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by rollulus 10d ago
The orb is free yet comes at a cost. When I wrote the equivalent of the orb 25 years ago I had to go through the book “Real-Time Rendering” by Tomas Akenine-Möller and Eric Haines, the first edition with the chameleon. I remember the smell
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by rollulus 13d ago
Nice, I stand corrected. A “special municipality”, TIL!
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by rollulus 13d ago
Well since you ask: GP is inaccurate because Mt. Scenery is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but not the Netherlands. Edit: I was wrong, see skylurk’s comment.
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by rollulus 13d ago
I don’t find that strange. Our drug policy is not backed by any sort of philosophy. E.g. possessing cannabis is illegal in NL. The policy is the outcome of micro-panics (a few accidents with tourists on shrooms), indecisiveness and fear.
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by rollulus 15d ago
Not OP but the amount from Canada was next to nothing, which could make the title sound misleading. Just guessing.
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by rollulus 20d ago
Now that “blazing fast in Rust” has become a meme, is “insanely” the next thing?
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by rollulus 25d ago
Any idea what happens to the grid when a significant chunk of solar power suddenly disconnects?
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by rollulus 2mo ago
From experience: the iPhone’s panorama photo mode works to take pictures like this from a train.
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by rollulus 2mo ago
I realized that in the age of LLMs I appreciate Julia’s writing even more. Authentic exploration as an antidote to overconfident know-it-all generated junk articles.
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by rollulus 2mo ago
What’s much and what isn’t depends on the context. One hair on your head isn’t much but one hair in your soup is.
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by rollulus 2mo ago
“We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.” And “If it&
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by rollulus 3mo ago
What I missed in the article: the curves of the three “cone kinds” overlap. What if you could stimulate kinds of cones individually to see entirely new colors? Some people shoot layers at them into eyes. But you can also try this website:
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by rollulus 3mo ago
Interesting that this got posted now: the project is receiving increasingly more skepticism lately in the Dutch tech scene [0], and I think that’s fully justified. [0]: https://www.quotenet.nl/zakelijk/a71588202/te
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by rollulus 4mo ago
I’m in the very same situation currently. A coworker vibe coded a PR for me to review. I asked: normally I would ask “why did you do xyz”, but what are you going to do now, proxy that question to your LLM? And is the LLM going to construct
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by rollulus 4mo ago
Mullvad is Swedish, right?
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by rollulus 4mo ago
This article is incomplete without examples.
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by rollulus 4mo ago
Incredible what mobile phones and browsers can do nowadays. I remember implementing this paper from 1993 (the absolutely OG for this topic and very readable): “Display of The Earth Taking into Account Atmospheric Scattering” by Nishita et a
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by rollulus 5mo ago
Rewriting it using an LLM is one. But did all the contributors became as proficient in Rust as they were in Zig over night as well?
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by rollulus 5mo ago
That’s because of the primary energy fallacy: https://medium.com/@jan.rosenow/have-we-been-duped-by-the-pr... TL;DR: the efficiency of converting fossil energy resources into something useful is poor.
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by rollulus 5mo ago
Do they maintain the original connection between the fibers or is that not worth the effort and is a swap not a problem?
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by rollulus 5mo ago
Wouldn’t using opaque tokens have avoided the problem altogether?
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by rollulus 6mo ago
They do other unholy things. I don’t know what, but consistently while playing music on my HomePod opening that site makes it stutter within a few minutes, fully stop working shortly afterwards and it needs a reboot to work again.
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by rollulus 6mo ago
TL;DR: medical case report of a guy who inhaled hydrogen gas, lit a cigarette, blew up internally and survived.
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Conservative Treatment for Endobronchial Blast Injury with Tracheal Rupture(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
3 points by rollulus 6mo ago|1 comments
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by rollulus 6mo ago
I think there are two angles to look at this. Yes, there’s the attack on the weblog. But there’s also pressure on archive.today, e.g. an FBI investigation [1] and some entity using fictitious CSAM allegations [2]. [1]: https://ar
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by rollulus 6mo ago
You repeat the same mistake here: > I'm simply talking about the simple improbability of, out of all possible lives I could have had, mine being one this relatively comfortable and novel. That implies that there is a separate organi
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by rollulus 6mo ago
Your thinking is flawed. It seems to assume that you were pulled from a pool of souls and got assigned to an organism somewhere in time. That’s not the case. What makes you “you” is nothing but your brain cells.
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by rollulus 6mo ago
I think “simulate” would’ve been a more accurate word than “build”.
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by rollulus 6mo ago
Nice, thanks and I agree.
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by rollulus 7mo ago
Well that depends on your luck, it could be a valid one about 1/16th of the time.

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