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by pjs_ 3y ago
Recently on twitter an e/acc-aligned person posted some techno-optimist propaganda to the effect of “if primitive societies could see our existing technology, rockets, supercomputers, semiconductor fabs etc, they would see us as gods r
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by pjs_ 3y ago
One interesting thing in this context is that you can taste the difference between water and heavy water, even though they look the same as ball-and-sticks. Also heavy water is said to taste sweet
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I worked hard to replace LabView and Matlab with Python in the lab when I was a PhD student - about 15 years ago. By far the biggest motivation to do this was to remove the friction and cost of obtaining licenses for proprietary software.
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Perhaps I'm missing something but this looks like a heavy case of what's old is new again - the original "king - man + woman = queen" paper is nearly a decade old: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01692
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by pjs_ 3y ago
Love FastMail! Long may it live!
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I think the US will not retake semico node leadership.
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This is a curve that goes up but do the other curves go up more or less? Did places with different strategies perform better or worse, relatively speaking? I can sort of imagine that all the curves go up, given that we added a drug that is
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by pjs_ 3y ago
Back to the good old days of downloading and running .exes from the public internet :)
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Yeah man I press the gas more time than the brake but I still want the fuckin brakes to work...
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Thanks! Fixed :)
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My once-a-decade opportunity to post this thing that I wrote: https://peteshadbolt.co.uk/posts/ga/ Now back to life thanks to Ruffle.
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This deeply underestimates the messiness and chaos of real life.
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"We are not seeking datasets with sensitive or personal information, or information that belongs to a third party; we can work with you to remove this information if you need help." One thing that is impressive about OpenAI, apart
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The conclusion is that fascism is an extremely powerful drug -- it only took a few days and some very simple, blunt instruments to get people hooked. This is why when you see highly educated e/acc people, tech bubble people, VCs etc. t
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by pjs_ 3y ago
OK I reckon everyone is going to get on the HTMX wagon over the course of the next few months, and it's going to blow a ton of young minds and save a huge amount of global energy and make a lot of people very happy. And then these same
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by pjs_ 3y ago
Hippies have been doing housing co-ops for a long time, and they work kind of like this, and they are mostly (in my experience) cool places. A bunch of people get together and buy a house which they can then live in as a community. As time
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https://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/
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https://external-preview.redd.it/du7KQXLvBmVqc5G0T3tIEbWsYn8...
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Incredible work. Love the fog and rain, as well as the one outstanding shot with a simulated wide-angle lens ( https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/image_dest/precinct_panor... ).
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by pjs_ 3y ago
Hell yeah brother. Move fast and break things philosophy
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Labor of love, masterpiece, historic, iconic work
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Love the "No need for nasty YAMLs or Dockerfiles" copy on the Function website. Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose. HTMX, SQLite, Postgres are hip. Building giant supercomputers is back in, fuck the edge. Even starting t
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by pjs_ 3y ago
Used to go there as a student, I saw Drawing Restraint 9 on me own at the back, amazing place.
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Ecstatica II was an extraordinary game - funny, weird, violent, amazing sound, and super atmospheric.
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Almost all the comments on this post are positive!
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. > looking for a nice framework for website > ask dev if their framework is hypermedia or javascript > doesn't understand, pull out long essay on hypermedia as the engine of application state > dev laughs and say
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The OG... the master.
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Going through the bibliography of other people's papers and theses, looking for papers that you better cite "for good luck", or because "you gotta cite that one" is a classic PhD student behavior (I've done it)
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They could just use a computer to do this?
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08585

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