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by porphyra 3y ago
...aaaand it's down already I love the idea of a fediverse but I am not sure how it can possibly scale up to large communities. As long as people have to spin up their own node to host one, it seems forever limited to small groups of n
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by porphyra 3y ago
The section on multivariate Gaussians was a real life saver at work recently. Highly recommended!
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by porphyra 3y ago
Not sure, but I checked the licenses of a couple of photos on flickr and they were public domain.
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by porphyra 3y ago
And best of all, like other works of the US government, it's public domain!
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by porphyra 3y ago
Is it merely a coincidence that Judge Holden was described as "face destitute of hair" and the director, John Hillcoat, is also bald and devoid of both eyebrows and facial hair?
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by porphyra 3y ago
tbh I am so annoyed by people spelling lidar as LiDAR. Nobody spells radar (which stands for Radio Detection And Ranging) as RaDAR...
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by porphyra 3y ago
... only when driving under 40 mph on highways. So it is pretty useless. The main thing is that Mercedes Benz will take liability for anything that goes wrong. But the system as a whole is far less capable than Tesla FSD.
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by porphyra 3y ago
I'm anxiously waiting for the code (or for someone to reimplement it open source). Sounds very fun to play with. I've recently been having fun with OpenMVS [1]. Using Gaussian splatting (which is initialized with a point cloud) wo
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by porphyra 3y ago
Thanks, I'm out of date it seems.
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by porphyra 3y ago
I went to school in Singapore too. Yes, there is caning, but only for very serious offences. They no longer cane kids just for being late (which was done to Lee Kuan Yew, though he mentioned in his memoir that "it never did me any harm
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by porphyra 3y ago
> Tangaraju Suppiah He was a kingpin dealer who manipulated others into trafficking drugs, not just some poor guy who was unwittingly forced or tricked into carrying cannabis. His pawns, forced into doing his bidding, were spared the dea
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by porphyra 3y ago
> probably Singapore lol why would Singapore block BBC? They love everything British.
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by porphyra 3y ago
No, they are recently choosing to go with Mobileye too. For example: Porsche announces collaboration with Mobileye from a couple of weeks ago: https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2023/company/porsche-mobiley...
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by porphyra 3y ago
Car manufacturers ended up using Mobileye though...
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by porphyra 3y ago
Apparently the Patriot system that got hit only suffered minor damage and is repaired and back up and running now. I wonder if it was perhaps hit by some debris? But it is hard to speculate through the fog of war.
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by porphyra 3y ago
And to add to that, there are a bunch of sandhis, which are when the tones are shifted or modified when followed by certain other tones. Using tones is so natural that many native Cantonese speakers are unaware that the language even has to
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by porphyra 4y ago
I wish there was some way to get Chinese karaoke songs in the US apart from spending hundreds on importing a physical karaoke machine. All the apps such as 全民K歌 are region-locked, and the songs on YouTube vary in quality --- they often do n
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by porphyra 4y ago
I've had good experiences with sendcutsend for small aluminum parts, not sure about large wood parts but they do support many materials including mdf and plywood. https://sendcutsend.com/materials/baltic-birch-plyw
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by porphyra 4y ago
Vans are really much more practical. * protects your goods from weather * more cargo volume * better forward visibility without a long hood * easier to load and unload due to being lower * can park it without people being able to walk up to
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by porphyra 4y ago
The point isn't that the smaller truck is an equally capable vehicle. The point is to make fun of people who don't need a truck but are getting an overkill vehicle as a status symbol, all the while people who actually need to tran
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by porphyra 4y ago
One of the most highly upvoted Reddit posts on /r/fuckcars mocks large pickups compared to the utility of a kei truck. https://reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/sdrgv3/japanese_truck... A kei truc
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by porphyra 4y ago
Yeah OP updated the title of the article to include "distinct".
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by porphyra 4y ago
Being the second article on the topic, this blog post is about the author sharing some of his collections. Definitely not (just) supposed to be "you should take photos of x, y, and z" haha
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by porphyra 4y ago
Considering how terrible sleep apnea is for the health, you would think that all healthcare systems and insurance companies would take it seriously. The costs of treating heart problems and stroke are much worse. But in practice it seems li
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by porphyra 4y ago
The $449 Intel 1340p or AMD Ryzen mainboard seems to be attractively priced against other barebones mini PCs and the Mac Mini too!
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by porphyra 4y ago
There's a funny restaurant called Vladimir Poutine in Montréal lol: https://www.vice.com/en/article/vb7qwb/inside-vladimir-pouti...
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by porphyra 4y ago
Protein and poutine do not rhyme if you pronounce poutine the proper way in Canadian French. And you are right of course that gelatin and practice have the short "ee" sound at the end whereas skeleton and and cactus have the &quot
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by porphyra 4y ago
How do you navigate this blog to read the other articles? I couldn't find any way to read the one on gpt4 (clicking the underlined "wrote about" does nothing) and twofergoofer.com/blog goes to a 404.
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by porphyra 4y ago
What if you come up with a prompt to tell ChatGPT to figure out how to use APIs and external tools to help itself get better at chess?
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by porphyra 4y ago
These work decently but can really mess up your teeth by causing you to develop an open bite.

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