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by mk_stjames 1y ago
One of the most delightful things involving reading HN is seeing a strange, context-less post in the morning, and then, later in the day or evening, coming across another piece of information- maybe a popular article on another website or a
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I think it was Efnet #warez channel that pointed me towards the right places to learn some software in high school, and that wound up getting me so far ahead working with CAD that it undoubtedly was the reason I got a full ride scholarship
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I'm disappointed to read that 16 inches is referring to the circumference, not the diameter, of the ball. The game I was picturing in my head seemed far more exciting.
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
It's actually not; there has been a phenomenon that Anthropic themselves observed with Claude in self-interaction studies that they coined 'The “Spiritual Bliss” Attractor State'. It is well covered in section 5 of [0].
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
This was my first question as well- I thought it had been a long, long time since you could fry a CPU by taking away the heatsink. As in... what, AMD K6 / early Pentium 4 days was the last time I remember hearing about cpu cooler faili
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
An article on rock slides and every photo is stunningly gorgeous. That's the Dolomites. Fun tidbit: The formation mentioned, the Five Towers, is right across the valley from where most of the movie "Cliffhanger" was filmed (
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AT&T Long Lines Map and Information(long-lines.com)
10 points by mk_stjames 1y ago|0 comments
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
In text form only (no charts, plots, etc)- yes, pretty much all published 'science' (by that I mean something that appeared in a mass publication - paper, book, etc, not simply notes in people's notebooks) in the last 400 yea
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Interesting to see that sci-hub is about 90TB and libgen-non-fiction is 77.5TB. To me, these are the two archives that really need protecting because this is the bulk of scientific knowledge - papers and textbooks. I keep about 16TB of pers
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Well considering the GPT reported '30 cents' a charge, it is either a. considering 3x larger battery than I would consider average e-bike sized (and I got my 500Wh number based on a 10-second google scan), b. price of electricity
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
>GPT estimates (...) Dude it's middle school math. Average pedal assist e-bike battery, estimate at 500 watt-hours. Electricity prices at my home are about 20 cents per kilowatt-hour. (0.5 kwhr) * (20 cents/kwhr) = 10
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I think the point of this project hinges on putting the CPU arch down to the FPGA - buying prebaked silicon in the form of an off the shelf risc-v CPU defeats most of the purpose. The purpose being everything can be built from the bottom up
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
> Anything you buy from AliExpress for the cost of a couple of pints is bound to be a bit crap. This line kinda got me down, because, well, last night I went out for a few pints and paid €16 for two drinks; Here we have a miracle of mod
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Every major chinese PCB supplier has offered very affordable PCB assembly ("PCBA") for several years now where you give the gerbers for the boards along with a BOM with part numbers from a mutual supplier catalog and p'np &#x
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
This was also a plot point used much before The Martian; in the 2000 Val Kilmer film Red Planet- stranded astronauts make their way to the spot where Pathfinder's 'Sojourner' rover rests, in order to pull it's radio and
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
> speed when accounting for loading/unloading and security Try to book a train trip from Brest, Bretagne, France to Vienna, Austria. Just halfway across western Europe. You'll wind up having to take four trains and likely cha
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Any plans to get into working with the Flux 'Kontext' version, the editing models? I think the use cases of such prompted image editing is just wildly huge. Their demo blew my mind, although I haven't seen the quality of th
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Download Accelerator Plus... wow what a memory. Finding that piece of software around 2001-2002 was what allowed me to finally download a specific piece of, ahem, 'shareware', that was about 400 MB, zipped, that I would never have
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
There was this article posted here on HN about the geodemography of left handedness in the US, and all sorts of discussion about past culture of eschewing LH'ded children in schools and such... and I was surprised that no one brought u
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
In addition to zip bombing AIs with file parsers, I've wondered about 'context bombs' in the sense of trigger phrases that trip up LLMs into getting stuck into repeating phrases or reasoning evaluations without ever hitting a
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I was specifically recognizing the writings of Gwern, not HN in general. But yes.
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Sometimes this website feels like Adderall is somehow being directly rendered into Source Serif type, displayed through the browser.
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
That's one of those ones that really sticks with you. First time I read it I had to sit alone and just think for quite a while afterward. It's like four pages and it lays out the fiction better than many 400-page novels or entire
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Energy to change copper from room temp solid into liquid is the specific heat of 0.385 Joules/gram * about 1100C + the heat of fusion of 210 Joules/gram, so, about 630 J/g which is 0.170 watt-hours per gram. A melt of 1,000,0
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
This triggered a thought which led me to doing a quick calculation that I haven't done in years... So, modern pennies are just copped plated zinc. But up to 1982 (barring some small interruptions like the 1943 steel penny) they were 9
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Stargate, where Daniel Jackson (James Spader) explains to the military officers how he's found that the symbols on the cartouche aren't hieroglyphs, they are star constellations, and that they represent a course from an origin to
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Another way of saying this is that spoken English has a lot of inbuilt, inherent error correct-ability, ala a very large minimum Hamming distance between spoken words/phrases. I always found French to be very much the opposite in spoke
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
This is a bit incorrectly titled, as the source denotes that the tracks are "Electroacoustic" music, not general "Electronic". The collection is clearly aimed at presenting music where electronic triggers and some synthe
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Yes, we could, but there are very few open source fully parametric couplings of kernels and the file format out there. FreeCAD (using OpenCASCADE as a kernel) is one of the few. And that is nothing close to the vastness of modern CAD+PLM
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Chess Grandmasters Do Not Burn 6000 Calories per Day(substack.com)
2 points by mk_stjames 1y ago|0 comments

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