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by sterlind 3y ago
I looked it up and women are more neurotic on average, apparently (using the Big Five personality trait definition). specifically, GAD and panic disorder are nearly twice as common in women [1], and somatic symptom disorder (preoccupation w
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by sterlind 3y ago
I do love their use of `bot.chat()` as, like, throwing an exception to the AI. maybe this finally gives developers an incentive to document their code and throw intelligible errors - the machines need it to figure out what they're doin
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by sterlind 3y ago
I can't think of many people who've learned to program to fix a bug that's bothering them. and learning to program in your free time is much easier than switching careers, getting a PhD and securing funding for your lab. neve
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by sterlind 3y ago
I have wanted to use a tape drive for years, for storing backups. Partly because tapes are cheap and numerous, partly for the aesthetic, honestly. LTO-5 is indeed quite cheap now, you've inspired me to give it a go.
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by sterlind 3y ago
> Not really. Nix is not a tool, it's a toolkit for making your own tools. Very much in the vein of Unix, shell, etc even tools for tools should be ergonomic to use. the Nix language server should have autocomplete, searches and i
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by sterlind 3y ago
why does it query search.nixos.org, rather than looking through your local nixpkgs? just because of how tricky it'd be to handle the nix language or hacking on the nix toolchain proper? also I agree that it's ridiculous nix doesn&
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by sterlind 3y ago
I think the aging look might be due to the accumulation or hardening of collagen. I have a collagen disorder (Ehlers) that makes my skin velvet-smooth and stretchy because the collagen's all melty. not good for joints though.
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by sterlind 3y ago
Drakon could be a really useful decompilation target, or at least an alternative to control flow graphs produced by tools like Ghidra and IDA. Seems like its relative lack of hierarchical structure would match the nature of assembly branchi
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by sterlind 3y ago
Huh. I definitely didn't know about Direct3D and DirectML support. That's bizarre, I can't imagine the use-case.
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by sterlind 3y ago
(Disclaimer: I work at MS, but not on WSL, opinions are my own.) I don't see how WSL is embrace-extend-extinguish. Embrace, yes. Extend? No. There's basically nothing that only runs on WSL and not real Linux. Only QoL integrations
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by sterlind 3y ago
better than .net, admittedly.
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by sterlind 3y ago
what does that mean exactly? I skimmed the paper you linked briefly, but couldn't quite tell. Does it mean that deciding reachability of an N-state petri net takes Ack(N) steps in the worst case? Or that you can can construct a Petri n
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by sterlind 3y ago
I'm assuming you mean equality comparison, rather than comparison in general! but is there a better algebraic structure to use when thinking of floats? like, in terms of limits, or something that tracks significant digits and uncertain
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by sterlind 3y ago
I think the reasonable person standard is used for evaluating whether someone's behavior is okay. Like, if you tased someone because they were suspicious, the question would be whether a reasonable person would conclude they were suspi
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by sterlind 3y ago
I thought commingling classification/user clearance levels on the same hardware fell out of favor a while ago, because of side channels (with speculative execution being the final nail in the coffin.) Isn't seL4 more used for thin
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by sterlind 3y ago
We could bring back indulgences, geocentrism, the inquisition and the children's crusade if you'd prefer.
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by sterlind 3y ago
It's amazing to me that the Attorney General himself thinks he might be innocent and wants the case retried, but the court just doesn't care? And the evidence looks incredibly flimsy. I'm fascinated that the court would just
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by sterlind 3y ago
unless they have a change of heart? or maybe they're standing on the ledge trying to get up the courage to jump, and slip? a lot of people who attempt suicide immediately regret it (of the survivors.)
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by sterlind 3y ago
Historically, datasets have been a moat. Google had a massive head start from having a massive search index and user data. Then access to compute became the moat - fully training a trillion-parameter language model has only been in reach fo
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by sterlind 3y ago
I wonder if OpenAI knew they didn't have a moat, and that's why they've been moving so fast and opening ChatGPT publicly - making the most of their lead in the short time they have left. I find it incredibly cathartic to see
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by sterlind 4y ago
under Islam, hijab isn't required until puberty, so it's strange you'd see 5-year olds wearing them.
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by sterlind 4y ago
I'm sure it could, I was just taking issue with your dismissal of non-text media.
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by sterlind 4y ago
Photos of famous landmarks, planets, equipment, animals, anatomy, artifacts? Maps? I wish Wikipedia had more media, not less.
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by sterlind 4y ago
Romania was totalitarian. Ceausescu was a bloodthirsty dictator. Bucharest was wormed through with underground tunnels that the Securitate would use to move around. He'd murder political opponents by summoning them to a waiting room wi
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by sterlind 4y ago
neat concept but the website is just too janky. the controller sometimes gets loaded twice or something so two different instances fight over the UI components and it's pandemonium. also it's just too short to really be useful.
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by sterlind 4y ago
you hire faculty to 1) train students 2) to do cutting edge work 3) on fundamental/basic research and unprofitable but important topics. academia's not just an internship.
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by sterlind 4y ago
aww that's scary. I managed to quit smoking years ago (I only smoked for less than a year anyway), then quit vaping, then used nicotine lozenges for an embarrassingly long amount of time (4+ years?) until quitting cold-turkey at the st
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by sterlind 4y ago
lunar groundhog day!
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by sterlind 4y ago
The last time we saw a copyright struggle like this was Napster. After a lot of ire we eventually landed on Spotify, shows, and merch. Musicians seem fine this time around, but graphic designers are in for a world of hurt. Artists and music
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by sterlind 4y ago
but like, SpaceX's whole thing has been blowing up test rockets over and over as they experiment, iterating quickly. once they've nailed the design down, the result is pretty reliable, but look at how many booster recovery fails t

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