bifftastic

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by bifftastic 21d ago
Or dired
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Jeff Dean Leaving Google(twitter.com)
79 points by bifftastic 1mo ago|2 comments
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by bifftastic 2mo ago
Any advances in theoretical physics yet? Are there any fundamental obstacles? I would have thought not, but I haven't seen anything reported.
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AI Kill Switch Act [pdf](lieu.house.gov)
2 points by bifftastic 2mo ago|0 comments
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Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false(twitter.com)
13 points by bifftastic 2mo ago|2 comments
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Leverage Research 1.0(lydialaurenson.substack.com)
1 points by bifftastic 2mo ago|0 comments
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Sam Altman: This is how we can make AI safe for everyone(ft.com)
4 points by bifftastic 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bifftastic 3mo ago
One comment - the perfect pitch exercise becomes a relative pitch exercise as soon as you get one note right. I don't believe I have perfect pitch but I got 100% on the quiz I just did.
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How to convert between wealth and income tax(paulgraham.com)
210 points by bifftastic 4mo ago|688 comments
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by bifftastic 6mo ago
> Want these images on your wall? I think I'll pass
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'Access to Insight' is shutting down(accesstoinsight.org)
2 points by bifftastic 7mo ago|1 comments
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What's Worrying Jonathan Haidt Now?(calnewport.com)
2 points by bifftastic 8mo ago|0 comments
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The Closed-Loop Manifesto(jakefeala.substack.com)
1 points by bifftastic 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bifftastic 9mo ago
> CDs are for listening to the music, and vinyl is for listening to yourself This is amazing
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Pearly kings and queens of London in their 150th year – photo essay(theguardian.com)
2 points by bifftastic 10mo ago|0 comments
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Crown Office – The Gazette(thegazette.co.uk)
2 points by bifftastic 10mo ago|1 comments
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by bifftastic 11mo ago
There is a theory connecting gauge theory and finance: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9710148 https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Finance-Modelling-Non-Equilib... I don't think it's a crackpot
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by bifftastic 1y ago
Username checks out
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by bifftastic 1y ago
See also https://wiki.c2.com/?DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork
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The trap of tech that's great in the small but not in the large(surfingcomplexity.blog)
18 points by bifftastic 1y ago|2 comments
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by bifftastic 1y ago
Archive link in case the original page is updated: https://archive.is/sAOtC
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UK government advises deleting emails to save water(gov.uk)
141 points by bifftastic 1y ago|153 comments
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Additive and Extractive Technologies(calnewport.com)
2 points by bifftastic 1y ago|0 comments
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AI is ruining houseplant communities online(theverge.com)
2 points by bifftastic 1y ago|0 comments
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by bifftastic 1y ago
I hope this means I'll finally be able to remove the fixed Google search bar on my Pixel phone
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Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen(ft.com)
6 points by bifftastic 1y ago|1 comments
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by bifftastic 2y ago
Thank you for your reply. It's quite a sad situation.
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by bifftastic 2y ago
Actually to be fair on BB you can override this behaviour. But you have to know...
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by bifftastic 2y ago
Backblaze does not back up disk images. It's a documented limitation. I just found this out the hard way.
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by bifftastic 2y ago
Anyone know the latest on the Apple Silicon port of CCL? The new mailing list doesn't seem to have a publicly-accessible archive.

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