Normal_gaussian

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by Normal_gaussian 6d ago
cheap ones are in that range; the most expensive ones around $350/$400. I paid ~£200 for one about a year ago, which is ~$270 USD including sales tax. The top end takes the piss, but if you want certain features - particularly several
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by Normal_gaussian 6d ago
There are a many successful games companies and marketers in the games industry that have enough respect for others to not mislead like this. Many many marketing promotions go to significant effort to show how a thing actually works. There
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by Normal_gaussian 6d ago
Spore was similarly misleading, yes.
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by Normal_gaussian 6d ago
While this is often the case, it is not clear how this group specifically functioned. Theory vs practice is always very interesting in these cases.
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by Normal_gaussian 7d ago
Further to 1, most tasks are much harder than dying and are not actually completed by modern LLMs. It is a case of underspecification. "Who is the fastest person in the UK?" is underspecified. We would typically answer and accept
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by Normal_gaussian 7d ago
Its notable that you dichotomise using the promises of another unreleased game from the same people. Depth was part of the original NMS promise. Obviously NMS's original marketing was bonkers and capitalised on saying technically true
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by Normal_gaussian 7d ago
And many of the mics built into good webcams and laptops are superior, so long as you aren't somewhere like a café.
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by Normal_gaussian 7d ago
> They’ll turn off the moment you take them out on iPhones atleast. This is a small example of how the user experience in the Apple Ecosystem for AirPods has been kind of nuts. Every 'pod' type headphones I've used do this
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by Normal_gaussian 11d ago
It should be noted that this is a very sensible thing to say even if you are not stopping; the only case where you cannot say this is if you are carrying on with the same branding, which is typically necessary if you are carrying forwards f
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by Normal_gaussian 11d ago
I wasn't aware of this group; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistici/Inventati is their wiki article, but it is a little light on details. Some of the claims are interesting - "Decision making in the gr
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by Normal_gaussian 14d ago
This is a great (and tight) execution of a neat concept. I'm not in the garden of Apple so unfortunately I can't play with it, but the preview is thorough. I particularly like the voice integration. I sympathise with some of the t
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by Normal_gaussian 15d ago
$0 per-token bill You still have electricity and capital investment. Envelope math suggests cheap electricity is costing you something like $0.50/mtok and the opportunity cost on the capital tied up and lost in the unit purch
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by Normal_gaussian 15d ago
Unfortunately $500 isn't much on the scale of dental care if it actually works.
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by Normal_gaussian 21d ago
Actions aren't secondary to most paid GH users; and if they are down it usually means no deployments and no tests, which can often halt work.
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by Normal_gaussian 26d ago
That's quite a take. The EU-UK negotiations were mired in issues of EU maximalism; attempting to force each PM to agree a worse deal knowing not agreeing to it would cause short term pain for that PMs political situation. Its quite the
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by Normal_gaussian 27d ago
> I'm not sure this approach is a good idea, but it might be After the last year, I feel like this sentence could replace half my outbound emails.
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by Normal_gaussian 29d ago
I have an app I built for myself (because I couldn't find anything appropriate) to ask me questions via notifications like rating how I feel, how's my sleep, am I alert, eating well etc. its probablistic both in when it alerts and
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by Normal_gaussian 1mo ago
The hilarious part is more the absurdity and cognitive disconnect experienced when reading about serious evaluations that went in a completely opposite direction to those directly participated in.
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by Normal_gaussian 1mo ago
Those are both hilarious to me. In my last FTE role we had the exact opposite beliefs - we wanted to leave GitLabs increases in pricing and move to annual sub, but the reliability of self-hosted runners and the flexibility (and clarity) of
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by Normal_gaussian 1mo ago
Farage is favourite to win by nearly all reasonable predictions; success for Count Binface is not just a win - its taking a non-trivial portion of the votes, which seems likely. Reform UK is a Ltd. and Farage is its owner; so removing him f
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by Normal_gaussian 1mo ago
> nobody wakes up tomorrow and says they no longer want USD Depends what happens tomorrow
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by Normal_gaussian 1mo ago
Which is again, a fair question with a reasonable answer: Stores have loss 'prevention' (more like tracking) software which the security team can use. They are able to attach images of people stealing, but its hard to identify a
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by Normal_gaussian 1mo ago
About 8 or 9 years ago I saw a self checkout pos provider demo a camera/screen system that would do basic images processing constantly to try and take pictures when people are clearly visible. A couple of low res, low colour palette, c
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by Normal_gaussian 1mo ago
The curious case here is how much of a description do we give it of itself? That would almost certainly dominate success rates. My feeling is that a prompt would have to provide a vague description of a program that meaningfully passes some
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by Normal_gaussian 2mo ago
The basic build was never that expensive; the complications are always where the time goes.
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by Normal_gaussian 2mo ago
MLB & NFL only changed to for-profit organisations somewhat recently (2007, 2015). afaict NBA has always been for-profit. Internationally the standard is non-profits. Most sports have both their international organisations and highest s
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by Normal_gaussian 2mo ago
Yeah. And Jess Phillips was calling for that and much more draconian measures (e.g. on device scanning).
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by Normal_gaussian 2mo ago
They do work on Netflix, just not the large commercial VPNs. If you setup your own VPN with an exit at a residential address, it will work fine. There are some commercial offerings around this. Just as soon as you start needing exits that a
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by Normal_gaussian 2mo ago
The writer is a relatively prominent UK developer; he certainly hasn't missed that the UK isn't in the EU. You're likely referring to the line "Hopefully this draws a simple line in the sand for the UK government, ...&qu
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by Normal_gaussian 2mo ago
It sounds like we should plot 'count of compromised repos' against 'time taken for maintainer to initiate a resolution', and pick something just after the inflection point.

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