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by toxik 6mo ago
$10k is well outside my budget for frivolous computer purchases.
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by toxik 6mo ago
Worth noting that even in clinical settings, ethanol has largely been replaced by fomepizole (Antizol) as the preferred antidote. It's more predictable, easier to dose, and doesn't come with the side effect of making a critically
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by toxik 6mo ago
Great post. Also, we celebrate "midsummer" on the summer solstice in Sweden and other countries. I see the author noted that.
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by toxik 6mo ago
Pandas and so on exist for the same reason Django's ORM and SqlAlchemy do: people do not want to string interpolate to talk to their database. SQL is great for DBA's, and absolutely sucks for programmers. Microsoft was really onto
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by toxik 6mo ago
You can reduce in parallel. That was the whole point of MapReduce. For example, the sum abcdefgh can be found by first ab, cd, ef, gh; then those results (ab)(cd), (ef)(gh); then the final result by (abcd)(efgh). That's just three step
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by toxik 6mo ago
"I have never woodworked a day in my life, with Claude Carpenter I don't have to touch the work at all and can just vaguely ask for things and pray that it does something useful."
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by toxik 7mo ago
Pedantry: 18:16 is the same as 9:8 since it's a ratio.
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by toxik 7mo ago
Not just for functional programmers. Prints and other I/O operations absolutely are side effects. That's not running counter to the point being made. Print in an assert and NDEBUG takes away that behavior.
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by toxik 7mo ago
I'm somewhat sure that was the recreated version.
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by toxik 7mo ago
And in a bold face font: > You've always needed an account to operate your Joule Sous Vide with the Joule app. This is not a new requirement. Absolute comedy.
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by toxik 7mo ago
So in other words you can take any Droste image and make an Escher zooming spiral effect. Neat. Also curious what happens if you take Escher's painting and undo the effect. Probably not great since it wasn't in the video. What a c
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by toxik 7mo ago
So to do this same Droste effect in 3D you would need a self-similar volume? Though since we can't really see 3D, we could never have that "one circle zooms in" effect. Or could you walk around in such a world? That would be
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by toxik 7mo ago
Well, you get the frequency domain derivative. This is the same as scaling the time domain by a linear ramp. Not exactly hugely useful, unless you happen to be in radar. You can take the finite difference with eg np.diff(waveform) though.
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by toxik 7mo ago
No, Cmd+Tab switches to the next application. This is what people get surprised and annoyed by. I've been using Mac for 15 years now and I find it super awkward to switch between windows within an app. On my machine it's Cmd ` or
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by toxik 7mo ago
Sorry, this is just not true. Stasi was a government agency, and it was from this kind of thing that European privacy advocacy sprung up.
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by toxik 7mo ago
Very interesting idea! I think I'll try this. Makes a lot of sense and has almost zero cost.
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by toxik 7mo ago
PyPy on numpy heavy code is often a lot slower than CPython
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by toxik 7mo ago
If all glaciers and ice sheets on Earth melted, sea levels would rise roughly 65–70 meters (about 210–230 feet). It’s worth noting that a full melt of Antarctica alone would take many thousands of years even under extreme warming scenarios,
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by toxik 8mo ago
I don't think this is terrorism, that's not what the word means. It's a clear and open act of war, so in many ways much worse, but somehow terrorism is a scarier word.
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by toxik 8mo ago
Similarly, just showing up at the gym/hobby/sport is huge. Even if you do next to nothing.
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by toxik 8mo ago
Don't jail criminals because maybe they're young, that's your argument? Sounds like a something that's already part of the sentencing policy, leniency of first time offenders.
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by toxik 8mo ago
The problem is that by specifying this, you have tipped your hand that there is something strange about the plan to walk. I think this is the original problem too: the question implies walking is even an option.
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by toxik 8mo ago
I agree, it's a bit of a trick question. It's really hard to imply the car's location without ruining the test though. Here's my attempt, which Claude Opus 4.6 had no problem with: Alice drives home after a long day at w
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by toxik 8mo ago
Oh man imagine if NeoVim had been TypeScript. I would've switched then.
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by toxik 8mo ago
The woman herself says she never had a problem with it being famous. The actual test image is obviously not porn, either. But anything to look progressive, I guess.
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by toxik 8mo ago
Meanwhile, having children is more difficult than ever. Preschools are asking parents for their attested work schedules, just so they don't sneak an hour of leeway between work and picking up kids... What a bait and switch that was, fo
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by toxik 8mo ago
This is left lane driving policy. I am like this, and I was not at first. What makes you drive like this is rush hour traffic. "Move up the lane or move out of the lane" is the sentiment, basically. As others have noted, it is ess
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by toxik 9mo ago
Not to be dismissive, but the "agents discussing how to get E2E encryption" is very obviously an echo of human conversations. You are not watching an AI speak to another.
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by toxik 9mo ago
That is not what this was. You have been firing your fireplace, now you put on a sweater and you suddenly don't want to fire so much. Maybe that's not bad, but a return to normal. That was the proposition. Is it true, who knows. C
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by toxik 9mo ago
That's the point, killing an inexistent libido is a no-op

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