phkahler

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by phkahler 4mo ago
>> Notwithstanding the merits of this case, I'm against the concept of unlimited time deed restrictions on property. Dead people should not be able to decide what living people can do with land or any other property indefinitely.
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by phkahler 4mo ago
Even if you see a real bubble or catastrophy in the making, predicting when it will pop is a fools game.
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by phkahler 4mo ago
>> We understand quite a bit about the role of the hippocampus and subiculum in encoding memories... Hard disagree ;-) You're talking about high level architecture of the brain. I don't think (not my area I may be wrong) we
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by phkahler 4mo ago
>> and that is that we understand (or we think we understand) how our brain/mind works. But the truth is that we don't know. And there's even not a single clue that we actually know too much, and not a clue that our bra
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> Also why do you need 1uS for motor control? It's not that important if you use current sensors on the motor phases. But then you're looking at HALL sensors or a shunt with a very high gain amplifier with good common mode
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> And the CPU even has SIMD instructions! Yes, but it looks like there is no hardware floating point. The description of the CORDIC module indicates fixed-point calculations, which is consistent with the lack of any reference to floa
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by phkahler 5mo ago
If you don't encode locally as the video is created, you either need to store RAW frames which takes enormous amount of storage, or you use a different format and suffer quality loss by transcending.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
You want to have stable food prices so people don't have to worry about basic survival.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
I don't see China as being in a race though. They seem willing to play a long game in a lot of areas.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> Maybe it's weird but I'd rather give up that 4% accuracy increase than roleplay a dickhead Maybe you need to do some shadow work ;-)
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> a structure where 50 to 90 percent of the purchase price is financed by debt, and that debt is loaded onto the balance sheet of the acquired company, not the firm making the acquisition. This just seems wrong. The buyer takes out
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> Though if my septic fails I'll connect to the city system was the quote I got to do that was about what a new septic costs. But that's the quote just for the connection. Then you get to pay a sewer bill every month.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
This part: "The useful part is not that the secret is hard to compute from too few shares. It is that too few shares contain no information about the secret. With one share missing, every possible secret is still possible." Remind
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by phkahler 5mo ago
EMDR therapy was invented by Francine Shapiro. She found walking to be effective on herself, and later found that most any form of "bilateral stimulaition" at the right pace will cause certain kinds of brain activity.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> To me the jury is still out whether this was a worthwhile investment, but I do expect to use this machine for a decade. The high cost and power consumption are both signs of the death of Moore's law, so you are probably correc
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by phkahler 5mo ago
Are they blocking due to AI scraping, or due to people using archive as a way around paywalls? For the later, archive could just limit access to stuff that's less than 7 days old.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
I would have thought a triangular grid works better than a grid of squares. You get ~3n links vs ~2n for the square grid. Curious what the AI came up with.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
The valuation just needs to be high enough to get into an index, then the 401K plans start buying the shares automatically.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
The planetary gear works as a differential with the Sun gear, Planet carrier, and Ring gear each connected to something. You can see how this works here: https://eahart.com/prius/psd/
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by phkahler 5mo ago
Ford has been making very similar hybrids for 20+ years. The old Escape, the Fusion, CMax, Maverick. These are all the same general layout as the Prius.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> It argues that the hybrid pack (minus the battery, perhaps?) is more compact and simpler than a manual gearbox, even. Having worked in the field I've been of that opinion for 15 years or more. Two motors and a planetary gear a
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> If I wanted to fall under that reporting limit, can I just dilute my wastewater a bit more? It said the permit is for up to a certain amount of water per day. If you're at the volume limit there's no way to dilute by just
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> The main reason we believe consciousness exists is because we all experience it. What about the NPC meme? LLMs behave like NPCs, and some people seem no more conscious than an NPC (I didn't invent that meme).
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by phkahler 5mo ago
I still have my dads old HP with the glowing red letters and all the functions. Not sure if we still have the charger. Not sure the battery is any good, but the calculator worked fine last time it was turned on decades ago. Any idea if this
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> In addition, we are unable to directly update our analysis using the previous approach given the complexity of using USASpending.gov and SF133 report data from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to update from foreignassista
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> The current commercialization isn't economically sustainable. And if it were, and the result were like Elon and Scam Altman say it would destroy the economy. Not sure any country wants to lead the race to self destruction.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> While I wholeheartedly agree this as a general concept, I find it tricky to accomplish in practice. Ianal, but afaik in general your employer owns the ip, and as such publishing it as oss requires explicit permission. IANAL but if
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by phkahler 5mo ago
>> In a more phonemic writing system, if you can read, you can read any unfamiliar word too. You mean pronounce the word. Reading is supposed to include comprehension.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
The reason they have to put all that crap in the title bar is because of all the other bad UI decisions that used up all the screen space.
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by phkahler 5mo ago
Apparently Cosmic will even let you combine different apps in the same tab group. I read that but haven't confirmed. Web browsers had to innovate because OSes, DEs and GUI toolkits stagnated. Tabs and better sandboxing came from web th

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