s_m_t

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by s_m_t 2mo ago
> You know, morons. Like the American Association of Poison Control Centers https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...
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by s_m_t 2mo ago
Or maybe you are applying an unreasonably high burden of proof here
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by s_m_t 5mo ago
Your common oscilloscope is common ground referenced. You attach to your test circuits ground with the typically black alligator clips coming off the probe and then read voltage at a point with the test lead. A decent differential probe lik
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by s_m_t 1y ago
OTOH there are more people than ever earnestly doing all those things. If we take the barrier to entry for publishing being as low as it is as a factor in you and many other professionals having written top quality technical books then I fo
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by s_m_t 1y ago
Doritos are bad because poor people can afford them. Making your diet mostly organic greens is good because you need lots of money to afford them and you will be underweight and incapable of performing peasant style manual labor.
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by s_m_t 1y ago
The cognitive dissonance here is striking. A growing man needs a shit ton of calories to grow to their full potential. You might as well fill your caloric needs with "junk" food otherwise you will need to spend an inordinate amoun
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by s_m_t 2y ago
Because the idea of class interest being split along easy to understand lines like billionaires versus everyone else or rich people versus poor people is a fallacy. In the real world your economic interest relies more on exactly how you mak
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by s_m_t 2y ago
And? Mind-body dualism as Descartes imagined has been practically disproven on almost every front.
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by s_m_t 2y ago
That doesn't seem too bad to me. It isn't trivial to prove the earth is flat. 10th percentile IQ seems to be around the functional illiteracy threshold. The military won't take them because as much as they have tried they can
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by s_m_t 2y ago
Let's do a thought experiment. Floating in an otherwise completely empty region of space is a bomb. It explodes. For quite some time after the explosion entropy will be decreasing in that region. I really don't see the mystery her
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by s_m_t 2y ago
It is actually very easy to correctly assert certain statements outside of your domain as long as the domain you are butting in on is obviously fraudulent, pseudoscientific, full of charlatans, practitioners don't have any skin in the
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by s_m_t 2y ago
You don't have to touch it or eat it ;)
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by s_m_t 2y ago
Use a fume hood or extractor and really learn how to solder properly. It sounds like you are either running your iron too hot and/or you are trying to melt your solder on the iron and pass it to the joint. The pros use a TON of flux be
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by s_m_t 2y ago
Piracy is very cool. It allows people left out on the price-consumption curve to enjoy what everyone else is enjoying. Usually children, students, and people living in third world countries with low incomes or bad exchange rates. I pirated
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by s_m_t 2y ago
You don't actually act or behave in accordance with that "belief". You would be incapable of perceiving anything, taking any action, or making this post.
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by s_m_t 2y ago
I don't get it are operating systems and computers supposed to ship without web browsers? You could argue literally any feature is put into a product to 'bundle and dump' to kill competitors. Why is a web browser something th
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by s_m_t 2y ago
The civil service is legally protected from the influence of democracy and the legislature has by and large ceded the real implementation of law to the civil servants themselves.
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by s_m_t 2y ago
And yet my motorcycle has gone 80,000 miles without ever needing any maintenance except for a new chain and new sets of tires. Well, I've had to replace the headlight and levers and shift peg because I've crashed it off-road mul
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by s_m_t 2y ago
It can be a very long wave. If you have a coastal area that is mostly at or very close to sea level then that entire area could now be 3m underwater which is very bad. Also, even under normal conditions the type of wave you would see at the
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by s_m_t 2y ago
All this tells me is that people report a wide range of levels of ability pertaining to some skill. You could find similar ranges of abilities in any skill but that doesn't necessarily mean there is anything fundamentally different abo
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by s_m_t 2y ago
This is a complicated topic. To me the ability to hold a coherent (not necessarily still for reasons I won't elaborate on fully to keep this message somewhat short but essentially there is a large kinesthetic component that I suspect a
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by s_m_t 2y ago
Sounds to me like you are more trained in one style of thought than another. That doesn't seem so strange to me. Personally I'm not very good with accents or music but I also don't have very much background at all with those
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by s_m_t 2y ago
I'm still not entirely convinced the spectrum between aphantasia and hyperphantasia truly exists as distinct existential phenomena. I suppose I would self report as someone with hyperphantasia and I strongly suspect I would score highl
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by s_m_t 2y ago
I see, so the idea is that enough of the quantization errors are sort of averaged out across the dimensions of the vector space to still be useful?
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by s_m_t 2y ago
Thanks, I was thinking that zero, negative zero, inf, negative inf, and the NaN's were included like in IEEE 754
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by s_m_t 2y ago
How can 4 bits possibly be enough? Are intermediate calculations done at a higher width and then converted down back to FP4?
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by s_m_t 3y ago
I think there is something to the nature of your addition example that is counter to your point. Addition being an "abstraction" doesn't make it destroy information it's just an algebraic property of addition. If you ins
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by s_m_t 3y ago
Yes, the in-depth domain specific 1150 page book is going to be more useful for building an engine than the introductory 340 page book on design patterns with a gamedev flavor.
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by s_m_t 3y ago
A nice hack for building a small keyboard/macro pad that is 80% of the way there is to buy one of those cherry mx key testers, a microcontroller dev board of your choice, and a small lipo. All together it might cost you something like
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by s_m_t 3y ago
The trick is that you don't actually have to do all the tasks you write down. It is still nice to have a record of what you've planned so if you ever decide to jump back on any task you have a history of what you have done and any

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