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by zmgsabst 3y ago
There’s also one in Seattle. https://seattlepinballmuseum.com/
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
You can radiate easily. But not convect. Hence why it’s much, much harder than removing heat on Earth.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Median household income is $74k/yr in the US. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-27... I don’t think “both people have to work, to be average” counts as “rich”.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Okay — sell me on why I should use this coin. (I feel inclined to agree, but I want more solid reasoning.)
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
What’s different between a baker liable for flour content and an SDE liable for packaged library vulnerabilities?
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Humans routinely believe wrong things, collectively, without it being a collective conspiracy to trick you. The false dichotomy you present (“they’re right or they’re lying!”) isn’t reflected in the real world — and it’s worth knowing that
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I’m a fan of Terry Tao’s blog, which while not strictly software, is both good for advice and discusses one of my passions — formal verification. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/a-slightly-longer-...
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I think that quite reasonably, many just trust what someone told them — eg, of your answers: - trust someone’s photo/video - trust someone’s map - trust someone’s narrative in a video - “everyone else is just wrong!” - trust someone’s
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
There’s a similar debate about how to fix the industrial complex, when shown to be lethargic at 155mm artillery and small missiles. Eg, this. https://www.csis.org/analysis/rebuilding-us-inventories-six-...
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I think a lot of the (over)reaction to “dumb” questions is that people of average capability can’t explain the conventional wisdom, and therefore feel an ego threat when it’s questioned. To quote the point: > So one should be unafraid to
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
You personally benefit when that generation pays your retirement: You’re investing in society, with an expected payout in the future (via retirement benefits). What’s crazy to me is we have a whole generation who failed to pay for maintaini
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Scraping is legal; as are assistive technologies. What’s lacking is the collective willpower to develop social organizations, which could orchestrate and fund such efforts. There’s a complete lack of organization among the public. The probl
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I actually think measurement is the source of “artificial stupidity”. We tend to measure what’s readily quantifiable. But these tend to be the most basic facts of a situation. And when we make decisions solely based on those metrics, we ign
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
There’s always the expensive option: Open a trust with a major bank to preserve that website and fund it with a long term annuity or investment, with instructions on how to execute it. Not perfect of course, as trust firms and banks also fa
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I think that’s roughly 0.00005c, which at least to me sounds pretty fast.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Does it not run Python? I’m working off a 4GiB system with no dedicated GPU — and the Python APIs for OpenAI work fine, but admittedly, I have a Linux system.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I’m not an expert, but I just picked a project and used the OpenAI API — but with a wrapper that should let me swap out backends if/when I get a computer with a nice GPU. Python is great for mixing API calls, document formatting, and o
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
As far as we can tell, electrons are point objects. Why shouldn’t there be others?
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Are you trying to learn how train LLMs or use LLMs to produce things?
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Do you have a source on those claims? All I can find is Europe experiencing excess death: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... And similarly, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have 1/
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Was the source of that sign in 1933 free speech? — or the effect of a central authority who controlled the media? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Nazi_Germany When you say “taken too far”, the outcome certa
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
1. The photon moves through free space, where only the EM field is disturbed. 2. The photon enters a material, where the disturbance in the EM field couples to the electron waves — creating a phonon. 3. The phonon travels through the materi
953.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
The phonon oscillates both the electrons and the EM field. A photon is EM only. So you’re correct that it occupies all four dimensions, but we’re discussing an excitation in one field (photon) changing to an oscillation in multiple (phonon)
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
> No, “replication failures” are not a mainstream concern. And they certainly weren’t some lurking concern within right wing circles for years before COVID. They talk about this all the time — and have for years before COVID. That’s part
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
That we haven’t used mRNA gene therapies to treat a virus before.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Both say they’re discussing US adults, in particular.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
> It’s mostly downstream of COVID and specifically the lies around COVID. I agree it’s about the lies around COVID, but not in the way you meant: Over 40% of US adults would sue the vaccine manufacturers in a class action; about 25% know
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Half of US adults have tried cannabis. https://news.gallup.com/poll/509399/fully-half-americans-tri... This poll suggests one in four have tried some psychedelic, at least once. https://today.yougov.com
959.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
I don’t think you can. But if a certain action routinely produces sustained change, that can also be fine. Eg, you can’t blind participants to whether they receive real therapy or a conversation about the weather, but we’ve concluded that t
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Apparently you can’t read the second paragraph. > The AFP news agency first reported the Israeli assessment on Monday, citing a briefing for foreign media by senior Israeli military officials. Asked about reports that about 5,000 Hamas m

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