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by fsckboy 4d ago
big purple concord grapes grow wild in the US and are thick skinned and you squeeze or suck out the grape inside, skin significantly more tart than the sweet grape, pretty sure those are the tannins that you get in wine from skin contact ev
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by fsckboy 4d ago
what you are calling agreement between me and him I don't see at all. I'm not going to watch that video again. I could watch another one and tell you what's wrong with that one, that would be more interesting. I know the fiel
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by fsckboy 5d ago
related to this topic, here is a very interesting little external combustion engine that runs on the heat from a flame directly (i.e. not a steam engine) https://i.4cdn.org/b/1789145070031855.mp4 (completely SFW) (link
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by fsckboy 5d ago
he called oxygen the fuel for the fire. the discovery of oxygen was an enormous milestone in the history of science, chemistry, and biology precisely because it's not the fuel for the fire. before that, people knew about fuel, they did
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by fsckboy 6d ago
I'll bet that high school girl's science was better than what's in that youtube (it doesn't set a very high bar)
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by fsckboy 6d ago
that's not how threading works there were plenty of other threads under that comment in that direction
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by fsckboy 7d ago
> it is reasonable to assume that the point here is that a full-screen wrong. you answered under the context of yunwal's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630931#49634166 > None of that matters
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by fsckboy 7d ago
> I think they intended to continue "... without changing their aspect ratios" but the context was "see, you can have two different apps running side by side, each with the same aspect ratio as either of the apps when run
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by fsckboy 7d ago
> If you unfold a square, you don't get two squares. yes, you do. Two squares will fold together into the space of one square, and the same with 2 A4 sheets of paper, or two 8½x11 sheets of paper, two of them will fold together to
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by fsckboy 8d ago
they anticipated liking the taste?
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by fsckboy 8d ago
the stock market goes up and down daily, but with a functioning economy it will overall be up. from a distance you are right, something that keeps going up keeps achieving new highs. but, if you follow the market on a daily basis, you will
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by fsckboy 8d ago
Albanese is an Italian name, for the record In Albania, Albania is called Shqipëria.
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by fsckboy 9d ago
the Wilshire Corridor view is completely wrong, it should be the stretch of tall buildings a bit above Century City in the Century City view.
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by fsckboy 9d ago
and just to make the point more firmly, PDP-11 didn't have a preincrement/postincrement pair of instructions, it simply had indexing with post-increment of the index or pre-decrement, i.e. one paradigm, not two. Or in other words,
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by fsckboy 9d ago
> and even the pre- and post-increment operators cleanly lined up with the PDP-11 addressing modes. pre- and post- increment operators cleanly lined up with... the programmer's conceptualization and objectives--the index is/wa
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by fsckboy 10d ago
possibly Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap, “fish sauce”) via Malay kecap ~ kicap “any dark clear sauce from soy, fish etc” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup#Etymology
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by fsckboy 10d ago
> A lot of cultures appear to name botanicals using apples don't know if it makes the point or upends it, but the fruit in the Garden of Eden wasn't specifically an apple.
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by fsckboy 10d ago
> Their Silicon was written to be OS agnostic, Apple's was not. i don't think that's accurate. the M series chips and memory architecture enable capabilities for the OS software to take advantage of, and the software and
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by fsckboy 11d ago
there is a Vancouver, Washington, down near Portland, Oregon
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by fsckboy 11d ago
Because Hugging Face is not allied with OpenAI or Anthropic and does not wish to see them entrenched.
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by fsckboy 12d ago
> LLMs are making me lose my savviness preferred: LLMs are making me lose my savvy
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by fsckboy 12d ago
that is the appropriate response to hyperventilating fears of an AI singularity
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by fsckboy 12d ago
> OpenAI is now the biggest cyberattack and AI breakout risk on the planet or, humans at OpenAI are doing this on purpose to kill open source models which are the biggest threat OpenAI faces. OpenAI will benefit from govt regulation. As
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by fsckboy 12d ago
I wish that purchase/shopping search engines were entirely separate and removed from general search engines. "are you searching for information or are you shopping?" when I'm searching for information, so often results a
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by fsckboy 13d ago
whoosh GP is in favor of unions and thinks they perform beneficial public services. They don't. addendum: people who like unions because they balance the power relationship between employee and employer (i.e. the idiots downvoting me,
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by fsckboy 14d ago
> I don’t think the sexist comment at the end is appropriate for HN I don't think the ageist comment in the headline is appropriate anywhere. It is well known that memories and perceptions at every age are largely constructed more
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by fsckboy 14d ago
not sure i get why you don't get it. why have the word frontier if it doesn't mean something different than other words?
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by fsckboy 14d ago
the article and most comments here are focused in the wrong direction. To me the real and only question is, can burying trash in landfills be made environmentally safe, and is it sustainable enough that we can do it for the next 100 years a
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by fsckboy 15d ago
i didn't downvote it but I thought it was pretty empty. "how do i love thee, let me count the ways" has been done before, and his love was more interesting than that you like text editors generically, and you don't menti
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by fsckboy 15d ago
"the efficient frontier" is an important landmark of (investment) portfolio theory. It proves/explains/illustrates how you can combine selections from a diffuse cloud of individual investments and still land on a frontie

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