paragraft

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by paragraft 9mo ago
Yes here's the patent. The independent claims are frustratingly broad if you're trying to think through practical NPC world sim systems. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160279522A1/en
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by paragraft 9mo ago
I've recently come off a team that was racking up a huge Splunk bill with ~70 log events for each request on a high traffic service, and this is all very resonant (except the bit about sampling, I never gave that much thought - reducin
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by paragraft 2y ago
What's the right way?
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by paragraft 2y ago
I've used it in anger on a project with an unreasonable start time in its test suite. Put an alert sound on VS when breakpoints were reached let me start a test with debugger attached, and then go do something else for the time it woul
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by paragraft 2y ago
I still haven't settled the nature of free will and determinism, aka who's actually controlling the trains, them or their drivers?
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by paragraft 3y ago
I know the article was about movies that persuaded viewers to _go_ to a certain country, but I am reminded of a former colleague who explained to me that it was actually a TV show ("The Mechanism", a drama about political corrupti
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by paragraft 3y ago
This was the best I could find https://www.invasive.org/gist/products/handbook/20.triclopyr... (see Mode of Action)
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by paragraft 3y ago
> The Prime Minister of Canada just did a state visit to India, where he was not warmly received, and made to look foolish on the world stage. Have you considered the possibility that the reason he got a cold reception was he brought the
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by paragraft 3y ago
The graphics weren't elaborate, I just remember things like the illustration of a storefront before you worked on an inventory spreadsheet, or the ascii picture of a telephone and modem before the "Communications" tool (i.e.
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by paragraft 3y ago
I have fond memories of the early DOS version (1.something). Its tutorial was a masterclass (included full screen ascii graphics illustrating the scenarios) and as a kid playing on my father's laptop I went through it several times. I
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by paragraft 3y ago
Thanks, was unaware of the movie!
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by paragraft 3y ago
I've been on the look-out for that too. Have lined up Mike Royko's "Boss" on Daley in the interim, though the bookshop owner wasn't as fond of Royko's writing style...
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by paragraft 3y ago
Somewhat (by a few decades) behind the times here, but I finally found a set of Robert Caro's Years of Lyndon Johnson books at a 2nd-hand shop earlier this year. What a ride. I know it's a famous series, but I'm outside the U
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by paragraft 3y ago
Before my brain caught up I was just about to ask you what brewery is it that can do a 99% Indian Pale Ale...
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by paragraft 3y ago
Similar here. It's like I suddenly have access to an instant MidJourney that I can prompt with any suggestion. Sometimes a late night whisky before bed seems to help the process. Find myself wondering "is this what visually creati
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by paragraft 3y ago
Tell me about it - I implemented this just yesterday except with a focus on functions rather than objects.
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by paragraft 3y ago
I feel like the better pricing strategy would be something similar to what the geospatial API platforms like Google Maps do, with their explicit no-caching or time-limited-caching clauses. E.g. you're actually prohibited from retaining
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by paragraft 3y ago
Wasn't this the basis of the failed Olestra products? https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/619261/olestra-fat-free-...
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by paragraft 3y ago
I think the big thing that happened around that time that marked the sunset of the Golden Age of Google was Google Books (launched 2003) and critically the response. It was the last large, ambitious project of theirs that really aligned wit
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by paragraft 4y ago
Surely you'd just be employed by the internal HR company and on the books each product company would be contracting your services according to timesheets.
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by paragraft 4y ago
On the original blog post announcing Whisper there was a demo ("Accent" under the drop-down) of it transcribing a Scottish accent. https://openai.com/blog/whisper/
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by paragraft 4y ago
I ctrl-f'ed for this one. First exposure was SOHCAHTOA and memorization without building intuition. I struggled and had no real understanding. Two years later a physics teacher draws a unit circle with sine and cosine marked out as an
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by paragraft 4y ago
Site seems crushed under load. https://web.archive.org/web/20220929224847/https://www.amazo...
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by paragraft 4y ago
Think they meant "AWS or GCP and only backup to S3 or GCS respectively"
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by paragraft 5y ago
React, presumably, with its approach that a UI is well described by nested functions operating on state. It's a good point. I remember long discussions on mailing lists for various FP languages conceding that UI toolkits were the one a
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by paragraft 5y ago
I think what's more likely is we'd discover how many common, useful tasks you could perform with a humanoid robot that don't require AGI, with a more Alexa-like approach of iteratively adding support for explicit discrete tas
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by paragraft 5y ago
As a NZer I got thrown when going to California, by asking the front desk staff to do something and then waiting patiently when they said "I can't do that". Turns out when you come from a place where there's a vowel diff
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by paragraft 5y ago
Re units of measurement in Rust, have you looked at something like https://docs.rs/uom/0.31.1/uom/ ?
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by paragraft 6y ago
Fun. There's something captivating about watching a melting shape. Bug: countries from the Southern Hemisphere are mirrored left-to-right. AFAICT NH countries are ok. Something
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by paragraft 6y ago
Can't speak to other countries but I know in NZ you're not allowed legally to rip DVDs or blurays you own (even just for private use, no distribution intended). The copyright act is structured with a whitelist of permissible forma

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