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by saltcured 1mo ago
They are not part of the image of the scene. They wouldn't be focused by the optics. The optics would just be a slight attenuation much like the rest of the camera housing, film reel, operator, etc. So really a summation of all the ex
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by saltcured 1mo ago
These things were cool when coveted or adopted by the cool characters. The tech devices were also used as markers of uncool rich people. Symbols of excess disposable income, rather than carefully invested aesthetics. In the seedy areas, the
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by saltcured 1mo ago
I don't think the novel necessarily implies this consciousness. It is left ambiguous. It could be an allegory for some artistic types who go on a sort of creative bender and work compulsively, nearly suppressing their regular personali
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by saltcured 1mo ago
At least with Gibson, I think cyberpunk idolized actual punk culture. The coolness was found, brought, or arranged by these characters. The scifi backdrop wasn't inherently cool. It was often soulless and dystopian. The crass commercia
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by saltcured 1mo ago
I remember reading, long ago, an assertion that most shielding ideas were counterproductive for astronauts. It was stated that most shielding would turn high energy photons into much more harmful showers of particles, worse than the origina
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by saltcured 1mo ago
I can empathize. I don't really care about the save vs export thing, as I have adapted to that and just go directly to export in the menu. But, as a long time but infrequent user, I really dislike the changes towards "non-destruct
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by saltcured 1mo ago
It was also a messy time where software did make a lot of difference to your experience of performance. I had a few of these apples to oranges comparisons that frustrated me, as someone who absorbed the 90s counter-culture message that MS a
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by saltcured 1mo ago
In our NIH-related project, we were offered both. For IAL2 identity proofing, Login.gov is only for US persons, i.e. validating US-issued credentials. Meanwhile. ID.me has support to validate foreign passports. So, if TreasuryDirect support
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by saltcured 1mo ago
I may be misreading, but I think the earlier post was about the LLM being used to edit (clean up) their writing. It's quite different than just reading a lot of text from other authors and passively absorbing diction and style. Instead
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by saltcured 1mo ago
I remember my little Motorola flip phones from 25+ years ago had an LED that would blink for things like voice mails or unread SMS. I can't remember if it also did missed calls, and maybe could do orange or green? I seem to recall it
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by saltcured 2mo ago
I think a better headline would be something like: Compression is Abstraction and Decompression is Extrapolation. Many of the debates in the comments seem to come down to whether people believe prediction and extrapolation are synonymous.
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by saltcured 2mo ago
I was thinking of the kind of high-energy photon sources that sprawl across a large laboratory campus behind rings of security fences. These things can definitely erode the targets. Tomography experiments have to think carefully to optimize
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by saltcured 2mo ago
Now you're making me imagine some kind of 3D-scanning, confocal x-ray fluorescent spectroscope. Or maybe some kind of hybrid of x-ray microtomography and spectroscopic analysis all in one. But, maybe the energies involved would be abou
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by saltcured 2mo ago
I didn't really mean to emphasize CRUD when I mentioned REST. Just that it is an example of a natural mapping for some domains. I'm not a fan of anything trying to solve distribute system problems with only middleware. The end-to-
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by saltcured 2mo ago
Right, as far as live exposure, I associate its usage with UK/AU/NZ expats in my western US, academic R&D microcosm.
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by saltcured 2mo ago
Some might call this pedantic, but I think physical reality provided us the earliest idempotency keys, which were natural keys in specific systems. Some effects are idempotent because they address physical reality in a way that converges or
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by saltcured 2mo ago
It's a lot more spread out than that since women have so many potential reproductive years. There are families out there still with 18-20 year cycles and could pretty much tick off every generation. And families like mine that more or
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by saltcured 2mo ago
People with irresponsible parents often end up feeling less responsibility towards them. People with responsible parents often feel more responsibility towards them. Often, the irresponsible groups are suffering more consequences too, which
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by saltcured 2mo ago
Of course, that whack-a-mole is an intrinsic part youth and adolescence too. I think back to my mostly analogue school days. We found ways to disobey and amuse ourselves in the classroom. Imagine pusing for locked down paper so kids can&#x2
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by saltcured 2mo ago
It would be interesting to have a general fix for this in git. Something that more carefully splits the metadata from the working copy, a bit like we used to routinely do with "shadow build trees" with autoconf+make etc. The paral
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by saltcured 2mo ago
The previous point is fair though. What is the energy density of gasoline in a stoichiometric mixture with its oxidizer and not already detonated? That's where TNT beats it by a long shot. The mixture with any chance of being stored wo
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by saltcured 2mo ago
I had a similar wincing reaction to the expressed idea of wanting to converge output, control, and interaction under a terminal muxer in today's wacky world. But that's because today's world is forcing us towards overwhelming
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by saltcured 2mo ago
It's interesting all the permutations there are out there. We have gas from PG&E. Our house has an electric clothes dryer, gas stove with dual-fuel oven, gas furnace, and gas water heater. No air-conditioning other than a portable
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by saltcured 2mo ago
Not necessarily... it isn't as straightforward as "stronger El Niño means more rain". The steering of the jet stream seems to have some qualitative changes in these conditions but also more chaos. It could steer storms anywhe
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by saltcured 2mo ago
People seem focused on the interpersonal conflict angle in the comments here, i.e. winning and losing in a battle of wills. I think its just as important to realize ideas themselves can be conflicted or contradictory, and that practical act
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by saltcured 2mo ago
You're saying that as if survival doesn't remain an evolutionary pressure. Life is inherently demanding, and many mutations are lethal. So, at best, the argument seems to be that the surviving gene pool may get more complex with l
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by saltcured 2mo ago
It was also nearly magical how long my final Walkman could run with a single AA cell.
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by saltcured 2mo ago
I wonder if something like this could follow the spirit of "tag" URIs where you include a temporal component. A semantics of "namespace Foo as established time T." Any usage of the name in identifiers includes the epoch.
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by saltcured 2mo ago
Hiring a great F1 driver does not make a racing team owner a great driver. Some of the people shoveling LLM slop seem to miss that point.
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by saltcured 2mo ago
I think you need to analyze the disaster scenarios and recovery costs you are trying to balance before you can really evaluate these different options. If you are on reasonable storage, I think it is arguable that the main reason you would

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