chimpansteve

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by chimpansteve 3mo ago
Ghandi notoriously nukes EVERYONE in Civs 2 through 4. It's become (or maybe became, but it's still all training data) a huge internet subculture. Penny to a dollar this is a baked in training issue, through low quality Reddit tra
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by chimpansteve 5mo ago
This was the line that did for me, as an old school backend engineer who has accidentally deleted way more production databases than I have fingers over the years - > We have restored from a three-month-old backup. You were absolutely sc
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by chimpansteve 1y ago
Is English your first language? If it isn't, I completely agree with you. However if it is, then I would make the argument that it's exactly the right way to teach it, particularly to young people. As you point out, it's a ve
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by chimpansteve 1y ago
I guess it depends. There's been a major issue in the UK for a while regarding quite a few very iconic, decades old, live music venues. Back in the day they were in less salubrious areas of town so no one really cared, but now they&#x2
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by chimpansteve 1y ago
Slightly on topic - anyone remember LeapMotion and is anyone aware of any current support for that? Found an original one in a drawer when I was having a clearout the other day
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by chimpansteve 2y ago
Agreed, and many of mine do when I'm out with the dog or on the toilet. The thing is that those are unscripted. The point that I think the OP was making was that enforced breaks on a schedule will immediately kill any form of concentra
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by chimpansteve 2y ago
Yeah, but people who grow or sell flowers are not on the same level as the very very good engineers who develop these dystopian systems. The people in the advertising industry who make these systems could absolutely do more good for society
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by chimpansteve 2y ago
And I would argue that this very quickly becomes a race to the bottom, where the viewing of mass produced trash accelerates because "that's what people want to watch" becomes "we'll flood the market with cheap mass
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by chimpansteve 2y ago
I love Vim. I use it pretty much exclusively. I found it very funny. So, yes.
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by chimpansteve 2y ago
Thank you. Think we've hit the level of my "run away scared at the first sight of machine code" understanding, but I now vaguely understand what's going on.
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by chimpansteve 2y ago
Ah! ok - that makes sense. Thank you. So it would be a specialised chip with a load of hardcoded functions, kind of like an ASIC?
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by chimpansteve 2y ago
So, given that I'm already aware that I almost certainly won't understand any answers to this question, can someone give me a idiot level baseline as to exactly what an AI chip is and how it would differ from a cpu/gpu?
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by chimpansteve 2y ago
Even if it is a cheap one, it's still wrong. I have the same visceral gut reaction to seeing a musical instrument get destroyed as I do to seeing a book burnt. I own a lot of very expensive, very nice instruments. However, some of my f
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by chimpansteve 3y ago
I've had a driving licence in the UK for 26 years, and have never once paid for my fuel before filling up. This is normal everywhere in Europe at least, to the point where I suspect the US is the outlier
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by chimpansteve 3y ago
As a kid, I learnt violin and trombone to a very high orchestra level standard, and could read sheet music from a very early age. I then moved on in my late twenties to guitar, bass and keyboard in a rock band, and never looked at a piece o
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by chimpansteve 3y ago
Depends. My nearsightness is so bad that even the insanely expensive ultra thin lenses are too heavy to wear for more than a few hours at a time and give me a raging headache from the weight. It's no exaggeration to say that contact le
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by chimpansteve 4y ago
It's also not unheard of for native English speakers to use it differently (in speech, at least) as a consequence of regional accents. I would use "a history book", because my accent pronounces the h sound. My wife says &quot
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by chimpansteve 4y ago
I don't know how it works in the US (and tbf, I'm not much wiser after reading this article), but the UK it falls under trade dressing - eg the Royal Mail have rights to use one shade of red on postboxes and delivery vans, and if
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by chimpansteve 4y ago
I mean, cool. If you're already an athletic freak who can do this for a couple of hours at a time with a massive room with no furniture in. You're basically describing Wii Sports, which was a great novelty at the time. For maybe a
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by chimpansteve 4y ago
::looks suspiciously at fastly again::
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by chimpansteve 4y ago
Not for me. It's the new one too.
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by chimpansteve 4y ago
The status page is now showing some dramatic drops in everything but error rates, which are through the roof. It's not just old.reddit either, its the new abomination too
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
Or indeed the New York Post posting a factually correct article about a laptop. Incidentally, as someone from the UK who was unfortunate enough to have him as my MP for years, I'll also point out that Nick Clegg is one of the most crav
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
It's the Gell-Mann amnesia effect ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmn... ) in full flow. Journalists, almost entirely as a group, are experts in nothing. Colossaly ill informed on every su
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
This is an eye opening thread, to say the least https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500959074653024259
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
Zero chance of them doing anything about the games basically being 90 minute Gazprom adverts though
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
It's anyone with a HSBC or Barclaycard credit card, so probably quite a lot of people
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
As someone who grew up on a small beef farm in the UK but is also very picky about the source of the meat he eats, my personal anecdotal experience is that vegan or meat eater, the problem is that the vast majority of people have never been
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
> Absolutely nothing, since they don’t know what to expect. Exactly. This is the problem though. Look back at the threads when Sir Clive Sinclair died. The number of people (like me) who have a career due to just having something you can
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
As someone else from the UK, at the start of the pandemic lockdown measures several cities tried to give every homeless person a bed. In every case, the majority ended up leaving the accommodation offered due to the rules around drugs, smok

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