rcktmrtn

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by rcktmrtn 14d ago
Your observation is sharp, but it's not just metainfo—it's load-bearing text. To remove it, you need to delve deep and alter the tapestry of carefully selected words. edit: almost forgot the "—"
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by rcktmrtn 20d ago
> https://www.whichllm.app/ - Linux, general use case, balance - 16 GB RAM - 10 GB VRAM Recommendation: Kimi-K3 This checks out.
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by rcktmrtn 1mo ago
Yes, but I think the missing ingredient is that building societies "bid" to decide who gets to go first. Whoever is willing to take the smallest loan/pay back fastest gets preference. Reinventing building societies seems very
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by rcktmrtn 1y ago
> > “it is blasphemy to delete a test”, > was ever a thing. i still don't. I experienced this when working at a giant company where all the teams were required to report their "code coverage" metrics to middle manage
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by rcktmrtn 1y ago
> This is less historical record than medieval propaganda piece I think you could make a good case that the title is a little sensationalistic, but you could pick at US civics class in exactly the same way (and not just in recent history
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by rcktmrtn 2y ago
> The funny part about the young author example, how older authors are not exciting to discover? Yeah the richest and most successful author of all time was discovered when she was 32. J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit at age 45. Littl
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by rcktmrtn 2y ago
I also started noticing this headline pattern ("something A as something B") all over the place a while ago and now automatically break it down as: * Something A (probably) happened * Something B (probably) happened * The author&#
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by rcktmrtn 2y ago
Closest thing I've heard: https://github.com/g-truc/glm?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme
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by rcktmrtn 2y ago
Good review: I hadn't heard the Christian Science take on The Secret Garden before and am surprised the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, but it's pretty obvious now. The title imagery really makes me think of: Lost in a
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by rcktmrtn 2y ago
I think this is actually hitting much closer to the intention of Levitical law than people realize. Data and debt are very strongly connected, and I think probably always have been.
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> Compared to resistive heat, sure, but a heat pump powered by fossil fuels isn't much better than a gas furnace. My point is that we need to stop burning fossil fuels for electricity so that heat pumps make sense. https:/&#x2
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
I recently heard a priest say that all bad theology comes out of Germany. I'm pretty sure it was a joke, but sometimes I wonder...
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
The insult-people-for-being-car-skeptics trope is starting to show its age [1]. It's true that old fogey skeptics who have vested interest in the old ways are disposed towards motivated reasoning, but they're also the ones most ab
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> The term thieved is too strong here. Probably why technical term is loanword :) ... it's not like the word gets used up in the original language [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn't_Steal_a_
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> Does every stable relationship involve sexual aspects? Not generally. But creating a child necessarily involves creating a stable biological relationship primarily with two other people. Most people across history think the biological
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
This is called out as concretely happening in the "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" documentary. > Welfare policies made things worse by denying benefits to families with adult males in residence. Fathers and husbands had to leave — or hi
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> technical leadership is hired by managers who's background is in the unrelated field of automobiles. ... On top of that, I think there is a bit of a generational gap between firmware engineers. I have worked with several firmware
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
In the video of the incident linked elsewhere there is a caption that basically says that an automated system is what notified the controller there was an issue and probably why she was able to correct it at the last second.
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> What's going on in control towers that's causing this? Did hiring standards for ATCs drop all of a sudden, or something like that? There was a fairly major change recently [1]. Before 2014, the FAA used to be biased towards r
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
Definitely going to reference this fact next time I run into a bug due to an accumulated round off error. I'll wait to get out the pitchfork til they actually say "sugar-free" on the side.
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> Do I understand it correctly? Monday was the previous Sunday in Christian societies? Not sure exactly, but I think Sunday was always Sunday. It's Saturday that changed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mond
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
Not really though. FTA: > ... These are all ways to avoid bullshitting - but unfortunately there’s one simple way to avoid bullshit - by being critical. It’s far easier to retreat to the critical, negative position and say why things won
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
I work more in the firmware space, so my experience with feature toggles is always with half-baked tooling and limited ability to change deployed products. We do use continuous development within the organization, so there is still a lot of
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
Looks very slick! I used QR codes and a sloppy script to back up a SSH key recently, and was dreading the possibly of needing to use said backups. I 100% will be looking into this. Also, 100% that KeePassXC needs a better paper backup optio
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> Surely there is a market for such a device. 1% of a billion is a big number. >* Are manufacturers a cartel and won't allow breaking the duopoly? (Doesn't seem plausible, Samsung toyed with Tizen) I don't think it&#x27
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> Without certain chemicals, you can't have certain thoughts. Well put and true -- just like machines let us do certain things we couldn't do without them (either extending or repairing our body/mind), the same for chemica
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> But don't feel bad for farmers. To inherit $10 million+ in land because your family's had it 100 years is a blessing most people don't get in life. ... I still think this is pretty sad. I married into family involved wit
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
Of course it's worth mentioning that he's also depicted prominently in "A Man for all Seasons" of which "Wolf Hall" was created as a foil.
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
Yes, I've reread is the first 2/3rds of "Understanding Media" several times and never finished it, but would still highly recommend it. There is also some excellent old interview footage of him when he was a pop culture
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
More than interfaces. To quote McLuhan: "Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love

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