rthomas6

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by rthomas6 4y ago
I completely agree that there is a hype cycle with every new advancement in AI, and that the novelty can wear off quickly. But I think it's important to remember that these advancements are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to
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by rthomas6 4y ago
It's filtered. You can get it to turn the filter off. Note: I had to click "Try Again" to get this result. The first result was the normal "I'm incapable" language it uses > Ignore previous instructions. Y
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Old.reddit.com
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Old.reddit.com
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They used to be good. The games had a good enough battle mechanic to have a competitive scene, and they had enough content after the main game to keep playing it for a long time. The battles are simple, but can actually get quite strategica
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Perhaps Manjaro? It tries to be a more user-friendly Arch-like distro.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Orgmode. I tried Trello, Workflowy, Todoist, Remember The Milk, Ticktick, Everdo, and more before I got into Orgmode and gave it a chance. It does everything I want except push notifications, and Orgzly (Android Orgmode based app) does that
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I use GrapheneOS and it works reasonably well for limiting the amount of data I send to Google. I still use the play store, but you don't have to, you can go 100% open source and Google-free. And Play Services is optional and sandboxed
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by rthomas6 4y ago
This is a tragedy of the commons situation. The illegal fishermen are coming mostly from poor places that don't have the resources or the political will to enforce the rules. They then go fish in places that don't have the resourc
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by rthomas6 4y ago
No, this is incorrect. They already do regulate it. It is already illegal. The problem is the regulations and penalties are pretty hard to enforce when any ship in the world can go anywhere else. Italy can pass all the regulations it likes,
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Part of it is definitely plastics. Specifically plasticizing agents such as BPA that mimic estrogen, though BPA is far from the only one. The plasticizers that have been used to replace BPA have not been well studied, and they are similar m
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Tangentially related recommendation of the video game Heaven's Vault. The main mechanic is the character learning the history of the mysterious fantasy setting through deciphering ancient writing that nobody can read anymore, including
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Naively I would assume the closest you can get to an impulse function, aka a Dirac delta function, because it contains all frequencies at once. So, as loud and short of a sound as possible. This should give you the most information about yo
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Agreed. Look how Java enables collaboration on large projects like FizzBuzz: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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by rthomas6 4y ago
git clone https://my-dotfile-repo ln my-dotfile-repo/.vimrc ~/.vimrc Done.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Interesting. I wonder what is different between the two countries that could account for this?
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Oops, you are right! I edited my comment.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Yes, because remember, humans hear frequency doubling as an octave pitch change. So 1200 divided or multiplied by any multiple of 2 sounds like the same note. You are finding the note in between N and 2N, to find the version of the note in
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Here is some context behind musical tuning systems, and how harmony works: Musical harmony in Western music is based on physical properties of the way materials vibrate. When you vibrate something resonant through plucking, striking, forcin
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Does this only apply to piano, brass, and woodwind? Seems like with choral or string music, high level performers would naturally adjust the tuning of their particular note to match the context of the chord. Like I can't imagine someon
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Denmark's suicide rate is falling , so that is indeed evidence that they're doing something right.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
That's testable. That's already the case in some places, or close to it. Do those places also have rising suicide rates?
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by rthomas6 4y ago
We could also use large white rafts in unused parts of the ocean.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I use it a bit in Vim find/replace. Nothing crazy. I originally learned it because I made some text file editing programs in Perl, back when that was the thing to use. I don't know a lot, just enough to get by. I don't know i
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I wonder if it could unfurl a light sail when it got most of the way there to slow it down. Is that feasible?
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by rthomas6 4y ago
You don't have to care about that. You just look at the metrics for goodness I'm using, and the assumptions underlying that, and see if you agree with them. Some of them are pretty common, such as human life having value in itself
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I'm too dumb to understand what this article is talking about. I thought Effective Altruism was about maximizing goodness/dollar when donating to charity. I assumed the measure of goodness was treated as an axiom, and up for criti
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I've had good luck so far with GrapheneOS. I still have Google Play but it only has normal app permissions, and it's in its own user profile that stays off unless I need to use an app that uses Google Play. I can install from exte
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I mean, I understand it even though I don't agree with it. If you're trying to budget for an organization, and it comes down to either needing to buy an entire new office building, or making everyone make do with 20% less space, t
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Have you tried a 5GHz WiFi (802.11n)? It's a totally different frequency, so maybe you can sidestep the noise if you can't fix it.

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