ploynog

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by ploynog 1y ago
No, you are just oversimplifying the issue. Of course, if you were regularly riding before and very fit and change to an e-bike out of laziness, the net effect might be negative, tho even that part is not conclusively proven. But if you fou
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by ploynog 1y ago
Being daft on purpose? I haven't heard that using an alternative browser suddenly increases the traffic that a user generates by several orders of magnitude to the point where it can significantly increase hosting cost. A web scraper o
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by ploynog 2y ago
Double-blind review is a mirage that does not hold up. While I was in academia I reviewed a paper that turned out to be a blatant case of plagiarism. It was a clear Level 1 copy according to the IEEE plagiarism levels (Uncredited Verbatim C
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by ploynog 2y ago
I think the complaint is that you only get told that you require a paid plan AFTER signing up. At least on a brief look on the Play Store page and your website, it does not immediately mention it prominently. That seems like a very dark pat
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by ploynog 2y ago
> Have you tried asking it to do something useful rather than ask it to solve gotcha word problems? What you call "gotcha word problem", I'd compare to typical math problems where you need to understand a text, extract the
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by ploynog 2y ago
With LLMs I am in this strange place where I read all of these amazing things that they supposedly all can do. And I have no doubt in my mind that they probably can. And then I ask ChatGPT a simple question such as: Here is a logic puzz
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by ploynog 2y ago
> Why would I want a clock that is, on average, a half minute off? Because in 99.9% of the cases I don't care about the seconds, it takes away space in the top status bar, and the constant changing of seconds in the top-left corner
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by ploynog 2y ago
You'd be surprised by the amount of brightness and color produced if you are turning things on-off sufficiently fast.
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by ploynog 2y ago
Cool story bro. Let me tell the guys at work that we should just run .NET on our multi-core digital signal processors. And we should also teach them not to get their delicate timing out of whack because they'll immediately stop droppin
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by ploynog 3y ago
Wouldn't that be some form of kinetic orbital bombardment. Not sure that you want to have this in your backyard.