passivegains

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by passivegains 22d ago
None of the skiers I know ski because they want to spend a lot of money, they spend a lot of money because they want to ski. (Hauling yourself up a freezing cold mountain might not sound like much fun but they quite enjoy it.) Nothing but s
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by passivegains 1mo ago
Does the GUI have Bloomberg's data source?
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by passivegains 2mo ago
"We need most of our population working full time to keep ourselves fed because running a farm is really hard" is a technical problem, not a societal one. You can solve it with fertilizer and the cotton gin or whatever. "Ther
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by passivegains 2mo ago
Remember that time grok told people not to use it for second opinions on their medical records? ...on second thought that might be an exception that proves the rule.
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by passivegains 2mo ago
I don't know why this sentiment isn't more common. LLMs are basically two things: 1. chatbots 2. automation for the process of googling something and copy-pasting the first result. The only people I know who use it for more than t
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by passivegains 3mo ago
Putting this into my rotation of excuses. "It wasn't my fault! They were hacking, also my fingers were slippery and the deterministic behavior of psuedorandom number generators guaranteed we would lose anyway."
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by passivegains 4mo ago
The text is just as you predict, but in fairness to the author using a .ai domain is a good way to set expectations up front.
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by passivegains 6mo ago
I mean, yeah. There's enough nukes locked and loaded around the globe to end human civilization as we know it in minutes. Nobody's made a bomb that can fix socioeconomics.
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by passivegains 8mo ago
if it helps, that kind of thoughtfulness is how to learn the things that matter most. you're already on the right track.
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by passivegains 9mo ago
this is absolutely true, but there's an additional nuance: yes, python is fantastic, yes, it's easy and forgiving, but there are other languages like that too. ...except there really aren't. other than ruby and maybe go, ever
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by passivegains 10mo ago
I think the key thing not obvious to most data scientists is they're not using python because it meets their needs, it's because we've failed them. twice. 1. data scientists aren't programmers, so why do they need a pr
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by passivegains 11mo ago
I'm not sure immortality is a good standard to hold forks to. the original project won't last forever either.
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by passivegains 11mo ago
I got good results from running cables around the entire perimeter of a room to avoid crossing doorways. Doesn't work so well on bathrooms though.
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by passivegains 11mo ago
Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a creative writing exercise which didn't actually happen and isn't verifiably true to any degree. There were never any Finches, Ewells, Robinsons or Radleys, yet readers often fin
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by passivegains 1y ago
I decided my life could not possibly go on until I knew what "elvisgogo" does, so I downloaded the tarball and poked around. it's a pretty ordinary numpy + pandas + matplotlib project that makes graphs from csv. one line jump
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by passivegains 1y ago
they sell water, too!
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by passivegains 1y ago
This came up in some of the comments: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-315... if you click the links instead of copy/pasting into your reader you get a page full of raw XML. It&#x
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by passivegains 1y ago
I think they mean the manufacturer would just keep most of the stock for themselves. Reminds me of that famous Scarface quote: "You should get high on your own supply, it's a great idea that won't end horribly."
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by passivegains 1y ago
I'd probably go with something like Open Regular Generalized ASseMembly.
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by passivegains 1y ago
the volunteer open source effort behind youtube-dl and its forks/descendants are so impressive in large part because of how many features they provide and thus have to maintain: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#usa
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by passivegains 1y ago
There's something beautiful about the kid using performance as language. They've hit upon the greater truth that reading and speech are important because text and the spoken word are powerful mediums, but what truly matters is wha
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by passivegains 1y ago
I was going to reply about how New Zealand is as far from almost everywhere else as the US, but I found out something way more interesting: Other than servers in Australia and New Zealand itself, the closest ones actually are in the US, j
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by passivegains 1y ago
and then populating document to cover all the aspects of selected law I'm fairly certain lawyers exist specifically because this is infeasible.
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by passivegains 1y ago
Only because the state asserts their existence with violence. I'm comfortable saying if a foreign nation rolls military vehicles across a border and starts shelling apartment buildings, those buildings' residents have every righ
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by passivegains 1y ago
if someone, for example, exchanges funds with a foreign nation to evade sanctions while they illegally occupy another, it really is their state's business.
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by passivegains 1y ago
the author is pretty up front about this: I would like to live in a world where professors consider Prolog worth knowing and put in the effort. That probably isn’t realistic. He clearly wishes he's wrong, which makes three of us.
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by passivegains 1y ago
there's competing specs, holy wars, etc. but POSIX is kind of like what you're describing. popular distros are usually mostly-but-not-completely compliant.
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by passivegains 1y ago
apt won't on its own, but if you're using the official images there's probably a service running that's calling it, probably for security patches etc. The bigger problem is upgrading packages deliberately but being surpr
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by passivegains 2y ago
what I wouldn't give for a 1U RTG...
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by passivegains 2y ago
thank you for digging up the link, it was everything I hoped it would be. that one's going in my bookmarks. obviously a second server and a reverse proxy or something would be less jank, but your idea definitely has merit. it's ki

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