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I don't know about a cure, but I will report back on This Year's effectiveness as a prophylactic against male loneliness come December 25th
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I don't know about a cure, but I will report back on This Year's effectiveness as a prophylactic against male loneliness come December 25th
I'm excited to see how they plan to rotate the Lincoln memorial by 30 degrees
October 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I'm excited to see how they plan to rotate the Lincoln memorial by 30 degrees
LLMs are deterministic. The perceived randomness in their output is from non-zero temperature.
October 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
LLMs are deterministic. The perceived randomness in their output is from non-zero temperature.
"Sorry I'm late, I got stopped for Driving While O-Negative"
"Must be the end of the month, those damn blood quotas man"
"Must be the end of the month, those damn blood quotas man"
September 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Sorry I'm late, I got stopped for Driving While O-Negative"
"Must be the end of the month, those damn blood quotas man"
"Must be the end of the month, those damn blood quotas man"
Silksong if Team Cherry weren't cowards: Furled Finger LET ME POGO HER summoned as a cooperator
September 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Silksong if Team Cherry weren't cowards: Furled Finger LET ME POGO HER summoned as a cooperator
I'm definitely hesitant about it as well but there are some safety benefits like making it less likely for cars to clip vulnerable road users and eliminating blind spots. We should be skeptical about replacing safety systems with tech but Japan has allowed them for a while without major issues
June 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I'm definitely hesitant about it as well but there are some safety benefits like making it less likely for cars to clip vulnerable road users and eliminating blind spots. We should be skeptical about replacing safety systems with tech but Japan has allowed them for a while without major issues
The side view mirrors disrupt the airflow around them enough that the overall gain is minimal. It'd be interesting to see how much they improve the range of a vehicle with digital side views, though they are still illegal in the US.
June 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The side view mirrors disrupt the airflow around them enough that the overall gain is minimal. It'd be interesting to see how much they improve the range of a vehicle with digital side views, though they are still illegal in the US.
There's a German-language interview from a few years back with a Mercedes engineer where someone asked him about the efficiency of their flush door handles and he said it amounted to about 100 meters of extra range and that they are primarily a stylistic choice
June 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
There's a German-language interview from a few years back with a Mercedes engineer where someone asked him about the efficiency of their flush door handles and he said it amounted to about 100 meters of extra range and that they are primarily a stylistic choice
Sincerely, what is the version of events that you wouldn't find salacious? Should fauci have insisted on publicly floating theories blaming China with zero research yet conducted? Should he have, as the director of NIAID, flat out refused to discuss a hotly contested theory?
May 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Sincerely, what is the version of events that you wouldn't find salacious? Should fauci have insisted on publicly floating theories blaming China with zero research yet conducted? Should he have, as the director of NIAID, flat out refused to discuss a hotly contested theory?
Do you solemnly swear to keep it 100, all fax, and no printer?
May 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Do you solemnly swear to keep it 100, all fax, and no printer?
Here's the tax vacancy data in digestible form (rather than raw tables from the gov't site): open-innovations.org/projects/hou...
Housing England
Calculating vacant home and long-term vacant home percentages for areas of England.
open-innovations.org
May 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Here's the tax vacancy data in digestible form (rather than raw tables from the gov't site): open-innovations.org/projects/hou...
UK gov't data on vacancies varies pretty widely depending on definitions and techniques. Council tax base data puts long-term vacancies in London as low as 1% www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Comparing empty home statistics in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics
The comparability of empty home statistics in England and Wales, which statistics are most suitable for different purposes and why differences occur.
www.ons.gov.uk
May 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
UK gov't data on vacancies varies pretty widely depending on definitions and techniques. Council tax base data puts long-term vacancies in London as low as 1% www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Yeah, I really don't like the "return to center" style of electronic shifter for that reason. My Ford uses a 360° spinning dial with really chunky notches so there's a good physical confirmation. It also mechanically locks if you spin it and the car refuses to shift so mode confusion has been rare
May 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Yeah, I really don't like the "return to center" style of electronic shifter for that reason. My Ford uses a 360° spinning dial with really chunky notches so there's a good physical confirmation. It also mechanically locks if you spin it and the car refuses to shift so mode confusion has been rare
Unfortunately a lever precludes implementing safety features like automatically shifting into park when the driver turns off the car or steps out. There's no linkage or physical gears so a lever that mirrors the gear would have to be servo driven i.e. expensive and prone to failure.
May 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Unfortunately a lever precludes implementing safety features like automatically shifting into park when the driver turns off the car or steps out. There's no linkage or physical gears so a lever that mirrors the gear would have to be servo driven i.e. expensive and prone to failure.
