billyjmc

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by billyjmc 4mo ago
Not if you play roguelikes.
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by billyjmc 9mo ago
Almost certainly. GPS is not only easily jammed, but easily spoofed. If the car believed GPS instead of its own eyes, so to speak, then there’s significant potential that you’d see glitches more often. It could also be something of a safet
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by billyjmc 11mo ago
Will Chrichton gave a talk at Jane Street about his research that led to the development of this plugin. It’s a pretty good talk: https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/rust-for-everyone/ As I recall, he also expla
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by billyjmc 11mo ago
Computers have been making decisions for a while now. As a specific personal example from 2008, I found out that my lender would make home loan offers based on an inscrutable (to me and the banker I was speaking to) heuristic. If the loan w
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by billyjmc 1y ago
Energy is how much work you can do. Power is how fast you can do it. When you express these in terms of densities, it’s how much energy a certain quantity of material can store, and how quickly that energy can be released from a certain qua
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by billyjmc 1y ago
What’s your use case for locking dependencies on a single script? One things that’s useful to my organization is that we can then proceed to scan the lockfile’s declared dependencies with, e.g., `trivy fs uv.lock` to make sure we’re not run
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by billyjmc 1y ago
I suspect there is a legal difference between offering a feature in the style of Quake (and calling it out as such) vs. baking it into your App’s branding.
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by billyjmc 1y ago
This is news to me, but I’m unsurprised. Why people use so much strongly scented products is absolutely baffling to me.
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by billyjmc 1y ago
I believe it’s an Independence Day movie reference.
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by billyjmc 1y ago
It could potentially help with discoverability. As it stands, I’d imagine it takes a very particular sort of search query (either “open source fitness” in Google or “fitness” on GitHub) to have a chance at finding this. Unless your target a
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by billyjmc 1y ago
Incidentally, this also proves that GP is the main character.
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by billyjmc 1y ago
This is nearly what you’re looking for (well, not that close, but it’s got the right spirit): https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2022-10-17-otp-on-wrist/
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by billyjmc 1y ago
I’m a chemist. Bromine isn’t bromide, and lithium bromide is a simple nontoxic salt. If this is as simple as is described in the news article, then it’s likely a pretty “green” process overall.
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by billyjmc 1y ago
There’s a video, too, but the framerate wasn’t usefully playable. I’ve seen worse, but you wouldn’t ever want to play it this way.
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by billyjmc 2y ago
But repeated application of the unary minus basically results in a no-op. So it’s somewhat exceptional in that regard.
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by billyjmc 2y ago
I don’t think it requires conspiratorial thinking to believe that seed oils are less healthful than more traditional sources of cooking oils / fats (for one reason or another). Regardless of that, given that seed oils can be produced c
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by billyjmc 2y ago
That’s my experience with movies on YouTube so far, yes.
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by billyjmc 2y ago
Well, it is technically open source, open weights, and closed training set, right? (My recollection is that the training code is MIT licensed.)
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by billyjmc 2y ago
Phyphox is a great sensor suite app for undergrad Physics experiments, and it includes a spectrum analyzer. Also, it supports both iOS and Android.
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by billyjmc 2y ago
Coriolis corrections are thrown into sniper ballistic calculations, too. Not a huge effect in most conditions, but not zero, and there have been a lot of long shots in the past two decades.
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by billyjmc 2y ago
You can do all of these things in software, and it is done. It’s important thing to have control over the process so you can get quantitative data at the other end, and not just a pretty picture. Also, noise should not be discounted as a
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by billyjmc 2y ago
The “more to this story” is likely endocrine disruptors in addition to (and associated with) the other “behavior” issues you’re alluding to. And our answer to it is… another endocrine disruptor. But this time we’ll call it something else (G
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by billyjmc 2y ago
What you’ve suggested is not equivalent. The a is always taken without negation, and that’s not the case in your rendering.
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by billyjmc 2y ago
The best theatrical release since the original trilogy, IMO. I think part of it is because of how much gravity it imparts to the beginning of Episode IV. (And the other part is how objectively bad the prequel and sequel trilogies were.)
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by billyjmc 2y ago
This is the kind of ridiculous fumble that GOFAI (like Cyc) should be able to avoid by recognizing context. I wonder how neuro-symbolic systems are coming along, and whether they can save us from this madness. The general populace wants the
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by billyjmc 2y ago
And a reduction in snow cover means a drop in albedo, which raises the average temperate…
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by billyjmc 2y ago
I think you’re underestimating the myriad biological pathways which can all contribute to cancer, and also the unusual chemistry that can be induced when you tickle molecules at the right vibrational modes. There’s a whole body of literatur
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by billyjmc 2y ago
Any water you drink is already very much hypotonic relative to your bodily fluids. Your minerals mostly come from your food, not your water. I’m no expert on biology (I’m a chemist), but I drank quite a bit of DI water in grad school becaus
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by billyjmc 2y ago
libgen has it, but I’m not sure if that’s what you meant.
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by billyjmc 3y ago
SolveSpace is really a joy to use. Simple, fast, capable. It’s been a white since I used it, though. I use CAD pretty infrequently these days, though, and generally just let the mechanical engineers do it (or maybe do it myself in FreeCAD).

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