rpearl

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by rpearl 3y ago
Pens (pencils too!) and paper make sense because of the fine detail/relatively high stroke count required to write even some common kanji legibly
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by rpearl 3y ago
The new(ish) Caseta paddle switches are pretty indistinguishable visually from normal paddle switches, and operating them is natural even though they don't stay toggled up and down. If that's the sum total of my concession to &quo
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by rpearl 3y ago
I put in a bunch of Caseta smart switches. They are indistinguishable from normal light switches without any smarts, but if I want to, I can also control them via local network. It's nice to go to bed and turn off the entire house with
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by rpearl 3y ago
They are usually just two exposed contacts waiting to be bridged by water, yeah.
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by rpearl 3y ago
no, FHE should support arbitrary computation. and image processing with FHE is really not a stretch of the imagination. https://github.com/microsoft/EVA/blob/main/examples/image_pr...
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by rpearl 3y ago
Dropbox could generate photo thumbnails on encrypted photographs without ever looking at their contents, for example
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by rpearl 3y ago
> not everybody is a fan of living in a rat cage in a soviet urban project > more enjoyable living > freedom to live in more humane settings > nightmarish big cities You appear to be arguing as if this was an axiom--cities are t
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by rpearl 3y ago
The problem to be solved in this case is unnecessary distress and pain about one's inevitable death.
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by rpearl 3y ago
The paper you linked does not say what you claim it says. Instead, it appears to investigate psychoactive drug deaths not to do with overdose. There appear to be no "traditional" psychedelics (serotonergic hallucinogens like LSD,
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by rpearl 3y ago
For automations, check out pyscript, https://hacs-pyscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ You can just write decorated functions in python.
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by rpearl 3y ago
I don't care to pay for access to gpt-4 but one could easily use one of the vocabulary estimation tests, which use some statistics plus knowledge of word appearance frequency, to estimate its vocabulary size. https://mikeinn
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by rpearl 3y ago
let's see... English speakers tend to have a vocabulary of 30k words or so depending on what exactly you measure. GPT-4 has 1.7 trillion parameters. Of course scaling up is quite unpredictable in what capabilities it gets you, but It&#
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by rpearl 3y ago
you can refinance when rates are lower. The question is when they will be.
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by rpearl 3y ago
Computers completely dominate humans in, say, chess. A game between humans is still interesting, though--and isn't nearly as interesting if one person cheats with an engine. In the same way, a human competition in advent of code is an
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by rpearl 3y ago
You can also temper chocolate by melting it to 50°C-55°C, cooling it to 28°C and then working with it, barely melted, at 31°C. I don't know how we figured that out to start with though.
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by rpearl 3y ago
a common way to temper chocolate for making candy is to seed the crystal structure with... tempered chocolate
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by rpearl 3y ago
it's a little pricy but the Argon One case will fix your gripe. Probably others too. I agree that it'd be nice if it were laid out better on the board, though!
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by rpearl 3y ago
that is not evidence of a historical fact
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by rpearl 3y ago
it can detect duplicates in your collection because it maintains a small database of what it's seen. Great for ingesting the big pile and cleaning up
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by rpearl 3y ago
*using roads
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by rpearl 3y ago
For private VC tech, interest rate increases mean the next funding round will be much harder to get
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by rpearl 3y ago
Cool! Showers are 2gpd minimum, so if you think someone is likely to take a longer shower then you should definitely agree that 82gpd is not "wild", per the post I was replying too. Glad we're in agreement, and thanks for bei
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by rpearl 3y ago
https://www.sdu.dk/-/media/files/om_sdu/institutter/iti/fors... This study found these uses for indoor residential use: 18 gpd toilet (~10 flushes), 15 gpd washer (~1 load every few days), 11 g
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by rpearl 3y ago
From a black box perspective it's easy to conclude that it's negative.
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by rpearl 3y ago
evidently the airline priced that resource at a negative value. (Florida to Charlotte $X, Florida to Charlotte to NY $X-$Y.) so apparently that resource was worse than useless.
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by rpearl 3y ago
The SI definition of a second, available at https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9.... , section 2.3.1, does not reference our particular planet, nor any particular means of measurement, n
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by rpearl 3y ago
A second is defined to be exactly the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. I don't see anything referencing any
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by rpearl 3y ago
I've made a couple dozen pcbs of varying complexity in the past 6 months and I still haven't spent more than a FLIR E4 would cost ??
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by rpearl 3y ago
what precisely is wrong with visual feedback?
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by rpearl 3y ago
Pretty much every recipe written since literally the 1890s / Fannie Farmer already has pulled out ingredients and quantities into their own separate section from steps. To use cooklang, it appears that I have to rewrite recipes to incl

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