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by lstamour 3y ago
If you don't mention a library by name it is liable to make something up by picking a popular library in another language and converting the syntax to the language you asked for. If you ask for something impossible in a library it will
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by lstamour 4y ago
Yes, the US is huge, but if an area can get power, we should be able to rollout fibre along the same routes. It just takes a bit of work.
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by lstamour 4y ago
I asked GPT v4 your question: > What has Eliezer Yudkowsky produced, in terms of scientific output? I've read plenty of his lesswrong's writing on the idea of rationalist, as well as plenty more on the AI alignment side (obviou
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by lstamour 4y ago
Or https://www.hathitrust.org/digital_library though it usually has limited access, which is unfortunate… One free method of access is a Library of Congress reader card, fyi.
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by lstamour 4y ago
If your app interacts with humans or machines in other time zones, tracking in a different time zone can be necessary. Though often people don’t want to specify time zones with their complexities but instead specify times at locations. But
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by lstamour 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho Even the abbreviation has a history. And a couple Unicode symbols: and ⳩ (weirdly, one displays in HN and the other does not.)
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by lstamour 4y ago
> when Britain's own young people were never going to do that work for the wages offered Too true. I’m from Canada where we worry nurses will go south of the border, but was recently in London at an NHS hospital and was talking abou
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by lstamour 4y ago
Yeah, the choice of \{ to create an expression instead of printing a literal { character is an odd one when you compare how you output a double-quote character: > To aid refactoring, double-quote characters can be used inside embedded ex
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by lstamour 4y ago
Sometimes there is a service you can sign up for with a website to receive and send SMS from. Sometimes the phone company calls you and reads the text to you. Sometimes the phone company sends an email to the email account on file (this som
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by lstamour 4y ago
I can’t claim to know much about this, but as someone who recently suffered from possibly temporary amyloidosis-like symptoms, I’ve had to research this a lot recently. Basically, amyloids have been known for centuries as e.g. white stuff t
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by lstamour 4y ago
Again, context. That’s actually a training course. And a plane is mostly computerized. So it makes sense to not train for emergency situations up in the air in a real plane. If Counter-Strike were used for actual training, and maybe it was
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by lstamour 4y ago
I think you might also need to consider the context though - well before the thought of a “school shooting” was an annual occurrence. If schools had metal detectors it was for knives or worst case, a hand gun. And guns themselves are not un
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by lstamour 4y ago
Pretty sure the app was Skitch. https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/skitch-for-mac I used to love it for that feature too. On Windows a similar app was Jing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jing_(softwar
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by lstamour 4y ago
Documented at https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/homepod/apdfb81a72e4/h... I was going to stop by to post about the feature, documented on the above page, under “Play audio on a HomePod using Control
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by lstamour 4y ago
I can’t confirm right now if it works today, but I remember previously inserting a new SIM and having Apple ask me if I want to update my iMessage number to the new number? Actually, never mind, easier than that. All you need is unlocked ac
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by lstamour 4y ago
Re libraries incompatible with certain typescript versions - e.g. protobufjs fix - it’s been my experience that you want to try and only use compilers specific to each library and compile libraries separately. It’s unfortunate but the JS co
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by lstamour 4y ago
Firefox uses OpenSearch. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-en... Chrome uses HTML5 search inputs: https://martin-thoma.com/search-engine-autodiscovery/
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by lstamour 4y ago
Another way of looking at it is that the advertising followed eyeballs from print magazines to Google and App Stores. I’m betting if you compare websites like g2 or Capterra to the old magazine ads, you’d find much more choice and selection
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by lstamour 4y ago
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-suburbs/po... talks more about it under the heading “Trends in Subdivision Design”. Part of its source material is from a 2002 publication: https:/&#x2F
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by lstamour 4y ago
I think you can disable a lot of this using https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 - it’s amazing you can disable so much of this but it’s a shame that Microsoft’s defaults have so many ads and clutter. Not to mention
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by lstamour 4y ago
Note this is still on the internet at https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611 The blog post is (2018) and the original article it republishes is (1996) according to Google. You can also find it
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by lstamour 4y ago
Huh. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-there-are-still-bo... (2015)
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by lstamour 4y ago
Hah. I was just about to post how that song earlier reminded me a bit of LiSA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CwkzK-F0Y00 or the Dorohedoro opening https://youtu.be/_nsNWzypHHg
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by lstamour 4y ago
True, they have a DNS resolver, but they also have Chrome. And the Certificate Transparency list. Google Analytics. And so on…
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by lstamour 4y ago
The best compromise I can think of would be to prepend the line source to the combined output, so lines in the combined output can be distinguished. But depending on how you do that, you might have timing issues. In fact, any form of interl
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by lstamour 4y ago
Say what now? Still around: https://mobile.twitter.com/EvMill also posted two months ago: https://www.evanmiller.org/bootstrapping-sample-medians.html
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by lstamour 4y ago
There was that time you could login as root to an Apple computer by pressing Enter (with no password). https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/29/macos-hig...
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by lstamour 4y ago
An iPhone requests the user’s password upon restart, this would be referred to as “first unlock”. The reward is for an exploit that takes place against a _locked device_ but only after it has been unlocked once first. As in, an exploit that
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by lstamour 4y ago
There are a couple Chrome extensions designed for taking notes on videos, but I haven’t tried them. These days I use tools like Descript to transcribe videos (or insert transcriptions from the video, which is a bit complicated to do) and th
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by lstamour 4y ago
I’ve been a regular user of the app to know whether there are extra scenes at the end of the movie, and I haven’t noticed a time when they didn’t have new content. There was a time when the app looked outdated but the content was still fres

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