nessus42

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by nessus42 6mo ago
I have an M2 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM that I bought three and half years ago. For browsing the web, listening to music, watching TV and movies, using Gmail, Google Sheets, Google Docs, etc., it's still perfectly fine. OTOH, for my d
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by nessus42 10mo ago
> it asked you to wind the cassette tape to a specific location to load a new room. Wow, that's dedication! I wrote my own adventure game for my Commodore PET, which had 8K of RAM. It worked well, but after three rooms of content,
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by nessus42 1y ago
> At which point the computer dutifully saved as much as it could, before running out of disk space, informed via a text response of my poor choice in the real world, and left me with nothing. Wow, that sucks! When I was a kid, I had a
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by nessus42 2y ago
Bohm's Interpretation is experimentally indistinguishable from MWI. On the other hand, Bohm's interpretation seems pretty ad hoc. And it also includes all of the other worlds that MWI has in it via the pilot waves that continue to
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by nessus42 2y ago
When I was a kid, I once brought a stethoscope with me on the airplane so that I could watch the movie for free. (Or rather listen to it.) I pulled off the heart-listening cup part of the stethoscope and inserted beverage straws into the ru
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by nessus42 2y ago
A Fire Upon the Deep is one of the all-time great science fiction novels.
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by nessus42 3y ago
It's likely he did, since he read just about anything reputable related to gambling. But he was doing this before Dr. Z 's was published.
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by nessus42 3y ago
My uncle was a professional gambler and did well at it. At first he counted cards playing Blackjack, but eventually was banned from most casinos where it was actually possible to win at Blackjack. (Casinos in Atlantic City aren't allow
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by nessus42 4y ago
I detailed how I tracked down the problem in reply to another query in this subthread.
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by nessus42 4y ago
That particular section of ethernet, which served about half of a floor of an entire building was intermittent. It would work the vast majority of the time, but would have mysterious periodic outages, depending on the phase of the moon, or
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by nessus42 4y ago
Don't even get me started about the short section of RG-59 cable spliced into the middle of our RG-58 Ethernet. Hidden in the ceiling.
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by nessus42 4y ago
Why is the sword worth $150k? Did it appear in something famous? Or is it just because other Weta Workshop items have appeared in famous films?
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by nessus42 4y ago
The Diamond Age is my favorite novel of all time.
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by nessus42 4y ago
It's pretty fast. On an 8GB M2 MacBook Air, it produces more than 2 images per minute using the default settings. E.g., it's about 20x as fast as InvokeAI, which doesn't have an FP16 option that works on a Mac.
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by nessus42 4y ago
I shudder at the thought of all the three-armed people with seven fingers on each hand that I will end up shaking hands with.
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by nessus42 4y ago
There's nothing in the release notes that says whether 2.0 can do hands without a 99% chance of producing deformed results.
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by nessus42 5y ago
"Prey". Well that's a pretty generic term. Perhaps much of this "prey" are the mice that are a danger to bumblebees.
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by nessus42 5y ago
> So, I wait for her to return, sometimes until pretty late at night, because I don't want her to have to be outside for the night. I've bell-trained cats that I've owned. I.e., I ring a bell every time before I give the
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by nessus42 5y ago
> Letting your cat roam free is a tacit acknowledgment that one doesn’t really care that much for the animal This is untrue. I've owned both indoor cats and indoor/outdoor cats. Anyone who has seen the joy that a cat experien
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by nessus42 5y ago
> Outdoor cats are an invasive species which are destroying the native bird populations This is certainly true for feral cats, but I'm highly skeptical about this claim being true for owned indoor/outdoor cats.
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by nessus42 6y ago
I have one of these! It was my first computer. I got the 8k model, but it had the chiclet keyboard. Eventually I got a full-sized keyboard for it, but it was made by a third party and connected to the motherboard via a flat ribbon cable. I
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by nessus42 7y ago
I haven't used Pythonista myself, and it is true that, as I understand it, Pythonista doesn't directly provide the capability to use "pip" or pull code from GitHub. But it seems that these issues have been addressed via
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by nessus42 7y ago
> You can't even compile and run code on a (mobile) Apple device. It's explicitly against the app store terms and conditions to allow users to do that. You better inform Apple then, that the Python IDEs that are available in
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by nessus42 7y ago
Plan 9 was designed to work with Blit (or similar) terminals, which were basically thin-clients that would be backed by a Plan 9 server cloud. On the other hand, maybe there's a good reason that Plan 9 never caught on.
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by nessus42 7y ago
> In terms of mass-market success, goodness of recommendations is like, #12 on the list of must-have features Well, maybe that's why they generally are not so great. On the other hand, Pandora has traditionally existed with playin
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by nessus42 7y ago
Fresh fruit can surely be expensive. I doubt that frozen fruit is that bad. Maybe more than frozen french fries, but if you can cook frozen french fries, I should think that you can also cook beans. Regarding corn syrup being put into every
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by nessus42 7y ago
> Yeah OPs comment is some sort of idealistic historical revision that ignores the fact that there were a myriad of streaming services that predated Spotify. That may be true, but Negroponte was proselytizing streaming media back in th
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by nessus42 7y ago
I was responding to the claim that subsidies to grow the right kind of food, rather than corn, etc., might help. I mentioned the issues of housing and community, etc., that are required to actually obtain and cook food. I don't see how
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by nessus42 7y ago
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I find it hard to believe that the cost of healthy food is a terrible problem these days with poverty. (In the US.) Housing, heating, clothing, education, living in a community that fosters wellbeing, etc.,
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by nessus42 7y ago
> First, I would agree with @codingslave in that you SHOULD NOT quit your job I agree with this. There was a period of several years when I was suffering from mysterious medical issues that made functioning at work very difficult. Fort

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