd to jump from one end of the spectrum to another (I use Debian and Min
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No we’re still getting scalped. Unless another government chooses to nationalise fibre installations on a permanent and on-going basis (outside metro areas) we’ll continue being scalped in perpetuity. The private sector in Australia has rep
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It revolutionised Australia fairly quickly Almost every campsite has dozens at this point My sister uses it out in the bush, very expensive but works extremely well
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> second
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I wonder if you could create a text based sprite rendering system using the generic pixel sprite blocks here? Would be an interesting project
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Nah the meat of it is the pixel patterns below those You could conceivably combine them to create any sprite
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As someone who’s been 150kg and 75kg, fat, fit and everything in between I can guarantee you fat and muscle/bone do not build or atrophy at the same rate, both volumetrically and temporally Bones and joints are especially slow to ada
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by lmpdev 2y ago
I don’t work on image processing but do own $400 professional pencils and use an sRGB monitor and have been producing “high end hobby” level works for a couple of decades I would urge away from using an entire human portrait. Decontextual
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To self-checkout at my local grocery store, I have to clear a reminder that any soft plastic recycled through the store over the last x years was in fact not recycled and stockpiled around Australia in warehouses “waiting” for it to become
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The original title isn’t clickbait in its context It is a poorly written HN title though and should be changed
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Is there a decent middle ground that isn’t some obscure STM or PIC chip?
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Not my area, but: You could use image processing/DSP methods on a sample of spectrogram images taken from the file Visibly it’s obvious when it’s compressed, you get “glitchy” or “smeary” repeated artefacts I’d also look for cuts on
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by lmpdev 2y ago
The term rendering in design/art predates computers by many decades, peaked around the turn of the 19th/20th century Still used frequently today and I think the original title is more apt
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Also don’t forget the vast majority of genetic diversity in homo sapiens is found in subsaharan Africa Much potentially vital genetic information can be found in the Congo, but also more “attack vectors” for novel pathogens The DRC specific
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by lmpdev 2y ago
That’s not my understanding The Gilded Age Trusts were brought down regardless as to whether they misused their power. It wasn’t just oil. Monopolies are like a positive feedback loop which causes the market to diverge into a barely functio
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Not OP but as a public utility it would be paid for through both taxes and usage The actual computational resources required to provide search would be a fraction of Google’s operating costs Added benefit would be pitting private providers
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They’re still redundant though If we’re heading to regional war, US nuclear subs will be here regardless Even Darwin is a massive permanent US base
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Not OP but another Aussie I’d sat it’s too good Effectively trading the last of our sovereignty for overkill submarines The threat of China exists yes but I think the French subs we had lined up would have been adequate Especially as the
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by lmpdev 2y ago
I’ve been researching this time period’s printmaking on archive.org through the lens of web design I’ve reached a conclusion the modern web is far too Modernist/Minimalist for its own good. Ornaments raise the barrier to entry in publi
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Why not? Whether through analogy or an actual underlying isomorphism between the mechanisms underpinning language and other domains, I don’t see a reason LLMs can’t occasionally have insights into non-language problems Is it better than oth
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Interstellar blackhole VFX implemented in 40k lines of C++ Would be a better title
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The point might not necessarily be for consumers Linus wasn’t writing Linux for consumers (arguably the Linux kernel team still isn’t), he needed a Unix-like kernel on a platform which didn’t support it Nvidia is placed with CUDA in a simil
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Correct I can’t understate the popularity though I currently work with four Lachlans amongst team of ~20-30
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I think that would be a lot easier to target as an exploit than the engineering they would have already done to the broader solution of permissions Especially if left unmonitored/updated
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My first name, Lachlan, is a Scottish Gaelic name which was used to describe Scandinavian Vikings Specifically it means “Lord from the Land of the Loch”, derived from the Scottish name for Norway: Lochlann I cannot recall others but there a
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It always makes me a bit sad though So much is still lost and we rely on such tiny fragments or worse hearsay by other authors rehashing their ideas

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