owyn

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by owyn 1mo ago
"Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft are on track to provide urban air transit within the next few years, targeting the high-margin commuters who traditionally buy premium vehicles." Okay. So... flying cars? Don't think so.
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by owyn 2mo ago
> If you would consider killing nonviolent civilians, merely to send a message to others or to prove yourself to your "god," you're a terrorist. The US is a "christian" nation which has been doing this for decade
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by owyn 6mo ago
That's a good point, and I think this will be my last post on this site. I never added much value anyway.
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Musk says Tesla's chip fab project to launch in seven days(reuters.com)
2 points by owyn 6mo ago|1 comments
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by owyn 6mo ago
the bold section headers and bullet points. but who cares. i don't.
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by owyn 6mo ago
This is AI slop but mildly amusing. Brainfuck did it first.
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by owyn 6mo ago
Yeah, the scam is to inflate the value of your properties, then claim a write-off when it fails. For "some reason" you can even use other people's money for the investments and claim the losses for yourself. Then you can use
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by owyn 7mo ago
The word "challenge" in the article title is clickbait. I guess the assumption challenged is that this measurable effect is for humans only because we are so special? Good as a headline for a non-science audience that mostly doesn
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by owyn 7mo ago
I think the problem is just not enough training on that specific language because it's proprietary. Most useful Mathematica code is on someone's personal computer, not GitHub. They can build up a useful set of training data, some
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by owyn 8mo ago
Yes they did, and that's the problem. Some people support this. It's easier to rile up hatred than to fix any real problems. When you spend years framing ALL immigration as illegal, you get a lot of people (like some of my family
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by owyn 9mo ago
It's a "meet 5 random people for dinner/drinks" app. Actually sounds like it could be fun.
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by owyn 9mo ago
Downvote for this web site is a horror movie billboard and zig already has a build system which is zig and that's one of it's neat features.
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by owyn 9mo ago
Shadow of Mordor (and the sequel) had something called the "Nemesis" system where some of the Orc Captains you kill (and the ones who kill you) might survive off screen and get stronger and come back with scars and buffs and new n
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by owyn 9mo ago
Same thing with learning Japanese. Just memorize the symbols. It's phonetic. Of course there are complex meanings and subtleties but that's just how we all play with language. As a foreigner your pronunciation can be good once you
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by owyn 9mo ago
Gorey was a unique artist. Have had his Amphigorey books on the shelf since I was a youthful edgy goth but I will crack them open again tonight. "The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary" is a masterpiece of innuendo
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by owyn 9mo ago
The original post is written by AI so I will read it briefly, but your comment is fascinating. I got through undergrad math by brute force memorization and taking the C. Or sometimes the C-. The underlying concepts were never really clear t
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by owyn 10mo ago
dtruss requires disabling SIP. This seems like a better option for basic "what just happened?" debugging.
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by owyn 1y ago
If you follow the press release rabbit a few clicks, there's an article in Science describing the NorthPole chip architecture in more detail: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adh1174 Also
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by owyn 1y ago
Oh! RDB was the first database I worked with. I forgot all about it. I do remember refactoring the data layer so that it also worked with Berkeley DB, which is also owned by Oracle now. Or maybe it was the other way around? There was no SQL
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by owyn 1y ago
Wow, I spent many hours on those Battletech Muds. It did have a cool realtime battle system but the faction vs faction wars never happened as far as I remember. There were several offshoots, including some that did 24/7 "live&quot
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by owyn 1y ago
Yeah, this was a google interview question for me too. I didn't know the algorithm and floundered around trying to solve the problem. I came up with the 1/n and k/n selection strategy but still didn't get the job lol. I
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by owyn 1y ago
I haven't heard of that one. What is RSA time?
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by owyn 1y ago
The new Lexus TSS which is lane keeping and cruise control and auto park and safety oriented stuff has 11 cameras I think? Plus some lasers and sonar and whatnot. 4 of them are for the cool 360 top down view. I'd love to count up all t
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by owyn 1y ago
I just looked up a nearby property in the bay area listed for almost a million. Estimated payment $6000/month for a cozy 2 bedroom 1000 square foot fixer-upper. Also that area is a 1 hour + commute to where the actual offices are. This
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by owyn 1y ago
Yeah, that's pretty amazing corporate speak. And the development time lines are long. I'm cautiously optimistic about this. Even if it is just a Toyota vehicle with Waymo brains, there is a Taxi/Van in Japan called the Alphar
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by owyn 1y ago
All the "weird" countries on the list have internet domain names .nf .tk .gi .io The "penguin island" has the domain .hm So the conclusion is that the intern failed geography and did not realize that those aren't co
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by owyn 1y ago
My guess would be Zork and the other Infocom games which at the time were huge because they could be played on the very limited PC's of the 80's and were top 10 selling games. Myst is basically a graphical "text style" a
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by owyn 2y ago
Yes it is. Maybe it is not? (edit, same in the UK). Why is left as an exercise on the blackboard. If you do have elderly parents I would look into the actual costs of facilities near you because you are in for a shock. However, if you think
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by owyn 2y ago
This theory has been around since the 50's, and I think it's cool that people are still poking at it. Although it looks like their real purpose was to make ammonia for fertilizer, which to me is a funny connection to the origins o
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by owyn 2y ago
This looks neat. I have to look up the very fiddly and unintuitive systemd commands all the time. service start? service.foo start? start foo.service? Oh right, sudo systemctl start service.foo And the feedback is so bad. It should know eve

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