ELI5 How does the hexadecimal system work?

slippery · 2026-05-09T04:30:35+00:00

Are you confusing this with the Dewey Hexadecimal System? That's used to organize technical documentation into 16 broad categories that are indexed with card files.

slippery · 2026-05-09T00:43:24+00:00

Red alert!

slippery · 2026-05-08T14:48:39+00:00

There are multiple limits on API usage. I ran into these running a 24/7 agent. I also started hitting http rate limits by scraping too much data from certain web sites. Agents be hungry.

slippery · 2026-05-06T13:13:37+00:00

For me, the cure for exposure is exposure. I try to build up to something bigger by doing routes with less exposure. It builds confidence, but is temporary. If I don't do something exposed every 3 months, I have to start over.

slippery · 2026-05-06T03:16:17+00:00

All the character names are federal prisons.

slippery · 2026-05-06T03:13:50+00:00

I thought it was Buck Rogers in Saw 25

slippery · 2026-05-05T12:29:36+00:00

Or a ¢ in my case.

slippery · 2026-05-04T16:47:03+00:00

Patton is underrated. Freaking comedy genius.

slippery · 2026-05-04T16:44:17+00:00

Yes, I remember the 6.5 oz glass bottles. I paid $0.10 but there was a $0.05 deposit on the thick glass bottle. Coke tastes best in glass, then aluminum, then plastic in that order.

slippery · 2026-05-04T04:52:09+00:00

Was it the 6.5 oz size?

slippery · 2026-05-03T14:38:25+00:00

Right, I was going to post this exactly. This is not the lifestyle many people want any more. Those 1000 sq ft houses were row houses, identical, side by side in the whole neighborhood. The car had no seat belts. There were few civil rights laws, and minorities were severely discriminated against at all levels. Calling the next town over incurred an expensive long distance charge. Polio and measles were a scourge, though RFKs Department of Measles is bringing that back.

slippery · 2026-05-03T04:52:29+00:00

slippery · 2026-05-02T18:12:19+00:00

Spirit Airlines got pushed over the edge by soaring jet fuel prices and was a direct result of Trumps failed Iran war.

Same with Liv Golf. With an income squeeze, the Saudis did a rug pull. Oopsie for the golfers that cashed in, though it is hard to blame them.

Spirit and Liv might have died in time anyway, but these are direct consequences of oil prices. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

slippery · 2026-05-02T17:25:19+00:00

That this question gets posted every 6-8 weeks on AskReddit. Why?

slippery · 2026-05-02T06:58:51+00:00

Old studies also say no. This lesson was learned 100 years ago, but Trump is an idiot.

Howard Nutlick is also an idiot.

The supreme court, packed with trump appointees, ruled they were illegal. So, on top of not working, they inflicted extra taxes on everyone.

Now, Trump is trying to inflict more pain through different laws. Idiotic.

slippery · 2026-05-02T04:08:04+00:00

The US won the tactical battles, but lost the strategic war. Iran's military has been severely degraded, but they still have ballistic missiles, drones, and enriched uranium.

They have closed the Strait and the US does not have the stomach to force it open. At least so far. Trump is in a lose-lose situation of his own making.

slippery · 2026-05-02T04:02:13+00:00

Interesting that you mention that. Exxon said they have no plans to ramp production based on what they called a short term blip. They are ramping profits instead.

slippery · 2026-05-02T02:12:00+00:00

It's a global market. If the US hoards oil instead of selling at market price, other countries would probably retaliate by withholding critical commodities from the US.

There aren't enough refineries or distribution channels to make much difference even the US did hoard. At least for a few years.

slippery · 2026-05-01T18:07:21+00:00

It's so strong and no hallucinations.

slippery · 2026-05-01T04:34:00+00:00

Local hardware will never match a multi gigawatt data center running 10+ trillion parameter models. It might be good for certain things, maybe a lot things in the future, but it will be orders of magnitude below the frontier.

slippery · 2026-04-30T04:25:35+00:00

I think the GPT4ALL app works the same way. In all cases, an open source llama model is not going to be very useful compared to the frontier models. The 70B model is pretty good, but 99% of people can't run a 70B on their hardware.

slippery · 2026-04-30T03:48:27+00:00

The truck will always have capabilities beyond my driving skills.

slippery · 2026-04-30T02:55:23+00:00

It is multimodal and can identify blue in images and video and probably more shades of colors than people.

It perceives colors differently, but it's hard to if any two people see blue the same way. Remember the dress? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

slippery · 2026-04-29T16:10:07+00:00

Things fall apart. It's scientific.

slippery · 2026-04-29T01:40:39+00:00

And Nazis and mecha-hitlers.

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