GeorgeDewar

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by GeorgeDewar 28d ago
I totally agree with you, I think retries are overused, with the exception of operations that are known to be unreliable and can't be improved. In my experience, errors which go away within a few seconds are quite rare, and are mainly
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by GeorgeDewar 4mo ago
I love this approach, but a few years ago I tried it very unsuccessfully with my Xiaomi Mi 34" ultrawide. By very unsuccessfully, I mean that the commands to change input didn't work. I can't remember if they did nothing or c
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by GeorgeDewar 1y ago
Was it on 120V in the US or a 240V country? In my 240V country that would normally make a terrific spark and a bang. Do you remember if it blew a fuse or tripped a breaker?
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by GeorgeDewar 1y ago
That writing isn't the only "thinking" though. Some thinking can happen in the course of generating a single token, as shown by the ability to answer a question without any intermediate reasoning tokens. But as we've all
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by GeorgeDewar 2y ago
Why is this? In my country they start at 1.
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by GeorgeDewar 2y ago
This has really made insurance click for me because while I understand it intuitively, I wanted a more scientific foundation to understand its value. I think a great illustration is an extreme case. If I have a house and just enough income
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by GeorgeDewar 3y ago
The lane keep assist in my 2017 Leaf is awful. If I used it, anyone would take me for a drunk driver as it drifts to the edge of the lane and then corrects endlessly. Thankfully it can be turned off, and it stays off.
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1236/800(google.com)
8 points by GeorgeDewar 3y ago|9 comments
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by GeorgeDewar 3y ago
At the time of writing, this search will provide a top result saying "Help is available" and giving information about your country's crisis hotline. "1236 800", "1236 + 800", etc. also do it, but 1236800 d
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by GeorgeDewar 4y ago
One could get into a long debate about whether "most" is literally true or not, but I think most of us should be able to agree that at least a significant proportion of people - enough to matter - either won't or can't t
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by GeorgeDewar 4y ago
I've watched many of the videos on their YouTube channel and have been blown away by all the cool stuff in that museum, and the talented people that keep it going! It's high on my list of things to see in the US when I next get a
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Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
566 points by GeorgeDewar 4y ago|287 comments
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by GeorgeDewar 4y ago
I think for many, perhaps even most people, you're right and friendship happens organically without deliberate intent. Some people just do not work this way - maybe it's being somewhere on the autism spectrum, but whatever the cau
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by GeorgeDewar 4y ago
Very true. I usually ask "is or was it ever alive", and if yes I'll then ask if it's alive today. Edit: don't know how the similar sibling comment didn't appear to me when I was writing this, since it's fr
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by GeorgeDewar 4y ago
I did not know about tables in Excel. Now I do and it may change my life...
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by GeorgeDewar 4y ago
I can help with number 2. Two transactions are happening at the same time. Your "sales" revenue account is going up (Credit) by $2 and your cash asset account is going up (Debit) by the same $2. That is the first balanced transact
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by GeorgeDewar 4y ago
If you are in the hole where you really cannot add load to your database server but want to log the queries, there is a technique called zero impact monitoring where you literally mirror the network traffic going to your database server, an
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by GeorgeDewar 4y ago
And I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie.
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by GeorgeDewar 5y ago
In the same vain, as a child of about 10 I used to use a CD-ROM drive hooked up to a PSU and headphones to listen to music in bed. It was lovely as a portable CD player would have been totally unaffordable to my family at the time.
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by GeorgeDewar 5y ago
New Zealand too, and it really is as good as it sounds. Transacting property can be done very quickly, safely and cheaply, and no title insurance is required. The register is of course just a normal relational database. One key to the succe
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by GeorgeDewar 6y ago
This is very sad news indeed. For years I have longed to visit this museum. I hope that they choose to reopen or that it can be purchased and turned into a more sustainable operation. I would gladly donate at least $1000 to such a cause if
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by GeorgeDewar 7y ago
In fact, such material is already illegal to possess or trade. The official classification just clarifies that after the fact. The law that makes this material objectionable is the same one that makes child pornography illegal, and it shoul
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Waffle Is Shutting Down(blog.waffle.io)
1 points by GeorgeDewar 8y ago|0 comments
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by GeorgeDewar 9y ago
I think a lot of people actually depend on the contents of their hard drive a lot less these days than, say, ten years ago, because so much is stored in the cloud - photos in particular.
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by GeorgeDewar 9y ago
Unless the money came from an illicit source (I don't think the source was stated, but making a ton of money from Bitcoin's rise is perfectly legitimate), cashing out would surely be perfectly legitimate as long as one paid the ri
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by GeorgeDewar 9y ago
I'm not exactly a "free markets solve every problem" guy, but in this particular case I think we have a platform with an agreed set of rules, and when a willing exchange can happen there is really nothing wrong with it. I see
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by GeorgeDewar 10y ago
We now have pretty fast internet. I'm on 100mbit with unlimited data for $79/month, and could have 1Gbit for $129/month. International speeds can occasionally be a bit slow, but the widespread use of caching and CDNs limits
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by GeorgeDewar 10y ago
A very strange thing to write as my first post, but in one of the debates Trump did indeed say he would respect the results "if I win" [1]. I think the "I'll look at it on the day" comments came a bit later. [1] ht