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by mr_toad 1y ago
And “journey” comes from the Latin diurnum, for day, which also has the same root as per diem. Time (and distance!) are money.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The Angles and Saxons and Jutes had a similar culture before they colonised England.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> At a mere (say) 240mph, 5 miles is 75 seconds. The world record holder for a quadcopter drone is 224 mph. Not many drones can beat 100 mph. According to one article I found Amazons drones can manage 50mph.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Neural nets in drones are only used for object recognition. Beyond that, drones (and other autonomous vehicles) aren’t doing any sort of reasoning or decision making, they follow rules, they’re just robots. Although I hear that Tesla is th
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Self extracting executables, (zip files with the decoder included) have been around for decades.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Excel, Word and PDF readers weren’t properly sandboxed.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Sum(x) is a better example. Indexing x won’t help when you need all the values.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
There is considerable evidence that people who live alone are at greater risk of hospital re-admission, probably because they are less able to care for themselves properly.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Evidence shows that violence and other bad behaviour among boys is highly concentrated around the 14 year old mark. Statistically, older boys (16-18) are a lot better behaved and can act as a moderating influence.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Is this sort of thing as common in US colleges as it is portrayed in movies? My experience of university (not in the US) was that by then students had grown up, and there wasn’t any bullying going on that I saw. Students were treated as ad
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Surveillance isn’t the answer, justice is. When it comes to children we usually call it supervision. Not that I think all children need to be supervised all the time, but large groups of unsupervised children can create mayhem very qui
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I couldn’t find anything in that document or the blog that answers the most basic question - is it going to be an app? It literally contradicts itself at one point: “It will also be stored directly on your own device - just like contactless
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> This is the proposal for the UK system right now. Is it? Nobody knows if it’s going to be an app, or a virtual card, or a real card. So speculation and rumours are flying. Whoever does comms for the government must be asleep.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I can’t see that happening for centuries, if ever. And if we haven’t figured out a way to deal with global warming in a few centuries the number of space launches and airline flights will probably both be zero.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
They seem to like to iterate. The Falcon 9s flying now are essentially version 5. I can imagine they’ll keep experimenting with Starship designs for a while.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> I've been trying to find a robust, reliable and easy way to run a Python process in WebAssembly (outside of a browser) for a few years. reply What’s the use case? Is it the sandboxing? Is it easier than running Python in a conta
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Neural networks already have their own internal knowledge representations. They just aren’t capable of learning new knowledge (without expensive re-training or fine-tuning). Inference is cheap, training is expensive. It’s a really difficu
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Implementations that use vector database do not use LLMs to generate queries against those databases. That would be incredibly expensive and slow (and yes there is a certain irony there). Main advantages of a vector lookup are built-in fuz
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by mr_toad 1y ago
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, "Make us your slaves, but feed us."
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by mr_toad 1y ago
You don’t need AI to write vague waffly press releases. But to put this in perspective an H100 has a TDP of 700 watts, the newer B100s are 1000 watts I think? Also, the idea of a newer Nvidia card using less power is très amusant.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Sure in the 80’s. Nowadays if you leave teens alone someone will call child services.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Unfortunately because floating point addition isn’t always associative, and because GPUs don’t always perform calculations in the same order you won’t always get the same result even with a temperature of zero.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Initially? People looking for gold, silver, fur. For the most part it was companies looking for gold, furs etc, with the support of their governments. Companies founded the colonies and trading posts for the benefit of the stockhold
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Yes, but normally those males are genetic clones of the mother, and couldn’t be a different species.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
It’s a corporate engagement ring.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
One option is pass, which is a shell script that uses GPG to manage passwords for command line tools. You can put the password store into a git repository if you need to sync it across machines.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Number of packages doesn’t mean much. If you can get your code into just one Javascript package you could have it run on billions of browsers. With Java it’s hard to get the same distribution (although the log4j vulnerability shows it’s n
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Can LION battery fires be smothered? Online articles are contradictory. Some say they can be smothered, but others say that they generate their own oxygen, and you need to cool the fire, some say to do both.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
If local storage becomes cheaper than the grid but some people can’t afford it (why, capital costs?) then the government would be better off addressing those capital costs directly. However, you need to consider industrial and commercial us
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Not to judge, and assuming you’re a straight male, doing the last two might help with the first. Women tend to prefer men with jobs who don’t live with their parents.

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