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by taneq 1y ago
The thing is, though, that time wasn’t wasted. It was spent fully understanding what they were actually trying to say, the context, the connotations of various different phrasings etc. It was spent mapping the territory. Throwing your ini
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by taneq 1y ago
I mean, could you? Convincingly? For the duration of a mission?
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by taneq 1y ago
> now Fly in Fly out work has commoditised club status, there is next to no boarding advantage Why would you want to be on the plane earlier than necessary? Only thing I can think of is better access to the overhead lockers, which fill u
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by taneq 1y ago
I think it’s kinda more that (in 3D with time moving at a constant rate) space “falls” into the gravity well, and matter goes with it. In 4D this looks like spacetime being bent.
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by taneq 1y ago
Like most things, the tech is ahead of the legislation. ;)
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by taneq 1y ago
This is horrifying. Please, go on. :D How do I give it a base URL for API calls so I can point it at my ollama server?
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by taneq 1y ago
> closely related to each other. Like, sequential? Because if you were brute forcing...
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by taneq 1y ago
To an extent, yes (to the first part). For instance, the list of events scheduled for a performance is called a program.
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by taneq 1y ago
"Zebrafish mends damaged organs using Genetics and Code." if (organIsDamaged()) { dont(); }
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by taneq 1y ago
Or someone else monitors them?
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by taneq 1y ago
It might make it a bit harder to use the information obtained through spying, though. Both is good.
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by taneq 1y ago
I'm not convinced of that if they thought that s=O(t/log(t)) where s=space (bytes or similar) and t=time (clocks, steps, etc.) I dunno about theoretical limits but in practice, there's at least 1-2 orders of magnitude to be e
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by taneq 1y ago
Huh? What did any of those theorists think about the phrase "time/space tradeoff"?
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by taneq 1y ago
One time my daughter fell (OK she did something silly and jumped) and hit her head on a metal pole at a science center (she's fine, it was just a couple of stitches). My wife took her to the hospital, and (mislead by the confusing sign
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by taneq 1y ago
This is true! As an implementor of floating point operations, you want to be exactly correct for all values ( glares at Intel :P ) However, as a consumer of said floating point operations, I'm still gonna treat everything as Sneaky An
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by taneq 1y ago
This sort of thing is why you never compare floating point numbers for equality. Always compare using epsilons appropriately chosen for the circumstances. Floats are Sneaky and Not to be Trusted. :D
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by taneq 1y ago
> child romance themed game Well there’s four words I never expected, not wanted, to see arranged like that. :S
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by taneq 1y ago
Yeah I think "trust for a fluent, seemingly logically coherent anonymous responder" pretty much captures it.
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by taneq 1y ago
Ooh, something in the same spirit as The Hacker's Diet (How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition)[1] which I legitimately used (well, kinda did some of) to lose about 20kg over the space of ~2 years, and then keep
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by taneq 1y ago
If you have a long standing, effective heuristic that “people with excellent, professional writing are more accurate and reliable than people with sloppy spelling and punctuation” then the appearance of a semi-infinite group of ‘people’ wri
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by taneq 1y ago
There's a few combined-process setups coming out these days that use 3D printing as a first pass and then machine the print in-place before sintering etc. which saves a ton of setup and fixturing time.
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by taneq 1y ago
So do it four times and retire. Hmm… in four different industries, though… Yeah okay there might be some issues.
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by taneq 1y ago
Halfway through and this is hilarious. Are you trying to tell me that AI originally stood for Anomalously-small Istanbulians? :D Edit: Oh. In hindsight this (and other similarly snarky backronyms) is obviously why any time computers can do
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by taneq 1y ago
Reminds me of that Asimov story where the main character was convinced that some public figure was a robot, and kept trying to prove it. Eventually they concluded that it was impossible to tell whether they were actually a robot "or me
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by taneq 1y ago
So wait, if they resist the statement that they're a resistor, are they a resistor or not? I think they're a semiconductor. Maybe they work at a railway junction. :D
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by taneq 1y ago
Uber seems wilfully deceptive in so many ways. The initial listing of rides including details of vehicles and prices, which looks like an actual offer, but the app then goes off to try and find something similar. Try being a shop, selling s
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by taneq 1y ago
> difference being we can tell good behaviors from bad Not always! That's what makes some expert demonstrations so fascinating, watching someone do something "completely wrong" (according to novice level 'best practic
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by taneq 1y ago
Gee, I hope nobody ever puts you in charge of a train!
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by taneq 1y ago
Everything is bullshit, some is just better or worse bullshit. LLMs have taken AI generated bullshit from 'laughably bad' to 'often good enough' in what, two years? Soon their bullshit will be better than yours and mine.
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by taneq 1y ago
You can use a spring with long travel and low K (like a very soft torsional spring, preloaded several turns, or a spring connected by a wire to a drum on the joint) to reduce the change in torque across the range, if that helps?

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