sixstringtheory

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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
Surf would be way, way up though
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
This is a great set of charts and analysis, although I have two problems with it. 1. On the chart of energy density, I'd like to see the the energy density of petrol for comparison. It's much higher, and even though extrapolation
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
In addition to what sibling comments have said, and I know this is a waning concern these days, but having the events in iCal also affords offline use.
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
I would think you could automatically load the first match's "hide" URL until no more matches appear in the page, but it might trip some kind of rate limiter.
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
I consider it a game to try using those without bumping my hand into any part of it or getting any water in my face
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
I know other people use their feet, which is partly why I use my foot
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
And think of how much more productive we could be if we could save trips to a dedicated room for it! Every desk could be fitted with a waste vacuum, right next to the soylent dispenser. Just don't mix them up...
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
If you pay a mortgage till the day you die, how’s that different than paying rent till you die? If you can find a home you like more than places you can rent, and the payments are similar enough, seems like it’s still better to get a mortga
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
Could you show us an example of a service API that you maintain that doesn’t uses API keys?
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
This is some negging bs. Current front page items include a paper on vector databases, an example of AI garbage that showed Amazon in a bad light, a quite in-depth treatment of “Trilinear Point Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Renderi
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
bazel does a fairly nice job with this
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
I don’t think that’s why they did this, considering they added the ability to view comments.
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
So what happens if you send a message with a video and the recipient’s device is not responsive, say because it is out of battery or data service range? Should the message simply be lost or should it be stored somewhere until it can be succ
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
I want to know how a socialist or communist approach can produce a viable open source ecosystem, and I want to learn about it by studying the actual results of an existing system, not the whim of theory.
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
If this is on macOS, what about ⌘ ^ SPC to get the emoji picker?
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
Nobody is denying partitioning is helpful. It’s the implementation details of that partitioning that cause the debate. IMO using repos as a partition boundary is an abuse of git. And IMO invoking Plato to make a point is not helpful. Argume
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
As someone who has worked in monoliths and microservices, monorepos and github galaxies, I think it would be better if we could converge on a monorepo managed by something like Bazel where you can just create a new build target that lists i
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
What is an example of a noncapitalist society with an open source software scene?
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
> FAANG thenselves contribute a lot to open source software The salaries of the people who work on those projects are paid by the revenue streams generated by the companies.
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
How do you control for bias coming from the same coin flipper? Do they usually flip their coin from the same starting height (whatever comfortable arm positioning they have, which I assume would also introduce bias by how they catch it as w
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
1K is way higher than I would’ve guessed, that’s good to know! Very impressive.
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
True generally, but it gets murkier all the time. Just last week I ate at a traditional restaurant that stated up front that there is a 15% service charge on all checks. This was in a city that has a very high minimum wage even for tipped e
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
It seems to me that if you want to be a CEO that wants to stay connected at the ground level, then you have to actually do that: you have to know each engineer, and understand the work they’re doing on any given day. Naturally, this tightly
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
Tell that to Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes and SBF. There are limits on what you can say to people and how you can exchange money.
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
We’re all humans and life is very complicated with many facets. If we all looked hard enough I’m sure we could find a person you’d refuse to engage in a debate with over their “thing.” But that wouldn’t be a wise use of time in my opinion.
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
That “if” is doing a good bit of lifting though. Nobody is talking about the hallucination rate . How many times have innocent people been wrongly convicted? The innocence project found 375 instances in a 31 year period. How often do LLMs
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
Isn’t life expectancy an average? If so, then reducing any input values (people dying earlier than they otherwise would) would reduce the average. Doesn’t matter in which n-tile the reductions occur.
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
Granted I’m still very early in my parenting years but if my child’s high school requires a smartphone I feel like I’m going to be viewed as a kook because I’ll turn up to meetings shouting at them about how they’ve failed the kids from a s
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
Any particular reason you’re being so combative about this? I’m talking about a take home code challenge. It’s unreasonable to have someone to record a video that could last an hour or more. And I’m not gonna sit and watch that.
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
What’s so great about a career? I grew up loving programming. My career had disabused me of that long since. I am indeed very lucky and grateful that my income can support my entire family such that my wife could take a break from her caree

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