max51

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by max51 2mo ago
omfg, I was replying to an LLM
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by max51 2mo ago
>It depends on the geometric stability of the column shape, which is why I said what I said. What you said was like 99% completely false. >that compressive stress limits are much lower in steel than tensile No they are not. > as yo
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by max51 2mo ago
I'm a structural engineer, and this is incorrect. For structural steel (e.g., A992, 350W, etc.), the tensile strength is the same as the compressive strength. That's why we only need one value for both. And yes, when we design bea
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by max51 2mo ago
It's a lot easier to have a functioning society without art majors than without civil engineers.
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by max51 4mo ago
>it would apply even if every data center built an entirely renewable dedicated solar farm to power it. After all, energy is fungible: the newly built solar farm could be going to help consumers transition to renewable. No, because that
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by max51 4mo ago
>Bitcoin attempted to replace cash, but failed because the transaction costs are orders of magnitude too high. The current fees are less than 0.40$. It may be too high for a starbuck coffee, but that's way lower than the fees charge
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by max51 5mo ago
I use a TI nspire CX CAS. honestly, I think it makes no sense to spend more than 30$ on a calculator if it can't do symbolic math. The way you input things like division, integrals, matrix, etc. on newer calculators like the nspire is
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by max51 5mo ago
>And in the end, what's to stop someone from assembling an unlicensed 3D printer to make unlicensed prints? You really don't have to go that far. A very high quality control board (eg. an original Prusa) is like 90$ and cheap o
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by max51 6mo ago
The US has roughly 10x more population than Canada. The solution is really simple, just hire 10x more humans to manage the vote counting. Paper voting worked for thousands of years and was at the core of the foundation of this country. Ther
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by max51 6mo ago
>I don't understand why voting machines can't just print your vote on a piece of paper behind a plastic window for you to see while also recoding the vote in a database If it's counted electronically from the database, the
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by max51 6mo ago
Then why did it happen 3 elections in a row?! We had front-page news about how the election was "hacked by Russia" and trump cheated for over a year after his first win in 2016 (let's not pretend that keyword was chosen accid
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by max51 6mo ago
>And it turns out it works pretty well. Does it? This is the third election in a row where the losing party claim the election was not legitimate and/or hacked.
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by max51 6mo ago
Yes, you can define your own named custom formulas in Excel. I prefer to do it with VBA code because I find it easier to manage, but it's also possible without VBA using just the built-ins in the spreadsheet directly.
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by max51 7mo ago
Can you name a single product that is comparable? If it doesn't have something equivalent to Pivot Tables, it's not even worth talking about.
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by max51 7mo ago
"I give you 30B$ worth of hardware that costs me <10B$ to make in exchange for 30B$ worth of shares in your company" would be a more accurate description.
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by max51 7mo ago
The "circular investment" is mostly start up companies using their stocks instead of cash to pay for server hardware and cloud computing. There is a few extra steps in between that make things look weird and convoluted, but the e
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by max51 7mo ago
For a power user, There is nothing even remotely comparable to Excel that exists today.
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by max51 7mo ago
There will always be bugs you can't fix, that doesn't mean we should embrace having orders of magnitude more of them. And it's not just about bugs, it's also about adding new features. This is tech debt on steroid. You a
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by max51 7mo ago
>I would argue that it's going to be the opposite. At re:Invent, one of the popular sessions was in creating a trio of SRE agents, one of which did nothing but read logs and report errors, one of which did analysis of the errors and
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by max51 8mo ago
If you think making sure only citizens can vote equals "suppressing liberal voters", that sound like a big self report. The voter lists don't tell you how people voted, it only tells you who did.
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by max51 9mo ago
Generally speaking, trackers that require a ratio above 1.0 and don't have freeleech/point system are designed so that you pay the website to fix your ratio and/or rent a seedbox from one of their partner. It's a 0 sum g
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by max51 9mo ago
Because the ones pushing it down your throats are trying to capture the entire market and get you to adopt their AI instead of a competitor.
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by max51 9mo ago
>LLMs don't do this They did at the beginning. It used to be that if you wanted a full answer with an intro, bullet points, lists of pros/cons, etc., you had to explicitly ask for it in the prompt. The answers were also a lot m
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by max51 10mo ago
>While she was moving my legs using her upper body, it felt quite intimate and I admired her for being so professional while doing her work physically and giving psychological support as a bonus. Have you considered that from her pov, th
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by max51 10mo ago
I participated in that competition a decade ago. The best teams had a hull that was less than half an inch thick and it didn't leak. We put glass fibers and iirc latex in the concrete mix.
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by max51 10mo ago
>were too dangerous to handle Too dangerous to handle or too dangerous for openai's reputation when "journalists" write articles about how they managed to force it to say things that are offensive to the twitter mob? When
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by max51 10mo ago
>Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google. Kinda wild that someone scraping google's data would prevent me from getting into my PAID (>90$/yr) Dropbox account. That experience is a big part of why I pay
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by max51 10mo ago
when I realised I never use the type-A, I glued it in place with epoxy. Now I don't have to worry about it breaking.
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by max51 10mo ago
The best I have found so far with good specs is the "sandisk SanDisk ultra dual drive go". The spinny thing is super annoying but you can glue it in place if you don't need the type-A. It's a bit bigger than the yubikey,
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by max51 10mo ago
That doesn't surprise me. I find it hard to believe it's a pure coincidence that I would get stuck in the loop regularly when I'm on the university wifi but it would never happen anywhere else ever. After a dozen try, I would

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