Perenti

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by Perenti 7d ago
I have over 3500 hours logged on Steam for NMS, and at 65 hours you have barely scratched the surface. Like many open world sandbox games, you have to make yourself goals. If you want a nice guided "start here" to "finish t
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by Perenti 13d ago
I noticed the figures seemed odd. The causes of female mortality are just plain wrong. The top two causes of female death post-puberty were domestic violence and childbirth related. Neither are listed in the "top mortality" tab
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by Perenti 1mo ago
Graphs without labels and/or scales on the axes are useless. I know less after viewing that page than before, but I got to see some pretty lines that I guess must mean something.
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by Perenti 1mo ago
Thank you.
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by Perenti 1mo ago
How many elderly Taxi drivers die of traffic accident? Perhaps the job is culling the Alzheimer's sufferers before other symptoms and signs arise?
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by Perenti 2mo ago
What this document suggests is a way to fast-track Chinese development of advanced silicon, as far as I can see. Does Anthropic really believe all the silicon is made in the USA? I thought Taiwan and Korea did most of the really heavy lif
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by Perenti 2mo ago
Yes, China stole the recipe for pasta and noodles from America. China stole gunpowder from America. China stole printing from America. China stole the idea of paper money from America. China stole the idea of entry exams from America. Ch
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by Perenti 3mo ago
I recall announcements in 1984 that Apricot were building a m68k machine. I was very excited at the time. I never heard if it ever really happened though.
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by Perenti 3mo ago
To be honest, my first thought was also that the line between how the US treats its citizens and how China does theirs is very fine. You may not be aware of how the USA is represented outside the USA. Quite a lot of serious people think th
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by Perenti 3mo ago
If you're not good at prompting yet, that $10 doesn't go very far. The local model allows me to learn what works and what doesn't without paying for tokens. Then when I know how not to waste them, I'll try a paid model
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by Perenti 3mo ago
In a zero based array type language. In pascal I believe arrays can start where you want them to as in "array[-10..10] of integer". It's been a while though. There is no year zero. Trying to compute with one is almost cert
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by Perenti 3mo ago
In my experience, ringing the AEC and saying "I thought I might have flu, and thought it best to avoid crowds" is enough to save AUD$50. A huge difference between here in Oz and there in the USA _as I see it_ is that we are condit
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by Perenti 3mo ago
I'm pretty sure that if the virus and its DNA are undetectable then you can't spread it. I believe that's how it works with HIV anyway.
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by Perenti 3mo ago
If it can't run on the metal, is it really an OS that's "native"? Surely an "AI-native" OS runs the AI in ring zero? Is a dockerfile the same as an OS? Always? These are serious questions, about what is surel
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by Perenti 4mo ago
I got six a few times at High School. Compared to the beatings at home they were kinda weak. But I guess it'd freak out kids who had never been beaten. I can't see the threat of three strikes with a cane on the bum over clothes
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by Perenti 4mo ago
I've been told that American's have a very low rate of passport issuance. I don't know if that's true, but the figure quoted was only 10% of adults hold passports. Is this a really effective way to get people to pay fo
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by Perenti 5mo ago
I just wish it did what it said on the tin. Seriously, separating the hype from the reality is so time consuming.
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by Perenti 6mo ago
I've always been suspicious of the claims THC helps anxiety. CBD may, but my experience is that high doses of THC without corresponding CBD tends to induce anxiety in many people. I also found the brief notes in the article about MMJ
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by Perenti 6mo ago
You're welcome. By the way, as an AIdiot, anything that makes RAG less brittle is good.
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by Perenti 6mo ago
Just a note on the website, I thought at first my browser had been hijacked by a shipping or travel agent. The first impression is how AI has improved ship tracking, so you can now track ships with 98% accuracy, with little to no hint this
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by Perenti 6mo ago
This relates to my favorite hatred of LLMs: "Let me refactor the foobar" and then proceeds to do it, without waiting to see if I will actually let it. I minimise this by insisting on an engineering approach suitable for infrastru
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by Perenti 7mo ago
Interesting. Seems you are automating my qwen workflow. Every output stage is verified through mathematical proof whenever possible, before being fed to the next step in transforming ideas into code. Except for when qwen decides to go in
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by Perenti 7mo ago
You can run any smalltalk code from workspace-style frames in the Inspector, Workspace, Explorer, Finder and Debugger. You can edit classes and methods in these windows, as well as spawn Browsers as desired. I'm not sure what the int
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by Perenti 7mo ago
It may have a tidy mmap api, but Smalltalk has a much better file api through its Streams hierarchy IMHO. You can create a stream on a diskfile, you can create a stream on a byteArray, you can create a stream on standard Unix streams, you
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by Perenti 7mo ago
Will this only apply to an OS with human user accounts? I wonder how autonomous agents that are operating systems running on bare hardware are defined under this strange law. Not all OS are for humans. Consider many uni-kernel applicatio
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by Perenti 7mo ago
Could you claim any book with boys being different to girls breaches the sex talk rules? I'm just wondering how you could use this law to show how ridiculous it is.
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by Perenti 7mo ago
So use Zig to implement Smalltalk. All problems solved.
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by Perenti 7mo ago
It would be nice if clicking on a list entry (say llama3 ) opened a window/tab on the home page of that model.
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by Perenti 7mo ago
I've been playing with my own Smalltalk implementation. I guess it qualifies as a tiny _language_, but the class library is huge! Yes, I know that all who do not understand Smalltalk are doomed to re-implement it, poorly. I'm ju
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by Perenti 8mo ago
I first saw an Apple I at a Maths Camp in late 1976. It was from the first batch to arrive in Australia. We were all enthralled. We were slightly less enthralled waiting for the floating point libraries to load from cassette tape. Earlie

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