nsilvestri

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by nsilvestri 1mo ago
It had 13 glaciers pre-eruption, so perhaps "added" is doing a lot of heavy lifting :)
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by nsilvestri 5mo ago
This is the Soylent of written communication. Full nutritional value with an unremarkable flavor.
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by nsilvestri 8mo ago
Community focused organizations like this are hard to run without governance transitions. I think Anki brings value to the world and anyone willing to take on a leadership role in keeping it going should be given trust and grace to make the
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by nsilvestri 8mo ago
The bottleneck for games of any size is always whether they are good. There are plenty of small indies which do not put out good games. I don't see world models improving game design or fun factors. If I am wrong, then the huge supply
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by nsilvestri 10mo ago
In a similar vein, but for Old School RuneScape, is https://osrs.world/ This one is kept up-to-date with the state of the game world. Even includes full NPC locations and animations.
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by nsilvestri 10mo ago
How dare this child be excited for a special event in his game!
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by nsilvestri 1y ago
"Fairly unprofitable [if you ignore all the parts that generate revenue.]" I will admit that gambling $0.16 in skins on pro matches when I was 15 was a lot of fun. Maybe I'm lucky to have gotten away (relatively) unscathed, b
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by nsilvestri 2y ago
I have never felt like my searches in other engines have been helped by AI. I hope SearchGPT changes that. My expectations are low.
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by nsilvestri 2y ago
As someone who can't eat gluten, we look for that label because gluten isn't included as one of the mandatory allergens in the US. I would prefer if things were simply labelled as "contains gluten" because instead I have
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by nsilvestri 2y ago
Computers can generate optimal solutions to arbitrary positions. There's no need to apply the human-optimized ergonomic algorithms or methods that human use to speedsolve.
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by nsilvestri 2y ago
Proebsting's Law comes to mind: https://proebsting.cs.arizona.edu/law.html
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Quantum Soccer (2009)(gregegan.net)
72 points by nsilvestri 3y ago|4 comments
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by nsilvestri 3y ago
This URL is a stub, and the full article can be read at https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/W...
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by nsilvestri 3y ago
WCA Delegate here. The limiting factor generally isn't cost, but the need to handle cubes of various sizes and other puzzles entirely. Having a robot that can only scramble a 3x3 isn't useful for the majority of competitions.
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by nsilvestri 3y ago
Ah, whoops, the 2020, not the 2021! Should only be $9 at the right place. In my opinion, the extra couple dollars are worth it :)
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by nsilvestri 3y ago
MoYu RS3M 2021 is considered a better budget cube nowadays. Many people use it as their main, which is not something that can be said about the YLM.
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by nsilvestri 3y ago
For $10 a month, all Copilot has to do is save me a handful of minutes each month for it to be worth it. Most of my current work is creating new React components. In these tasks, Copilot probably saves me 20 or 30 minutes a day on average.
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by nsilvestri 3y ago
I disagree, as I think this would be useful to people with anxiety disorders who don't want to entirely disconnect from the news. Just because they may be able to logically identify articles and headlines as "sensationalist"
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by nsilvestri 3y ago
The article mentions it at the very bottom, but I almost never reach for triggers because they are obscure places to put application logic. On more than one occasion I've been burned by not realizing that the code in the backend did no
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Quantum Soccer (2009)(gregegan.net)
3 points by nsilvestri 4y ago|0 comments
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
You can derive it yourself. Dimorphos's orbital eccentricity is pretty low, meaning you can use: mean_orbital_velocity = 2 * pi * semimajor_axis / period As for the orbit around the sun, the parent body Didymos is about 100x more
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
I love the form factor, but the battery is my second biggest gripe with my Framework (after fractional scaling still not supported by many apps). Even after tweaking settings ad nauseam, I cannot get the suspend battery life to last more th
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
I can't eat gluten. I ate plenty of wheat growing up, and suddenly developed a problem digesting it at 18. I was on a full-gluten diet when diagnosed and still felt sick all the time. So, as someone who was exposed as a baby, and was p
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
It does, but not elegantly: when a non-slice move is made, you have to rotate the 3x3 group at the center. You see it in the animation.
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
3blue1brown's Essence of Linear Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x... Many linear algebra courses struggle to bring the abstract concepts into an intuitive mental model, which is sad
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
I believe I'll be able to replace my monitors to do my desk job with a VR headset within 10 years. Rather than having 2 monitors of different sizes and resolutions on a desk, why not just have as many virtual monitors with exactly the
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Reddit's ToS require all users to be 13 or older. There is no other requirement to be a moderator, and moderation is independently managed by each subreddit. Reddit tends to be very hands-off with interfering with who moderates a subre
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Mods cannot edit posts, only admins. In my experience, however, reddit generally opts to fully remove any posts that break terms of service or guidelines. I've never seen a partial edit of another user's post by an admin with one
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Anecdata, but I've met a whole two other Esperanto speakers (that I know of) in the wild since I began learning it a couple years ago! It's not prominent with the general population, but I do think there are certain types of peo
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
How does your suspend battery life work out for you? I'm running Ubuntu with Framework and even though I've done tweaked some settings I still end up with a dead battery after I reopen my laptop a day later.

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