pifm_guy

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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Having used acrylic for various projects... It's a hard to use material. It loves to crack - especially around drill holes and sharp corners, even when not much external load is applied due to internal stresses.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
So these aquariums have a design factor of safety of 11 ?? And still regularly fail? To me, that shows something majorly wrong in the design/build process... Clearly some failure modes are not well understood/modelled. Planes,
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Correction: Germany tries to stir things up with USA over disagreements over Ukraine strategy...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
> Google says I'm in Quintanna Roo This is at the bottom of the Google search results page on mobile right? If so, that location is based on signals from a bunch of places. The logic takes as input: * Location history in your Goog
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Many of the criticisms of milgrams work are on ethical grounds. Just because something is unethical does not make the results incorrect.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Britain is in a post-empire downfall, and has been for 120 years. If you want to see where it leads, see Portugal which is 50 years further ahead on that path.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
What's the betting that on the hot weather their Texas customers with those resistors removed will find their robots nonfunctional again...?
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Outflows are good business only if you are fully backed....
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I'm gonna guess that a few people like Peter taking alphacodes output and editing it and using those edits as part of some fine-tuning step would quickly resolve many of these issues.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
The ratio between the tokenizer and the model is constant for both training and inference. And I believe the ratio is that big - you just use a lot of compute for training, and that's why it's so expensive.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I don't understand why you'd want a tokenizer to be fast... Surely the output of said tokenizer you're going to stick through a machine learning model that is orders of magnitude slower? So it really doesn't matter if th
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Cracks in glass travel so fast a regular CCTV camera won't be able to see where the break first happened.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I'm betting on 'someone threw some Ninja Rocks at it'[1] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_rocks
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I believe these toxins might be behind the recent popularity of 'gluten free' diets. Gluten free means wheat free, which means toxin free. And that makes people's guts feel better. I wonder if there is a market for 'to
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Advertisers don't care if some users are banned or if the platform is 'unfair'. Advertisers care if their advert shows up to something illegal or bad for the brand.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
You probably have to buy the book to see that! XKCD has turned into more of a marketing channel these days.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I don't think it's opensource. I assume it cost quite some $$$ to produce this because you kinda have to cut nvidias binary drivers in half, which is going to require quite a lot of reverse engineering.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Prisoners in most countries can vote, to stop exactly things like this happening.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I assume that, while dragon was designed originally for 7, since the design has been changed to 4 people that other things have been adjusted that mean 7 is no longer an option. For example, the parachutes might be slightly smaller for th
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Apple has a top down mandate to make sure the web platform can't replace too many desktop apps. So far, it's working. Chromebooks have not taken over the world.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
A similar project: CircuitJS: https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html I couldn't compare to OP because it timed out loading on my slow internet.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
There are a lot of security fixes here. It seems reasonable to assume that next month there will be a similar set. Many of the vulnerabilities are remote exploitable, sometimes even on a locked device. Only one such exploit is needed for so
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Even $50 would probably be decent compensation for most YouTubers. It would probably reign in false claims dramatically, and reduce the numbers of appeals enough that real humans can check each one.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
But not everything uses that. Some software simply connects a pin of the port to a motor and another to a sensor, then uses software in the computer to turn the motor off as soon as it sees the sensor be activated. Devices that do that of
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I'd like to see one pilot in the cockpit and remote control ability. Then a ground based copilot can be involved in complex manuvers, emergencies, etc. But not have to be present for the dull multi-hour cruising.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Bear in mind that this will work for many bits of parallel port equipment, but won't work for everything. Some things use very precisely timed signals, as short as a few microseconds, and that simply can't be recreated by software
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Sacrificial sand moulding is done all the time and is pretty cheap: https://youtu.be/lnHhP_kZ43k
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
One simple solution is to allow anything , with no delay, but then do the same legal process as before, and if the environmentalist wins, then the builders have to pay compensation. Builders would make a loss on projects that caused lots o
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
True. But most panels are rated and tested for icy hail to hit it on a hot sunny day with the panel surface at 70 degrees C. But obviously doing this repeatedly might not be good for it - naturally hail on a super hot day is rare.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
When experimenting with solar efficiency, I noticed that spraying the panels with water every half hour increases efficiency pretty dramatically. The wet surface seems better at absorbing sunlight than the 'anti reflective' glass

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