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by mckirk 2y ago
Great, now I have that whistling stuck in my head again. Thanks for the reminder though, been a while since I've thought of The Wire :)
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by mckirk 2y ago
I don't know if you know this yet, but what greatly helps me when I've stood up too fast and am on the verge of 'seeing stars' is tensing up my abdominal muscles, which essentially helps push back the blood towards the b
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by mckirk 2y ago
That's always the problem with these pesky computers. They do exactly what you tell them to.
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by mckirk 2y ago
Thank you, my day is ruined.
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by mckirk 3y ago
I know war isn't pretty, but I really didn't expect that openly displayed level of callousness. Saying 'we think these people should be dead, but they are not important enough to warrant our "good" bombs', to m
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by mckirk 3y ago
> “You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people — it’s very expensive for the country and there’s a shortage [of those bombs]” At that point I had to scroll back up to check whether this was just a really twisted April&#
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by mckirk 3y ago
I love that app, I've set it to have a single task-bar icon with the screen's brightness, which I can control via mouse wheel in 25% increments when I hover over that icon.
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by mckirk 3y ago
I thought JavaScript becoming the de-facto standard language for the web even on the back-end had already proven that.
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by mckirk 3y ago
Even worse, it's a form of lossy expansion.
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by mckirk 3y ago
Apart from what foofie already pointed out, I think it is 'sad' in the sense that a project like this is - one you might expect to be open source, since there is no monetary interest behind it besides an option to donate, and - on
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by mckirk 3y ago
For people that want to do something similar on Windows, I can wholeheartedly recommend FanControl [1]. It's sadly not open-source, but it works great, and is quite pleasant to interact with. [1]: https://getfancontrol.com&#
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by mckirk 3y ago
Inside cables that support USB-PD, there are chips that tell the peripherals what level of power transmission they support, so that attack shouldn't be so easy.
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by mckirk 3y ago
The DX3 Pro+ seems like a great recommendation, I might have gone for that as well if it had been available when I was researching. And I concur regarding the HD600, it's a great choice for many people. I was trying out both a HD650 an
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by mckirk 3y ago
I was reading the parent comment and just could feel myself itching to recommend AudioScienceReview, but then was glad to see it was already the top answer. It's such a relief when you finally have some hard data to compare options in
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by mckirk 3y ago
I'd just finished Interface (by Neal Stephenson) when Neuralink was founded. That was just a bit unsettling.
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by mckirk 3y ago
Can't help but imagine a passive-agressive lander AI... 'Ha, they told me a million times exactly _where_ I should land, but they never specified _how_ I should land'
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by mckirk 3y ago
This really bummed me out when I heard about it. I always thought Every Noise was a kind of 'magical' website in the sense of: I didn't understand how it could exist, as it seemed to be situated at a strange intersection of &
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by mckirk 3y ago
Are you sure that's the case? My intuition would tell me that that's the 'myth' that keeps the American dream alive, but you might actually have a much harder time in the US getting out of poverty because of the lack of
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by mckirk 3y ago
That's a bold statement to make. German souls need to be re-issued regularly by the BIE (Bundesamt für Immaterielle Essenzen), and it's quite easy to fall behind with how much paperwork this is every year.
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by mckirk 3y ago
I can only second that. And by the way, it always makes me happy to see a 'thunderbong' submission reach the front page. To me that's a reassuring sign that we haven't been gentrified yet ;)
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by mckirk 3y ago
After working with LLMs for a while, you get a feeling for the LoW (Level of Wrong) that you can expect in different tasks. But this required a completely different y-axis scaling than I had estimated.
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by mckirk 3y ago
Their evaluation stack uses GPT-4 to rate the answers, so that might also be the reason why that's in there.
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by mckirk 3y ago
So basically there's a 'consultant' layer.
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by mckirk 3y ago
Sadly, this is only going to get easier and the results are only going to look more real as time goes on. I wonder what will happen once we've reached the point of 'upload picture here and we'll generate a full porn movie wit
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by mckirk 3y ago
Well, we always suspected, but now we know for sure. It is all Canada's fault.
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by mckirk 3y ago
No, further, return to sea. Exist as peaceful algae.
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by mckirk 3y ago
I wrote a little parser-DSL the last few days, mainly to parse the input of Advent of Code problems (because the manual '.split(...)' approach always looks so ugly and unsatisfying). https://github.com/mckirk/
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by mckirk 3y ago
Yeah, part two was really something. I got part one in 2:40, and then spent half an hour trying to figure out what the hell was going wrong with part two, lol. Maybe it was actually done on purpose to foil ChatGPT, because when I get desper
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by mckirk 3y ago
'But the little lights are all wrong!'
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by mckirk 3y ago
Maybe you could make it a part of the difficulty setting. I mean, sometimes you just want to roll over everything in your path and feel badass for a bit, and sometimes you want an actual challenge.

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