mr_toad

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by mr_toad 1y ago
> your typical kitchen scale is actually precise to then nearest gram at best Do you mean accuracy or precision? If you get the same measurement from the same scale twice, that’s precision. However, it might not be accurate. https:&#x
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I’ll bite. Most of the Vikings that settled England came from Denmark and Norway. Harald was usually well-travelled even for a Viking, having being exiled to Rus, and then later returning. The number of Vikings from Scandinavia who went
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I just assumed it was developed by Boeing.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Modern "britain" was colonized and natives were almost wiped out! Yeah, but not by Vikings. Saxons, and before them Celts did a lot of ethnic cleansing. By contrast the people who we think of as conquerors (Romans, Vikings,
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Varangians in Yorkshire?
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by mr_toad 1y ago
With the automation of agriculture and manufacturing economies have become highly service oriented. Low skilled service jobs have always paid poorly.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I don’t think anyone bothers to read cover letters anymore. Recruiters don’t even seem to read resumes very closely, judging by the number of times I’ve been asked questions that are literally in the first paragraph of my resume.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Gen X usually gets lumped in with boomers because they’re basically invisible. But Gen X DGAF either way.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
MP4s are compressed data, not a compression algorithm. An MP4 (or any compressed data) is not a “prediction”, it is the difference between what was predicted and what you’re trying to compress. An LLM is (or can be used) as a compression a
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by mr_toad 1y ago
React isn’t about persistence between page loads. React is about declaratively declaring two different page states and “diffing” them so that only the diffs are applied to the DOM. Storing the diffs to local storage is an interesting idea
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by mr_toad 1y ago
They’re possibly the most significant web-app developer, so if things were really that broken you’d think they’d be the first to fix it. Also, didn’t they effectively invent rendering in canvas (for sheets) about 10 years ago? If they did
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The New Zealand national anthem will put them to sleep.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Haemorrhages can take on a purple colour (like a black eye), but nothing like the sky blue colour those pigs were.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Imagine you are an FTL space alien in search of other FTL civilizations. Would you parade your FTL tech around? The first thing you discover when you invent FTL is that you’re the last civilisation to invent FTL.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I’m skeptical about the ability of LLMs to assess candidates. LLMs underperform ML models, or even simple linear models when it comes to prediction. And measuring job performance / ranking employees to establish a metric that you can
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by mr_toad 1y ago
If the system is unusable some well-meaning user will set up their own system, which is unlikely to be secure.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> I couldn't find a word for specifically being happy about it. The German word waldeinsamkeit roughly translates as the feeling of peace from being alone in the wilderness.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Furthermore, sleep is very specifically about the taking the brain offline Animals that lack a nervous system, like sponges appear to sleep. It may be that becoming unconscious is a symptom of sleep, not a cause of it. Not much point
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> They remix and rewrite what they know. There's no invention, just recall... If they only recalled they wouldn’t “hallucinate”. What’s a lie if not an invention? So clearly they can come up with data that they weren’t trained on,
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Brown kelp uses fucoxanthin to absorb green light. But they’re no longer considered to be plants.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I was imagining bacteria feeding on my USB cables. There’s probably some species that lives in the gunk in the ports.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Don’t look down!
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Necessary means necessary to add it to the page for the project manager to collect their annual bonus.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> I’m not aware of any rocket landing safe enough for human use. I’m pretty sure the Eagle has landed with humans on board.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Both the Saturn V and the SLS produced over 200dB. Considering that the scale is logarithmic the sound must be quite literally staggering. https://www.theoverview.org/p/sls-vs-saturn-v-which-was-loud...
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Probably because most Linux users aren’t looking to share (or even use) office documents. Linux collaboration happens on wikis, message boards, and Git.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> corporations don't want to train users how to use Linux This is a huge factor. There are a lot of people who’ll curl up into a ball if you try and get them to use something new.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Isn’t the recommended practice to update every ~60 days or so, regardless?
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Shenanigans.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I know two people who are experts in linear programming who have never written a single line of code.

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