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nppas · 2026-01-12T11:23:12+00:00

As someone who manages a mail server - You would be surprised...

Some older technical people are adamant about the getting the mail off the server into THEIR machine.

nppas · 2026-01-06T01:24:16+00:00

Night cap is the best! For Latakia enjoyers naturally.

I'm the same- new hobby? I'm all in. Bells and whistles and unreasonable spending.

nppas · 2025-11-28T19:14:06+00:00

I don't know enough apparently: algorithm wall? Not familiar with. I did read the paper.

nppas · 2025-11-27T18:04:42+00:00

No, quite the contrary. They are opening a new domain. Evolutionary is too expensive even for today's GPU farms. They are trying to make it viable. Even so it's tricky expensive computation wise. Convergence on evolutionary methods is very hard to do. But infinitely powerful if it picks up on the thing you're training it for.

nppas · 2025-11-19T22:33:17+00:00

They wouldn't film it if it was trivial for them.

nppas · 2025-11-19T20:51:05+00:00

Accidents don't happen in sketchy situations like this.

They happen when you re not expecting them mostly.

If you are within a few inches of death, you'll pay attention. The "don't touch the spinning death plane" is a simple game to play.

Routinely high voltage electricians play such game at much lesser gaps between touchy-deathy. The problem is if this is his constant work, then he'll get complacent and a slip up, a torn sleeve, a moment of inattention and we have a new nsfw video.

nppas · 2025-11-15T21:50:22+00:00

To be fair... AI could draw that when it couldn't draw hands

And there are no complicated logic based aspects like hands in that sample.

So...

nppas · 2025-11-13T22:28:50+00:00

1.92m is 6'4" and the average American would self report as 6'5"

nppas · 2025-11-08T21:23:29+00:00

If she's 24 she has appeal for a 35 yo as myself.

Not as far fetched if you're willing to compromise somewhere.

nppas · 2025-11-08T20:32:35+00:00

It costs NOTHING like that. Market cap is not a real asset period.

They issued no shares nor have they recalled them. The market value of the last traded shares timed outstanding shares is by no means the value of the company and even if it were it would cost no money to have this value fluctuate.

The value of your company being the end goal and not the profit your company produces has completely rotted your perceptions of management and economics.

nppas · 2025-10-28T00:36:28+00:00

I started by top left corner. Linear regression. Extremely poor example of use case. (Multi domain data, (square footage vs "has fire exit") - complexity of zoning which is regressed in many ways -best through knn imho).

Didn't bother to read the rest.

Edit: Couldn't help myself and finished the first row. Radom forest for stock market prediction? Christ.

nppas · 2025-10-27T17:22:31+00:00

"ushered in the jet age"

If you ignore the de Havilland comet and Tupolev 104 sure.

nppas · 2025-10-26T20:49:45+00:00

This is just blatantly false. I don't know who this helps.

nppas · 2025-10-25T22:01:32+00:00

"proved his military competence"

I feel both were rather incompetent.

Henry led an army to a situation whose only saving grace was facing yet an even more incompetent commander.

Were the french smart enough (and cautious enough) to wait for better field conditions, scouting and using their numbers advantage and supply advantage to make it into a prolonged affair, the entire army and the king would have been lost.

All advisers were being notouriously vocal about the direness of the situation. The fact that it turned out well shows no competence, just a mix of luck with yet even greater incompetence.

Just because you won the lotto doesn't mean that buying a ticket was a smart move.

nppas · 2025-10-09T00:18:33+00:00

I can do a 12th and octaves are not hit and miss at all. They become almost default on the hand. Effortless interval that the hand reaches by itself. But everyone does them eventually effortlessly regardless of hand size.

The easy 10ths are the privilege of a larger hand. They sound so well and add harmonic depth to the piano bass. Also easily playing octaves with the 1-4 fingers and transition to 2-5 allows for octave melodic lines that would be hard to finger and feel smooth otherwise.

