twelvechairs

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by twelvechairs 1y ago
Its a division of responsibilities thing isnt it? "Proper coders" in python or whatever provide up to an API. Past that its basically the web devs domain and they live in JS land
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
> But as long as OpenAI remains the go-to for the average consumer, they be fine. This is like the argument of a couple of years ago "as long as Tesla remains ahead of the Chinese technology...". OpenAI can definitely become a
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
The process is interesting but just to make the point - I often see Americans obsessing over the implementability of land valuation processes as if its entirely new and needs to be invented when other states and countries have established s
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
Almost all of this is solved by basically putting quotes around strings. Yaml has its uses cases where you want things json doesnt do like recursion or anchors/aliases/tags. Or at least it has had - perhaps cue/dhall/hcl
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
I think in short: - big things (e.g. someone dies) you cant avoid being sad - small everyday things (e.g. someone cuts you off at the intersection) you have a choice to smile and treat it lightly or go all passive aggressive and spiteful.
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
North was established earlier by European sailors as the north star is visible in the sky and is hugely useful for navigation, divining latitude etc. in the northern hemisphere. The coincidence of the north star and magnetic north as major
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
On copyright its worth noting that Gentoo has a substantial user base outside the USA (maybe primarily - see [0]) for whom the anthropic judgment you mention probably doesn't mean much [0] https://trends.builtwith.com/S
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
I'm guesssing from the UV page [0] its mainly if the speed of pip is a problem for you? [0] https://docs.astral.sh/uv/
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
Redreader is still around as a good 3rd party app.
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
Overall the steak is cooling (as the outside air is cooler). At the centre of the steak the temperature will go up first (as heat from the outside of the steak which has been in contact with the pan transfers in) then down again.
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
Wikimedia is run transparently which is great but I dont really believe they need the money when you see their financial statement (link below) and think about what they need to run. Plenty of really deserving charities running on the sniff
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
Its not just high income countries. Fertility rates are similar in a huge range range of other diverse countries (Colombia, Cuba, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey, Iran, etc.).
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
Land valuation is not hard. Its been done for decades in a stable way in places as diverse as Australia, Hong Kong, Hungary and Kenya.
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
Worth noting the great master of the player piano roll as an instrument in itself was Conlon Nancarrow https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conlon_Nancarrow
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
Is it though? Steel is very easy to recycle. Engineered timber that is full of various glues and fire retardants not so much.
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
The other side of the authors discussion is the use of 'decibels' to describe 'loudness'. The big difficulty there is that 'loudness' is a sense perception that varies between people and in different contexts.
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
This is a major reason (maybe the major reason) crypto keeps going up. Many people want money to avoid government oversight - for reasons both benign (e.g. avoiding having money confiscated arbitrarily) and nefarious (everything from tax av
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
The Mercedes version is hydropneumatic suspension. It was pioneered in the 1940s and 50s by Citroen. Citroen still use on high end vehicles too. Byd has adopted more recently It has always occurred to me that the car industry doesntprioriti
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
It clearly says "most important of the past 10 years" not "most important that has been invented in the past 10 years". Even taking your definition that would narrow down the list like half maybe and you should probably
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
DuckDB is a great thing for geospatial but most important of the past decade? There's so many tools in different categories it wouldnt come near top for me. Some might be QGIS, postGIS (still the standard), ArcGIS online (still the sta
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
'Global south' is just the latest in a fraught space where every term seems to eventually get dragged down. Originally it was 'third world' that started off as a positive, aspirational term but became a derisive term. Th
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
The best answer I've seen is gradually increasing land value tax (yes, Georgist style). Would slowly deflate the market - but much more at the top end than the low end. Would also encourage efficient use of land. And be a new source of
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by twelvechairs 1y ago
Most(?) UK loans are fixed for a 5 years or so and then revert to the standard variable rate of the bank. Variable rates can make financial planning uncertain. But the bigger issue is often just the standard variable rate you get put on isn
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by twelvechairs 2y ago
Maya had to unseat 3d studio. Both were bought by Autodesk (1997 for 3ds and 2005 for maya iirc) who have that habit of exploiting market dominance and not innovating but then buying the up and coming product (similarly they bought revit wh
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by twelvechairs 2y ago
I'm sympathetic but there's no clear historic chronology. For instance the ancient egyptians dealt with both algebra and calculus (at least in part) long before Pythagoras. And thats not starting on China and India which had very
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by twelvechairs 2y ago
Makes me think of the Paris pneumatic post system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_pneumatic_post
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by twelvechairs 2y ago
You can also adjust energy prices to shape demand. It's not like baseload power plants have ever had constant demands there's always a curve. The solution is of course a mix. Solar/wind/hydrogen/gas/etc., big g
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by twelvechairs 2y ago
Does 'MVP' in this context mean they want to sell something as a business, or just that they want a good functioning version (like, be out of alpha stage)?
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by twelvechairs 2y ago
Roads and road standards are a tragedy of the commons. People keep buying bigger cars and demanding more, wider lanes and parking spaces because they don't take any of the burden individually - it's the taxpayers as a whole that f
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by twelvechairs 2y ago
China has dozens of even cheaper EVs. The best selling electric car in China - the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV [0] is just over $4,000 USD. There are now also convertible and 5-door versions too. And a version being produced in the EU (Vilnius

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