pulvinar

16 ms·

121.
by pulvinar 2y ago
It could, and then the hanger would be facing the other direction, and everything would simply be mirrored left-right. The last arm to hold the hanger still has to replace it on the rack, which means it needs the hanger's hook facing a
122.
by pulvinar 2y ago
I don't see that it helps, since the task is symmetrical. Whichever arm takes it off has to give it to the other arm at some point so both sides of the hanger are used, and it needs to be given back either before or after doing the han
123.
by pulvinar 2y ago
There will always need to be a "wasted" step. The hanger comes off the rack with the hook away from the robot and has to go back on that way. Since there are two shoulders of the hanger to put into the shirt, they have to hand the
124.
by pulvinar 3y ago
There's now a Dark Star Road in Benson. Someone's a fan.
125.
by pulvinar 3y ago
Due to the way the video is interleaved with CPU cycles, you'd have to do something like divide the 1 MHz CPU clock by 20, and then when writing carefully only put data on the data bus for one of those 20 cycles. And the disk accesses
126.
by pulvinar 3y ago
I guess that would explain why I'm not seeing them -- I always use ad blockers, and steer clear of company-supplied apps. If ads should start getting through, they've lost a customer.
127.
by pulvinar 3y ago
I can see NIST setting up station WWVM: "At the tone, 693 hours, 21 minutes, Coordinated Lunar Time."
128.
by pulvinar 3y ago
That's what my dad did. I remember it as confusing, the parts being marked like SN7424 7411 with one of those numbers being the date code.
129.
by pulvinar 3y ago
It's in Settings > Privacy & Security > Journaling Suggestions. I guess it could be useful to keep enabled for your friends. That is, if they're too lazy to enter "I met with Joe and Mary today" in their journa
130.
by pulvinar 3y ago
Can we assume that you weren't able to use Numpy here, or at least that your inner loops weren't using it? It can be faster than C++ when you don't happen to know all the optimizations the Numpy library writers knew.
131.
by pulvinar 3y ago
From the maintainer's point of view, any new contribution requires work to vet it and check that it won't break something else, insidiously inject malware, etc., so what value it adds has to appear to be worth the trouble. Even wh
132.
by pulvinar 3y ago
fs_usage will often tell you what's going on just by looking at process and file names. sudo fs_usage -w
133.
by pulvinar 3y ago
GPT-4 says: The behavior you're observing is due to the late binding nature of closures in Python. When you use a lambda inside a list comprehension (or any loop), it captures a reference to the variable x, not its current value. By th
134.
by pulvinar 3y ago
What sort of questions? How would you know what to ask it, unless maybe you have another source for the book? Curiously, when I ask GPT-4 about some well-known but under-copyright book, it says it can't answer because of the copyright.
135.
by pulvinar 3y ago
That's an IPA (inflation-protected annuity), which are or can be a life annuity, paying until death. But I wouldn't say they're always the best choice.
136.
by pulvinar 3y ago
A problem is that facts are not copyrightable, in the US anyway[0]. You can copyright your browsing history book but anyone can use the facts in it or even republish them in a different format with their own copyright. [0] Feist Publication
137.
by pulvinar 3y ago
>This was a pretty long time ago, like early-Millennium. LOL, yep, I'm officially old!
138.
by pulvinar 3y ago
GPT-4 (at least) is explicit in saying that it's learning from user's assessments of its answers, so yes, the only valid way to test is to give it a variation of the prompt and see how well that does. GPT-4 failed the "Sally&
139.
by pulvinar 3y ago
Sorry, but it doesn't make sense why a Tesla would apply the parking brake when the big battery dies, since the separate 12V battery would power the brake mechanism. If that 12V also happened to die at the same moment (highly unlikely)
140.
by pulvinar 3y ago
If those kids were truly applying themselves to the algebra, I think they'd quickly internalize arithmetic too as they used it. But whatever reason led those kids to not do arithmetic without a calculator could well be a reason they do
141.
by pulvinar 3y ago
Simple answer is for Firefox to come with a full set of their own extensions from which you can choose which to install at any time. No external developers.
142.
by pulvinar 3y ago
That was true before calculators too. Correlation, causation.
143.
by pulvinar 3y ago
Or, sidestep it by creating an empty log file (if it doesn't exist) during initialization before creating multiple threads.
144.
by pulvinar 3y ago
What's needed to counter these is for customers to have their own contract of adhesion that simply says if the company is to accept them as a customer, then the company's own contract is null-and-void. This would be backed by a le
145.
by pulvinar 3y ago
We could spend our remaining days living it up, but after we're dead all those experiences won't make one whit of difference to us. What will live on is our legacy, in the minds of those still living. I'd rather not be rememb
146.
by pulvinar 3y ago
Except many if not most (at least in the past) chose a Mac for the software first and the hardware second. I know I did. And I’ve also been using desktop Linux begrudgingly beside it, ever since it existed. Windows too, though I’ve lately r
147.
by pulvinar 3y ago
I originally learned to type the "proper" way with wrists bent, but my hands have long since found a more comfortable angle (no bend) and it hasn't slowed my typing. Never did figure out what was so proper about keeping your
148.
by pulvinar 3y ago
Not sure about criminal records, but the other records are generally still public. Not blasted all over, but there if you know where to look. Not that we really had all that much privacy in the past, as anyone who's browsed old newspap
149.
by pulvinar 3y ago
If you're saying it's not perfect, then sure: it required one iteration before the Python program it spat out worked. It also when asked gave a 2-page description of the code. And how many humans can do this? Those poor exhausted
150.
by pulvinar 3y ago
I'm curious as to your source, or particular examples, since they (or at least GPT-4) seem to me to be rather decent at planning. E.g., for writing code.

More ›