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It's almost the opposite of how movies fake large explosions by overcranking the frame rate on miniatures. That fireball was at least 800 feet high. The wobble was probably the cameraman running, lol. I had my cousin from SpaceX over for dinner on Monday. He said the next two Starships (after...

The prep sucks but the procedure itself is really a non-issue unless you're one of those masochists who wants to be conscious. You just go to sleep and wake up and it's over. The concept is gross but really important, especially given the rising rates of early-onset aggressive colon cancers...

I don't train at gyms without on-site showers. I had skin issues for years while I waited until I got home home, even though it was a short drive. They immediately vanished when I started showering right after class. Combat sports in general are fucking gross. We had to toss a guy out of the...

No. The basic structure of LLMs does not process logic in the way that math requires. Everyone is working on the best way to integrate external calculation modules.

Raise 'em right:

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Not woodworking, but in the same vein I've been very impressed with Wusthof's warranty on knives. My wife and I got a set almost 20 years ago for our wedding and over time the resin handles all cracked. I sent them back for repair this year and they immediately gave me $1200 in store credits...

It does, he just said that's not how the product is monetized.

That's not data, that's you pulling numbers out of your ass. And I'm talking about the trend since the 80s, not just the last few years.

It's making a comparison of launch title pricing (exactly which titles, I'm not sure). The PS5 launch was 2020, so that was the last data point as of the analysis time in 2024. As far as the rest, if you think there's something importantly different feel free to link some data. I think whatever...

Secondhand account obviously, but this is exactly what my wife's team is using Cursor for (for varying definitions of "large"). They have an enterprise setup where the agent is trained specifically on their code base. They can tell it "I am seeing X behavior at point Y where I think I should see...

They are either the one who built it or learned from someone that did, just like now. Institutional knowledge is absolutely a thing and if it's not curated will be lost. I guess I'm just saying "Don't do that," and am expressing indifference to the fate of companies that don't invest in the...

I assume you're talking about the short/medium term where we have these GPT-style tools that aren't truly intelligent and make shit up. The obvious answer is don't use AI for important new problems unless you're capable of appropriately checking and fixing the output. If we turn out to be...

For reference, inflation-adjusted game prices: Game market size, I think NOT adjusted for inflation. The PS2 era drove a huge market expansion.

I fully expect AI to take a big chunk out of people who rode the "l34rn to cOd3" wave. They're the service economy version of assembly line workers from the 60's, caught out by the progression of technology. (But I'd question that the guys writing phone apps and already-crappy corporate...

Honestly this is just gatekeeping. AI is letting people do things to low standards, yes. This lets us use code to solve problems where high standards are not worth the money. If high standards are worth the money, then it will be paid. If previously high-quality work is being replaced with...

I was responding to the part of your post that I quoted. I don't think the price change over time has much of anything to do with the transition to digital, which is what you clearly said.

Prices are never primarily based on cost. They're based on supply/demand relationship with a lower floor of cost. Real prices of games have gone down, and they've gone down more than can be accounted for by the cost of producing and distributing physical media.

There's no way the manufacturing differential account for over 50% of the real cost. Games in the 90's cost $150-175 in today's dollars.

From the duplicate's perspective, absolutely.

At the cost of murdering you.

This is goofy. Games are a $200 billion global industry. No one buys games for pity. No one cares how or if companies justify their prices. Games cost what companies think they can get away with charging, and people buy it or don't as they think they can afford it. Maybe some articles get...

When we were kids games cost the equivalent of $175. We've got it great now, and the only truly surprising thing is how cheap games are now in real terms. I suspect the decline in real cost is part of what's driving everything to try to be a godawful live service product.

I only go to Best Buy because they accept batteries and electronics for recycling.

Huh. My wife builds products for health care so they have HIPAA and privacy concerns out the wazoo. I don't think they've reported any issues, but I'll mention it.

My wife runs a data science department and has been using Cursor heavily in the last few months. She says it's done amazing things for her team's productivity. Testing, documentation, commenting, standardization, etc, all greatly accelerated. https://www.cursor.com/en I'm trying to find the...

I don't think this offers any truly new functionality, but man, using something like this in combination with risers and dog holes on a woodworking bench sure would cover a big spectrum of clamping needs. That's some epic reach and clearance for downward pressure into the middle of a panel.

Just to be different, and I had the ground on hand so it seemed topical. It's also a lot faster because you don't need the full simmering time to soften what would otherwise be bone in meat. Eat it when the sauce is ready. I did the whole thing in about an hour. Not exactly weeknight dinner...

Ronda got bronze.

Today's culinary experiment - Coq au Vin but with chicken meatballs. Takes some time, but easy to execute and tastes fucking great. Recipe pulled from tiktok.

Just be aware with the cloth bag style dust collectors that they actually can make your shop air worse with regard to super-fine particulates that are the most dangerous. Think of them as cleaning but not filtering. Air quality is a deep rabbit hole and some folks definitely go overboard, but on...

I mean he's not wrong, a true viable third party would be one of the best things that could happen to us. The game theory of two-party winner takes all is not panning out in our favor. But not him or his.

That seems like the Right Way (tm) to fix it, and I'm pleasantly surprised you can get any tradesman to come to your house for $250, never mind complete a job.

I have the Makita cordless because I was already in their battery ecosystem. Would recommend. Cuts beautifully, better than my contractor-grade table saw.

Sorry, it seemed to me that the paper link was connected to your first paragraph. I'm not willfully ignoring context; message boards aren't a perfect medium for communication. A simple "that's not what I meant" is fine, no reason for ascribing ill intent. I'm happy to own my misreading. My bad.

No we don't. Experiments produce mass values where the uncertainty range includes zero and non-zero values, and as experiments continue to grow in precision over time the bounds on that uncertainty increasingly ratchets down closer to zero. Given that all experiments will have error, it's...

Photons have no mass. Massless things always travel at c. We know the value of c because that's how fast we measure photons traveling. As far as "why c?", I don't think there is an answer within the realm of science. Physics is observational. That's just how the universe is.

I can never get a clean edge on the big sheets because I don't have enough infeed/outfeed support to keep from accidentally lifting/drooping the panel or coming off the fence slightly. Tracksaw is definitely a superior method for breakdown unless you have a giant shop surface or sliding table setup.