Posts by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
(DIR) Post #B0s1TTOQaI81XSxyng by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2025-12-03T11:43:49Z
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@futurebird this reminds me how in "Orthogonal" I was interested in both, but when it came to quantum thermodynamics I just couldn't follow the exposition anymore :/ (at least not when reading this for leisure in a packed suburban train during commute; had I been at the table with pen and paper, things might have worked out better)
(DIR) Post #B10A4SWp7DDmTBihwO by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2025-12-07T09:56:05Z
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@domi @asie I mean ssds degrade faster when they're full and still have a lot of writes, because then you don't get much write leveling and end up rewriting the same physical blocks over and over again
(DIR) Post #B12JbFf3GRlg1SCT5M by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2025-12-08T10:54:04Z
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@futurebird LLMs are based on statistics, and there is a way (at least in theory) to use that for getting some other statistics out of some source text.Asking ChatGPT "give me the statistics" is not that way!It's like, just because LLMs are running on computers, and computers are good at multiplying 20-digit numbers, doesn't mean that you can ask ChatGPT to multiple two 20-digit numbers and expect to get a correct answer; you'd need to use computers in a different way for that.
(DIR) Post #B14Lmf7bX0QKOf2n32 by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2025-12-09T10:25:01Z
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@whitequark @unlambda and 10x growth in energy use also implies 10x growth in water use, all else being equal
(DIR) Post #B1DOunqD2qcy2d7WZE by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2025-12-13T19:15:24Z
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@futurebird there is that joke in Russia, with punchline that an army soldier actually found his university math education very helpful, because when his gun accidentally fell into a pit latrine, he retrieved it by bending a piece of wire into the shape of integral symbol
(DIR) Post #B1hkM5ed7O4ZM36rXk by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2025-12-28T10:36:57Z
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@futurebird TIL that Audubon was a real person and not just a plot device in https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52764801-the-thirty-names-of-night
(DIR) Post #B1rH3JcQ1KrE4XMzwW by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-02T00:55:42Z
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@futurebird @nazokiyoubinbou this reminds me of seeing similarly seamlessly integrated induction cooktop. There are just circles drawn on kitchen countertop; you place your pot on one of them, turn the stove on, and the pot contents starts to heat
(DIR) Post #B1sF04TDsbK5TIM03s by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-02T12:07:33Z
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@futurebird > This new tech has not been explained to "the general public" well.This new tech has been explained to the general public in exactly the right way to misinform the general public on what it actually is, in order to generate more revenue...
(DIR) Post #B25ojCL4AlSZPTaTc8 by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-09T01:19:05Z
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@futurebird smaller but thicker
(DIR) Post #B28fFabP54FhrRuoi0 by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-10T10:17:00Z
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@futurebird they captured us by the nuts
(DIR) Post #B29Lb5eF2p90IuB5Ie by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-10T14:37:33Z
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Turns out German farmers grew too much potatoes last year, so now all the extra potatoes have to be consumed (the alternative is just burning them for biodiesel).This means free potatoes for everyone in Berlin! :boost_ok: They accept applications for batches over 1 ton until Monday; and also on Thursday and Friday there will be multiple distribution points across Berlin for picking up smaller amounts for personal consumption, measured in kilos.https://www.4000-tonnen.de
(DIR) Post #B2In2Br8W9dsYrzm0O by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-15T07:31:16Z
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@futurebird I'm an adult, and this looks like numbers to me. There are only four letters and too many combinations made of these letters, so it's unlikely that they are words rather than numbers in base-4.There are four single-character numbers and 12 two-character, with all possible combinations of the characters except the leading triangle in two-character numbers.None of the numbers (besides single-character triangle) start with triangle, so I'd guess that's 0. And another guess is that the list is a contiguous chunk of numbers (because at least it contains all numbers from 0 to 15)All three-digit numbers start with empty square, so I'd guess that's 1.All three-digit numbers start with either 10 or 11, further confirming the "contiguous range" hypothesis. There are all four possible combinations starting with 10, but only three starting with 11, so they must be 110, 111 (we already know how these look like) and 112. Therefore, nested squares is 2.Final answer: * It's a base-4 alphabet, encoding all integers from 0 to 112 (22 in decimal) * Triangle is 0* Empty square is 1* Empty square with nested filled square is 2* Filled square is 3
(DIR) Post #B2JiQHTcxwgYKbcwb2 by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-15T18:14:26Z
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@futurebird this animated film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boxtrolls had enormous wheels of (aged) cheese in it. Like house-sized.
(DIR) Post #B2JiV0DoXz8EGPTx7w by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-15T18:15:17Z
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@futurebird when I read "mammoth cheese" I thought it was about someone trying to bring back the woolly mammoths in order to make cheese from their milk
(DIR) Post #B2JvnLoUJ9XZqSiPUu by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-15T20:44:16Z
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@futurebird they saw my CW and reached out to me
(DIR) Post #B2KD2cPCbDdwrxkodc by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-15T23:57:27Z
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@futurebird once again we have four characters, four cards with each of the characters, and 12 cards with two-character combinations, so I'm just going to assume it's like the last time, base-4.On 12 two-character cards, we get one with two triangles, one with two filled circles, one with two squares, but none with two empty circles. Therefore empty circle is zero.Now from the card with empty circle and triangle we can deduce that if we write digits in the same order as usual, more senior to the left, less senior to the right, then the correct orientation of triangle is the one where the right angle is to the bottom left of diagonal.Rotating all cards with triangles to their right orientation, we see that in three-digit numbers, triangles only occur in the rightmost position, and in the leftmost it's always filled circle. This probably means that filled circle means 1."Filled circle, square, empty circle" card is oriented properly because empty circle is zero. But we never see a three-digit number with triangle in the middle. Assuming, like in the previous puzzle, that the numbers are consequential, we get that square is 2 and triangle is 3.The numbers on the cards are, in base-4 with Arabic digits:32 in the second (only) column of the top row.31, 20, 11, 2.113, 103, 100, 13.0, 3, 102, 12 or 21 (impossible to determine if it's upside down or not).120, 101, 30, 22.112, 110, 33, 1.111, 21 or 12, 23, 10.
(DIR) Post #B2RnIsDGH5HiilUNhw by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-19T15:46:44Z
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@futurebird @jacobyaudio > Doing things in NYC means go big or go homeReading this in the context of toilets is... interesting
(DIR) Post #B2bY0aKOTZtWJ8FIMy by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-24T08:42:29Z
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@futurebird ah so _that's_ why we haven't discovered extraterrestrial ants yet
(DIR) Post #B2bnruz7u3PJ2CBg3s by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-24T11:40:13Z
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@futurebird the humans race to conceit investigations
(DIR) Post #B2hBit9wPIz8m1ooTo by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-27T02:01:01Z
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@futurebird I forgot about CW and thought this was about Pica at first