taneq

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by taneq 7d ago
If someone’s (or some company’s) decisions don’t make sense to you, you don’t understand their motivations.
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by taneq 8d ago
I’m not sure if “let fires burn a bit more” is exactly what we’re after but hazard reduction burns are absolutely a thing and are an essential part of fire risk management. I don’t think your post deserved to get slammed like that. The regi
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by taneq 9d ago
Huh, of course. Like in salt farming, after harvesting the salt they wash it with saturated brine so it doesn’t just dissolve again.
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by taneq 11d ago
As I understand it, even just considering ‘last mile’ costs, labour is a majority of the cost, and fit-out is the majority of the labour. Then again, where I live skilled trades cost a lot , so this is probably different elsewhere.
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by taneq 12d ago
Aren’t they usually phrased very specifically as “we collect this data and use it to show you relevant ads, you can opt out of us showing you relevant ads”?
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by taneq 12d ago
As someone who until last year has only had (mostly sports) cars or motorbikes, I now have a ute and it’s awesome to be able to do ‘ute stuff’ with it. Carrying toolboxes, transporting large/heavy/dirty cargo, collecting firewood,
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by taneq 12d ago
You’d need year of manufacture too. There’s been a trend towards larger oil capacities in order to increase service intervals.
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by taneq 12d ago
It’s hydraulic fluid, which is oil. It’s not formulated the same as engine oil, but it’s not far off gear oil.
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by taneq 12d ago
There’s still gearbox oil, diff oil, and brake fluid. These last far longer and are far smaller volumes than engine oil, though.
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by taneq 13d ago
Actually C is for Cookie. :P
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by taneq 13d ago
> But yeah, human researchers can solve a problem like this in a decade or so None of them did, though, despite how many tried. So empirically, it seems unreasonable to say human researchers can solve ‘problems like this’.
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by taneq 13d ago
> One refreshing aspect was that during PR reviews we stopped debating whether something needed test coverage. I’d be curious to know what percentage of the time spent implementing tests would have otherwise gone to discussions about whe
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by taneq 13d ago
Because in the event that someone does build a strongly superhuman AI, no-one else will get a chance?
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by taneq 13d ago
The Culture isn’t perfect but it seems like the best possible outcome. I think I’d want to be a fast picket and hang out with Special Circumstances.
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by taneq 13d ago
> It's why youtube still hasn't figured out piracy, but they'll knock you immediately if you play 5 seconds of copyrighted music. Unless the piracy is silent, surely audio fingerprinting would catch it?
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by taneq 13d ago
The general sentiment I’ve seen is certainly negative, and seems to be driven by the anti-AI-art echo chamber and by LLM slop flooding the internet wasting everyone’s energy. A few more informed people are also a little concerned about the
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by taneq 13d ago
Honestly not the worst suggestion I’ve seen.
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by taneq 14d ago
They could have bought the game rights, hired the devs, or otherwise come to some licensing agreement. It’d have been a boatload of free publicity for very little outlay. I guess they may not have wanted customers to associate their store w
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by taneq 14d ago
They’re unreliably unreliable.
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by taneq 16d ago
Light’s still slower in glass than in a vacuum, though, or it wouldn’t refract at the transition between the two.
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by taneq 16d ago
Or you can just embrace the 128kbps lifestyle. :D
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by taneq 19d ago
Only if you don’t consider the subnet mask as part of the IP address configuration.
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by taneq 20d ago
It might not be your fault but it sure as hell will be your problem.
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by taneq 20d ago
Most consumer wifi routers I’ve used have a setting to prevent peer-to-peer traffic. Whether this still counts as being on the same subnet is kind of a philosophical question.
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by taneq 22d ago
These are like saying someone isn’t human because they have a speech impediment or an auditory processing disorder. AGI doesn’t mean infallible, it just means it can have a reasonable crack at things it hasn’t seen or done before.
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by taneq 24d ago
If I visualise a 3D object then it’s in at least pseudo-3D (as in front surface with depth) but I can switch it to a kinda volumetric view. This might be thanks to years worth of 3D modeling and CAD which helped me map between first person
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by taneq 24d ago
I’ve heard people claiming that they can but I’ve never heard compelling evidence that they’re directly visualising 4D objects rather than 3D projections of them, or some symbolic representation (arrays of numbers etc.)
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by taneq 24d ago
Pay no attention to the bot behind the comments. ;)
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by taneq 25d ago
As a ‘normal’ person it sure feels weird sending (or receiving) a purchase order or invoice for six figures though.
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by taneq 26d ago
Reminds me of how some people (groups? cultures?) call a lathe a “lathe machine.”

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