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by nonfamous 6d ago
Fascinating site! TIL the human eye can detect polarization of light (search for “Haidinger's brush”).
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by nonfamous 7d ago
Take a sheet of A4 paper. Fold it in half. Fold it in half again. That’s about the size of the Duo inner screen (a little larger actually, A6 is about 13% smaller than the Duo screen).
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Google engineer unplugged fiber and took down a chunk of the G-Cloud(theregister.com)
4 points by nonfamous 13d ago|0 comments
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by nonfamous 20d ago
>> In living beings, consciousness is embodied and can not be reproduced by discrete steps. Why not, at least in principle? Wouldn’t an exact map of a brain’s neural structure and its electromagnetic and chemical state, combined with
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by nonfamous 28d ago
Nice little metaphor in the footnote, there: >>> Think about that: We booted an operating system and then booted another operating system around it, so that the original operating system was now running inside a virtual machine con
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by nonfamous 29d ago
I used to work for Microsoft, and the marketing teams would regularly change the name of products days before big announcements and tradeshows like Build and Ignite. Of course, they couldn’t tell anyone who needed to know ahead of time, bec
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by nonfamous 29d ago
I moved from the US to Australia recently, and Amazon isn’t really a thing here. Yes, it exists, and it is heavily marketed, but the range available in the store is at a guess less than 1% of what’s available in the US store. I occasionally
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by nonfamous 1mo ago
There appears to be some language confusion in the replies. FYI in Australia “gas” refers to natural gas (used in domestic cooking and some power stations), not gasoline for cars (which is called “petrol” here).
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by nonfamous 2mo ago
From the Twitter advisory on the issue being referenced here [1]: >>> To every other developer: we believe this is a sober reality of the new AI paradigm. AI-assisted code review can now find latent bugs at a speed that is outpacin
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by nonfamous 2mo ago
From the Twitter advisory [1]: >>> To every other developer: we believe this is a sober reality of the new AI paradigm. AI-assisted code review can now find latent bugs at a speed that is outpacing even the industry’s most seasoned
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by nonfamous 2mo ago
That advisory would probably be more helpful if it described what the actual issue is. (I’m thinking maybe some content got lost when the Update at the top was added?)
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by nonfamous 2mo ago
I learned “real” programming in the early 90’s by learning Elisp to customize Emacs. (Before that the only languages I’d written in by choice were C64 Basic and Assembler.) Like the OP, I used Elisp for everything - scripts to bulk-edit f
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by nonfamous 3mo ago
Qantas (I think, it’s possible it was BA) used the upper deck for economy and it was my favourite place to sit. The window seat had a little locker between your seat and the window (the curvature of the fuselage meant the seat couldn’t be r
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by nonfamous 3mo ago
Excel 97 had an easier egg where if you entered a certain formula into a certain cell, a flight simulator would be invoked. In the flight simulator, you could fly to see an obelisk that listed the developer credits. This is real.
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by nonfamous 3mo ago
Err… right here in TFA? >> The first requirement is that the computer program has a body (either physical or virtual) and sense organs LLMs may be chameleons, but, to steal an excellent quote, if you can’t tell does it really matter.
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by nonfamous 3mo ago
This entire essay basically boils down to one simple contention: LLMs can’t be conscious because only humans can be conscious and LLMs are not human. What an unimaginative argument: essentially ruling out the possibility of the title by def
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by nonfamous 4mo ago
Cameras are not a suitable replacement for rear-vision mirrors for the same reason that screens are not a suitable replacement. It’s even addressed in TFA: focal length. >>> But more importantly, current screen technology requires
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by nonfamous 4mo ago
OTOH, I learned a hell of a lot about microprocessor internals by using POKE.
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by nonfamous 4mo ago
>> Prices will increase a lot. Citation needed. Very little of what we buy today as a consumer are commodities whose price is determined primarily by the cost of production — and even then labor costs are rarely the most significant c
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by nonfamous 4mo ago
That “might” is rather load-bearing for something you are literally staking your future on, though.
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Google accused of pushing 'free for life' G Suite users onto paid plans(theregister.com)
7 points by nonfamous 4mo ago|0 comments
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by nonfamous 4mo ago
This is what I do, but it comes with its own set of problems, the most significant of which is deliverability. Some businesses can’t deliver mail to my custom domain at all (a fact I can only discover by trial and error). Some can deliver,
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by nonfamous 4mo ago
>> That is 2 sigfigs too many Don’t take up baking then, where the difference between 175 mLs of water and 200 mLs of water can be the difference between unworkable dough and the perfect pie crust.
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by nonfamous 4mo ago
Sources do not support claim.
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by nonfamous 4mo ago
This is all correct. To add some additional colour, the “slap save” is a form of tilting a beginner player can learn easily. If the ball is coming almost down the middle (but not exactly so), slap the flipper button of the closest flipper
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by nonfamous 4mo ago
There’s not a lot of overlap between prime citrus and prime olive farmland.
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by nonfamous 4mo ago
Ever wondered why there are few merlot vineyards in Napa these days? Dozens of vineyards are uprooted and replanted each year in that tiny valley alone in response to market demand.
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by nonfamous 5mo ago
And this, right here, is why none of us can have nice, cheap things.
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Bohrdom (Game by Cole Allen)(store.steampowered.com)
2 points by nonfamous 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nonfamous 5mo ago
I'd be interested to learn where those words exist in Cursor's context. My assumption was that it was part of the Cursor agent harness, but it's just as likely it was in the user instructions.

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