mr_toad

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by mr_toad 1y ago
It’s not surprising that in life threatening situations the brain would focus all of its attention on the immediate situation, rather than worrying about the usual crap the brain worries about (like paying your bills).
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> I thought I would gently fall asleep , but it was actually extremely fast. Sometimes people fall asleep that way too, especially when very tired. The expression ‘out like a light’ seems apt.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Sure, if you fight back, the bully is less likely to pick on you . They’ll just pick on the next weakest kid instead.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> If everyone lives in one big city and there's literally no one in the rest of the country, then I expect mobile reception (and every other service) to be pretty good for everyone, because they all stay in the big city. Sometimes t
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Is there a term for the opposite of cargo culting? Where everyone avoids something, but no one remembers why? Because that’s basically where HTML tables have ended up.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> photography, wood working, grease monkey, cycling, gun collecting, antiquing, recreational substances Yacht owner says ‘hold my beer’.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Whenever I try speaking French to them they stare at me in horror and immediately switch to English.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Most programmers probably don’t even know what that means.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Didn't someone say something about using French to speak of love and german to speak of science? Possibly a quote attributed to Charles V: I speak in Latin to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
ffmpeg -i example.mkv example.mp4 Works in almost all cases. In almost all cases I don’t want to mess with the defaults, because I know diddly about video formats.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Some Ford models still compete with Asian cars in foreign markets. Smaller Ford models mainly, but the Falcon was popular with a certain demographic.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Slavery was quite common in classical Greece too, especially in Sparta.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Honorable mention: Compiling someone else's C code. Come on; C compiles to a binary; don't make the user compile. Unless you’re on a different architecture, then having the source code is much more useful.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Cars are so flexible. They’re also a joke when it comes to moving large numbers of people. I can’t imagine the chaos if everyone leaving a concert at Wembley Stadium decided to leave by car.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Yes, but when you compare treatments A vs B for trial 1, and then B vs C for trial 2, and then C, vs D for trail 3, you might not get the same results as comparing A vs D, especially when there may have been other changes in between the thr
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> notably randomized controlled trials that compare mortality. Putting people into a control group so you can observe the effects of not treating them might not make it past the ethics committee.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
This is a tech company and it’s adjacent to their core competency. Most companies wouldn’t know MicroK8s from a brand of cereal, they’d only create a mess if they tried this themselves.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I can’t imagine why they’d need a hazmat suit either. It’s probably just protection from the cold.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
In that case its probably cheaper for most organisations just to pay the license fees than risk paying legal fees which would probably be more, even if they won.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I’m sure it’s crossed the mind of many people in the industry. But it’s a comprehensive taxonomy of all diseases, medical conditions, causes, procedures and treatments. Starting from scratch would be much more expensive than just paying th
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> extremely restrictive and expensive licensing options The license is meaningless if training AI is considered fair use, and if you never agreed to the license. They might be able to lean heavily on medical researchers and the like (who
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Aren't we humans supposed to have GI? Supposed by humans, who might not be aware of their own limitations.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> If, say, Microsoft is on a path towards decreasing relevance/marketshare/profitability That’s a big if. I see a lot of people in big enterprises who would never even consider anything other than Microsoft and Azure.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> no transport for whoever the Trump admin decides is insufficiently loyal Or you could get a pardon for drunk driving if you vote MAGA.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
As far as I know the driverless operators already have manual operators that can be contacted by emergency services. In some cases there seem to be human communication failures on top of the driverless failures.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Humans recognise two vastly different types of language input (auditory and visual). I doubt that one type of tokeniser is inherently superior.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> HN has a base of strong anti-AI bias HN constantly points out the flaws, gaps, and failings of AI. But the same is true of any technology discussed on HN. You could describe HN as having an anti-technology bias, because HN complains
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Most Excel work is similar to basic coding Excel is similar to coding in BASIC, a giant hairy ball of tangled wool.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
GitHub and the others also handle user authentication and issue tracking, which aren’t part of Git itself.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Sounds like it’s intended to be used to schedule jobs, or complex builds.

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