madaxe_again

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by madaxe_again 17d ago
There won’t be a next 100 years.
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by madaxe_again 17d ago
Did you miss the last 15 years of social media? So many people I just stopped spending time with altogether as instead of being present they’d be posing for their 90th instagram shot by 10am - and then of course they want you to pose, too.
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by madaxe_again 17d ago
The actual money launderers don’t leave honking great big digital footprints everywhere, and so aren’t found by these systems.
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by madaxe_again 18d ago
I live in Europe. I’ve been under investigation for money laundering twice in the last three years - not because I’ve laundered a single dime, but because I have no discernible employment and move large capital sums around the globe almost
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by madaxe_again 18d ago
You don’t. You have RO at the point of consumption. At any rate, it’s our approach, we store 150,000L in a cistern over the winter and use it through the summer. An under-the-counter domestic RO system can be had for like $200, the membrane
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by madaxe_again 18d ago
Since 1945? Friend, this has been the case since the invention of the pointy stick.
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by madaxe_again 19d ago
Sure, you’ve gotta have some known good values to compare to, but those aren’t hard to come by. Pretty sure you can get a decent idea of BF with callipers or somesuch.
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by madaxe_again 19d ago
Or to just give users enough usage to find categories in which it is useful for them. I pay the $200/mo., and don’t regret it for an instant - I have a project manager, an executive assistant, a business analyst, a software developer a
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by madaxe_again 19d ago
You can build your own scale with an ESP32 for like $25 in parts - Hx711, load cells, ESP32, and a handful of trivial components. I threw together one that sits under my gas bottle, so I know when it’s running low. Adding impedance would be
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by madaxe_again 21d ago
Leopards, faces, and all that jazz.
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by madaxe_again 21d ago
This stuff cuts both ways. We talk in terms of “men this, women that”, but the reality is much closer to “people”. In the past, societal norms provided a lot of shelter for the shitty behaviour of men - and they still do - but it doesn’t fo
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by madaxe_again 22d ago
MS Bob was for adults… although there were kid dedicated areas, like the den, and I seem to remember packard bell navigator being a kid-friendly reskin.
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by madaxe_again 22d ago
Ideas and words aren’t the same thing, or from the same model - words are a communication layer, with robust error correction - but ideas stem from intuition, which is more of a lossy aggregative/associative model. There’s a balance to
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by madaxe_again 22d ago
They’re ridiculously facile use cases for what agentic AI can already do. I don’t trust an agent with full executive power - yet - but I am essentially using GPT as my PA. Right now I’ve got it managing a construction project with recalci
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by madaxe_again 23d ago
Curious on your take on this, given your domain - is the hardware the principle challenge in your opinion, or the software? >> It will be difficult to match this scale of breadth and depth of data for physical tasks. There’s no straig
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by madaxe_again 24d ago
I don’t even see how you can share direct to TikTok with this? Or have they got their own social network for toothbrushing? Can I use this to talk with someone using the Dyson ActiveDouche?
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by madaxe_again 24d ago
It’s the moon-leopards in league with the bee-people. Only an IDIOT wouldn’t know this, it’s OBVIOUS.
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by madaxe_again 24d ago
One way I could see this working is with old bulbs - when you’re near the threshold for it flickering, perhaps sound can modulate the light. Or perhaps the contacts need to be realistically cruddy and intermittent, and the long glass tube a
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by madaxe_again 25d ago
We absolutely are - but we’re still at the “weirdo factory owner installs experimental electric motor” stage. You look at what’s going on in robotics, look at GROOT/Isaac, and the circle closes quite neatly. World’s going to change in
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by madaxe_again 25d ago
It took the better part of a century for people to go from “hey look a steam engine” to “why don’t we put it on wheels?”. Electricity took about half that time, 50 years, to go from “hey look a motor” to “why don’t we put them everywhere an
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by madaxe_again 26d ago
And how many shipboard stores have been affected? Hardly something they’re going to talk about, and a far stronger candidate for attack. This could be spillover.
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by madaxe_again 26d ago
I certainly thought so. I have astigmatism and I cannot for the life of me read blue LED/neon signs at any reasonable distance at night. Any other colour, no problem. Blue is just a blurry mess.
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by madaxe_again 26d ago
Totally. Nothing has really changed since GPT-2.0, it’s a stagnant technology.
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by madaxe_again 27d ago
I mean, at what point do we say that wilfully refusing to absorb relevant information and then knowingly and willingly making a decision based on that lack of information is, indeed, their will?
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by madaxe_again 27d ago
We have something similar where I live - no glaciers involved though, just river rocks. The river dries up rapidly in the summer, leaving the smooth exposed bedrock riverbed peppered with rounded river rocks covered with drying algae. Where
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Torrents are trivial. Each individual bit is trivial. But being able to click a button that says “run model” is even more trivial.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Or even “why would I pay for a flight when I can simply walk across the country” It’s all about the convenience, minimising the time and effort from “looks interesting” to “running the model”. Nvidia don’t care if you do it on their cloud,
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Strategically, it matters - and nvidia’s strategy is to basically own the entire industrial supply chain of the future - they have interests in their suppliers, their competitors, their users. In this case, Nvidia wants the easiest route fr
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
The debris flow that has just happened doesn’t appear to be a glacial outburst. Rather, the entire front face of a glacier at high elevation sheared off, likely millions of tonnes of material at least, crashed down a steep runnel, slammed i
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Indeed. Far more likely, a more economic human is engineered. Oryx and Crake , I think, was the first time I encountered that idea.

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