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Cats are better at word association than human babies are, study finds (2024)(livescience.com)
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by atombender 3d ago
"brew install postgresql", unless you meant without Homebrew, in which case you could download the sources manually and compile with "make".
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by atombender 3d ago
Replace "need" with "want" and it might make more sense? Homebrew is the Mac equivalent of APT, Pacman, RPM, BSD ports, etc. It's a fairly traditional package manager for software that doesn't come with macOS.
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by atombender 4d ago
If true AGI superintelligence is invented, I don't see how it will be made available to the masses, at least not intentionally. There will be no incentive for the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI to give such immense power to anyone else.
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by atombender 6d ago
No, the browser version of Plex is much simpler because you can just send a link. The receiver only needs to go through a simple "type your email and password" sign-up process, and that's it. Nothing to install, works everywh
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by atombender 7d ago
Like you, I have weird ear canals, and I've always struggled with fit; the Apple ones are the worst. I have the Sony earbuds, and while I agree they fit a little better, I find the memory foam disgusting. It also degrades over time and
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by atombender 7d ago
Is there a way to test a cable to see if it's PVC and not silicone?
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by atombender 8d ago
I don't believe in Jellyfin being secure enough to put on the public Internet. In my case, Jellyfin is on my home network, and the box has access to a lot of files and devices.
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by atombender 8d ago
I think you overestimate the technical capabilities of my family or their eagerness to install software. When I ran Plex, and nobody ever installed the Plex app like I recommended to them, even though it's one click away in all the app
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by atombender 8d ago
I don't trust Jellyfin to be secure enough to be put on the public Internet.
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by atombender 9d ago
I left Plex for Jellyfin + Infuse a couple of years ago, and I'm not looking back. But the sore point right now is outside access, which Jellyfin really isn't made for. I set up Tailscale so I can connect Infuse to Jellyfin remote
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by atombender 9d ago
Gibson is one of those writers who are much better prose stylists than plotters. I enjoy reading his prose immensely, but he's been stamping out books with the same template for ever: an expert is hired to do something. Turns out there
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by atombender 11d ago
The standards of purity have changed over time, and most of the US gold dates from before the 1930s; and so a lot of US-domiciled gold have different purities that don't follow the current international standard. The purity requirement
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by atombender 12d ago
About the Langlands program, Nunberphile has an excellent episode with Edward Frenkel explaining what it's about: https://youtu.be/4dyytPboqvE .
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by atombender 12d ago
The staggering number of fonts used on that award [1] is something to behold. I count maybe six? [1] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669edd08b2a3fe...
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by atombender 15d ago
Does anything like this exist for macOS?
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by atombender 15d ago
Head's up that this adds a non-trivial amount of CPU load when the screensaver isn't running. On macOS 26, the "legacy screensaver" process takes about 30% once this is enabled [1]. [1] https://i.imgur.com&#x2
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by atombender 17d ago
Norton Speed Disk [1] for DOS was more satisfying to watch because it would visualize reads and writes. So you'd see it grab blocks and then smush them together into contiguous areas. The Windows version was not, as I recall, as satisf
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by atombender 22d ago
It's a reimplementation of Cursor's Continuity server, based on the technical details recently blogged here: https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale . The blog article explains why this is needed — that is, n
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by atombender 23d ago
Ah, S3 Express does look like the same thing! Looks like directory buckets S3 Express also allows appending to any object, while I believe GCS only allows you to append to a new object and then "finalize" it. I would also check ou
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by atombender 23d ago
Have you look at Google's new Rapid Bucket offering? Google Cloud Storage is arguably as good as S3, and is protocol compatible; Rapid Buckets are a type of bucket which supports appendable objects and low latency I/O. The downsid
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by atombender 24d ago
No, Dick did not collaborate with Scott at all. He was not formally involved in the development of the film. He didn't write anything and wasn't given any say. Dick actually hated the first drafts of the script, which deviated eve
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by atombender 26d ago
Depends on what you're after. Ballard had several modes in which he wrote. The early works were generally overtly sci-fi, but mostly earthbound, fitting into the British New Wave of the 1960s, alongside John Brunner. The Drowning World
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by atombender 29d ago
Those are good questions, and to answer them you really have to think about what it is to have an illness that requires treatment. Typically you start on a medication. These usually take anywhere from 3 to 6 months to really work. Along the
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by atombender 29d ago
While being an established post-industrial economy is part of it, Norway was also keenly aware of the resource curse at that point. The "Dutch disease" comes from what happened when the Dutch, a liberal democracy, found oil in the
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by atombender 1mo ago
No problems with GPT-5.6 Sol here. I have an agent file that says, among other things, only to document purpose and intent, not just what the code does, and not write obvious comments. It's been so effective that it often doesn't
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by atombender 1mo ago
I'm not an expert. But a Tesla Powerwall type battery is a big thing to install for a renter, is it not? I would argue it's more than installing, say, a washer or window AC; probably more like installing a wall heat pump? You woul
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by atombender 1mo ago
And everyone lives in a house that they own, apparently.
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by atombender 1mo ago
Our workloads are served by Go processes, so quite lean. But the workloads are relatively CPU-bound and memory-hungry.
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by atombender 1mo ago
It's a little more nuanced than that. At my company we run Kubernetes workloads where we have 20-30 or sometimes more pods connecting to a single Postgres instance, each pod handling hundreds of concurrent requests. If each pod hangs o

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