sweettea

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by sweettea 2mo ago
I didn't realize Ello was so young! One of my kids went from barely a reluctant reader to a proficient reader near the start of your lifetime then, I am deeply grateful we had tried so many things. Massive props.
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by sweettea 9mo ago
In sum, the author proclaims that without human death, nothing people do has a time limit so people wouldn't have any incentive to do. But this is false - even if we were a sovereign observer only, the universe is constantly changing a
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by sweettea 10mo ago
Already addressed: "While the family spells its last name with a B, the New York Times stylebook spells Hapsburg with a P, which brought no shortage of scolding emails upon publication."
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by sweettea 10mo ago
My understanding is that it's an expected value based on coverage in each of the ensemble scenarios, not quite as simplified as "how many scenarios was there rain in this forecast cell". At least for the US NWS: if 30 of 100
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by sweettea 10mo ago
Many keyboards use the qmk firmware these days, qmk.fm, which can be programmed with the Vial configurator, get.vial.today . Here's one typical qwerty-ish layout for 42 keys: https://mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5
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by sweettea 10mo ago
Super minimal finger travel. I have a 34-key layout personally, and while I give up the F-keys, everything else is not very difficult to access and I really love how little my fingers move.
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by sweettea 1y ago
It's OSS and self-hostable. And it's got a great UI and the most joyous technology I've ever had the pleasure of using. https://zulip.com/self-hosting/
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by sweettea 1y ago
I mean, we're already having democratized geoengineering: Make Sunsets ( https://makesunsets.com/ ) allows you or anyone else to fund deploying high-altitude clouds for geocooling.
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by sweettea 1y ago
See also: the first part of A Canticle for Leibowitz.
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by sweettea 1y ago
Have you seen k0s or k3s? Lots of stories about folks using these to great success on a tiny scale, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593269
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by sweettea 1y ago
Note also that, on Linux, RSS is not guaranteed to be accurate: "For making accounting scalable, RSS related information are handled in an asynchronous manner and the value may not be very precise." [1] [1] https://www.
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by sweettea 2y ago
Fuse over io_uring has just been merged: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-FUSE So has uncached buffered IO: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Uncached-Buffered-IO-Linux-6.1... 6.14 is an excit
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by sweettea 2y ago
Despite Silk Road explicitly banning CSAM, and the feds not charging Ulbricht with it when you know they would love the positive PR if they could?
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by sweettea 2y ago
Yes, kudzu is incredibly good forage and produces some of the tenderest, sweetest meat you'd ever taste.
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by sweettea 2y ago
Sonic.net or various other ISPs? https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/21/4541342/isp-owner-describ...
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by sweettea 2y ago
Harand Godwinsson still reigns in my heart.
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by sweettea 2y ago
A well reasoned article that fundamentally downplays both the pace of innovation and the exponential increase in capabilities per dollar happening over time. AI is rapidly accelerating its improvement rate, and I do believe its capabilities
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by sweettea 2y ago
They did - and the first one failed so they did a second: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Orbital_Flight_Test_2
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by sweettea 2y ago
I don't think this is correct. As far as I understand it, Elon/SpaceX did attempt a previous investment in satellite internet, but it had died long before Starlink came to be in 2014.
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by sweettea 2y ago
I am curious why you avoid ads - personally I view them as a tremendous good for the world, helping people improve their lives by introducing them to products or even just ideas they didn't know existed.
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by sweettea 2y ago
This seems very much the beginning of the situation predicted by Aschenbrenner in [1], where the AI labs eventually will be fully part of the national security apparatus. Fascinating to see if the other major AI labs also add ex-military fo
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by sweettea 2y ago
Its unsafe, and there are warning signs everywhere warning you to supervise the fuelling and not leave it unattended. You could walk away from a fuelling car... but the failure mode of burning down the whole gas station is so severe it seem
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by sweettea 2y ago
Location: Greenville, SC, USA Remote: neutral Willing to relocate: yes, particularly to Boston Technologies: Linux kernel: FUSE, device-mapper, filesystems; C, C++, Python, Make. Resume: https://sweettea-resume.s3.us-east-2.amazo
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by sweettea 3y ago
>* How one retires at 25 when working at Google which is way past IPO and the 100x return on stock option which is only possible at the earliest stage? levels.fyi reports a L4 averages $270k/yr at Google. Can sock away a whole lot o
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by sweettea 3y ago
West Point Bridge Designer maybe? That was such a good educational tool.
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by sweettea 3y ago
Zuck is doing a great job of working to improve human life with his money, having promised to give away 99% of it, and making concrete steps to do so: https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-explains-giv... https
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by sweettea 3y ago
One actual effect of Y2K I learned about only yesterday: the NHS gave false Down syndrome risk assessments to 154 women: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/sep/14/martinwainwright
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by sweettea 3y ago
Tomatoe flavors are (in addition to variety) extremely sensitive to nutrients and growing condition. I've had Barrys Crazy Cherry be one of the best flavors ever one year, rich and lowacid and textured and sweet, and absolute watery ca
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by sweettea 3y ago
Very cool! Have definitely thought about this for mine, have never actually gotten past looking around and seeing nobody makes them yet. It'd be amazing to throw some bluetooth on there and be able to flash different patterns, or to th
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by sweettea 3y ago
Depends on the company. Meta vests quarterly.

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