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by microtherion 1y ago
I would hope that the "27mm" in the article were a typo (it would translate to 1" paper). Edit: The project description does indeed state 27mm as one of the supported formats (A4 and A3 width are also supported). Seems an odd
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by microtherion 1y ago
In 1977, a company named Quasar Industries demonstrated a household robot claimed to understand a vocabulary of 4000 words and capable of vacuuming, washing dishes, and teaching the children of the household French. It would ship within the
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by microtherion 1y ago
I recently picked up a used Epson HX-20 for a very reasonable price. It's still an amazing design, and could probably still be used for actually useful tasks.
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by microtherion 1y ago
I think it's the opposite: our expectations have RISEN to an extent that it's harder for beginners to get started. One of my sons was interested in learning programming, but the goal he envisioned was to write an AAA game. It was
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by microtherion 1y ago
> My intuition from German class is that ch represents a throaty hhhh It varies between dialects. Swiss German speakers tend to stick out to Germans because we pronounce the ch in a much scratchier way than is accepted in Standard German
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by microtherion 1y ago
fastest_mile: 2:54 Not saying it's a good idea, mind you, but at least it's an ethos.
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by microtherion 1y ago
Presumably that was to support time values.
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by microtherion 1y ago
Theoretically the vector extensions in a RISC-V could be scaled considerably, it seems to me, especially when combined with the extension proposed here: https://github.com/spacemit-com/riscv-ime-extension-spec That sai
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by microtherion 1y ago
Some years ago, I had to reproduce a neural model build that had only been done previously by a single colleague on her laptop, not using a package manager. Part of my reproducing the build was to conduct all the library downloading in a mi
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by microtherion 1y ago
> but then the challenge is reconciling disagreements with calibrated, and probabilistic fusion I keep reading arguments like this, but I really don't understand what the problem here is supposed to be. Yes, in a rule based system,
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by microtherion 1y ago
It's surprisingly capable. One tricky problem is trying to solve Captchas with it.
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by microtherion 1y ago
That approach does work for LLMs, though.
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by microtherion 1y ago
I suspect high risk extreme sports are in fact worse, as they seem to require a constant ramp-up of the risk, and there does not seem to be any detox mechanism (other than old age) that would allow one to reset the required risk. There is a
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by microtherion 1y ago
I agree, some of the most self centered, callous people I've met came out of the New Age / Anthroposophy scene. A family member who is anything but right-wing sued her siblings to get her way, introduced or fueled massive feuds am
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by microtherion 1y ago
Empirically, every Apple product you're using today was designed without Woz' involvement, and nearly every one of them still shows traces of Jobs' involvement. Conversely, Woz started numerous companies after parting ways wi
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by microtherion 1y ago
That's what I (as a layperson) would think. The size of Jupiter, with half to a third of the mass would make it even more gas gianty than Jupiter. … or it has a massive shell that is hollow inside /s. Do any of the other measureme
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by microtherion 1y ago
"non-lethal"? I wish I shared your sunny optimism.
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by microtherion 1y ago
I sort of understand the motivation to get the exact flavor of the cocktail recipe (especially with an ingredient like Kina Lillet), but for the most part, I find ingredients specified by brand name somewhat annoying, especially for home ba
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by microtherion 1y ago
A few years ago, I discovered Rhum agricole (Made directly from freshly squeezed sugarcane, instead of molasses), and it's my preference now.
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by microtherion 1y ago
That's awesome for the hotel! The less they dust their rooms, the more "smoking fees" they can charge guests.
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by microtherion 1y ago
Seconded, it was one of the most enjoyable tech books I've read in recent years.
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by microtherion 1y ago
Well, yes, the stack oriented approach does matter. But even there, there are big differences with Forth having a user accessible return stack, which is implicit in PostScript, while PostScript has an explicit dictionary stack, which exists
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by microtherion 1y ago
The only thing PostScript and Forth have in common is RPN. Other than that, they are very different in philosophy - Forth is very bit banging, close to the metal, while PostScript is much more symbol oriented and high level.
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by microtherion 1y ago
Yes, I was thinking of this passage as well. The technology does not seem to have advanced to this particular point yet.
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by microtherion 1y ago
I started at Apple a few years after the original author, and by then the policy on Easter Eggs was that they were allowed within reason, but had to be declared internally, so they could be tested. There were even "official" Easte
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by microtherion 1y ago
Yeah, back in Europe, I used to associate "Mediterranean Cuisine" with Greek, Italian, Spanish, and possibly Portuguese (geographical reality aside).
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by microtherion 1y ago
Yes, in a way it's a rather good argument. But if you take it to its conclusion, if Apple finds it harder and harder to monetize the App Store through fees, then THEY might eventually decide to switch to privacy violating advertising a
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by microtherion 1y ago
Rolex may have historically been a tool watch, but nowadays it seems more of a watch for tools.
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by microtherion 1y ago
I can only speak to the Mac situation, but most people there would not have "root" in the traditional sense: * Pedantically speaking, you can not even log in as root, any root level access would have to go through sudo (which is i
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by microtherion 1y ago
I suspect it shared quite a bit of code with the regular windows codebase, so open sourcing it would have exposed a lot of proprietary code (and not necessarily only their own — there may have been licensed bits that they would not even hav

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