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by serf 3y ago
i'm not oblivious to the improvements, but the nostalgia goggles always forget a lot of basic experiences. being disconnected from dialup because someone picked up a phone, being punted from a chatroom with racist shit because rate lim
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by serf 3y ago
well then the problem arises when said doctor says "I thoroughly studied your x-rays".
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by serf 3y ago
aside from what others have said, here's another point : it's not easy to know what you don't know. Every answer given by GPT is the best answer that specific model can give given the context and relational clues, but countin
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by serf 3y ago
in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam it's an established concept that the suits used 'AMBAC' to coordinate in space[0], which is really just a computer coordinated method of flailing the limbs on the robot to get inertia and mass
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by serf 3y ago
I feel, personally, that 'signs of quality' are one of the best metrics an individual can have for making a decision to spend time on something. Making a judgement on what to spend time on is literally the thing that allows for it
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by serf 3y ago
> eminent domain the whole thing, pay off the robber barons let's not frame the heaps of collateral damage that would result in as only affecting 'robber barons'.
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by serf 3y ago
> Yeah, no source... I don't get the snark, but I do get the point -- but i'd be remiss not to point out that a lab or individual seeking funds to try to prove the sensibility and health benefits of asbestos, in any form, would
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by serf 3y ago
> I found nothing particularly unique about it. it's cheap, it has a basic menu that covers most dietary requirements, it's understaffed by design, and it's open 24/7. I live in LA -- there is a distinct lack of 24&#x
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by serf 3y ago
play on a large map with lots of civilizations, doesn't take long. add multiplayer into the mix for an even worse experience.
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by serf 3y ago
it makes sense until you want to bake something. Then you wish you had a gimbal'd range w/ oven. I know this because I decided I knew everything and went with only an induction stove-top on my boat; now I wish I had an oven. oh we
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by serf 3y ago
>Not sure I'd want burning things on a boat. it's a lot better now that gasoline engines are (mostly) phased out and diesel is favored. anecdote : my father bought a fairly cheap 28 ft sailboat to restore without a cabin. The c
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by serf 3y ago
its feasible now, but historically microwave draw was way higher than available on most sail boat w/ inverter setups.
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by serf 3y ago
>Though, admittedly, I don't know how viable cast propellers are. the vast-vast majority of marine propellers are cast first and then machine-finished. the typical materials for marine propellers are usually very casting-friendly.
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by serf 3y ago
it's usually about how much energy your setup takes to recapture turbulence into useful energy after the first spin, and it's a tight-rope act trying to figure that stuff out. So yes, I imagine you could , but at some point those
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by serf 3y ago
>I also wonder why it isn't coming out for two years, when they can already make them via CNC? conditions testing and certification is a likely reason. >I can see $9000 as a fair price, but also expensive enough to buy one, scan
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by serf 3y ago
I hate windows as much as the herd, but OS choice isn't always as clean as "better or worse". I need to run Windows in some form for various industry specific needs that a VM or emulation simply cannot meet at the moment. I
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by serf 3y ago
it's not much different in size than a vision pro or quest 3, it's just kinda un-wieldly. the photo of it sitting in a display case gives a decent sense of scale, I think. http://briteliteimmersive.com/blog/re
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by serf 3y ago
as someone that messes with every low cost robotics thing . this part stuck out as painfully true : “Oh yeah, if you try to move the robot without calling enable() it segfaults. That's a safety feature… I guess? But also if you call i
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by serf 3y ago
I agree with you, but the majority of problems so far are thought to stem from the QC/QA processes and from efforts to speed production past the point of sane inspection practices.
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by serf 3y ago
both things spun the world as we knew it as humans into chaos in one way or another, but despite the metaphor floating around this thread the printing press and social media are not equivalents.
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by serf 3y ago
it's a double-edged sword. I want balance rather than obsession.
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by serf 3y ago
The only tried and true metric that HN always falls down to question universally : "Why did you do that if it doesn't make money?"
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by serf 3y ago
more ways to die, exactly what rimworld needed.
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by serf 3y ago
"as good for your teeth as Coca Cola" is a low bar.
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by serf 3y ago
Google created the situation, but it's not the reason why data is held behind login/pay-walls everywhere across the net.
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by serf 3y ago
intelligence in animal species, roughly, is how well the animal deals with novel situations. Corvid tool use is a common example of animal intelligence. It is interesting to consider AIs that way given that almost every AI will fail catastr
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by serf 3y ago
given who the people are that signed it really just comes off more like an attempt at creating a regulatory moat around the territory they got to first. "This is extinction level important, so all you people who aren't us need to
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by serf 3y ago
>fantasy dollars If you include all fiat currencies in that category I think that's a keen name. If it's just a title to bad-mouth crypto in some arbitrary way -- well -- a lot of very real stuff has been bought with crypto, an
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by serf 3y ago
you and I built very similar devices. Mine is on a 34ft sailboat. It has held up tremendously with zero issues for 4+ years and many miles. the best part? it cost very little. Worried about redundancy? Build two, keep the SD cards backed up
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by serf 3y ago
that's not a new concept; the first everquest is still being updated -- but parent is still right, the 'normal game' has an initial release, a few updates to fix those bugs, maybe a content patch, a few updates to fix those n

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