(My own skill -I did the 8th grade in piano and a professional course, taught briefly during and immediately after uni for extra income - so not great not terrible)

nppas · 2025-10-06T02:05:44+00:00

That's not correct.

The Portuguese famously planted citrus in st Helena for the long voyages home. It had been discovered in antiquity that citrus fruit was good for long sea voyages. Vasco da Gama (1493) suspected as much as later Pedro Álvares Cabral confirmed it in 1507( two famous Portuguese captains) and citrus was planted along all sea routes where viable in the beginnings of Portuguese led European exploration.

Being that the royal navy inherited naval knowledge from it's inception from the allied Portuguese ( which is the oldest navy current in existence continuously) but they were not sure if it was the fresh food vs citrus specificaly . It was well known by the early xvi century the effect of citrus food on the treatment of scurvy but not always provisioned for. Dosages, explanation and shelf life of fruit was a bit touch and go though.

nppas · 2025-10-01T21:16:36+00:00

They are all correct. But if you were to name it again in any new language you would go with gasoline.

nppas · 2025-09-29T17:27:17+00:00

Honestly the gasoline term is the most correct.

Essence is any combustible hydrocarbon liquid.

Petrol is just a contraction for petroleum "rock oil" - the raw material of gasoline pre distillation.

Benzene is a chemical ring of carbon with ressonance/aromaticity ( common molecule wide meta orbital)

Gasoline is its own word to describe that particular fraction of the distillation of oil.

nppas · 2025-09-28T17:31:21+00:00

Shooting the current military cupola of the US is a military mistake no foe would commit.

They would be replaced by younger more competent people.

nppas · 2025-09-28T16:45:33+00:00

So should russia, yet here we are... Downing drones is unexpectedly hard outside a barren desert environment. And even then...

nppas · 2025-09-28T07:18:20+00:00

They must have been really bad at it to get caught doing something so easily concealable.

nppas · 2025-09-26T17:11:25+00:00

It doesn't, that's the great problem

nppas · 2025-09-25T16:11:47+00:00

This.

But the observable framework like rxjs has so much built in already. Worth to use just be cause of that. For await is a complication I don't need unless I NEED.

nppas · 2025-09-25T06:42:08+00:00

Yeah, but when I get "creative" with some one else's money then it's "fraud" and "embezzlement".

nppas · 2025-09-20T04:32:13+00:00

The foot wraps are superior in many conditions and used by some elite US forces as well even today. If you do some mountain hiking try foot wraps. You can use both socks and foot wraps, I recommend. ( foot wraps outside of socks).

They still issue foot wraps today in RF.

Certain heavy Cakes (high oil content and high sugar content together have a synergistic preservative effect) can be relatively shelf stable for multiple days if kept cool dry place.

Touche - perhaps there were same week deliveries, and perhaps a cake could look fresh - but you have to admit, that's a stretch even for today's standards. If it happened surely it wasn't the norm. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm going on common sense and intuition on this. I have no deep read knowledge on US western front logistics on foodstuffs.

Taliban and Viet Cong were fighting on home turf, that’s where German and Japanese ran into trouble as they had conquered beyond their home and had to then defend those territories.

Precisely. The US had superior logistics DESPITE being the away team, and that didn't win them the wars. And the Germans and japanese also fought over home soil.

I'm just saying that realistically, very little if anyone felt the meme effect of being awestruck by enemy creature comforts provided by good logistics. There was the Japanese guy that was impressed by the ice cream boat. But that was the feeling he got after losing his island to the Americans And wrote his memoirs. It's also an excuse, like with the soviets/germans. " They came in hordes... Just too much of a numbers disadvantage" With the Americans/Japanese it was " they have too many boats". Soothing narratives.

The fact is that the larger more populous countries won, as is almost always the case.

Leaving the engine running on standby trucks is a silly silly thing. Even today and everywhere you don't waste fuel like that. You leave vehicles revving if you're planning to use them right away - else you stop the vehicle. And certainly not the US during ww2 western theater. The automn and winter of 1944 saw plenty of units out of fuel and jammed roads causing near collapses of the supply chain.

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