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by ralfd 1y ago
Nitpick: Not every house owner is a citizen though.
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by ralfd 1y ago
A good fiction novel has multiple aspects: of course entertainment/escapism, but also a larger point the author wants to explore. With Asoiaf George Martin wanted to break/subvert classic fantasy tropes. For example that the good
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by ralfd 1y ago
i never used a phone case since 2019
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by ralfd 1y ago
For me it was the lighting of the colored reflections which change troughout the day and through the seasons. https://blog.sagradafamilia.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/c... Our guide showed us on his ph
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by ralfd 1y ago
> For the “POWERFUL HEX SPELL,” I had to provide Kirk’s date of birth for “accuracy.” The witch performed the hex, but her response was unsettling: “I just completed your spell, and it was successful. You will see the first results withi
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by ralfd 1y ago
The watch has sleep data (for example phase durations like rem sleep and apnoe), the health app just doesn’t compute a „score“. > I truly thought this was a solved problem. I charge when showering in the morning. 15 minutes is enough for
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by ralfd 1y ago
Good. A price is a signal wrapped up in an incentive. People should not live in disaster prone areas. And if they want to the cost for that should not be socialized.
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by ralfd 1y ago
At least you could exclude jawless, cartilaginous, and lobe-finned fish. That would leave you with 99% of what people call fish. But as said it would exclude sharks, they would need to be their own group. More bothering me is that there are
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by ralfd 1y ago
I read that too! Ambrose is a bit patriotic, but one can read between the lines. - The expedition was like StarTrek/Voyager if it were a satire. A technological advanced boat with phaser weapons and futuristic medicine going boldly up
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by ralfd 1y ago
It was bottom-up driven in the urban city centers, in the rural villages it was top-down (“pagan” means provincial villager). https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-rise-of-chr... > The rise of Christianit
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by ralfd 1y ago
Don’t get confused yourself: You will still die, even if you live as old as trees can get.
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by ralfd 1y ago
> terminally tarnished for you by the ‘mechahitler’ incident It is forgivable because there is no real understanding in an llm. And other llm can also be prompted to say ridiculous things, so what? If a llm would accept a name of a Vikin
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by ralfd 1y ago
The crazy thing is that hopefully in 2-3 years a Starship launch could be as "boring" as a dime-a-dozen Falcon 9 launch today.
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by ralfd 1y ago
Only possible through SpaceX Starlink, but technical progress aside they also deserve kudos to be so open to share some of their video streams publicly and not cutting away from explosions or burning flaps. Blue Origin didn't show with
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by ralfd 1y ago
Maybe even throwing a used ship away as scrap metal away would work as a business case. The expensive part are the rocket engines, if they can be reused much would be won.
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by ralfd 1y ago
> The push for rapid reusability seems somewhat at odds with the push for large scale production of ships. Elon always talks about a city on Mars but seeing for the first time the gargantuan size of Starfactory it dawned on me that Space
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by ralfd 1y ago
You mis-copied the numbers for one launch. Wiki says: > Project cost US$6.417 billion (equivalent to $33.6 billion in 2023) > Cost per launch US$185 million (equivalent to $969 million in 2023) That a manned Apollo mission would/
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by ralfd 1y ago
Party realignment: https://time.com/7173651/democratic-party-alignment-history/ The Democrats moved from working class to the professional managerial class and the Republicans in reverse.
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by ralfd 1y ago
Knowing how LLM work made me more sympathetic to curating my own „training set“ though.
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by ralfd 1y ago
Yes, I rolled my eyes about the sneering of the author. By the way: His blog getting a few dozen hn comments is only impressive, because he failed to write a better blog.
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by ralfd 1y ago
> "we'll be asleep driving" in 5/10 years. Remember that? What happened to that? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dLCEUSXVKAA
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by ralfd 1y ago
Q: What does a product manager do? GPT4: Collaborating with engineering, sales, marketing, finance, external partners, suppliers and customers to ensure …… etc GPT5: I don't know. Upon speaking these words, AI was enlightened.
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by ralfd 1y ago
How does that compare to Claude/GPT4?
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by ralfd 1y ago
Just replying to ask you next week what your assessment on GPT5 is.
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by ralfd 1y ago
> (i.e. the word pronounced my-newt) "minute" comes from latin "pars minuta" and the "i" should be pronounced like in "minimum" > By this logic, 0.016 (recurring) seconds should be a called a &q
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by ralfd 1y ago
Easier said than done. What companies have stock? Or just buy Jinko solar?
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by ralfd 1y ago
> By social metrics, the birth rate is one of the worst in the world 1.44 for Russia is sadly in line with the west. Better than many European countries (Italy/'Spain 1.2), only a bit worse than US (1.6).
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by ralfd 1y ago
The Greek Tyrannis is often fitting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant > A tyrant (from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos) 'absolute ruler'), in the modern English usage of the word, is an absolute ruler
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by ralfd 1y ago
I understand some of these words. Explain like I am 15?
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by ralfd 1y ago
> Why is it that on desktop everyone uses spotify.com to listen to music But … I don’t? I download and install Spotify.app on my computer (at least my gf does on hers, I use Apple Music). Maybe I am the weird one? No I am not, I skimmed

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