webwielder2

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by webwielder2 2y ago
The algorithm gets bored, demands new forms of hyperbole in headlines.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Why do people care about checking the weather in detail so much? Tomorrow it will probably be like today, unless it does/does not precipitate.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
What's normal to [them], amazes us! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McbdzzqVtDA
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by webwielder2 2y ago
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that a comparison between the Trump and Biden administrations in efforts to police the telecom industry would show a marked difference in both effort and effectiveness.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
It's funny that the one of the guys who turned MoviePass into a scam was also involved in Redbox.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Eh, it's pretty big. I guess.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Just as soon as “Step 2: ???” is worked out.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
> For Mac OS X we decided to rewrite the Finder from scratch. I would think that the file manager for an entirely separate operating system being written from scratch would be a foregone conclusion.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Or they could allow 25,000 immigrants in with generous incentives to be truck drivers.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
It’s just amazing that fossils even exist. Thanks, random natural events and processes for showing us what the freakin’ distant past looked like!
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by webwielder2 2y ago
I recently read Michael Lewis's "The New New Thing," which posits that Netscape was a get-rich-quick scheme by Jim Clark to fund a computer-navigated sailboat. He knew that Microsoft would render the company obsolete in six m
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Does Uber regret shutting down its autonomous efforts? The problem has emerged as a tractable one. Or were they just too far behind and the capital expenditures too high to even remotely consider continuing? Does Uber exist in ten years?
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by webwielder2 2y ago
So how much more powerful is this chip than the ones NASA used in the the Apollo program?
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Is it a testament to the Japanese rail system that he was able to get to work in Nagasaki the next day after Hiroshima was f*cking nuked?
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ABC 1600(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by webwielder2 2y ago|1 comments
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by webwielder2 2y ago
"Recall" really needs to be retired as a term.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Is there a standard, user-friendly way of generating consistent AI images yet? Or is it just starting to emerge in patches like the tool here? Because DALL-E for example is a complete crapshoot; it has no ability for fine-tuning or persiste
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by webwielder2 2y ago
No one ever remembers/points out that in the show, Scully was ALWAYS WRONG. Like, every single time. It was aliens or a monster that did it, guaranteed.
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How are microchips made? (animation)(youtube.com)
2 points by webwielder2 2y ago|0 comments
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Unity!
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by webwielder2 2y ago
I find it oddly fascinating that even in our highly documented age, we still create history that we must then go back and piece together.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Powered flight in our lifetimes!
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by webwielder2 2y ago
The article reveals that Welles was under the influence of a sleeping pill, but the intro states that he was “obviously drunk.”
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by webwielder2 2y ago
> 4. Is our schedule realistic? No. No it is not.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
I wonder what the effect on religiosity over the eons would have been if earth had such a crappy total eclipse.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
The vastness of the cosmos is kind of upsetting in an odd way.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Sometimes I think I’m the only person in the world without some insanely specific hobby they are passionate enough about to write blog posts about.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
What percentage of the population would you say has an interest in a craft at or above this level?
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Two things can be true simultaneously: 1. Musk committed a catastrophically huge unforced error with his right wing buffoonery. 2. Tesla was MASSIVELY overvalued and a huge drop in valuation was inevitable regardless of Tesla’s performance.
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by webwielder2 2y ago
Ha! As soon as I saw the article I thought, “I wonder if there’s a RealLifeLore video on this.”

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