mankyd

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by mankyd 1mo ago
Can someone explain what the leading sentence means? Why is it written like this? > ... lasted from 1873 to 1877, continuing until 1879 ... Isn't that just "lasted from 1873 to 1879". Or is it written that way intentionall
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by mankyd 1mo ago
You could always eat two. But most people are inclined to use one as a "serving". The same thing has been said about pints of ice cream. They are (or were?) labeled as being 2.5 servings - reasonable - but lots of people just ate
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by mankyd 3mo ago
https://mapofmetal.com/ was always one of my favorite (and I don't even listen to metal).
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by mankyd 4mo ago
It matters if you're going to call it an "interesting test".
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by mankyd 4mo ago
Is it? Or has ChatGPT read the answer before.
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by mankyd 6mo ago
Use a stack? LIFO. As long as you have capacity to keep it mostly empty, it's fine. When requests backup, at least some people will still get quick responses, instead of making everyone suffer.
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by mankyd 8mo ago
https://archive.is/asQ2x
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by mankyd 1y ago
> in ways very stupid simple people can understand The problem is rarely the ability to understand. It is the ability (or desire) to listen that many lack.
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by mankyd 1y ago
It's 14 years old at this point, but here you go: https://www.ohthehugemanatee.net/2011/07/gpgl-reference-cour...
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by mankyd 1y ago
Seconded. My Silhouette is great. I even emailed them and received a copy of the GPGL docs one time. It wasn't full on support, but they were willing to give me a start. The first thing I programmed was having it draw a hilbert curve a
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by mankyd 1y ago
Why is that stupid? They did get lucky. They are acknowledging that, had they used that, they would have had problems. And now they will work to be more prepared. Acknowledging that one still has risks and that luck plays a factor is import
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by mankyd 1y ago
Who's to say they didn't? Writing a follow up post is certainly valuable for raising awareness to anyone who had already read the original erroneous article.
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by mankyd 1y ago
You gotta start by typing your password into a comment. Like this: ****.
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by mankyd 2y ago
I feel like saying that is supports AI players, but not having a simple, already hosted example is a disservice. Even tic tac toe, or go fish would be a nice hook to help people understand what it actually delivers.
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by mankyd 2y ago
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/ It's worth clicking through and reading details on each one before you commit. Most of them are quite complete, but some only support a handful of devices or features. Y
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by mankyd 2y ago
Nah. I live in Boston. I strongly prefer public transit, but I'll take driving here over most other cities, any day of the week. The _road layout_ is awful, but drivers are pretty cooperative on the whole. Certainly more than my years
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by mankyd 2y ago
Importantly - you don't have to know the odds of the coin ahead of time, or which side is more likely. You only need to know that it is consistent.
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by mankyd 2y ago
I did a bit more digging and think I might have gotten the story a tiny bit muddled, but maybe not? Most the articles I find talk about the barber vs doctor distinction, but they also all bring up a story about a proposal to add dentistry t
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by mankyd 2y ago
There is some history here, at least in the US. As I recall, when "modern medicine" was first forming, there was a push to make it part of what we would consider standard medical care, but another, more influential party decided (
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by mankyd 2y ago
Every time I see this take, I am caught by the subtle arrogance that we are doing anything meaningfully differently in our own minds. Hyperbole aside, I do think we do more than an LLM with our reasoning abilities, but it I suspect it is a
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A Man Has Nothing to Hide–Not Even His Email Password (2014)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by mankyd 2y ago|0 comments
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by mankyd 2y ago
Outside of the few that seemed cartoonish, the key signs seemed to be: 1) Furriness that seems a little too soft and fuzzy. 2) Overdone bokeh or depth-of-field. 3) Insect on a flower.
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by mankyd 2y ago
That's mentioned at the bottom: "However, liquid oxygen and boron fullerenes (B80) are paramagnetic."
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by mankyd 2y ago
The description: "no dependencies." The first line: "import numpy as np"
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by mankyd 2y ago
> The metaphor we use for optimization is “low hanging fruit” which no orchard owner would ever do. This is just over-extending the metaphor. The term has existed long before software was a thing, and refers simply to grabbing something
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by mankyd 3y ago
Exactly this. FB topped out around 520,000 reports. Google topped out around 1,400. That's a massive difference in scale. Both are above their baselines, but I bet some is just mis-reports, or increases in awareness due to more people
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Reddit's Directed Share Program(old.reddit.com)
3 points by mankyd 3y ago|0 comments
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by mankyd 3y ago
> is it a really a bad thing? It's great for the company. Not so much for the people. It's a matter of perspective. > The bullshit job phenomenon is the problem here. Perhaps, but who's fault is that? Sounds like the co
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by mankyd 3y ago
That's first sentence: > Now, you might argue that the number of seconds required to research, acquire, and implement keyhole lubricant would easily outweigh the amount saved through optimal key insertion — and you'd probably b
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by mankyd 3y ago
[Disclaimer: I am not a philosopher] The ship can shrink as much as it can grow. If you replace a wooden plank on it, the discarded wood is no longer part of it. And if you disassemble it entirely, the "event" is no longer happeni

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