whoisburbansky

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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
Why wouldn’t they just charge more for the better, improved GPT-4?
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
It’s called path dependence; same reason that the Space Shuttle boosters’ width is constrained by the width of two horses’ rear ends put side by side.
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
What makes you think they are related?
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
Why does the GP's comment strike you as implying that the minimum is calculated per person or session?
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
Sounds like you'd consider most K-12 and undergraduate level education to be un-engaging, which I'm not sure I disagree with, haha.
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
That makes sense, fair enough, thanks!
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
Ah, does not releasing full documentation not count as Apple "trying to get in their way"? Not trying to be snarky, genuinely trying to figure out how folks draw the line, since in my head, keeping documentation private smells lik
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
Posting because as a former piano kid who never really got music theory, the practice exercises and the embedded YouTube examples really helped me grok some stuff that was black magic to me previously.
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Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom(musictheory.pugetsound.edu)
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
It's called union-find, but also disjoint-set sometimes. The process of reparenting nodes is called path compression, and the optimization of using the larger set of the two as the parent when merging is usually just called "union
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
“ Until further notice, Emirates plans to operate as scheduled to and from LHR.” Anyone more familiar with airport operations care to explain how this is feasible, if LHR doesn’t think they have what it takes to handle the load?
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
The older, non-web versions of most of those things are still available to pirate. I’d find it hard to believe that the marginal improvements found in the online versions would have any significant impact on the poverty reduction effects of
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
What about wasabi or horseradish?
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
In the sense that public market stock valuations are debt-dependent, because cheaper debt increases future earning potential by making it cheaper to finance operations, acquisitions, expansions. Without the expectation of high public valuat
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Where do you get that sense that Rust results in memory leaks? Is that just an assumption you’re making about languages without garbage collection, or are there examples you’re aware of Rust applications having to deal with runaway memory c
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Community college is cheap, but isn't $65 for four credits cheap. Most financial aid I've seen has been in the form of loans, which also won't be as cheap as getting credit for those classes from testing out.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
How were you able to afford taking the classes for credit instead, at a cost of over two orders of magnitude more per class?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Pretty nifty how the example images of things like the sand grains (but make it Deep-Field-y) were made. I was hoping for an explanation, and the author didn’t disappoint.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
I wonder how long after the exercise the “affordance” effect lasted.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
You can manually choose the lens, but in edge cases where the stock camera app decides that you're too close to the subject to be able to focus with, e.g. the 3x lens, it switches to the 0.5x ultrawide lens instead, to maintain focus,
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
They kind of are when you consider that the opportunity cost of one might be the other?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
They mention in passing that cognac was used to disinfect things. Not foolproof, but not exactly a sepsis inducing nightmare either.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
I was trying to ask about things where it took you a certain amount of time upfront to learn to make it well, but once that's done, it only takes you a small amount of time to make each individual piece. I think this sort of thing was
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
I'm interested in how you adjust that for expertise; do you bump your hourly rate for items that took you longer to learn to make well? How do you figure out how much to bump by, if you do?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
They're called ligatures [1]. Congratulations, you're one of today's lucky 10,000! [2] 1. https://www.thoughtco.com/ligature-in-typography-1078102 2. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
I had it in my head somehow that the only version of the FSD out was the beta, didn’t realize the beta was a layer on top of the paid FSD package. Cutting off beta access seems reasonable here if the paid FSD package wasn’t rescinded.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
If it was a beta that was accessible to the public and that I paid for, hell yeah.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Huh, that's kind of wild. I'd assumed that blocking all light out at your eyes would do the same trick, I'll have to try the blackout curtains. Thanks!
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Would you say the blackout curtains made a bigger difference than the sleep mask?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Doesn’t the same criticism apply to the aesthetic choices baked into film? It seems to me that the amount of technical expertise it takes to post process a phone-captured RAW file in Lightroom compares favorably to the amount of expertise i

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