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by scoopertrooper 3y ago
Even GPT-4 fails. We just don't yet possess fear litany technology.
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by scoopertrooper 3y ago
> Stopping at a parking spot, push a button, and park my car for me, less useful but still worth it. Car drops me off in front of my destination, then goes off to a parking garage 15 minutes away and parks.
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by scoopertrooper 3y ago
GPT-4 hit it out of the park: The question seems to be asking about two different types of "pounds": one as a unit of weight (the pound of feathers), and one as a unit of currency (the British pound). A pound of feathers: This is
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by scoopertrooper 3y ago
With an extremely literal reading you are correct, but there was clearly an implication.
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
You can still use it today! https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
They are aiming to develop a standard... of sorts... https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
The article had a discussion about how existing metalenses were limited in size. So, I assume they're saying this metalense is superior to the state of the art in the field of metalenses.
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
The M1 Pro is thought to cost $96. I highly doubt the MacBook Pro will ever approach being a low margin product, even if TSMC triple their prices. https://medium.com/macoclock/is-apple-fleecing-you-a682c851a...
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
As a recent arrival to London, the tube is amazing.
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
I think this explains why: > Once the MetroCard vending machines came into the picture, it took a lot longer to collect all the money from a given station than it had from just the token booths, and the money train would sit for long str
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
It looks like the Tesla driver will be at least as fault for the collision with the car behind it. However, it seems the subsequent collisions were caused by fleshy human drivers driving unsafely. I don't know much about traffic law, s
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
GOP included a link to the CSA press release. I don’t know what more you’re expecting here or what particular point you’re trying to make.
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
My comments were limited to the question as to why we might want to do this in preference to EVs. In the case of EVs, the energy source is cheaper, but there is a much higher capital expense as those poor folks who are just scraping by will
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
Because we could move the entire current stock of cars over to less carbon intensive fuel without having to build an entirely new fleet. Keeping in mind that manufacturing new cars (and the associated resource extraction) is extremely carbo
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
Why use a tutorial when ChatGPT has you covered? > How do I create a nix package that clones eMacs from GitHub and builds it from source? { pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, fetchFromGitHub }: let emacsSrc = fetchFromGitHub { ow
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
I'm getting this back when I try to hear cats sing me a rock opera: {"data":{"success":true,"worklet_output":{"error":"Model version 5qekv1q is not healthy"},"latency_ms":530}
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
I don’t think MAD is all that effective. At this moment in time we’re seeing: * Several concurrent arms races in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe * A high intensity conflict in Ukraine * China threatening a land invasion into Taiwan MAD mi
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
Do you break your ‘streak’ of living in your house when you leave to go to work?
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
Thing that really kills iPad for me is the web browsing experience. I just find iOS Safari so limiting. It's also needlessly slow (considering M1). I suspect they have some optimisations designed for memory constrained devices like iPh
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
I think it'd be too compelling for a lot of use cases. They want to nudge you up the product lineup.
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
AltaRock has gone a bit quiet, but the technology is still progressing at pace. Here is a more recent article about Quaise (a spinoff from AltaRock). They’re still in lab testing, but they’re having promising results and aim to start field
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
I assume this allows them to get to 30fps.
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
It's a classic free rider problem. Some jurisdictions will chronically under invest because they can rely on the largesse of others. The incentive for every jurisdiction would be to degenerate into becoming free riders. This doesn&#x27
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
I wonder how internet quality scales of antenna size. Would a covert antenna with a quarter of the area of a regular antenna give you somewhat usable internet?
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
Looks like we caught someone's attention: > I'm temporarily restricting comments to keep comments from turning into +1s while this is trending on Hacker News. If you have additional thoughts that you'd like to share with t
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
VPNs are quite useful in the UK. A fair number of sites are blocked by ISPs for various reasons.
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
If so, then the video footage of the Titanic in two pieces on the ocean floor must also be inaccurate.
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Class action: Automakers enabled ‘Kia Boys’ theft trend(courthousenews.com)
2 points by scoopertrooper 4y ago|0 comments
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
For sure, it could be used that way. But, a lot of people were comparing this unfavourably to how they currently manage their dev workflows. My point was that they weren't really the target market.
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by scoopertrooper 4y ago
It seems (from the material on the site) that the motivating use case for this isn't development, but rather running computer labs for students.

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