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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
One of my sisters had four boys (and no girls) and during summers they would drive her crazy with their boredom. When they were about ages 8-14 one summer she said: go in the back yard and see how big of a hole you can dig. Wide-eyed they s
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
Bible Scholar and youtube guy Dan McClellan had an amazing "high entropy" phrase that slayed me a few days ago. https://youtu.be/605MhQdS7NE?si=IKMNuSU1c1uaVCDB&t=730 He ended a critical commentary by suggesti
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
The Barnes & Noble Bookstore (at least the two or three I have been to in the past 10 years) has a single queue. Fry's Electronics did it that way. The self-pay corral at HEB (a huge Texas grocery chain) with about 14 check-out sta
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
> This is "expected" from theory, because all particles seem to be just various aspects of the "same things" that obey a fairly simple algebra. But again, this is just observation, and it is consistent with the charge
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
Agreed (well, assuming the delta is more than a small fraction of a percent or whatever). But this is begging the question. If they are really independent then the vast, overwhelming fraction of all possible universes simply wouldn't h
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
Why do you assume the two have to be small integers? There is nothing currently in physics which would disallow the electron to be -1 and the proton to be +1234567891011213141516171819. The fact they are both of magnitude 1 is a huge coinci
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
I'm aware of the charge coming from quarks, but my point remains. > you have to accept there will eventually be (hopefully simple) coincidences between certain fundamental values, no? When the probability of coincidence is epsilon,
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
Here is one fact that seems, to me, pretty convincing that there is another layer underneath what we know. The charge of electrons is -1 and protons +1. It has been experimentally measured out to 12 digits or so to be the same magnitude, ju
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
Around 2001 I was working at Broadcom's networking division in San Jose. The switch chip we were working on (10Gbps x 8 ports) was understaffed and we hired a contractor at $120/hr to do verification of the design. He was pretty y
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
Bible scholar Dan McClellan is on youtube and does short videos rebutting popular youtube/tiktok videos that make claims that aren't historical. Dan has said that the four names were not assigned to the texts until the second half
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
I wonder how he would feel about a competitor putting a flock-like camera outside his house so that anyone who wants to can learn whenever any car, perhaps his car, enters or leaves his home driveway. Would he be happy with this, or would h
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
This sounds like how curses did things, a 1980 technology. On the other hand, if the guy in the video ran his app over a remote connection with limited bandwidth, diffing would probably perform better. I have a one Gbps google fiber connect
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
> X is not the same. Elon is actively spewing his ultraconservative views on that site. I wonder if Musk would be willing to let a journalist do a deep dive on all internal communications in the same way he did when he took over twitter.
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
I have a blocker set up in my browser to prevent accidental clicks and sending any traffic to them when I'm not careful to check a given HN link to a posting. I've never had an account there (nor any of the popular social media ne
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
For one or a few-off expensive satellites that are intended to last 10-20 years, then yes. But in this case the satellites will be more disposable and the game plan is to launch tons of them at the lowest cost per satellite and let the shee
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
You are right -- I just looked it up. All the same, the LE is the low-end Corolla model and I wouldn't have ever guessed it meant luxury edition.
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
It is more clunky and less polished than android. On the other hand, it is far more secure. I was a user of android for 15+ years, and I had been using a pixel 4a when the battery issue came up last year. Google handled that so terribly I b
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
Indeed, I have a 2023 Corolla. The dealer didn't like it when I said "LE" stands for "Low End" as a joke (it means Limited Edition). The technology for such a low end car is impressive. In addition to adaptive cruis
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
Why not get rid of job titles and just have people do whatever needs to be done? Because no one person is good at everything, and even if you managed to build a team of people who were good at everything, it is inefficient to make everyone
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
Watch the video. He says for long range flights, fuel is half of the total weight of the plane.
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
Trump claimed repeatedly and vigorously that whatever the President does is by definition legal. He also repeatedly and vigorously claimed that Obama had broken the law by spying on then-candidate Trump in 2016. I don't know if he hims
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
It reminds me of when Eric Schmidt, then CEO of google, tried that argument about people's worry of google collecting so much personal data. Some media outlet then published a bunch of personal information about Schmidt they had gather
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
Musk and his flying monkeys came in with hard drives and sucked up all the data from all the agencies they had access to and installed software of some kind, likely containing backdoors. Even though each agency had remit for the data it ma
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
I missed this announcement, and I'm sad to see phind shut down. Michael, I don't know you, but I appreciate what you did.
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
> having drank ayahuasca hundreds of times I have some earnest questions, and please take it in that spirit, though I realize these might easily be interpreted as being negative. To disclose, I've done LSD probably 15 times and 4-AC
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
It seems like the natural categories are (1) photographs of real things, (2) line art, (3) illustrator images, (4) text content (eg, from a scanned document). Is there a reason you used only synthetic images, ie, nothing from group 1?
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
> To me the kinds of people using these editors are the kinds of people that love making everything more complex to seem smart. If your instinct is to be denigrate people who do things differently than you, you will never understand them
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
No, I don't expect it to be the next Google, nor did my statement imply that. The point was that just because something is small doesn't mean it has to remain small. That is true whether or not Kagi never becomes the biggest. >
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
At one time Google was a niche website, literally orders of magnitude lower than Alta Vista.
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by tasty_freeze 9mo ago
You just made a massive non sequitur. The government does have waste, as does any large organization, including in the private sector. Whether or not DOGE saved money needs an independent analysis, not numbers which DOGE itself produces. Mu

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