btouellette

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by btouellette 3mo ago
Your work is using personal subscriptions? If not a corporate client is probably paying per token via the API and you're just feeding money to them not sinking their bottom line.
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by btouellette 7mo ago
Not a great use case for Claw really. I'm sure ChatGPT can one shot a Python script to do this with yt-dlp and give you instructions on how to set it up as a service
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by btouellette 1y ago
With regard to Tether none of this is applicable as they aren't compliant with the GENIUS Act. They are in fact attempting to launch a totally separate stablecoin to try to get some of that market: https://www.reuters.com&#x
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by btouellette 1y ago
No it really isn't. Is Jackson Pollock entirely directing each drop of paint or is there some inherent randomness that is being guided and directed at a higher level? There's a clear analogy to digital art where there exists along
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by btouellette 1y ago
That would only make sense if they had a lot of net worth which is clearly not the case. If they have $400 in their checking account and a ton of student loans or other debt inflation is actually great for them.
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by btouellette 1y ago
It's obviously tied pretty closely to any theory of large scale structure formation too
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by btouellette 1y ago
There was a somewhat similar search for these duplicate galaxies as evidence for a universe with positive curvature. Because in that case if you look deep enough you'll see more images of the same galaxies although they'll be furt
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by btouellette 2y ago
I've got a site that is basically infinite scroll of mostly YouTube, SoundCloud, and Reddit embeds and had to do this for YouTube for it to even be functional. Using the YouTube provided thumbnails though since I'm not too concern
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by btouellette 2y ago
The benchmarks for all these CPUs that my personal view point is based on are all out there. Anandtech was my favorite source for this at the time due to relatively detailed testing and a clear understanding of the implications of architect
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by btouellette 2y ago
I'm quite familiar as I worked for Intel for over a decade as an engineer. It's absolutely true that leadership has fluctuated a lot but the 2003-2010 era had fairly clear cut leaders for each generation. AMD was the choice for ju
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by btouellette 2y ago
Is he really trying to say that AMD had a superior product in the Core 2 Duo era and Intel was only dominating due to marketing? It's hard to take any of the rest of his opinions seriously when he starts with that take
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by btouellette 2y ago
If you are curious and able to self teach effectively I'm impressed if you get through an entire CS undergrad without picking up the basics of git
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by btouellette 3y ago
If I understand correctly this is what they want to do eventually (delete the info used to create the iris hash) but isn't actually what they are doing. The impression is that once they have their algorithm "perfect" and neve
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by btouellette 4y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0934
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by btouellette 4y ago
Picked up a NUC and moving my apps there (several BE only things like bots with FE served off GH Pages and one small app with some server processing that gets like 600 unique visitors a month). They were all served off the Heroku domain any
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by btouellette 5y ago
Yes you could follow friends who could republish from their feeds onto a feed you could subscribe to and eventually it supported comments on those items which would allow discussion within their community. Discoverability and community whic
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by btouellette 6y ago
Some of the later books in the Culture series (most directly The Hydrogen Sonata) deal with civilizations trying to get a leg up on the galactic tech ladder by scavenging the leavings of older civilizations that have "sublimed" an
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by btouellette 6y ago
Cloud9 used to be my primary development environment for anything Node-based or intended for the web. Loved the features and the anywhere-access of an online IDE. Then Amazon bought it and effectively removed their free-tier by billing you
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by btouellette 6y ago
Quantum communication isn't communication in the sense that you can decide what to send. You have a shared quantum state due to entanglement and you can guarantee that both sides see the same information when they observe the state but
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by btouellette 7y ago
There are collision attacks against it but GitHub should be detecting and protecting against those. See https://github.blog/2017-03-20-sha-1-collision-detection-on-...
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by btouellette 7y ago
Courts have ruled that providing a password to decrypt something is not in itself testimony and isn't protected by the 5th amendment. Judges can certainly hold you in court indefinitely on a contempt of court charge as well. Considerin
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by btouellette 7y ago
Lot of details relevant to this question here: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/Rocket/r...
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by btouellette 8y ago
The first set is doing chip design and layout (think of this like the circuit diagram for the CPU). The second set is doing the actual manufacturing after being delivered a complete layout. Intel can buy a "7nm" processor from TSM
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by btouellette 9y ago
The word you're looking for is MACHO (massive compact halo object) and using microlensing observations you can make all kinds of statistical arguments for how likely objects of different masses are to make up the missing matter to matc
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by btouellette 9y ago
https://blog.coinbase.com/update-for-customers-with-bitcoin-... It looks like if there is a hardfork then Coinbase will just keep your coins on the chain that they don't want to continue supporting. I would move coins
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by btouellette 9y ago
By dimensions he means units. So taking into account the units of density/the gravitational constant (and any other pertinent quantities) and the units of the quantity you are calculating for you can derive an approximate formula just
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by btouellette 9y ago
I haven't been in a few years but Varasano's is the best pizza I've ever had. Antico comes in a close second. If you're a fan of Neapolitan style pizza definitely don't miss this one.
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by btouellette 9y ago
The Remembrance of Earth's Past series by Liu Cixin? It also has the "lurker" theory of cosmic sociology being discussed in this thread.
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by btouellette 10y ago
If you're asking how do we know there is more matter than antimatter in the universe the answer is that it is consistent with the observations/calculations surrounding Big Bang nucleosynthesis and CMB anisotropies. If you're
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by btouellette 10y ago
Falsifiability is generally taken as an intrinsic property of the claim in science and philosophy. "Is there any possible way" rather than "is there any reasonable way".

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