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by wisemang 14d ago
I haven’t read Berry, but he just went up on my priority list based on this. Another link to Quality in the Pirsig sense I haven’t seen discussed much is Christopher Alexander’s work. Specifically A Timeless Way of Building which gives simi
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by wisemang 3mo ago
Nothing says “we’re watching you” like the wifi password at the hotel I stayed at in Shanghai being my passport number.
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by wisemang 3mo ago
Mr Robot was generally pretty good for this kind of thing
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by wisemang 3mo ago
First I’ve heard of aphantasia applied to sound / music. Though I have on a number of occasions thought about the concept. I have (visual) aphantasia. But am better able to remember / hear notes and timbres in my head than images.
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by wisemang 4mo ago
Sure, but my overall point was meant to refute this: > But that's a miss, it's like one of those Neal Stephenson moments where the creator is using the right language […snip…] but they don't understand what's actually
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by wisemang 4mo ago
Ah, hence the need for ITS.
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by wisemang 4mo ago
Doesn’t mention anything about quantum there though. Symmetric keys are secure enough against a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, but OTP provides information theoretic security. As GGP mentioned AES should be fine as far as we k
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by wisemang 6mo ago
Pfft those suckers didn't have Parsec or Car Wars or Ms. Pac Man plus the hours spent typing TI-BASIC from a magazine was less frustrating than trying to get the jumps right on Super Mario Bros level 8-2. And I'm sure Demolition D
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by wisemang 6mo ago
Or just take up the didgeridoo https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1360393/
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by wisemang 6mo ago
So the tree data itself mainly comes from municipal open data, just like yours does. Street Trees datasets are pretty common across cities. I just added SF yesterday after replying here :) Otherwise the map tiles are coming from OpenFreeMap
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by wisemang 6mo ago
Nice! I’ve been working on https://treeseek.ca which is a different use case from most of the other open data tree sites I’ve seen — I want to be instantly geolocated and shown the nearest trees to me. I do a lot of walking and
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by wisemang 6mo ago
I’ve noticed the honestly thing for sure. But I feel like I’ve noticed an uptick in people using the adverb “genuinely” in what I genuinely believe to not be AI generated comments, articles, etc. Maybe it’s just me, I got similar vibes ab
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by wisemang 7mo ago
Totally. I remember a thing where there were four horses that each had an a capella part and you could click each horse to bring that part in or silence it. They all harmonized together and the silly little animations for each was a nice to
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by wisemang 7mo ago
I also clicked through to that and was similarly confused. Not a Kotlin dev but this doesn’t really seem like fixing your tools? More like understanding them properly. I wouldn’t call a configuration change like this “debugging the debugger
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by wisemang 7mo ago
Indeed. There was a CBC radio episode last year that had parents discussing regrets. It felt weird to hear people saying these things out loud. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.6661746
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by wisemang 8mo ago
Bah. I love putting a layer of frozen blueberries at the bottom of the bowl then layering on piping hot steel cut oats to thaw and warm them up. You’re probably right that I shouldn’t add dried cranberries and a tiny drizzle of maple syrup
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by wisemang 8mo ago
What’s a zucchini party
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by wisemang 10mo ago
An ex-gf of mine’s dad had the same name and birthday as a convict. Caused him plenty of trouble when crossing the border apparently. Hopefully that’s not the case for GP
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by wisemang 11mo ago
This is definitely dependent on individuals. It’s a reason during some conversations people can never seem to get a word in edgewise, even if the person speaking may think they’re providing opportunities do so. A mismatch in “pause length”
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by wisemang 11mo ago
Right I guess in the old model they were often syndicated. But as a kid I remember seeing things like the jumble, word search, cryptic something or other etc. in my local small-ish city newspaper
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by wisemang 11mo ago
Not sure I’d call them _video_ games per se but anecdotally (me) it does work. That said NYT crossword has existed for much longer, puzzle games are a longstanding feature of many newspapers.
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by wisemang 11mo ago
I find the occasional research roundups from the “your local epidemiologist” newsletter informative: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/long-covid-re...
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by wisemang 1y ago
Weren’t there well over 100 launched, most of which were intercepted by Ukraine, and 20 made it into Polish airspace?
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by wisemang 1y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed their Toronto show on that tour. To be fair it was the first time I’d seen them in concert so I didn’t have any points of comparison. I also hadn’t really clued in to just how political they were until seeing their visu
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by wisemang 1y ago
ST is not electron..
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by wisemang 1y ago
My (somewhat elderly) father only refers to it as ChatGBT and when I tried to get to the bottom of why he said it’s because “thats what it’s called in my phone”. Seems pretty scammy to me, akin to typo squatting with potential to collect a
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by wisemang 1y ago
To maybe save others some time METR is a group called Model Evaluation and Threat Research who > propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI agents can complete. Not that hard to figure out but the way people refe
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by wisemang 1y ago
Depends on who exactly you’re trying to convince.
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by wisemang 1y ago
To the downvoter — this is a quote from the liner notes of one of his albums, where he published middling to damning reviews of his concert lol.
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by wisemang 1y ago
“Played piano acceptably.”

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