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by stcredzero 3y ago
Somewhere I ran across the idea of setting a prehistoric fantasy novel in Doggerland, which is a big swathe of Europe that got submerged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland Neanderthals, Sapiens, and other close
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by stcredzero 3y ago
I know that statement is true, but WHY is it true? I have never seen anyone look at a coverage report and take any useful action. We made code coverage a part of CI, and we've been using that to drive up code coverage. It's been
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by stcredzero 3y ago
LLMs are like having an army of very knowledgable but somewhat senseless interns to do your bidding. I prefer to think of them as the underwear gnomes, just more widely read and better at BS-ing. What happens when everyone gets to have a
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by stcredzero 3y ago
They seem suited to doing things like, coming up with a basic test, then modifying it to cover boundary conditions, provided those aren't too abstruse.
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by stcredzero 3y ago
I think we are now at a stage where VR hardware has surpassed software. How about enabling AIs to create layouts of information on behalf of the user? Like, what if an AI could arrange all of your information for you in a scheme derived f
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Why not devote LLMs to enhancing testing and review?
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Climb in wearing your clean and unused EVA And underwear.
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Surely, there is some context where WD-40 is just fine. I do note that lubrication is actually complex. Soap feels plenty slick in general, but if I try to shave with it, certain soaps give very poor results. So, of course, not everything s
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by stcredzero 3y ago
I think this is what's happening. Code production speed has increased. But the speed and efficiency of review and testing hasn't kept pace. Also, my current job limits the use of AI coding tools, because of the risk of our IP le
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Avid readers of practical betterments should note: here I refer to the classical meaning of the word keyhole: a hole you put your key in and not my own definition a hole you put in your key. If some of the lubricant gets around the pins,
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Lost me at calling WD40 lubricant. I know it's for keeping water away. I use it for that purpose on my swords. But why isn't it a lubricant? Maybe it's not the best, but it can serve that purpose.
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Scott Manly did a great explanation. Someone remarked below, "It is just like Kerbal." In KSP, I've landed a nuclear rocket on the Mun, and had it tip over. Then I put 2 and 2 together, and put landing gear on that side of
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by stcredzero 3y ago
The armchairism in this thread is something else. Right. Now we need more comments starting with, "What about...?"
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Available solar power must be a big constraint in remainder of this mission, probably? I guess Slim isn't all in the shady!
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Bandaid-ing plants and naively making public spaces often doesn't work in the US. It's a little more work to make spaces where people actually want to be. Look at the numerous existing city public spaces built into high profile ar
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Like saying "therefore" might mean "I accept the premise". I basically never hear that as a standalone reply in English! As an interjection or at the beginning of a sentence, "donc", like "so", can
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Works if you live in a first-floor, street-facing unit I was not exactly in that situation. First time, I lived in a room on the 3rd floor of a house, but I'd run the extension cord out of the house owner's workshop basement win
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by stcredzero 3y ago
I cannot reasonably run lengths of 110v extension cords down the block to charge a car overnight I used to run extension cords out of windows and across the sidewalk to charge a Fiat 500e.
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Top Tier Car 0-60 Times vs Average Car Costs? IDK, it doesn't seem to contain any REAL information. Actually, if you know the details of the development of consumer cars, you'll find that advances and levels of performance in to
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Check out TradersHelpingTraders channel on YouTube. They talk about their trading bots on their Discord.
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Flight will never be powered by electricity, so you can stop checking. Fuel cells could well enable 30X better power densities. That would count to me as flight powered by electricity. There's also beamed power. Perhaps this wouldn&#
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Except, a French speaker could well just reply, "Donc" without anything else in contexts where an English speaker would never say, "Therefore." In those contexts, "Donc" is more like, "Word!" or &quot
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Do you have trouble understanding intonated sentences in English too? You can change the meaning of this question pretty significantly by placing a rising intonation on each word Read my other comments. You'll find I'm already t
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Approaching Mandarin I expected tones to be some sort of big hurdle. They're not. They're largely obvious. It's a part of the vowel, basically. Linguistically speaking, there's very little distinction between a vowel an
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by stcredzero 3y ago
for example, to this day I need to pay an inordinate amount of attention to tell "eyes" from "ice" I just find that obvious. Wherever I've been in the US, "eyes" is drawn out, but "ice" is shor
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by stcredzero 3y ago
During my last trip to Fujian China, I became fascinated by the Mandarin word that sounds like, "schma." My wife was born there, and she had told me it meant, "what." But this time, I was really listening to how the word
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by stcredzero 3y ago
I think one of the fancier hotels I was staying in, in China during my last trip had a fancy toilet with heated seat, bidet, and bowl air extraction fan. (Fancy hotels in China are geared to the tastes of party officials, which is why they
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by stcredzero 3y ago
But are aerosols like the proverbial spherical cows? This makes me want to see some physics simulations of cow shaped particles.
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by stcredzero 3y ago
that requires more complicated logic that can't be straightforwardly reduced to massive matrix multiplication What are the rationale for thinking it doesn't matter? Or is it the case that researchers think a larger number of sim
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by stcredzero 3y ago
Anyway, cells can hold (super) primitive models of the world and maintain internal balance in the face of anticipated events. I've occasionally run into science podcasts, going back almost a decade, where some researcher talks about

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