mr_toad

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by mr_toad 3mo ago
It’s the queue of users who want to be hand held because they can’t do X, or open Y, that IT doesn’t want to deal with. Also, there’s no budget for training any more.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
AWS, GCP, Azure don’t care either.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
I’m just pushing back on the notional ignorance of non-technical users for not understanding one abstraction among many. And I’m complaining about technical and non-technical users who don’t understand why object stores (and web servers, an
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
You don’t even need to be an adult to pay taxes, at least in some countries. I’ve been doing my own taxes since I was 14.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> This often massively discounts the cost of reversing decisions. People often work to build things without any thought given to those who have to maintain it afterwards. Especially when it's not them. This is often because no thoug
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> If you're going to assign a relatively medium talent engineer to solve a problem, it's cheaper to let them solve it twice, maybe even three times, than it is to try to figure out what the right solution is before touching a k
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> Considering many people doesn't know what a file is, keeping the spirit alive is important, I think. Files aren’t sacred. It’s actually troubling that many technical people never consider alternatives. Most of the worlds data to
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> A driver should only be that. A driver What does a monitor even need a driver for? I presume if you plug one of these into a Mac or a Linux box it’s still going to function.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
The host star is described as very inactive, which probably accounts for the retention of atmosphere.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
I doubt any new physics will be needed, just computational imaging, meta-optics, very long baselines (multi AU, or even light years).
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
People have been using brute force methods to win Kaggle competitions since the beginning (and other people have been complaining about it just as long). At its core, ML is all about computer generated models (automated feature selection, h
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
As those lock-ups expire I only see the stock sliding further. Still, the very early investors will probably make bank, with the retail investors holding the bag. Many of those early investors would have invested in a rocket company, I dou
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Half of all steel in the UK is imported anyway, and there are many places to obtain it. Unless the UK goes to war with most of the world at the same time, it’s not going to have trouble getting steel.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
The government is forced to sell steel at a loss, because all the buyers for whom this is a such a vital supply would otherwise buy cheaper imported steel, every single one of them . And ultimately all the ore and coke used to make the ste
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
I try and avoid connecting trains. With each connection you only have about a 50:50 chance of success.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
It’s usually cheaper to book in advance. In particular if you want cheap seats on the Eurostar you have to books months in advance.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> I thought it imparted all mass. It’s all relative; in the quarks frame of reference it does get all its mass from the interaction with the Higgs field.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Only in piston engines, which are a minority of propeller planes. Most commercial propeller aircraft are turboprops, and they use jet fuel. And diesel engines are slowly taking over from gasoline in piston engines.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
People can earn six figures and still be living paycheque to paycheque, and up to their ears in debt.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> hepped could also just be "hopped" as in "hopped up on X" Another Simpsons reference.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Myths don’t have natural or human causes. Instead you have wars caused by divine rivalry (e.g. the Judgement of Paris). Maybe Troy was actually destroyed by the Sea Peoples, but that probably wouldn’t make as much at the box office.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
If invaders appear out of ‘nowhere’, it’s usually by boat or on horseback.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
The people of that era would have thought so. The Iliad and the Odyssey (if they have any basis in reality) might be examples of that period seen through a lens of mythology.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> LLMs in general just love to hear themselves talk! Because that’s what’s in the training set. Reticent humans don’t have blogs.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VBRG_in_Paris_Domenj...
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> European society loves to The idea that there is a single European society is laughable to anyone who has visited more than one European country.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> The us is a phyle of choice Well, except for the people who didn’t have any choice.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
German citizens didn’t evolve in Germany. Any attempt to delineate ethnicity based on how long you ancestors have been in a country is just a veiled attempt to argue that you belong and they don’t.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
It’s amusing that the word German is an Anglicisation of a Roman word for a variety of tribes that the Roman Empire couldn’t be bothered to distinguish between.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> Permanent residency is a business deal between two entities: an individual and a state. I doubt that Germans see it that way.

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