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NeatNit

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  • [OC] That’s not the reason we need you for

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  • Honestly, everything that machines can do, there are some people who love doing it, and there can be an art to it. And for each such thing, other humans hate doing it and prefer automation.

    Some people love cleaning, but we have robot vacuums and mops.

    Some people love cooking and baking, but we have packaged food that requires minimal or no preparation.

    Some people love woodworking or glassblowing, but most of our furniture and household items are mass produced.

    Some people love managing their own computer or phone, but most people prefer to just let the manufacturer and operating system do it for them.

    Some people love growing food with manual tools, but most farming these days is done with automatic machines.

    Some people love driving, others can't wait for self-driving cars or prefer public transport just so they don't have to drive.

    The list goes on. Anything can be an art.

    I don't know what my stance is on this. I think automation is necessary for the sheer quantities we need. I also think passionate professionals can nearly always do a better job than a machine, but it's obviously more expensive and can't keep up with demand.

    I guess the difference is that drawing and writing only have value as art. If I don't like drawing I almost never have to do it, but if I don't like preparing food I either suck it up and do it anyway hating every moment, or it can be (and, in fact, is) a serious detriment for my health and well-being.

  • Simple Optimization Trick

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  • Performance is very much still a significant factor. At the end of the day, games are expected to run at certain FPS on certain machines. The machines have gotten better to the extent that unoptimized code can be used sometimes, but when competing for graphics, badly optimized games will have to sacrifice fidelity to hit performance targets, where well-optimized games can get squeeze out better graphics and hit those same targets.

    There's plenty of tricks these days but optimized code will always have an edge.

  • Simple Optimization Trick

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  • What's one thing your learned at college/university that blew your mind?

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  • Can I block Tiktok purely by DNS?

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  • Well, I hope the other answers help you out.

    Why do you need to block it? Why not just uninstall it? (I can think of some reasons but I don't know what yours is)

  • Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub

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  • Then all these companies just wouldn't use it and would use something worse instead. Everything will be inferior and ffmpeg becomes less prominent and loses out on contributors and donations. It's a lose-lose.

    Reality is complicated, GPL is awesome for a lot of things but in some cases it can hinder adoption.

  • Can I block Tiktok purely by DNS?

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  • I'm curious on why you want to do this. If you're managing an open wifi used by a large number of people (e.g. at a school), it's very different from if you just want to block it at home. But for the latter I don't really see why you'd do it through DNS.

  • Soup of Theseus

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  • Soup of Theseus

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  • In python the closest I could find was (untested): sum(random.sample([1, 0], spoon_size, counts=[soup_count, water_count]))

    But this would create an intermediate list of length spoon_size which is not a good idea.

  • Soup of Theseus

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  • Interesting. I don't know why I didn't think of just keeping a count of soup molecules. Must have been late!

    Another interesting point, your simulation is subtly wrong in a different way from my calculation. When there is only one soup molecule left, there is a chance (however tiny) that rbinom will return 2 or more, taking out more soup molecules than there really are.

    If you run it enough times with a bowl of 3 molecules and a spoon of 2 molecules, I'm sure you'll hit -1 soup molecules some of the time.

    For a simulation I think we can do better. There must be a random function that does it properly. The function we want is like pulling balls of 2 colors out of a sack without replacement. Pretty common combinatorics question, I would expect a random function to match.

  • Soup of Theseus

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  • By the way, how did you actually stimulate it? Surely you didn't keep 10^25 variables in memory...

  • Soup of Theseus

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  • You rock! Thank you :)

    If I find myself in the right mood I might try to work out the actual distribution. If I do, your simulation will be a very handy sanity check!

  • So I tried windows tiling...

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  • is there a good video demonstrating it? I use Cinnamon on Linux Mint and want to know what I'm missing out on.

  • Location, location, location

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  • This was posted in a memes community so I'm looking for anything funny about it but I just can't see it.

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  • This is an anti-AI blog, that tagline is a joke.

  • Osama boeing laden💀

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  • Location, location, location

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  • I've been looking at this for quite a while and I just don't get it.

  • Soup of Theseus

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  • :)

    What I would like to do is give a margin of error, e.g. "there is a 95% change that it will be between spoonful 1000 and spoonful 1300" or something like that. But I don't have the time to figure that out now, sounds like it would be harder to figure out than the expected value.

  • when I pour hot water int othe sink, the lights turn on

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  • Of the answers I've seen this is the one that makes most sense.

    Of course, the real answer is that the sink is haunted.