wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
Do you dislike it when application developers don't think about the way CPUs work at the silicon level? Or the way TCP/IP works under the hood (handling packet ordering/ connection negotiation etc.)? It's not immediately
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Why should having enough money to pay for a 1st class ticket be the only way to avoid being harrassed by "aggressive drugged-out people"?? Surely at a minimum PT should guarantee that for all passengers.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Only if you're a Traveler.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Except that's not what you asked, which is for whitespace between each word , not letter... I tried with v3.5 and could only get it to give to me 1 or 2 lines at a time, but it's obviously capable of providing it. Previously I ha
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Wouldn't surprise me in the least if ChatGPT gave the alphabet written out as an example of a word with 23 letters. I wonder what the history is behind why base-64 encoding became so widespread. Sadly I can even recognise certain seque
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Japanese kids seem to manage learning 4 of them (5 if they're Korean-Japanese. And yes I'm including the Roman alphabet). Though it's true early- reading books tend to stick to just hiragana & katakana.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Except we continue to see population-wide trends in health that are surely linked to changes in average diet over the last 100 years or so. But it's certainly possible it's far less to do with ratios of simple/complex carbs,
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> The energy use per person is already falling and will continue to fall. Source? I certainly wouldn't expect it to fall for the vast majority of the world's population.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> you don’t stop at 40 hours a week because you think it is optimal for the work, but rather because you are balancing it against something else that you find equally important. ...or because we're social creatures and tend to stick
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I only claimed it were possible, but it would (pleasantly) surprise me if there were executives at Apple that thought interoperability with competing technologies should be part of their corporate strategy. Lightning ports may well be techn
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Sure, except that "at a minimum" assumes that exponential growth function continues and more than keeps pace with growth in total energy demand.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Quoting this from an article by Australia's chief scientist Alan Finkel: Between 1990 and 2021 the behemoth known as global civilisation only reduced its fossil-fuel diet from 87% to 83% of total energy consumed worldwide. Let me
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If it drives an uptick in sales in the EU you can count on it being eventually implemented for customers in the US and elsewhere too. Though it's even possible Apple knows it will help sell the devices better - at least initially, but
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> Families can decide for themselves what suits them. But they only can choose from what gets built, and what gets built is ultimately a function of what builders consider profitable and what legislation allows. And what legislation allo
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That is quite phenomenal really - I don't think any other widely-used service (other than actual charities) operates on that basis. Though I don't really see my monthly payment (a whole $10, mind you) as a donation. But their spie
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"a program which is not written as concurrent can never be executed as parallel" Unless of course you're running multiple independent instances of it, each with different parameters, which I gather is a pretty common way of r
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The paper I linked to above has as one hypothesis that it was a naturally occurring virus, cultures of which had been stored or worked on at the lab, and "leaked" by way of infection of workers there. Seems just as plausible as so
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by wizofaus 3y ago
You'd like to think a timeless font would have a timeless name, though...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Flipped you how though - I would have thought that was a great example of how warming can be beneficial, hence something we needn't worry about avoiding, and there are still people out there that will argue that with a straight face.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
What sort of geoengineering project could a country the size of NZ undertake on its own though? Certainly nothing that will make any difference to global climate - at best they might find ways to control cloud-cover and/or rainfall ove
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Btw this seems to be a pretty thorough and technical overview of the various hypotheses: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00583-23 It concludes zoonotic origin to be the most likely, though certainly does
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Did GP imply if a virus was leaked it must be man-made? Obviously the fact that the exact virus hadn't been seen before is suggestive of that but it's not inconceivable the lab happened to have samples of a never-before-seen natur
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Yes but that doesn't explain why they would be substantially cheaper in US supermarkets vs Australian ones (after all, they're all grown here!), or why they're so much cheaper at dedicated produce markets. Apparently you can
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"But remote-first won't be the default." doesn't sound like much of a generalisation to me, and indeed is arguably saying the same thing as you - that a hybrid approach is likely the best fit for most tech companies.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Surely if that's happening regularly then it's up to the manager to sit down individually with such employees and make it clear that it's no more acceptable to be regularly unavailable during the work day when remote than it
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"sends a cookie every request. That is really the same" Not exactly, as a cookie a) isn't something you can just read and remember easily (noting that Basic Auth uses base64-encoding, but that's a pretty flimsy layer of
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The food at Japanese convenience stores is pre-packaged too - it's just much better quality.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
They're definitely exceptional cases, but in general tropical fruit (mangos, pineapples, even bananas) can be up to two or three times the price you might be used to paying in the US (or even Australia - not sure what it's like no
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by wizofaus 3y ago
(Actually the far better example is France - in principle, at the time, it was better obviously placed to achieve colonial domination than Spain or The Netherlands or even Great Britain. The argument seems to be that it was too focused on w
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'd be keen to charge vehicles based on noise pollution, but I'm not sure how feasible it is. Does anyone know if it's ever been trialed anywhere?

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