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by robga 4y ago
This may relate to one of the 170 Seinfeld episodes being entitled "The Chinese Restaurant". They spend almost the whole episode in line waiting for a table which which they're repeatedly told will be ready in "5, 10 min
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by robga 4y ago
The UK introduced laws last year that are also on the theme of gender discrimination and righting the consequence of deprivation of rights in previous generations [0]. It was only about 5 years ago that rights afforded by matrilineal descen
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by robga 4y ago
Writing the script for a Seinfeld scene was one of the first use cases I tried on chatgpt last year. I kept a copy. There is some sort of intersection between A Show About Nothing and an AI that creates empty responses from everything. INT.
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by robga 4y ago
Taleb may have said this, but be aware all he effectively did was take Bertrand Russell's Chicken parable [0] of 1912 and replace the chicken with a turkey without adding any philosophical value. [0] http://www.ditext.com&#x
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Birdsite blocks bird watcher after tweeting about birds(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by robga 4y ago|0 comments
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by robga 4y ago
My receipt shows $266. I’ll keep it as a doorstop. Giving it a kick now and again should be enough to remind me not to buy new Amazon devices.
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by robga 4y ago
> 7% interest … 9% return … 32 years These are wild figures. Most adventurous rules of thumb are about 4-5% over inflation. If you have a way to be confident in getting 7-9% pa over 30 years quit your day job and pile your time into what
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by robga 4y ago
The IceGiant ProSiphon has fittings for 4 x 120mm pwm fans. Fitted on my ThreadRipper, I switched the stock IceGiant fans out for Be Quiet Silent Wings. A significant extra cost to be sure. I'm sure some Noctua fans would fit. Best of
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by robga 4y ago
On my 32 core ThreadRipper I’ve been running an Ice Giant since it came out. It’s excellent. The only gotcha is to ensure your case can fit it in.
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by robga 4y ago
I’ve watched the first 15 episodes of 30 (they are still streaming daily). It took a few to get into it but by around episode 7 it made enough momentum to want the next episode. The cultural revolution scenes/episodes are excellent. I
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by robga 4y ago
At least it shows Yann LeCun and Gary Marcus can agree on some things. Thankfully someone has gone full circle and had ChatGPT construct a rap battle between those minds: https://mobile.twitter.com/k_saifullaah/status&#
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by robga 4y ago
Brought back “Fond” memories of my Polaroid Sprintscan 120 (4000dpi) [0] which could handle negs of up to 6x9 size. It was a slow, noisy beast, but gave great scans. Around the turn of the century I used it thousands of 120 film (6x6cm) neg
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by robga 4y ago
There is no direct evidence either way. Retelling the tales of others as your own was not new at the time. eg Marco Polo is strongly suspected by many scholars of having not made it to China. When Battuta does talk about China, it is more v
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by robga 4y ago
"Not all, not even most, Muslims were Arabs. Islam may have been the first world civilization; in period it stretched from Spain to Malaya. Muslims might be Arabs, Berbers, East or West African Blacks, Indians, Kurds, Mongols, Persians
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by robga 4y ago
I very much enjoyed Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah (2012) by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. If you enjoy travelogues rather than history books (I enjoy both) then this may be the one for you. Such a fascinating
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by robga 4y ago
The art style reminded me instantly of Alba: A Wildlife Game, available on most platforms.
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by robga 4y ago
My reading is that some hold a belief that the distribution of developer productivity/skill is not a Normal Distribution. Yes, in a normal distribution some on the right will be 10x those on the left. But as I read it, the “10x” advoca
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by robga 4y ago
I now do this with iCloud Hide My Email. It’s very easy to do. I’ve started converting all my heritage details for already registered accounts.
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by robga 4y ago
Stating the obvious (?) but it may be a reference to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland where nonsense is a key theme, culminating in a Mad Hatter's Tea Party where we witness riddles with no answers, the need for respect during con
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by robga 4y ago
Nick Cave’s direct response is verbatim on the original generated text page [0]. It’s worth a read. Stronger: read that, not the linked guardian article. He’s a fabulous wielder of words. Placed next to the generated text, his rebuttal lays
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by robga 4y ago
I’m surprised that acquisition isn’t part any strategy to constrain 3rd party apps. Acquiring the top few apps would soften the PR blow and retain users. It’d bring back on board some crack dev/product people who’ve already managed to
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by robga 4y ago
They’ve said they expect to release publicly by the end of the month. I don’t Mastodon much, but the beta is my only client and slick to use.
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by robga 4y ago
I’m believe the full nickname is Melon Husk.
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by robga 4y ago
Maybe Melon saw how nice Ivory is looking https://tapbots.com/ivory/ Tweetbot for Mastodon. “You’re either with us or against us”.
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by robga 4y ago
Clearly the work of rabid anti-dentites.
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ETOPS: Extended-Range Twin-Engine Operational Performance Standards(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by robga 4y ago|0 comments
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by robga 4y ago
This was a fun rabbit hole to go down, with the ETOPS [1] hint. I enjoyed the history of ETOPS-138 [0]. ETOPS-120 leaves some small triangles of the Atlantic inaccessible, particularly if one emergency airfield is unavailable. A 15% increas
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by robga 4y ago
Interesting that they call Lajes a “military airfield”. On the Azorean island of Terceira, Lajes (TER) is a mixed use airfield that is the commercial landing strip of the island since the 1930s, as well as having a multi-national military b
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by robga 4y ago
The last car I rented wouldn't permit navigation destinations to be set or amended by touchscreen while in motion. It was infuriating as it was the passenger who was safely trying to adjust the destination and we were having to pull ov
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by robga 4y ago
I’ve been veg’an for decades. I really enjoy “meat” substitutes for their texture and flavour absorption ability. For me it is no way an effort or experience of meat substitution. In short, meat eaters don’t have some copyright over “meatin

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