SirHumphrey

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by SirHumphrey 10d ago
3blue1brown helped me quite a bit when I needed to learn calculus ahead of school curriculum, the same could be said for circuit design and a few other things. In general most that an edutainment can give you is awareness that something exi
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by SirHumphrey 15d ago
This is mentioned under every Firefox discussion despite being possibly years away from being generally useful if the will ever progress to that point. It’s not really a feasible alternative.
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by SirHumphrey 1mo ago
There is just A LOT of data available- usually an order of magnitude more than in any other related problem. And general weather forecasts are not that hard - we have semi useful forecasts for more than 50 years. It’s when you want to do so
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by SirHumphrey 1mo ago
If in 17 hundreds you wanted to choose a language that could be deciphered, say, also in China, Latin was a much better choice than any native language in various vicinity.
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by SirHumphrey 1mo ago
I keep coming back to In Memoriam AHH way more often than I would expect; it’s really a great piece of poetry.
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by SirHumphrey 2mo ago
I guess we got the first paperclip maximiser.
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by SirHumphrey 2mo ago
I am wondering for whom this new device even would be. Because phones work quite well for this use case and much more and everyone already has a phone.
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by SirHumphrey 3mo ago
Woodland strawberries grow even better somehow. We used to have them planted at the garden, then a few years ago we removed them and planted something else and this year I was surprised to find that they somehow survived and moved a few met
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by SirHumphrey 4mo ago
I would tend to agree unless you need those gpio pins. Then there are few other good options.
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by SirHumphrey 4mo ago
Most software is much simpler than a c compiler.
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by SirHumphrey 4mo ago
I have recently needed to read a skill document because it was more understandable and more through than the official document.
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by SirHumphrey 4mo ago
Competitive programming scene always included offline competition and with AI they are becoming more important (and in general they were more fair even before). If CTFs are to survive, they should probably try to adopt this strategy. You co
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by SirHumphrey 4mo ago
Sort of. There are a bunch of timing attacks bug in general it still works fairly well.
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by SirHumphrey 4mo ago
Nothing about PDF is easy. Similarly to what once Tom Scott said about time zones, every time I must deal with PDFs I pray that PDF.js can be hacked in to doing it instead, otherwise I just don’t bother. It’s on of the few examples when con
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by SirHumphrey 5mo ago
And with the code, the closer you come to the physical world the worse LLMs fair. Claude can’t really write Openscad and when I was debugging some map projections code last week it struggled a lot more than usual.
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by SirHumphrey 5mo ago
There is a certain joy in working with RPN and in using a piece of technology that was designed as a tool, not as a toy or an educational appliance. With phone emulation, I probably need half a calculator. I have three.
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by SirHumphrey 5mo ago
Just because an AI can craft a decent Japanese text doesn’t mean I can. Just because AI can write x86 assembly also doesn’t mean I can. You don’t give first graders a calculator because they will always have one in their pocket- they end up
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by SirHumphrey 5mo ago
Quite a lot of companies use and release AI written code, are they all liable?
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by SirHumphrey 5mo ago
I don’t know what exactly the op meant by delivering a press release, but at least I after a four year high school german course can read newspaper articles in german but would struggle quite a lot to order food (granted, I wasn’t very good
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by SirHumphrey 6mo ago
I didn't even mention France, but if you insist: I am using Fossil Fuel Support dataset from OECD. Latest available year is 2024: Specifically for petroleum there were 5228 million euros in tax exemptions and 586 million euros in direc
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by SirHumphrey 6mo ago
You are thinking too logically. In EU fuel is expensive because it’s heavily taxed AND there are a lot of fuel subsidies. Or to quote an old TV show: Hacker: One of your officials pays farmers to produce surplus food, while on the same floo
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by SirHumphrey 6mo ago
It’s becoming easier on iPhone (even uBlock origini is now available, if only the lite version), which is nice because internet is becoming more and more unusable without them.
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by SirHumphrey 6mo ago
Amara’s law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”
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by SirHumphrey 6mo ago
There was an election recently and it’s possible there will soon be another… That’s why the fuel is so cheap.
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by SirHumphrey 6mo ago
I think it’s more that when you have 300C thermal runaway in a cell in your battery storage bank the release of toxic compounds is the least of your problems. I work quite a bit with batteries and the fear of battery fires hunts me in my sl
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by SirHumphrey 6mo ago
It also has very slow rebuild times.
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by SirHumphrey 6mo ago
In 2024[1]: - 37.2% in Sweeden - 51.6% in Denmark - 30.4% in Finland of newly registered cars were BEV. Only Norway reaches 89% you are talking about. The total average of newly registered BEV cars in European Union was 13.6%. The EV tech i
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by SirHumphrey 6mo ago
Students are not only workers, they are also disciples of your work and, once forced to read it, will likely use it in the future even when they leave your lab. Even completely egoistically replacing students with AI is shooting yourself in
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by SirHumphrey 6mo ago
The comments you write in to Zotero are not what paper is about - abstract covers this well enough - it’s about what you found interesting or useful about the paper.
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by SirHumphrey 6mo ago
It's also that the west collectively convinced themselves that the economy could be built on high value knowledge work and services and manufacturing will be handled by someone else. Of course people would rather live near some offices

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