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by revertmean 3y ago
That's an oddly alien view to me. I'd build a house so I could live in it, not to make money from it.
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by revertmean 3y ago
> water molecules in food start to vibrate producing heat That isn't really how microwaves work. Or, perhaps, that's how all radiation heat things work. It's any molecule that will absorb radiation of that frequency. So yo
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by revertmean 3y ago
Well, young people don't really watch that much TV these days. Why would they? I mean, you have to choose a channel and then you're watching the same thing for ages , like 25 minutes or something. Boring! And you have to sit ther
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by revertmean 3y ago
> your best bet is to make an entirely new clone Or you can just rebase to edit the commits and remove the secret file. If you're really paranoid you can run `git gc` vto ensure the object file is cleaned up also. If you're sup
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by revertmean 3y ago
From the Glossary: binary digit is a digit that may assume one of two values: “0” (zero) or “1” (one) 10, 11, 14 Those examples of binary numbers are just terrible.
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by revertmean 3y ago
Over half the world are not "believers in Genesis" (by which I would guess you mean biblical literalists).
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by revertmean 3y ago
No, scoring 50% on a test is not the same as a coin toss, for very obvious reasons.
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by revertmean 3y ago
The default KDE font is Noto Sans, which is a professionally designed font commissioned by Google and is used in various Google projects, including ChromeOS.
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by revertmean 3y ago
Ok, to clear it up: "Ours is entirely procedural" == ""Infinigen is entirely procedural" "relying on no external assets" == "every asset, from shape to texture, is generated from scratch via randomize
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by revertmean 3y ago
I'm not sure how you missed it, it's right there in the summary: "Infinigen is entirely procedural: every asset, from shape to texture, is generated from scratch via randomized mathematical rules, using no external source...&
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by revertmean 3y ago
The UK actually has a statutory 5.6 weeks - which is 28 days - for all full time employees. Most companies will split that as 20 days flexible leave plus 8 public holidays, but it's not a requirement. Many companies offer better than t
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by revertmean 3y ago
If it quacks like a duck, it's more likely that's it one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zyyini-Whistle-Carring-Suitable-Bar...
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by revertmean 3y ago
"You are being fired from the company for poor performance. Is there anything else I can help you with?" "But my last performance review said I was above expectations in every category!" "I'm sorry, my mistake.
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by revertmean 3y ago
Would it really be only 1% of kids who join the Boy Scouts, or Girl Guides, or Boys Brigade (or whatever your country's equivalents are)? I would have guessed it was much higher than that. And then you'd have people who learned i
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by revertmean 3y ago
Sure we do. In the Boy Scouts for example, though I just learned it from a book. I suspect a large percentage of people on HN would know how to start a fire from scratch.
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by revertmean 3y ago
I wouldn't, just because it's so long ago. It's like reading, "the only person who has attempted to build Babbage's Difference Engine is Donald E. Knuth"!
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by revertmean 3y ago
Interesting to me: "So far as I know, the only person who has attempted to explain Harriot’s transition from weighing experiments to the invention of binary is Donald E. Knuth, who writes" It's amazing how the name of Knuth
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by revertmean 3y ago
Everybody noticed. It's what people mean when they refer to a comment sounding like it was written by ChatGPT. I suspect it's a deliberate choice, much as The Sun newspaper aims at an 8 year old reading level, while newspapers lik
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by revertmean 3y ago
Because if it was, it would mostly talk about porn? :)
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by revertmean 3y ago
1. There is no such thing as 100% accurate. Not only is it not physically possible (there can always be hardware errors or bit flips) but it's not even theoretically possible (you'd require a checker that was 100% accurate to tell
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by revertmean 3y ago
To be honest, I think I would just let this one go. Does your father, at 84, really need a new car anyway?
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by revertmean 3y ago
No, my fish isn't. Your fish might be, but that's a you problem.
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by revertmean 3y ago
Very easily. There's no baby formula shortage in the UK or EU, so why not pass emergency legislation that allows them to provide the US market and pay the EU/UK producers up front to ramp up their production until the issue is res
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by revertmean 3y ago
So, the types are: 1. Keep your head down, work hard and humbly, be a good little serf. 2. Say "screw this", realise there's a ton of wealth in the world and the leeches are taking it all, push for some changes that might act
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by revertmean 3y ago
Actually, this doesn't apply to the whole of Scotland since "The Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000", and it doesn't apply to NI either. The crown ownership only applies to England & Wales.
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by revertmean 3y ago
Short answer: start looking after 2 years. Proper answer: do what's best for you , not for a hiring manager. The main problem with staying too long with a company is that you get into a rut. If you're enjoying the work, learning
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by revertmean 3y ago
To your latter question, you very much could. But pretty much the whole point of these models is to create connections between various bits of information. It obviously knows about some people (otherwise how could you ask it about famous
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by revertmean 3y ago
It's not just about IP. Have you considered how much an LLM trained on scraping websites might know about you? Would it reveal that information if I prompted it with something like "Create a short story about HN user jMyles and hi
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by revertmean 3y ago
It's also worth noting that dams aren't just built for electricity. They're also built to control flooding and to control water supply. I'm not saying that's the case in Laos, but it does happen. People can live wit
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by revertmean 3y ago
What, France? The poster child for the nuclear fans had to re-open coal plants? Well, I hadn't heard that. That's interesting. It makes sense to me because they were all clearly dependent on Russian gas, which is what caused the p

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