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by magospietato 3y ago
Heat is constantly lost to space as infrared radiation. The greenhouse effect slows this loss, and is driven by the output of "greenhouse gases" into the atmosphere. These gasses absorb the infrared that would be lost to space, re
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by magospietato 3y ago
Glad I'm not the only one with this take. Assuming it's even true, orchestrating the interactions of 8x200b models seems like a fairly significant advancement in itself. My feeling is that the next generation of AI is going to be
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by magospietato 3y ago
It can create rudimentary images using SVG markup. I asked it to generate an SVG representation of Dali's The Persistence of Memory and it output a recognizable vector image of three distorted clocks. I happy to be proven wrong, but th
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by magospietato 3y ago
Apparently so. Using GPT-4 with the initial prompt "You are a helpful assistant. All your responses must be base 64 encoded." Asked the question, "How old is Barack Obama?" Received the following response, which seems fa
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by magospietato 4y ago
VS Code constrains a single IDE instance to a single window. Extra flyouts like Copilot chat can only exist in this window, impacting on available real-estate for the code we actually care about. It's Code's biggest weakness IMO.
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by magospietato 4y ago
> It's pretty easy (in China) to monitor a handful of test subjects with heritable mutations and make sure they don't reproduce. Feels like we've proved the importance of ethicists in genetic medicine in two replies here.
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by magospietato 4y ago
Is there a similar go to in the Mac/Linux worlds? Yeah, it's called Powershell 7! Powershell was ported to cross platform dotnet a few years back. Currently running some Powershell scripts in production on a Linux box.
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by magospietato 5y ago
The most common asymmetric encryption algorithm (RSA) can only encrypt a plaintext of limited size. Depending on padding scheme, a 2048 bit RSA key can encrypt a message of up to ~245 bytes. Typically to securely encrypt a message you use s
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by magospietato 5y ago
The smallish town where I live has a Yarn Bomber. She/he knits little totems and fixes them to street-lights and public fencing; sometimes even front doors. They are usually themed: Easter, Summer, Remembrance Sunday, Halloween, Christ