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by thom 3y ago
Some people still use old.reddit.com which I find superior purely because it reveals more content with fewer clicks.
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by thom 3y ago
Ha, seconded on the Molyneux thing.
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by thom 3y ago
I grew to appreciate this watching the excellent videos on Wristwatch Revival: https://youtube.com/@WristwatchRevival Which I only knew about through Marshall’s Magic: the Gathering links, but the watch stuff is surprisingl
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by thom 3y ago
Ah, that's nice to hear. This is one of my frustrations with Mermaid - trying to work out he magical correct ordering of entities to render something that isn't too chaotic.
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by thom 3y ago
I've used Mermaid, partly because it integrates well in both GitHub and Notion. It's fine, quite featureful really, but the lack of any ability to control layout properly makes complex schemas quite a mess when rendered. Not sure
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by thom 3y ago
You can buy the annotated source code for Oscar Toledo G’s Nanochess here: http://www.amazon.com/Toledo-Nanochess-commented-source-code... It was certainly a humbling experience for me.
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by thom 3y ago
Unbounded streams, but with watermarks (which right now seem fixed length?): https://doc.arroyo.dev/concepts#watermarks Also works based on fixed, pre-built pipelines. This is all very much in the style of most stream proce
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by thom 3y ago
I don’t know what estimates exist for the bit rate of SETI signals, this paper seems to imply 0.01 bits per second: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00945... If we assume GPT4 is a
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by thom 3y ago
Trying to imagine spending $3499 for some giant goggles and then ruining my daughter's birthday refusing to take them off. I hope my divorce lawyer will have Facetime, at least.
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by thom 3y ago
Either “myriad others” as an adjective or “a myriad of others” as a noun is fine. I’m not sure “a myriad others” works at all.
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by thom 3y ago
If anything, the Romans (e.g. Vitruvius) actually _knew_ lead could be bad but even then decided it was best overall.
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by thom 3y ago
That isn’t left out - everything rested on the three centuries European countries had spent perfecting the cannon.
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by thom 3y ago
It also performed the very important function of setting up a parallel cable connection to my brother’s computer so we could play DOOM together.
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by thom 3y ago
Octopodes.
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by thom 3y ago
I don’t know if exceptions to the rule are interesting, but the best sources for much of Macedon’s conquest of Greece come from the defeated Athenians (especially tidbits from Demosthenes who, alongside Cicero, is one of history’s more volu
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by thom 3y ago
If you wanted to read or hear propaganda multiple times a day in Rome, it wasn’t actually hard.
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by thom 3y ago
Yeah it’s often like speaking to ChatGPT, you have to put in an enormous preamble saying “answer exactly what I’m asking, I promise I’ve thought about it, I know it’s weird”.
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by thom 3y ago
Ah, I remember the day we retired the last machine named after a forest in Magic: the Gathering and shredded its soul into a thousand pieces, each of which adhered to one AWS service or another. I still feel guilty. Especially when the bill
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by thom 3y ago
Agreed. A lot of simulation/strategy games seem to increase their fidelity over time, at the cost of fun. I’ve bought every Football Manager game for almost 30 years but these days it feels too much like an actual job. I’m intrigued wh
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by thom 3y ago
I like Catch2. It's a nice, clean syntax and also supports benchmarks in addition to tests. It also seems to work nicely with Visual Studio's built-in test tools and UI, even in CMake projects.
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by thom 3y ago
Outside of differences between assertion-based unit tests and property-based tests (both of which are worth doing), I don't think framework makes much difference. But your approach to testing definitely does. I think every language hav
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by thom 3y ago
940 in 1Password (I feel a lightweight that I haven't hit 4 figures yet). Stopped fighting a while back and signed up to the cloud version instead of just having Dropbox backups, partly to help onboard my family better. Haven't re
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by thom 3y ago
Despite being brought up in a house full of computers, I still knew Wang best as the shirt sponsor of Oxford United in the 80s.
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by thom 3y ago
While that’s a valid point, the Citizens Advice Bureau survey (which was conducted via an agency called Walnut Unlimited) asked follow up questions about negative consequences because of cancelling broadband and it was somewhat clear people
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by thom 3y ago
Read the room, friend.
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by thom 3y ago
The same's true of even fairly innocent looking denominations in UK churches. If you're a large land/property owner (that doesn't have to pay business rates), with thousands of people willing to give you donations each w
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by thom 3y ago
Mark Fisher went on to become one of the most significant voices on the Left in the UK before his suicide in 2017. His many online leavings are worth a significant investment of time.
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by thom 3y ago
Neither did my children for several years.
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by thom 3y ago
Why would LLMs not learn abstractions when given millions of of concrete examples?
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by thom 3y ago
It’s not really like other Zelda games, nor really an RPG. It gives you lots of freedom and bodily autonomy, but personally I found it very hard to piece together an interesting experience out of the (admittedly very flexible) constituent p

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