louthy

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by louthy 3y ago
Showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others. Will that do as a definition? Be altruistic.
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by louthy 3y ago
> I don't know what the tornado activity is like where the BBC is from, but it is woefully out of date. The UK has the most tornadoes per square mile of any country in the world. They’re just all insignificantly weak :)
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Microsoft's links with OpenAI to be examined by competition watchdog(bbc.co.uk)
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by louthy 3y ago
https://kagi.com/fastgpt
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by louthy 3y ago
> halve or double how quickly light passes through Isn’t that just like any material that light passes thru, which explains refraction? Just sounds like they read Feynman’s QED book Disclaimer: not a quantumelectrodynamacist
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by louthy 3y ago
That's not quite the path, but it sounds good haha! When I was in my early teens, just discovering electronic music for the first time (mid 80s) - but also teaching myself to program on a BBC Micro - I had two dream jobs for "when
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by louthy 3y ago
An ex-pro DJ :D https://ra.co/dj/paullouth
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by louthy 3y ago
Presumably because ‘axolotl’ and ‘axlotl’ are very similar words?
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by louthy 3y ago
> These animals can "choose" to grow into adults or stay as larvae till the end. Just like professional DJs and rock-stars
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by louthy 3y ago
Not sure what to make of it. It clearly does what it says on the tin, and from that point of view it’s impressive; but personally it’s a deeply undesirable effect. Maybe it’s bringing back PTSD of performing on Groovetech radio, streamed ov
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by louthy 3y ago
> Pre-traction control though You’d find it hard to do that now. I’ve had a few moments where I’ve been in Sport Mode and gone to overtake someone on a damp road, accelerated a bit too hard, and then the backend has gone out. Even then
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by louthy 3y ago
The model in the article is slow for a 911, but I can tell you as a 911 (992) owner the acceleration is plenty fast enough, well, it’s borderline terrifying for public roads (mine’s around 3.2s). It may not be at the level of the best EVs,
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by louthy 3y ago
It’s not the only reason, the driving experience is more than just acceleration. Disclaimer: I’m a biased 911 (992) driver - it’s easily one of the best driving experiences I’ve had in any car.
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by louthy 3y ago
Sure, do you have a point you'd like to make?
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by louthy 3y ago
> When it comes to web, MS has been focused on ASP.NET since forever. What's your definition of 'forever'? Are you talking about ASP, or ASP.NET, or ASP.NET Core? Or, Web Forms, MVC1, MVC2, MVC3, Silverlight, 'minima
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by louthy 3y ago
It's still relevant when MS decide to drop it and focus on yet another new shiny web-framework, like the 10 - or whatever number previous they've built - in the past 20 years. And, let's face it, they're not very good a
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by louthy 3y ago
That's how I felt when I discovered FP after more than two decades writing procedural and OO code. It felt like I'd found a secret room where all the reasoning was kept.
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by louthy 3y ago
> Eventually, a virtual girlfriend app that will put together sound and image will be released an empty the pockets of sad, lonely men on a large scale. Sounds indistinguishable from an actual girlfriend ;)
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by louthy 3y ago
In reality these ‘rules of thumb’ become dogma and people forget why the rules of thumb existed in the first place, or make up other bullshit rules to justify it. This industry is full of dogma and self-appointed experts and it’s utterly te
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by louthy 3y ago
Presumably there’s plenty of prior art, maths has been around for quite a while now ;)
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by louthy 3y ago
> The best of the mainstream arguments against software patents has always been: What does Intellectual Property and Copyright not cover that patents do when it comes to software? Instinctively, that’s where I think it should be, agreed.
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by louthy 3y ago
Saying “software is math” is akin to saying “books are just letters”; the building blocks of software is not what people want to protect, it’s the idea and the effort to invent. Whether software should be patentable or not is obviously open
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by louthy 3y ago
It’s a shame they don’t open-source their infotainment system. Not that I want to modify my 911, but there’s privacy settings in there that I find concerning, so it’d be good to look at the source. And, just from a curiosity PoV, I’d like
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by louthy 3y ago
They’re also all inflammable
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by louthy 3y ago
Perhaps you’re not fully appreciating the 2020s right now?
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by louthy 3y ago
> tlb and jl That's clear to whom? People who already know?
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by louthy 3y ago
I was hoping for a 3D visualisation, this [1] to show the LLVP anomalies [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_low-shear-velocity_pro...
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by louthy 3y ago
Heh, pun not intended!
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by louthy 3y ago
My best experience of this was at Mt. Everest base-camp (Tibet side) at 5,364 metres (17,598 ft) Not just no light pollution, but much less atmosphere too! It looked like those long exposure images of the Milky Way. There aren't words
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by louthy 3y ago
> to keep the foot from sliding The foot doesn’t slide with clipless peddles. The foot is locked in position. And you can absolutely use lifting and pushing combined - I have done this many times on long sportives (~100 miles); it can

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