terran57

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by terran57 3y ago
I found the rented e-scooter experience in Paris to be a cost-effective, convenient, and quick way to get around the city. I much preferred taking one of them over the subways/bus system or taxis. I did see a lot of irresponsible rider
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by terran57 3y ago
I have a personal story that seems to dovetail with this article. Back in the days of the pre-Y2K "crisis" hype, I lived in Colorado and was young and more impressionable, I started developing a prepper mentality. While I was pret
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by terran57 3y ago
A breakthrough in human life extension technologies could help alleviate the need to have more children to perpetuate the species. It is conceivable, as indicated in some research papers, that next century humans might be able to live past
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by terran57 3y ago
What do you mean by revive?
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by terran57 3y ago
As someone who's done a couple of ultramarathons, my first reaction is "That's crazy." However, the title of the race does have "Transcendence" in there, so it seems a primary motivating factor is to see if you
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by terran57 3y ago
Pardon the slight (irrelevant) quibble - but land hasn't been "destroyed" - only the "improvements" made to the land have been.
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by terran57 3y ago
The chart reflects what I've observed in the media in a visually appealing manner. Personal datapoint: I loaded up Threads when it was announced, and then said "meh" because there wasn't enough content at the time. This
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by terran57 3y ago
First - please seek some professional help immediately - you are not alone, and these feelings are common in people who've had a setback. Perhaps there's a slight chemical imbalance in your brain that needs to be reset - but only
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by terran57 3y ago
Another reminder that I'm glad to use Photopea.
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by terran57 3y ago
That's great! Which APIs are you using?
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by terran57 3y ago
Cool project - thanks for sharing!
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by terran57 3y ago
Your $10 needs to be $15 now...
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by terran57 3y ago
$10K - no, but if he'd be willing to trade shares of BRKA in exchange for it ... I'm listening.
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by terran57 3y ago
It's amazing how many wonderous discoveries are published on the first day of the fourth month of the year.
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by terran57 3y ago
$10 in 1970's dollars ~ $50 today's dollars. Nicest house on the block with a nice large corner lot.
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by terran57 3y ago
My mom worked a split-shift (3 hours in the morning, and 5 hours in evening Wed-Sun). My dad was in the army and was deployed to far-away lands for a significant portion of my life between 8-16 years old. My mom hired a couple of "min
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by terran57 3y ago
Eisenhower warned about the "Military-industrial" complex - but it seems to me that has morphed into a "Military-Industrial-Political" which is geared more towards enhancing shareholder value and political capital rather
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by terran57 3y ago
I installed it locally about an hour ago and have been running it through some paces. Nice work! (In addition to the predefined prompts, I like the API usage meter at the top). (now, I just need Openai to take me off the waitlist for GPT-4
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by terran57 3y ago
Sadly, Google's track record makes this more likely than not.
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by terran57 4y ago
I find myself nodding in agreement.
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by terran57 4y ago
Good ole' negativity bias at work here...
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by terran57 4y ago
Back before I moved to NYC, I lived in Colorado. When it came time for me to replace my car, I couldn't see the logic in buying a SUV that would be predominantly used for commuting. So, I countered "convention" thought and bo
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by terran57 4y ago
thank you
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by terran57 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised to see the advent of mandated motherhood in China in the future.
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by terran57 4y ago
Exactly, people aren't taking care of themselves so that they don't get the chronic diseases that reduce their lifespans. The majority don't realize that what they do in their middle-age years has a profound impact on their l
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by terran57 4y ago
Given the advancements in medical science and longevity research, this is entirely possible. But, the way the world in which we currently live is evolving, it may not be desirable to live to be 100 (or for that matter 90, 80, 70... dependin
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by terran57 4y ago
Because of these examples, my immediate gut reaction to a new Google product announcement is wondering how long it will be before Google will discontinue said product.
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by terran57 4y ago
From the article: "Of course, you need a sufficiently large model to be able to learn from all this data, which is why GPT-3 is 175 billion parameters and probably cost between $1m-10m in compute cost to train.[2]" So, perhaps bet
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by terran57 4y ago
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by terran57 4y ago
This brings back a lot of memories. My part time job in high school during the early 80s had me working as video arcade attendant on evenings and weekends. Unfortunately, for the arcae manager, he had not properly done the research into tr

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