I think it's pretty common in the form of spinouts from nonprofit research labs like SRI. The big difference is that OpenAI is being forced to have the nonprofit retain control rather than it getting to choose whether or not it keeps a majority stake.
May 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I think it's pretty common in the form of spinouts from nonprofit research labs like SRI. The big difference is that OpenAI is being forced to have the nonprofit retain control rather than it getting to choose whether or not it keeps a majority stake.
I love the story for how it expresses the themes you and others already mentioned, but I saw it as an allegory for radicalization pipelines. That loneliness, isolation, and need for connection can lead us into the mouths of machines that normalize cruelty, suffering, and death.
May 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I love the story for how it expresses the themes you and others already mentioned, but I saw it as an allegory for radicalization pipelines. That loneliness, isolation, and need for connection can lead us into the mouths of machines that normalize cruelty, suffering, and death.
For me, the ending felt like it was asking me to recontextualize the story. The viewer's curiosity and desire for connection led them somewhere they didn't intend to go. They were lured into a trap. If the viewer is the mouse, what is the cheese, the bucket, the other mice, the YouTuber?
May 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
For me, the ending felt like it was asking me to recontextualize the story. The viewer's curiosity and desire for connection led them somewhere they didn't intend to go. They were lured into a trap. If the viewer is the mouse, what is the cheese, the bucket, the other mice, the YouTuber?
The upside is that nothing stops you from just using your password manager this way. Any time I need a new account I create the saved PW first and then autofill it into the create account page. The 1% of the time when Bitwarden fails the "repeat password" won't match and then I paste it manually.
April 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The upside is that nothing stops you from just using your password manager this way. Any time I need a new account I create the saved PW first and then autofill it into the create account page. The 1% of the time when Bitwarden fails the "repeat password" won't match and then I paste it manually.
The only 100% reliable solution for saving passwords that doesn't depend on conformant sites is forcing the user through a flow to create the saved password manually. Companies are allergic to adding friction that doesn't make money so everyone has to have shoddy auto-detection to save 3 clicks.
April 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The only 100% reliable solution for saving passwords that doesn't depend on conformant sites is forcing the user through a flow to create the saved password manually. Companies are allergic to adding friction that doesn't make money so everyone has to have shoddy auto-detection to save 3 clicks.
I love small and utilitarian vehicles, but imo the reporting on this is way too credulous. I think Bezos saw what Amazon was spending on Rivian vans that care about driver ergonomics and now wants to build rattly torture boxes for low wage workers to spend 1/3rd of their lives in.
April 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I love small and utilitarian vehicles, but imo the reporting on this is way too credulous. I think Bezos saw what Amazon was spending on Rivian vans that care about driver ergonomics and now wants to build rattly torture boxes for low wage workers to spend 1/3rd of their lives in.
v1.1.34 HOTFIX 2: tweaks diesel repair reward function to mitigate the so-called 'Humvee High'
April 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
v1.1.34 HOTFIX 2: tweaks diesel repair reward function to mitigate the so-called 'Humvee High'
Well you see, Waymo relies on detailed 3d maps and thus their system only works in limited locations. Tesla, on the other hand, devised a system that is capable of working equally poorly at any location on the planet, which is actually better somehow. (Yes, this is actually what they believe lol)
April 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Well you see, Waymo relies on detailed 3d maps and thus their system only works in limited locations. Tesla, on the other hand, devised a system that is capable of working equally poorly at any location on the planet, which is actually better somehow. (Yes, this is actually what they believe lol)
It's an interesting turn for US protectionism that even blue collar people are talking about profits and not jobs jobs jobs. "Who cares if Toyota builds more cars in the US than Ford does, we must enrich *our* elites, not theirs!"
March 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's an interesting turn for US protectionism that even blue collar people are talking about profits and not jobs jobs jobs. "Who cares if Toyota builds more cars in the US than Ford does, we must enrich *our* elites, not theirs!"
To their credit their previous video is about pick and place in automotive and they have similar videos for their "Stretch" robot. Imo this most recent video is just them reacting to Unitree's reinforcement learning demos which have been pretty viral lately. youtube.com/watch?v=v8Ua...
Pick, Carry, Place, Repeat | Inside the Lab with Atlas
YouTube video by Boston Dynamics
youtube.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
To their credit their previous video is about pick and place in automotive and they have similar videos for their "Stretch" robot. Imo this most recent video is just them reacting to Unitree's reinforcement learning demos which have been pretty viral lately. youtube.com/watch?v=v8Ua...