willidiots

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by willidiots 7mo ago
Just using LLMs enough I've developed a sense for the flavor of writing. Surely it could be hidden with enough work, but most of the time it's pretty blatant.
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by willidiots 8mo ago
They do acknowledge that in the notes, referencing one other study (n=3) with one healthy aged author that did not exhibit these signs. >Relatedly, as this is a single-case study, without a control author, it remains possible that the de
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by willidiots 9mo ago
Quoting TFA: "It’s worth noting that none of this was really legal; the law technically stated that TikTok shouldn’t have been allowed to exist for much of this year. Everyone just looked the other way while Trump and his cronies repea
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by willidiots 10mo ago
Google TV showing ads on the home screen convinced me to buy an Apple TV. Had to go back to a set-top box - to use the same apps I have built into the TV - just because Apple won't spam me with this shit.
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by willidiots 10mo ago
I have them and like them. I don't wear them constantly, but on days when I'm doing something interesting, they help me document much more than I otherwise would.
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by willidiots 1y ago
To TFA's point - "Bars" are relative and relatively meaningless - [SS]RSRP, RSRQ and SINR are your real numeric signal strength / quality measurements. Not sure about Apple, but on Android, individual carriers can set
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by willidiots 1y ago
I made a conscious effort to switch from hyphens to em dashes in the 2010's and now find myself undoing that effort because of these things, so I try not to instantly assume "AI". But look long enough and you do notice a &qu
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by willidiots 1y ago
I'm a big fan of the MWCBTY keyboard format, it's especially efficient when you have to type a lot of G's. Snark aside, I think it's laziness and the shotgun approach. The author writes some rough thoughts down, has an A
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by willidiots 1y ago
The whole thing feels AI-padded.
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by willidiots 1y ago
It's not black and white. My SO doomscrolls facebook on her laptop for hours daily. Certain parts of creative workflows are better on phones (or other devices) than laptops - the article acknowledges this in the "hybrid workflow
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by willidiots 1y ago
I had one of the second-gen units, it was programmable locally, and you could locally enable the learning mode (which was not good)
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by willidiots 1y ago
I agree that libraries are a thing, all problems in CS can be solved with a layer of indirection, etc. I also have no issue with AI-gen projects if they're good. In this case, they posted a README full of nonsense diagrams, didn't
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by willidiots 1y ago
The interface and code smacks of Claude. It's basically someone's AI pet project wrapping legitimate third-party tools.
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by willidiots 1y ago
The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake of 1700 was dated using Japanese tsunami records: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996Natur.379..246S/abstra...
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by willidiots 1y ago
Meanwhile, violence remains perfectly acceptable.
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by willidiots 1y ago
Low-latency LLM for my home automation. Anecdotally, Gemini was much quicker than OpenAI in responding to simple commands. In general, when I need "cheap and fast" I choose Gemini.
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by willidiots 1y ago
Some of them literally have "visualelectric" in the filename. (ex: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67160715a896dc... )
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by willidiots 1y ago
Yes! There are a whole series of posts with photos and maps. Click the red "Tumangan, we are coming!!!" link at the bottom of the first post to jump to the next one, etc.
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by willidiots 1y ago
Half of the battle is avoiding over-documentation - I only write things here that I know I'll want to remember later: for me these are important notes, figures I hear/see in meetings, critical names of people, that kind of stuff.
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by willidiots 1y ago
I use a flat text file called "notes" on my desktop, and I leave it open in Sublime Text in a corner of my second screen. Periodically I throw a datestamp in there as a reference point. For generic "stuff that should be ret
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by willidiots 1y ago
One thing to be mindful of is that this limits your ability to help your partner as you age. State intervention can play both ways.
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by willidiots 1y ago
I literally had a 90 year old woman approach me at the dentist yesterday, complementing my Model 3 and telling me "I just love Elon. I had a dream about him last night!" For these types, it's a cult of personality, not logi
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by willidiots 1y ago
We've had good luck with Mosquito Dunks, both in natural standing water sources and in dedicated "trap buckets" filled with water and vegetation, but you have to do it early in the season as the dunks only affect the larvae.
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by willidiots 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZpi8zAqe0 This little video is such a great tribute to him. RIP David.
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by willidiots 2y ago
It's definitely a real, known threat. DARPA and friends have been working on their own swarm technology for years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34NPbGkLGI
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by willidiots 2y ago
There already was! It was called Passpoint R2 Online Sign-Up, but it never got traction on the phone side of things, so it's now being deprecated by the Wi-Fi alliance. It's really a business problem. IMO you shouldn't have t
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by willidiots 2y ago
Looking at the charts, the Cessna brushed right up against the ground-4500 class C space. Not the smartest place to be off-frequency, in what sounded like mixed viz conditions. At the same time yeah, Austin Approach screwed up - "that
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by willidiots 2y ago
TCAS will use the Mode C or Mode S altitude provided by a standard SSR transponder if the intruder aircraft isn't TCAS-equipped. To determine the appropriate maneuver, the system calculates which trajectory will increase the vertical s
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by willidiots 2y ago
Grew up rural, but spent a lot of my formative years on BBSes and this budding "Internet" thing. Moved to SF, spent 20 years there, then moved back to the countryside because I was going to climb mountains instead of tech and brea
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by willidiots 2y ago
How about the rest of the eastern US? Billion dollar climate disasters are hitting everything, not just coastal cities in Florida and WUI towns in California. There was just massive flooding in Tennessee due to Hurricane Helene - are they

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