MikeTheGreat

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by MikeTheGreat 13d ago
Citation? I apologize - I know that the "Citation needed" meme is mostly a way to say "I disagree" but in this case you literally left out your citation :) You make a claim ("most monopolies don't actually rais
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by MikeTheGreat 15d ago
pandoc
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by MikeTheGreat 1mo ago
Genuine question: can I ask why? I'm not saying you're wrong, but it seems early to say yes or no about a particular technology, and LLMs seem especially hard to dismiss given how magical / magic-adjacent they feel :) I'
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by MikeTheGreat 1mo ago
That seems like a somewhat orthogonal point? Like, if I'm a carpenter and my batteries all run out / I can't actually power my power tools then the best course of action is to go home and recharge all the batteries instead o
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by MikeTheGreat 2mo ago
:) I had no idea this reference existed, or that it's a a fun, though dystopian, read. Thanks! :)
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by MikeTheGreat 2mo ago
I'd like to ask a more specific question than my sibling's excellent "Wait, why?" question :) Why offer erasers on these things? The procedure described below has nothing to do with using these as pencils, and at $500 f
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by MikeTheGreat 2mo ago
It's like we've come full circle: First people practiced L33t3cod3 problems for interviews Then people built AIs to build software And now the AIs are studying L33t3cod3 problems
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by MikeTheGreat 2mo ago
Genuine question: do prediction markets open up a new revenue stream for TheNumbers.com? Specifically: they suspect that the motivation for trying to hack their site (for at least some people) is that they wanted early access to numbers tha
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by MikeTheGreat 2mo ago
This is genuine, noob question: how is this different from AWS? I get that they're in very different businesses, but for both don't they have the issue that once a client gets big enough the client might decide to move the service
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by MikeTheGreat 2mo ago
"You are allowed to record stuff happening in private spaces depending on the situation and state you are in." The part about "depending on the situation and state you are in." is doing _a_lot_ of work there. Here in WA
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by MikeTheGreat 2mo ago
I'm not a lawyer and I think this varies state by state, but I think that in general anyone is allowed to record in public spaces. I think the general idea is that if you could (legally) go stand in that public space (sidewalks, roads,
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by MikeTheGreat 2mo ago
> I am currently working on a blog trying to explain concurrency and parallelism using the song "Free Bird" Ok, now I'm hooked :) What's your blog? I don't suppose it has an RSS feed, hopefully? :)
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by MikeTheGreat 2mo ago
> costs less I assumed that too, back when i thought that getting an e-ink pad would be cool. Right now Amazon is quoting me $450 on a 10.3" reMarkable, but the price goes up for the 11.8" model and/or for bells and whistl
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by MikeTheGreat 3mo ago
Well, if there's one company on Earth that's both incentivized to find an algorithm to efficient pack stuff into their shipping bins and also well-financed enough to actually figure out a good linear or quadratic-time algorithm to
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by MikeTheGreat 3mo ago
I've played beyond all reason for a little bit, although I'm not very good at it. I've managed to avoid toxic lobbies by searching for terms like co-op or noob.
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by MikeTheGreat 3mo ago
I used to think this way too. When I was growing up, libraries were for books. And that one room where they had periodicals (magazines, newspapers, and such) but you had to read those there in that room. And encyclopedias, for kids to use
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by MikeTheGreat 4mo ago
Can you explain this further? For example, if the market cap is $6B and has been for years, how is that reducing?
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by MikeTheGreat 4mo ago
I assumed that when the GP said the UK was "giving a foreign, potentially adversarial nation access" the GP meant that the US is that "foreign, potentially adversarial nation" I can't believe that in our timeline Eu
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by MikeTheGreat 4mo ago
Can I ask why this is getting downvoted? Most of the other comments are basically saying this ("the pay is too low for too long for not enough reward"). Anecdotally: I'm teaching a course in "How To Be Successful In Coll
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by MikeTheGreat 4mo ago
Genuine question: how do you tune it? I thought "fine-tuning" meant training it on additional data to add additional facts / knowledge? I might be mistaking your use of the word "tune", though :)
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by MikeTheGreat 5mo ago
Hey! Hey! Some of us _enjoy_ Axis And Allies! /s Humor aside, you're not wrong - spending an hour setting up and then 10 minutes per player to actually play was a lot more fun when I had a lot more free time
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by MikeTheGreat 5mo ago
genuine question: How could you tell they were em-dashes? Like, I could see some people noticing that the book they're reading has dashes that are a bit longer than normal, but what made you think "That must be it's own thing
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by MikeTheGreat 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure that I know what the answer is (sadly), but I'll try anyways: Any chance folks in the US can use these, in the US? This is a genuine question, although I don't have my hopes up. It would be nice to have some
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by MikeTheGreat 5mo ago
That sounds really good! I'll have to give it a try :)
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by MikeTheGreat 5mo ago
What my question is hinting at is that there's actually some really interesting engineering around resolving what happens when the systems disagree. Things like Paxos and Raft help make this much more tractable for mere mortals (like
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by MikeTheGreat 5mo ago
What happens when they don't?
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by MikeTheGreat 5mo ago
Thanks for posting this! I started using instant coffee in hot chocolate as a quick DIY mocha, mainly because the cost-caffeine ratio was sooooo much better than beans (ground or whole) and the mix of ingredients that doesn't trigger a
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by MikeTheGreat 6mo ago
Isn't that basically the plotline of the Blackhawk Down movie? And, more importantly, the real-life events on which it's based?
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by MikeTheGreat 6mo ago
I think the poster's point is that FPV drones & accurate/advanced shells mean that you get all the downsides of WW1 trenches and no-man's land, PLUS new downsides of trenches not helping so you're constantly under th
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by MikeTheGreat 6mo ago
That's hilarious. It's like those recipe sites that have 5 pages of nice photos and background story and side tracks and whatnot as the author waxes verbose, so they need to put a 'Jump to recipe' button in so people don

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