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by vcg3rd 2y ago
I just subtracted 1 and added a 1/4, barely giving it any thought. The example given is too simple for comparing methods.
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by vcg3rd 2y ago
Regardless, it doesn't have agency and isn't clever. Personally I belive in a Designer, but since middle school I've been bewildered by the way evolution is almost always presented, outside of rigorous scientific literature,
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by vcg3rd 2y ago
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/04/the-anti-...
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by vcg3rd 2y ago
> The TV series poses a four body problem early on (three suns and a single planet). That's the same as the book except the book explains eventually that there were originally 7? 9? planets. The others had been ripped apart or consu
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by vcg3rd 2y ago
The weak link of a sound system is typically the speakers/headphones. Speaking for myself the weak link for computing was monitors until about a decade ago, about the time everything was getting smaller. I should switch to just a phone
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by vcg3rd 2y ago
https://blot.im/ is the one that finally made it possible for me to use one without configuration of both a web server and a site generator (neither of which I can do) and keep my files "local" in a synced Dropbox
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by vcg3rd 2y ago
Never hear of meebok in comment above yours. Even a name like that has a .org and .com [1] neither of which, as far as I can tell, have anything to do with the e-reader. [1] Danish, I think, and kept timing out.
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by vcg3rd 2y ago
Anyone feel like explaining it to me like I'm 5? High School physics was over 40 years ago, and while I like reading "layman's" science this one only made me think about the discussion of diminsions in 3 Body Problem, wh
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by vcg3rd 2y ago
The ship's mayday gave them enough time to stop most, but not all, traffic, according to the MD Governor.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I couldn't believe I had yo scroll almost to the bottom to find what I thought would probably be the 1st or 2nd comment. I was just about to give up and write it myself. Between pihole, extensions and userscripts I never see ads. Ads w
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Completely right about knowing v doing but even the knowing gets skewed. The real problem that too much sucrose and fructose (whether added to not) is insulin overproduction. I get annoyed when some people talk about an apple is better than
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Cambridge,Cabs and Copenhagen: My Route to Existential Risk(archive.nytimes.com)
2 points by vcg3rd 3y ago|1 comments
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
A perspective on AI from almost a decade ago.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
On the advice of my Dr 15 years ago I started taking 3 grams of niacin a day. Within 6 months my hdl more than doubled from the upper 20s to low 60s and my triglycerides dropped from > 600 to < 150 and have stayed that way since.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
An I.Q. above body temperature.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
The problem isn't the Oxford comma. The problem is lazy--or possibly rapid, if one is generous--writing and editing (if any). If the use or absence of a comma causes ambiguity, it's probably best to rewrite the sentence. I belie
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Linux Format quit shipping CDs with the magazine, oh, about a year ago, maybe. I think some of it is also "shrinkage" (the term in retail in the U.S. for shoplifting + breakage, etc). I liked the CDs for many reasons, one of whi
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
From the README: > htmz is a minimalist HTML microframework So, some ambiguity.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Too long ago (~2004) I read a good article about something like deep-linking with micro-payments. That's the best I can remember. The idea was to use hypertext extensively as references within on-line writing and have some kind of sys
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Similar recent post on Irreal: https://irreal.org/blog/?p=8663 Personally I have found dark modes with color schemes like, say, Dracula are visually pleasing immediately but over time become tedious and I notice a patt
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
The author posed it as a question. It's not about want as much as able. No matter how much I wanted (at 58) to understand the inner working of a LLM, it's beyond me, just like becoming a fighter pilot. However, even though I don&#
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Started using Twitter in 2006. [Long story] Quit around 2017. Privacy Badger extension blocks embeds. Used to allow occasionally until I noticed it was never worth it and finally stopped reading "news" sites that were sentence|twe
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Not if you waited until marriage.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
36 years here. 5 kids. Both of us chaste prior and monogamous after marriage.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
~5 years ago when I was driving back and forth to an adjacent state to work on our house to get it on the market, I discover my ground wire had been stolen. It was no more than 2' long and was the only exposed wire outside. The house w
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I try not to assume motivation as I can't read minds, let alone hearts, but as a practical matter "refactoring, optimizing, or adding new features" means someone has to maintain something he may not really understand.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I still have a deactivated FB, which I would long ago have closed except Messanger became the default family chat app, and I have over 15 years of family messages. FB failed for me in the early years. Even though I only ever added friends I
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Thank heavens I can now listen to Bach without fearing he may not be great. Now if "maths" can prove da Vinci was a great artist and Michelangelo a great sculptor and Shakespeare a great writer! Was this in need of "proof&quo
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I assume they've set up lots of reliable, accessible charging stations everywhere? Befuddles me that EVs are manufactured and marketed before the infrastructure exist. It's like everyone in Butte, MT buying ICE vehicles in 1910 be
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
People shouldn't have to work. UBI and social services should be funded by high tax rates so people can go to school and think and produce free stuff made from free stuff that was developed, mined, harvested, produced and transported b

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