xsmasher

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by xsmasher 4y ago
I've seen people try ChatGPT for solving r/tipOfMyTongue questions. The AI is hilariously bad at this task. It happily invents new plots for existing movies and books. if it starts to ingest that data it will only get more wrong o
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by xsmasher 4y ago
But the call doesn't have to "block" - the UI could proceed without waiting for the result of the call.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
This is wonderful. The whole site reminds me of "Edmund Scientific," a catalog and retail store that dominated my thoughts and dreams as a child.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Here you go https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&p...
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by xsmasher 4y ago
If you expect to have retail stores, teachers, and tradespeople nearby, then you need to build housing they can afford. If everyone has a one-hour commute to get to their job at 7-11 you're going to see even more inflation.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Efficiency.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
> That said, in a large company you can cruise for years and that's what I did. It sounds like the poster stayed a long time and got paid for doing nothing. The details of the actual "came to a head / moved on" are mi
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by xsmasher 4y ago
But not my iPad, for some reason. That's a that an omission that baffles me.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Be careful where you get stats like that. If the stat says that "12% of plastic (ever produced globally) is recycled" that doesn't mean your local recycling program is terrible. I just got a notice from my trash company that
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by xsmasher 4y ago
The condition and general vibe looks like the vinyl stacks at a Goodwill thrift store.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
They could quit using antibiotics on animals that are not sick; quit using them just to make animals grow faster. But that would hurt their bottom line, so they won't do it unless regulated to do so.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Antibiotics are used to make the animals grow faster. This is not a case of "we want to keep these animals healthy" it is "we want more meat per animal, and this is a cheap way to get it."
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by xsmasher 4y ago
That only works if you throw away half the movie. Ferris is real to his sister, his parents, and the school administration. Now, what if Cameron isn't real?
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by xsmasher 4y ago
https://electricliterature.com/was-1984s-the-terminator-a-ha...
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Currently we run "tsc" to "compile" the code and tell us about type errors. "This method passes as string to something that expects a number" etc. In a world where JS has type notation, we'd need a similar
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by xsmasher 4y ago
They compare TVs of the same size and give them a rating based on the amount of power used; or fail them if they exceed some maximum power usage. It's linked from the article in GP's post. https://commission.europa.eu&
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by xsmasher 4y ago
HBO is owned by Warner Bros/Discovery now. Seems like it would make licensing easier. Unless they're going to "rent out" their valuable properties to other streaming services, and only keep the dregs on HBO Max?
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by xsmasher 4y ago
What's the similarity? They're both "plans?"
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by xsmasher 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand - how could it make sense when panels were more expensive, but "no longer makes financial sense" because panels are cheap?
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by xsmasher 4y ago
The original "Foundation" novel is a set of short stories that take place decades or more apart, and barely share characters. The second novel is more unified but has a 100-year gap in the middle. They would have been an interesti
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by xsmasher 4y ago
I understood there was a technical limitation here too - * apps can't write to a page and mark it executable * therefore you can't JIT compile JS * therefore any alt-browsers will be slow as sin. Did I understand wrong
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Factorio, TIS-100, and Bike Shed Painting Simulator.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
More like pavlovian conditioning; the body gets the pre-caffeine signal (the taste of coffee) and gets to work.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
That'd be fine if it applies to every vehicle; some incentives NOT to drive a massive SUV would be nice. They kill pedestrians at a much higher rate than smaller cars.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
"The grid can't handle it!" would be a good argument against refrigeration and air conditioning too. Sure, it can't handle it if we had 100% adoption TODAY, but that's not real concern.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
I had a vague memory of this scene, but had not seen it in decades. In my memory she was an older woman; seeing it now, the woman looks so young. Also TIL there is a follow-up short film called "Pets or Meat" https://ww
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by xsmasher 4y ago
When people complain about the "the algorithm" they're not talking about bubble sort. It's shorthand for something - "biased feed algorithms" maybe. You may as well tell them tomatoes are actually a fruit.
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I expect that the pushback will come from insurance companies; a letter from the insurance company saying "we won't cover you if an e-bike catches fire" becomes a letter from the landlord saying "we will evict if you sto
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by xsmasher 4y ago
>Aspartame was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter, [...] He discovered its sweet taste when he licked his finger, which had become contaminated with aspartame, to lift up a piece of paper.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
As long as the inverter keeps working, you are right; you still get some (reduced) benefit for just letting them run. At some point the inverter (a separate box, usually inside the house) will fail and need to be replaced. At that point you

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