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by tambeb 24d ago
The performance improvement can actually be pretty significant, depending on the exact setup of course. In my case I delidded 3 Intel CPUs a few years back (i9-9900k and similar vintages) and replaced the thermal paste under the lid with li
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by tambeb 24d ago
Yes, nobody has a cohesive theory of consciousness. At the same time I can say with 100% certainty that LLMs (or any current "AI") is in any way, shape, or form, conscious. Not even close. A decade or two ago it was the Internet t
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by tambeb 4mo ago
> According to him, the agent operated largely autonomously, with only minimal guidance "Minimal guidance" is just vague enough to mean anything, including specifically prompting to encourage the claimed blackmailing.
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by tambeb 4mo ago
I'm not worried about missing food notifications because they send me an email and a text (... and a fax and a hardcopy confirmation letter in the mail.)
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by tambeb 4mo ago
Another sneaky behavior in Android is that categories that have yet to send a notification, which of course includes newly added auto-enabled channels, are collapsed under the 'show unused categories' button.
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by tambeb 4mo ago
Notification categories are like mailing lists now. You may have unsubscribed from the daily deals email but you're still going to be auto subscribed to every new slightly modified category in perpetuity. Unless you fully disable notif
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by tambeb 1y ago
I also like this solar system model from NASA, https://science.nasa.gov/learning-resources/how-big-is-the-s... . They compare it to a US football field. "On this scale, the Sun, by far the largest thing in our sol
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by tambeb 1y ago
Also for focusing a digital camera for astrophotography.
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by tambeb 1y ago
Very common in the Middle East too.
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by tambeb 3y ago
So far I've found 88 combos involving the poop emoji. Photos album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wCNxKjzi61rCJUsU8
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by tambeb 3y ago
For any Arrested Development fans out there, a friend sent me this link related to the iceberg today. https://www.reddit.com/r/arresteddevelopment/comments/13309l...
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by tambeb 3y ago
I've been using VirtualHere since 2015, with multiple paid licenses. It's a great tool with infinite use cases. I'm glad that it's a successful business for you!
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by tambeb 4y ago
I haven't been with Wells Fargo for a few years now, but I did get a check for about $200 in the mail the other day due to some fees that had been processed in an "unintended manner" apparently.
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by tambeb 4y ago
Microsoft's Edge on Windows lets you annotate and rotate PDFs.
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by tambeb 4y ago
My Raspberry "Shake & Boom" has an infrasound sensor. https://shop.raspberryshake.org/product/turnkey-iot-atmosphe...
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by tambeb 4y ago
At least the Opinion Rewards app isn't going away. I've made $177 over the years. Not a fortune but it paid for a bunch of app buys and movie rentals.
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by tambeb 4y ago
Sean Carroll I listen to as a podcast, and Quanta I read. :)
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by tambeb 4y ago
In no particular order: The Royal Institution ( https://youtube.com/c/TheRoyalInstitution ) Team Coco ( https://youtube.com/c/TeamCoco ) World Science Festival ( https://youtube.com/c&#
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by tambeb 4y ago
Android, since Pie, supports DNS over TLS, and I personally use it for ad blocking.
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by tambeb 4y ago
Haven't played with this one yet, but I have messed around with the BirdNET app from Cornell. It's very accurate as long as the neighbors don't have their landscapers mowing the lawn and using leaf blowers right next door. h
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by tambeb 4y ago
I was a Patreon supporter for about 2 years, at the 2nd biggest pledge level of $250/month. I only stopped because of my own, um, cash flow issues... :) I'm saying this not to show off or signal my virtue. I'm saying it to l
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by tambeb 4y ago
Bought this little guy[1] back in 2015 to get around DRM and rip, with the exact same philosophy as you. I'm happy to buy, but if I buy it I'm gonna own it forever, regardless of account changes or ["AI" based auto-]shut
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by tambeb 4y ago
One can develop* what serves as the edifice[1] of a $1B hedge fund that handles signals, orders, trades, positions, and p&l, among other things, using a system not unlike this one.[2] [1] Merriam Webster definition of edifice: a large a
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by tambeb 5y ago
My question exactly. In another comment here I asked for some examples for the claim that some .ru domains were being black holed.
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by tambeb 5y ago
Could you give a couple of examples of the black holing you've seen?
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by tambeb 5y ago
I've seen Sabine Hossenfelder do a few NordVPN ads in her videos and I don't think she's an idiot. To be clear though, this isn't a judgement about VPNs or me saying I trust her and so I'll buy that VPN. It's m
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by tambeb 5y ago
For anyone that does challenge-response with a Yubikey like I do, I'd suggest Keepass2Android Password Safe[1] if you're on Android. I've been using it for years and it's well maintained in terms of updates and features,
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by tambeb 5y ago
I went to Brazil with some friends for the World Cup in 2014. For the bigger, more important matches the entire country left work early and everything (except for bars, etc.) closed down for the day. Quite literally.
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by tambeb 5y ago
I really only listen to Rogan for two types of guests: comedians I like and physicists. The episodes for the latter are always fantastic. Brian Cox, Sean Carroll, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, Neil deGrasse Tyson, plus a couple more. He&#x
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by tambeb 5y ago
How does this compare to the SCiO scanner in terms of use cases, etc? Or is it apples and oranges? https://www.consumerphysics.com/technology/

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