alephxyz

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by alephxyz 2y ago
Fascist Italy supported the Catholic Church and made it their state religion. Same thing for francoist Spain. A better example would be the chinese cultural revolution and their campaign against the Four Olds.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Isn't that exactly the Chinese room argument though? The human/computer in the room doesn't need to understand Chinese or English to translate?
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by alephxyz 2y ago
It's performative art. A critique of social constructionism by taking to its extreme.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
>reliable TV or movie critics >critical drinker
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by alephxyz 2y ago
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Content made for disengaged viewers is disengaging.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
>Changing our database schema should cause us to see errors in our frontend code. I shuddered.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
> Generally the field declaration/migrations system in Django feels to me designed to lead people down a garden path towards bad and dangerous behavior. If I had my druthers I'd enforce a policy in our Django app of "never
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Yes but it's in Java
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by alephxyz 2y ago
I don't think so. Comments about PyTorch or llama are always extremely positive.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Garmin estimates it using heart rate, body weight and power output. It also adjusts for temperature and altitude if possible. In my experience it still varies a lot depending on which conditions I exercise in but it's a decent tool to
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Yep. Tencent (Fortnite) and Activision/Blizz (overwatch + COD) are printing money while publishers who missed the battle royale train almost all killed themselves trying to release a bunch of failed overwatch clones.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Adaptive driving / glare-free lighting is legal in the US and Canada now and is supposed to reduce that problem
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by alephxyz 2y ago
>Since everyone started using AI, more candidates started clearing the first round with flying colors. The platforms had to recalibrate to let in their target percentage. Is there any proof or data on this? Not saying it's wrong but
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by alephxyz 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut Although I'm not an aerospace expert I think OP is a bit confused. Most engines are mounted using a front and a rear bracket (and a third for bigger engines), and each brack
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by alephxyz 2y ago
The dreaded multi-use path where pedestrians, joggers, dog walkers, parents with strollers, bike commuters, e-scooters, roadies, kids with training wheels and older folks on 4 wheel scooters are forced to share the same 2.5m strip of asphal
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Okay here are the first few that come to mind: - displaying a full screen dialog on login asking me to enable OneDrive with options being: yes/remind me in 3 days/remind me in a week; - ads in start menu; - using MS Edge + bing fo
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by alephxyz 2y ago
The big issue with Win10/11 is that it contains malware marketed as features
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Strategic and cruise missiles are meant to operate in doomsday scenarios without active guidance and instead use a combination of inertial navigation, celestial navigation and terrain matching.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Not just lyrics. Searching for quotations or text excerpts is much harder and double quotes to only get exact matches also returns unrelated results. On the other hand, chatgpt 4o-mini and 3.5 will just make up source material which is amus
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by alephxyz 2y ago
That's why you pre-fire around corners and through doors
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by alephxyz 2y ago
>That score places the IBM SWE agent high up the SWE-bench leaderboard, well above many other agents relying on massive frontier models, like GPT-4o and Claude 3. They're not even in the top half of the leaderboard. Almost half the
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by alephxyz 2y ago
AFAIK you can extract the bearings from the bottom bracket with generic tools. So they should've been at least able to regrease or replace those. You can also find custom made bottom brackets online for 2-400€ if it comes down to that.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
IIRC Cabot was trying to raise money for an expedition at the same time as Columbus and did reach continental America before him.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
>The conclusion followed comparisons of DNA samples from the tomb with others taken from one of Columbus’s brothers, Diego, and his son Fernando. >The knottier question of the explorer’s precise origins will be revealed in Columbus DN
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by alephxyz 2y ago
I'm not gonna dig up someone's history to figure out what you mean. If you're going to make a throwaway account to insult someone at least be explicit about your accusations.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Source? Never heard of it until today
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Unlikely: >We don’t use posts or comments with an audience other than Public for these purposes.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
You can download a height map file from https://terrain.party/ or https://heightmap.skydark.pl/ and start a new game with the unlimited money cheat. Then it's just a matter of placing roads, utilities,
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Too low quality, I think it's just a crappy content farm and not an LLM (e.g. using "he did' instead of "he was" in the intro and the lactate threshold diagram is wrong)

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