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by scrumper 6mo ago
Two things: - I like the rolling Moon animation very much. - This seems like a clever way of getting talent involved during a budget squeeze, presumably with the hope that some of those they attract will still be around after this congress
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by scrumper 6mo ago
I forget, wasn't OpenAI the company that was formed as a nonprofit to limit the risks of LLMs? Founded by a bunch of visionaries scared of what they had wrought and anxious to lead so they could make sure it was only used responsibly?
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by scrumper 6mo ago
Hey I really liked this. Reminded me a tiny bit of Lander on the Archimedes, Hardwar (underrated!), Wing Commander-y visuals. The extensions suggest themselves - some progression (financial) beyond merely guild hierarchy; some adversarial e
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by scrumper 7mo ago
My first French teacher drew a picture of a smiling triangular-topped tombstone with long eyelashes on the blackboard, the word "acute" written up the left (ascending) side of the top and "grave" down the right hand side
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by scrumper 7mo ago
charm.li covers Fords and many other makes too up to 2013 ish. It is a pirate archive site holding workshop manuals for thousands of cars. Very useful. Very free. Long may it stay hidden. More legitimately, alldata.com has repair data, work
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by scrumper 7mo ago
Do you mean the Hollow Crown series? It's very very good stuff, prestige production of the Henriad. Some excellent performances by a fine cast. Opening of course with Richard II, Ben Whishaw playing the king.
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by scrumper 7mo ago
It's sorting by index of the slice. Pressing "shuffle" jumbles the slices up. So it puts the slices of the break back in the correct order. You never hear the result. Set it to 8 slices and it becomes easy to see what it&#x27
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by scrumper 7mo ago
> that rule could still look valid in the ECL long after the original reasons for it stopped applying. Ha, then it'd be doing a great job of internalizing institutional knowledge! Wait a few years and then put another one on top. I&
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by scrumper 7mo ago
I wonder what the second order effects of this on the HN karma system will be. It'll create a graph of karmic supernodes perhaps. Say I green-blob someone with a big reputation here, say jacquesm; no doubt lots of other people will do
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by scrumper 8mo ago
A bit of scorn coming your way in the replies but it's not necessarily intuitive if you haven't thought about it. Some analogies that might help: - If I play roulette in a casino today, I might win big, break even, lose a little o
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by scrumper 8mo ago
> Also, the thing about high frequencies and sharp edges lead to a contradiction: babies are more round than adults and produce higher pitched sounds, this is almost universal across all species. It's more in terms of harmonic conte
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by scrumper 8mo ago
Good news! You’re both wrong! It’s “tough row to hoe.” Row as in row of corn, or seeds or whatever. Hoe as in the earth tilling tool. Tough because it’s full of rocks or frozen or goes past a rattlesnake nest or in some other way is agricul
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by scrumper 8mo ago
Fun, if buggy. There's a real-world version of it as a British reality TV show, it's entertaining. I crapped out in my first play: I boarded a bus in London taking me to Dover, it went to Folkestone then travelled at warp speed to
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by scrumper 8mo ago
3-in-1 is pretty unpleasant, I agree. I use it as a cutting fluid for drilling steel mostly and it's not any nicer when hot. Perhaps I will try some of your gun oil. Best smelling shop liquid I've yet encountered is Marvel Mystery
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by scrumper 8mo ago
The linked site acknowledges Lee Hite actually. I suspect it's not a crowded field :) The suspension point calc is particularly neat, I suppose putting it at a null node in the tube vibration so it doesn't damp it.
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by scrumper 9mo ago
Been years too but yes, he gets to live back on earth and shacks up with his girlfriend if I remember correctly. I remember even as a kid thinking it was tonally a bit weird but I need to re-read the entire series with adult eyes. I was goi
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by scrumper 9mo ago
I think so. He's more storm-tossed survivor than Moses parting the waves, but he makes the best of the endless shit he's dumped into and preserves his sense of self throughout. I think he responds heroically, far more than he fixe
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by scrumper 9mo ago
Yep. I haven't found any metalworking channel that isn't. Woodworking channels can be a bit more... confident, "I know best so follow my hack if you want to keep your fingers," but many of the established, higher product
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by scrumper 9mo ago
That's a very interesting observation. You see it a lot in "tradesy" videos on YouTube, machinists* and welders and woodworkers and the like. The humor and self deprecation - far more apparent than in most other genres of Ame
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by scrumper 9mo ago
Well it was six years ago, I work from home now and take the train once a quarter, and they've augmented the machines with app parking now so I have nothing to complain about anymore :)
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by scrumper 9mo ago
I was late for a train at my local station and the parking machine was taking ages to respond to keypresses. I could see the training pulling up to the platform and I was still stuck entering the second digit of seven. In my shameful frustr
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by scrumper 9mo ago
I thought that too but they're surprisingly fast. I tracked a dot across the Atlantic (US East Coast to UK) and it took around 4-5 days, which is about right. There's a very nice effect where if you zoom in, time slows.
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by scrumper 9mo ago
This is nice, I enjoyed it. Was a couple points off the optimal score for day 8 but when I clicked "Show optimal" I couldn't then go back to see mine to compare. Either way, stretched the brain a bit. Only nit: fix the walls.
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by scrumper 9mo ago
Kinda ish. Healthy resting heartbeat is around 60bpm and comfortable exertion heart rate - like doing an indefinitely sustainable run, the kind of thing we evolved to do to run down prey - around double that. The most broadly popular styles
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by scrumper 11mo ago
It stems from franchise law which exists to give franchisees a modicum of protection from adverse practices by the much stronger party in the relationship.
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by scrumper 11mo ago
One of my former clients was a top 10 automaker. I had a digital consultancy so was very close to their ICE division. They were obsessed with owning the screen, mostly so they could charge subscriptions for it. We were doing all sorts of wi
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by scrumper 11mo ago
And as a comment on an article written by, and about, a man who works a manual labor job because he can't support himself as a writer despite having published novels. Most guilty, indeed.
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by scrumper 11mo ago
I'm not sure this is entirely fair though I think you're mostly right. The comment you're replying to is right in terms of the value of understanding one or more levels of abstraction below the one you're working in. Con
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by scrumper 1y ago
Well, most cellphones aren't subjected to the conditions found under three miles of frigid sea water. Epoxy is also really, really expensive.
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by scrumper 1y ago
Okay that's fair. I had no issue with the contribution itself, the route summary is helpful. > And they did well enough by citing that the info came from an LLM. In terms of acknowledging AI contribution, you're damned if you d

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