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by tobinfricke 23d ago
This seems good. I'm not sure why I should be upset that Google is preventing abuse of its service.
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by tobinfricke 2mo ago
Apparently this text is part of the "International Property Management Code", which is incorporated into the municipal code of many cities? https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IPMC2024P1/chapter-3-gener...
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by tobinfricke 3mo ago
> There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Of course there are. The article simply defines "transformation" such that it excludes the lossless ones. :-)
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by tobinfricke 3mo ago
Based on what? Each image individually? Or does it try to cross-reference images within the collection and with events in your life, etc?
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by tobinfricke 4mo ago
This seems like a specious argument: "Most of the apartments have a window on just one side. The interior facing rooms on the lower floors are going to have a lot of trouble getting light in. With a window on only one side, you can&#x2
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by tobinfricke 4mo ago
Any place that allows easy instantaneous subscription by a simple web form, but makes you call and talk to a person during limited business hours, is a toxic place. Happily, this practice is illegal in California. Sometimes consumer-prote
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by tobinfricke 4mo ago
Is it feasible to run Linux on the Apple hardware? Seems like that could meet your requirements, except possibly "align with my values." I saw https://asahilinux.org/ but don't know how usable it is, or wheth
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by tobinfricke 5mo ago
Reminds me of the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences https://oeis.org/ But I was somewhat surprised when my first click in this encyclopedia of 2d curves landed me on a 3d sponge https://www.2dcurves.com&#x
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by tobinfricke 5mo ago
How about 10 GbE switches/routers? I have 10 GbE fiber-to-the-home via Sonic, but so far just have it plugged into a Google Wifi router with gigabit ethernet. Would love to have 10 GbE wired to my desk.
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by tobinfricke 6mo ago
Here are some notes on Jujutsu from Evan Martin that I found interesting/useful: https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2025/08/jj-bookmarks.htm...
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by tobinfricke 6mo ago
I ran OS/2 Warp and was a fan of it... But to say that it was simply "better" than Windows 95 is a bridge too far. It had its strengths (rock solid multitasking) but also plenty of rough edges.
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by tobinfricke 7mo ago
Seems like a game-theoretic problem Taking their foot off the gas for a second only hurts them
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by tobinfricke 9mo ago
This is practically all that need be said on the topic
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by tobinfricke 11mo ago
Yeah so does CostCo
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by tobinfricke 11mo ago
Also in compliance with Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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by tobinfricke 1y ago
NIPT is non-invasive compared to amniocentesis
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by tobinfricke 1y ago
Unlike "the way oversized cargo/load moves today," the chase vehicle is just another Peterbilt truck pulling cargo, but with a safety driver. It's not a flag car or something like that.
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
What cargo would justify a supersonic flight?
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
This has the same vibes as "Tan's method", wherein someone managed to rediscover and publish the well-known trapezoidal rule for integration from Calculus in a medical journal https://academia.stackexchange.com&#x2
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
I'm sure that some people are able to make it work, but in general the answer is: you don't. Taking care of a baby is a full time job in and of itself, associated with frequent interruptions and sleep deprivation.
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
Well, it doesn't work.
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
The same could be said when they are written using Gibbs notation with div and curl. Surprisingly, when Einstein wrote his paper on special relativity, Gibbs vector notation had not yet been widely adopted, and Einstein himself wrote out M
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
Wavelength (or frequency) is linear but light, in general, is made up of many wavelengths -- an entire spectrum.
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
The output of ChatGPT almost always sounds good . That's the point. But I would wager that its answer was at least wrong, and perhaps total nonsense. That's the real hazard of using ChatGPT as a learning tool. You are in no posit
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
Actually this is kinda a great idea. Honeypot the bots by engaging them with other bots. Would love to deploy this on telemarketers / spam calls.
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
``In almost all textbooks, even the best, this principle is presented so that it is impossible to understand.'' (K. Jacobi, Lectures on Dynamics, 1842-1843). I have not chosen to break with tradition. V. I. Arnold, Mathematical Me
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
Apparently they are literally incorporated as a charity.
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
If you do a second edition, I would love a chapter on Life implementations, particularly how to implement a Life simulator that can execute these enormous patterns efficiently.
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by tobinfricke 2y ago
The "Ivy League" consists of precisely these eight schools: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. Honestly I feel like some of these are negative indicators when it comes to
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
The Wikipedia article suggests that Stallman understood it as "Free (University (Compiler Kit))" only to find out that it was "(Free University) Compiler Kit": > When Tanenbaum advised him that the compiler was not fr

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