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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Anecdotally, almost every day I’ll overhear conversations at my local coffee shop of non-developers gushing about how much ChatGPT has revolutionized their work: church workers for writing bulletins and sermons, small business owners for wr
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Years ago I built a service that would print family & friend Instagram and Facebook posts and automatically mail them to an incarcerated loved one. I joked that it will be technically possible to convert the videos to flip books, and he
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Just spitballing, but in C it was always the convention to use zero-based indexing. Probably because you were often adding these indexes to pointers (literal memory addresses) to index into an array, so you needed a zero to index into the f
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
As a kid hacking away on an Apple II this was apparent; all the good Basic games were written in Woz’s Integer Basic.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
And two thousand years ago Socrates said the same thing about writing : > For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, prod
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
In general conversation, “intelligence”, “knowledge”, “smartness”, “expertise”, etc are used mostly interchangeably. If we want to get pedantic, I would point out that “knowledge” is formally defined as “justified true belief”, and I doubt
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
> Sumerian is 5,000 years old. We understand Sumerian. We are not going to forget Sumerian. A warning written in English is not going to be unreadable in 10,000 years. It’s worth noting, however, that Sumerian was forgotten for nearly
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
> In some alternate reality where atoms materialize in random configurations out of nothing maybe Quantum mechanics says that this reality. Look into virtual particles.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
> Gravel races forbid team tactics, which opens the door for more creativity and storytelling. I haven’t heard of team tactics being forbidden in gravel, just that they don’t work as well. Can anyone give more color?
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
I worked for a time in an AR research lab and there are teams making good progress on adjustable focal lengths. The demo I saw three years ago was impressive.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Forget the sources, but I recall people saying the same about syntax highlighting even.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
I’ve come to the similar conclusion, and realized that I’m slowly learning how to wield this new tool. The sweet spot is when you need something and you’re sure it’s possible but just don’t know (or it’s too time consuming) how. E.G. change
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Good find! While it doesn’t say it in so many words, this text seems to say a that the camera’s finish line is the official finish line (especially given the implied requirement that the finish camera be a line camera): > Book C 19.22: T
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Because this is a line camera, the entire image is the finish line . That is, each vertical column of pixels is what was on the finish line at that particular point in time. That’s also the reason for the distortions. It’s not a single fra
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
According to Reddit thread on this, the led board behind is specifically animated with the right timing so the content shows up correctly in the line camera.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
According to this Reddit thread, the camera actually is the finish line: > According to UCI regulations, the camera is the finish line. > The painted line on the road or track is placed there as a visual reference for riders and spe
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
I checked out a WiFi hotspot from a library recently and was surprised to find that they blocked DDG. (Was less surprised to see they blocked Reddit.) Isn’t it just using the Bing API?
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
But didn’t Apple and openAI ink a deal recently?
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Believe it. We used it extensively in the 80s for birthdays, Christmas cards and more. Anything made by computer was instantly special, and the ability to customize card to the recipients interests was viewed as magic. As more of our neighb
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
> Sitting is bad because it displaces physical activity… This is at odds with the article, which states: > Since 2010, researchers have been keen to point out that sedentary behaviour is distinct from a lack of physical activity. You
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
The key section being: > The model village includes a scale model of the model village (which would be at 1:81 scale). This model, in turn, contains a scale model of the model of the model village; being at 1:729 scale this measures arou
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
FWIW, my interactions have been with the federal system over 10+ years. I never heard of any blocking of google voice numbers there. It appears to be common knowledge among the inmates as a way to avoid the long distance charges.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
This is great news. It’s appalling that the prison system is the only place left in the country that charges more for “long distance” calls (like 3x IIRC). I’ve helped several families set up Google voice numbers in the region of their love
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
I suspect you’re taking that excerpt too literally. By my reading, the author is expressing their surprise to learn something to improve their writing from an unexpected source (a book about mathematics), and is even more surprised at this
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
The author did not imply that sugar addiction is anywhere as bad as heroin addiction. They observed a technique that was shown scientifically to be effective for the more serious addiction and decided to try it for their milder addiction. T
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There is not enough information to draw that conclusion. Anyone familiar with academia (or even a R&D tech project) can imagine what could take 3 years: ethics board approval, getting permission from the relevant government agencies, fi
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
This is a proof of concept project. The “3 years” is not because of some inherent difficulty, it’s just a typical research project. From the article: > …will closely monitor the health and vital statistics of the rhinos over a period of
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Yes, for the first few. But the idea of the test is that this could be done in a wider scale. If a significant portion of horns are being confiscated (via radiation sensors) then there’s fewer horns being sold and less money available for a
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
I’d like to see it go exponential: “one million websites of one million checkboxes” Perhaps every checkbox in the toplevel site spawns a new, million-checkbox page? :)
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
> Over 11 000 radiation detection portal monitors are installed at airports, harbours and other ports of entry, including thousands of trained personnel equipped with radiation detectors, all of which can detect the smallest radioactive

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