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by tdeck 16d ago
More of a vBulletin man myself, but I get what you mean. There were so many small, autonomous little niche communities and people took their time to learn how each one worked. Forums had their problems but I do think the time before upvotes
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by tdeck 16d ago
> it turns out if you stack two chairs on top of each other, you can balance your laptop on the top and you’ll also have a shelf on the bottom for your things. But that sounds kinda unstable and doesn't really provide the full benef
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by tdeck 16d ago
Thank you!
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by tdeck 17d ago
What is the back of the envelope efficiency penalty we're talking about here?
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by tdeck 17d ago
Most of the work is probably boring and not consequential on its own. But I think that's sepaerate from whether it's reasonable to encourage people to draw an ethical line. We probably wouldn't feel comfortable with someone w
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by tdeck 17d ago
I always wondered why we don't see more Sterling Engine based heat pumps. IIUC they can use almost any gas including air.
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by tdeck 17d ago
I would take that bet, anyone can examine my comment history and see that I've been participating on this site for a decade. Regardless, this comment violates the site guidelines. > Please don't post insinuations about astrotur
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by tdeck 18d ago
None of them are the good guys. For one they're all happy to participate in genocide in Gaza.
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by tdeck 18d ago
Note that OpenAI has jettisoned every other supposed value they had (releasing their work as open source, not working on military applications, being a nonprofit). I'm sure we can rely on them this time.
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by tdeck 18d ago
Folks interested in this should check out this YouTube channel https://m.youtube.com/@Nighthawkinlight The guy developed his own DIY radiative cooling paint mixture and tests it thoroughly. He also tests a commercially avai
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by tdeck 18d ago
If a DIY plotter would do, this site has a long list of different projects https://mattwidmann.net/notes/pen-plotters/
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by tdeck 19d ago
I don't have an opinion about whether it's reasonable, but in the U.S. I have never seen it. Maybe in a daycare. And people wear street shoes in many offices in Japan.
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by tdeck 19d ago
> Phones are more robust these days than ever. They are certainly not more robust than ever. The trend of screen glass extending all the way to the edge of the phone and around it has ensured that most people need a case. Back in the 201
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by tdeck 19d ago
I think we are kidding ourselves if we think writing software was only accessible to the cognitive top 10%. And even if that were the case for the highly paid software jobs, there was a long tail of WordPress customization type jobs that re
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by tdeck 19d ago
Sure but if the customer installs the app on their own computer how do companies charge them a recurring subscription fee? Adobe can get away with it but most cannot.
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by tdeck 20d ago
Tatami is very common in Japanese houses and I was told you're not even really supposed to wear hard-soled slippers on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatami
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by tdeck 20d ago
> But ambulances in with full sirens begging over their speaker-system to have pedestrians at Shibuya crossing let the vehicle through, is probably the worst thing about Japan. Unfortunately ambulances in Japan blare their sirens any tim
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by tdeck 20d ago
People in Japan not only take their shoes off at home, but also in many other places as well. Most elementary schools and many doctors offices, eye doctors, etc.. have you take your shoes off, although it varies from place to place. Some re
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by tdeck 21d ago
I suppose using LLMs to write is like not wiping your ass, and using LLMs that are bad at writing is like not wiping your ass and wearing a T-shirt that says "Wiping is for losers." I might have smelled something suspicious before
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by tdeck 21d ago
> any more than you can understand the English of 1026 We can't understand the English of 1026 because almost nobody in the society of 1026 CE England was doing any writing at all in English. When a language is extensively written d
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by tdeck 21d ago
> the ads came out before the thing was even built > the lead engineer was a teenager. This project is way to complicated for a bright kid. Sounds a lot like a hardware Kickstarter.
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by tdeck 21d ago
At a certain point, it must be cheaper to just hire someone remotely to route the PCB than to burn through Claude credits on it.
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by tdeck 21d ago
In the context of newly written work in the modern era, I would argue it's best to use grammatical constructions that are used in modern 20th/21st century English, at least most of the time. Those who wrote the KJV were trying to
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by tdeck 21d ago
Am I the only one that finds the second one much easier to parse?
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by tdeck 22d ago
It's a bit curious that every image of the boards on their website looks like a render.
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by tdeck 22d ago
> When its 5 V supply disappears, the circuit has to keep the processor alive for another 20 ms so it can save the accumulated reading. > Most models intuitively jump to the right base conclusion: add a capacitor. This is written as i
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by tdeck 23d ago
> Hah, are we talking about the same profession here? Programmers, famously known for understanding what they don't know, and the ones who know stuff seldom were assholes? I was a TA the whole time I was in university, for computer
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by tdeck 23d ago
Im glad someone else still remembers the plus operator. I miss it.
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by tdeck 23d ago
Also not to be confused with the place where Kubla Khan decreed a stately pleasure done.
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by tdeck 23d ago
I assume you mean Ehud Barak? Surely not, or I would have heard about it in the US media for sure.

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