xsmasher

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by xsmasher 3y ago
In what way is this different than a pump and dump? You tout the stock and say it's going to 5x, 10x, whatever because of X. Then the suckers buy. Then you sell.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Didn't Rifftrax or one of the other MST-spinoffs do this for a while?
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Simple but not easy. Tax them according to weight. Start out with linear brackets but bring it in line with the Fourth power law over time.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
"Waiting for NESARA" is a real eye opener about how people can latch onto crazy ideas and make it part of their identity. I think about it whenever r/bbby or r/superstonk conspiracy theories escape their subs and make th
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Greater weight gain is the PRIMARY use of antibiotics on animals. There are not given to the animals because they are sick, or to ward off sickness; they are given to ALL animals in a flock/herd to increase their size and therefore the
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by xsmasher 4y ago
There's also big in-group out-group thinking going on here. People generally see members of the in-group as individuals like themselves, and the out-group as some kind of monolith. They have some empathy for the in-group but none for t
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Yes, but it's not evolution. From that page- > A study among expatriates in Nepal suggests that immunity may take up to seven years to develop—presumably in adults who avoid deliberate pathogen exposure.[18] Conversely, immunity acq
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by xsmasher 4y ago
some mention here https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-pizzagate-gunm... > Welch wandered the pizzeria, searching for a dungeon that didn’t exist. When he found a door he couldn’t open, he fired at the lock
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by xsmasher 4y ago
But "compiling lists" is good, or at least neutral, right? Where would mankind be if we weren't allowed to compile lists? You can't remove all the context from an action and claim the general case and the specific case a
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by xsmasher 4y ago
I just listed to a podcast (Freakonomics M.D.) about the effect raising the minimum wage in nursing homes; paying more lead to better outcomes. One of the theories was that less turnover meant that the caregivers were more familiar with a p
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by xsmasher 4y ago
I understand that the "persistence" in GPT chats is just "feed the chat history back in before the new prompt." If that's true, the "history" feature here might just be "you are a grocer, here is your
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Rice is not an aquatic plant; the water is used for weed control. California grows rice but they don't flood the fields.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
But do they all need to be accessed at the same time? If not, pages that are not being actively used can be dropped from memory until needed again.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
A company that wants to sell you the hardware that LLMs run on might do this. NVIDIA? Apple?
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Does this mean LLaMA only uses 10% of it's brain? An urban legend come to life!
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by xsmasher 4y ago
I think they mean used EV batteries - EV batteries that are at the end of their useful life in cars.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
It was on HBO Max but got removed a few months back. https://click.justwatch.com/a?r=https://www.justwatch.com/us... Justwatch claims HD is on Roku and SD is on Tubi, but I didn't confirm that.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Can you elaborate? What did you learn and what crap did you buy?
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Kids at street corners have idea and vision, but may lack TASTE - the ability to discern the good from the bad. If the button-pushers have great AI but lack taste they will still produce a terrible end product.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
You say "punish driving," I say "make drivers pay for the externalities they cause." If you don't, you get the tragedy of the commons.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Some companies ONLY pay for the employee's health care premiums, and the premium for dependents comes out of their pocket. In this case employee AND dependent premiums are paid by the company, so you could say that single people "
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by xsmasher 4y ago
I don't know why you're downvoted. I worked for a company that made NFT character skins for their games; of course when the game checked your wallet for game skins, it only looked for NFTs that were signed by the game company. As
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by xsmasher 4y ago
In an "art market" context it makes sense. I can print a copy of Warhol's Campbell Soup labels, but that doesn't devalue the original, nor is my copy as valuable as the original. It's not about copying the pixels, i
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Too late to EDIT: but "literal types" was the word I am looking for. I used "success:true" and "success:false" as part of the two types I was combining; it seems like "success:boolean" would server th
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by xsmasher 4y ago
It'll happen to yooouuu! Kidding, but is there a word for this kind of Sonder? When you realize that your grandparents used to be people? Or when you notice that the "grown-ups" are now you, and you have no idea what you&#x27
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by xsmasher 4y ago
This is "stunt programming," similar to shooting an arrow into a target from horseback in a rodeo. It has little to do with the real-life business of real-life cowboys. In this case it's using the type system to calculate the
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by xsmasher 4y ago
If I understand std::variant, it THROWS if you try to access the wrong type? I should have been specific, but all of the errors I mention above are compile-time errors, not run-time.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
For me (coming from C++) being able to easily union and intersect types, and being able to specify certain values (not sure the right name for this). For example: type ServerResponse = {success:true, response:JSON} | {success:false, e
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by xsmasher 4y ago
A shame. California has a "Good Samaritan Food Donation Act" then removes liability except in cases of "gross negligence or intentional misconduct."
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by xsmasher 4y ago
I turned on "silence unknown callers" for a month or two and that seemed to get my number off of the hot list.

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