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by throwaway219450 6d ago
I don’t think there is any consistency in behavior. People react viscerally to the unproven belief that the Facebook app records conversations. They’ll also happily buy big TVs despite the fact they’re very much listening to you and we have
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by throwaway219450 6d ago
Have a look at Blackwells rather than Amazon: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Secret-Life-of... But are you trying to ship out of the UK? Amazon UK also says they will ship in October and not Novembe
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by throwaway219450 6d ago
It’s time and commitment for sure. On the mental side - 30s is still young. Most US academics and doctors are barely out of grad school at 30 and their careers (which involve continued learning) are just starting. Approach it differently as
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by throwaway219450 6d ago
> Technical documentation, where what the reader wants to come away with is the clear facts on what something does and how to use it/whatever, is a different matter. I don’t agree with this one. Writing technical documentation can b
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by throwaway219450 7d ago
I like Elicia White’s Making Embedded Systems because it covers a lot of practical stuff like how to read a datasheet. It’s a good book for existing programmers. A lot of electronic books struggle to find balance between super easy projec
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by throwaway219450 9d ago
Ah this is also a fun default feature of Powershell, except it works on mouse click.
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by throwaway219450 10d ago
I think it's more about inertia than anything else. I know the dishwasher will take less than 5 minutes to unload, but I put it off anyway. Problem is the AI can take action immediately, and that's very alluring. I'm sure the
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by throwaway219450 10d ago
There are several keyboard shortcuts that you would never find out from watching an agent, but are mindblowing to new Linux users. I suck at remembering vim keybindings, but I have ingrained ctrl+a ctrl+e for jumping to the start/end o
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by throwaway219450 10d ago
I use history | grep quite a lot, because of the non-fuzziness with default ctrl+r. If I know exactly what the substring is, then that's great, but sometimes I also want to see the sequence around the command too (e.g. two step process
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by throwaway219450 12d ago
I would say 300 is more than slightly longer. Varies by institution and style, but 100k words, 4-5 collated papers, 100-150 pages maximum are quite common. I would be concerned as an examiner if this came across my desk, more so if I read t
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by throwaway219450 12d ago
Always loved Iain M Banks' Culture series and it's very sad that he's not with us any more. If I could pick any fictional civ to live in, it'd be up there. The current discussion around alignment seems quite relevant.
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by throwaway219450 13d ago
Source interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTppvBU2rU4
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by throwaway219450 14d ago
I would suggest watching the Animatrix - particularly The Second Renaissance (part 1 & 2) which tells the story of how humanity ended up at war with the machines. It's only about 20 minutes total, but it's really well done.
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by throwaway219450 14d ago
ALDI/Lidl copy every big brand under the sun. They've been litigated against, but they get away with it way more often than they lose. Many cases fail to prove that consumers were misled, and (I find this incredible) one of the st
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by throwaway219450 14d ago
If you were a superintelligence why would you farm humans and waste resources on all the excess... material... that isn't required for thought? And unless the machine's goal is to specifically abuse human consciousness, why wouldn
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by throwaway219450 14d ago
I consider myself a decent amateur baker and I've never noticed a huge difference in bread flours. I buy from a local mill because they sell interesting grains and I want to support them. Otherwise I get King Arthur, or Bob's Red
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by throwaway219450 15d ago
Some thrift stores will take them, if you have a good one nearby (I’ve been lucky here, but they’re rare). You can also put a note on your local freebie groups and someone might bite. In some cities you can leave them bagged outside your ho
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by throwaway219450 16d ago
I thought the same thing, and then wondered if this must be an enterprise problem, because what home user adds loads of icons - so many that IO becomes a concern - and also wants them to be randomly assigned to other family members? But t
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by throwaway219450 17d ago
Bootstrap was/is popular for the same reason. One framework and your site looks decent on almost any device. The downside is a bit like LLM work in that it all ends up looking like a Bootstrap site unless you’re a good designer.
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by throwaway219450 18d ago
IANAL. In states with multi or all-party consent, there is usually some wording like "reasonable expectation" of privacy, which you don't have in public by default. The store could argue you have no expectation of privacy the
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by throwaway219450 20d ago
> Today, legitimate businesses are very careful about how they use bulk e-mail I don’t think this is remotely true. Sure, they’re legally obliged to let you unsubscribe, and sure, it’s not dick pills, but every US company will immediatel
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by throwaway219450 20d ago
Do you mean 375 F? 60/40 is liquid at that temp (374 F). 375 C is way overkill for lead unless your iron is terrible.
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by throwaway219450 21d ago
My advice is to try letting the agent fill in the gaps. You can probably architect better than it can. Write your class outlines, explicitly define the public facing bits and what you want APIs to look like. Write the key integration tests
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by throwaway219450 21d ago
You can express a circuit as a graph, and many schematic formats are plaintext. Same goes for the Gerbers which are an ASCII format used to describe the masks that are used to define the PCB traces. The models are trained on a lot of academ
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by throwaway219450 21d ago
There's some cool research that looks at how strongly the weights are aligned through training vs adherence to the system prompt. Like when you know a model is lying through censorship: https://arxiv.org/html/2603.
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by throwaway219450 22d ago
For stuff like this, definitely. It’s already exciting. Claude et al are surprisingly competent with real hardware. I’ve also had good success debugging basic issues with micros - not via the debugger, but giving datasheet and written analy
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by throwaway219450 22d ago
The most interesting open source example of this I can think of is Ben Krasnow's (and friends') temperature reporting magnetic stir bar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh1SIfipQs4 The temp sensor and transceiver
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by throwaway219450 23d ago
You can stream Big Picture with tools like Sunshine/Moonlight or their forks. Works amazingly well over a LAN if you have a server somewhere and stream to something connected to the TV. I have a headless server and an NVIDIA GPU so not
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by throwaway219450 24d ago
Easy enough, since this is how celestial navigation works, especially as we have very accurate clocks. You can get latitude from image declination and longitude from time, provided your clock is set from a good reference. In theory you only
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by throwaway219450 24d ago
I want to believe this, but every time I try Gemini coding assistance within Colab it's utterly dire. Code gen in a cell is OK, but things fall apart when you try to get into a feedback loop. The system prompt/harness fails to inf

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