1024core

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by 1024core 2y ago
IMHO, it's the companies AND the government against the people. The government twists the companies' arm to make it do things that the government is not allowed to do. Company refuses to play along? Threaten to break it up. The
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by 1024core 2y ago
People in the West love to attribute everything in India to caste.
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by 1024core 2y ago
They (Congress? GAO? DHS? ) should have a separate department certify and monitor these sensors. Make it this department's sole job to keep this sensor network running properly.
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by 1024core 2y ago
How is viewing some bytes on your monitor "borrowing"? Whose copy of the book goes missing when you do that?
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by 1024core 2y ago
What are you "borrowing" from the Archive?
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by 1024core 2y ago
Why should an Archive need accounts anyways? This is like a public library: you don't need to authenticate yourself to enter a public library, do you?
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by 1024core 2y ago
> Last year, observers with the economic equivalent of a radio telescope detected a radiating anomaly on the February 28, 2023, daily balance sheet of the US Treasury Department: a $7 billion estate- and gift-tax payment. Where can one f
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by 1024core 2y ago
Phew!
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by 1024core 2y ago
Throw these into a captioning system to generate captions, index those captions with something like ElasticSearch and voila!
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by 1024core 2y ago
This is no different than the decades-old technique of "cloaking", to fool crawlers from Google and other search engines. I fail to see the value in doing this. "Oh hey everybody! I set up a website which presents different c
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by 1024core 2y ago
> The federal government helped kick off the gold rush in 2011. The Education Department, under the Obama administration, loosened its guidance on revenue-sharing relationships between colleges and for-profit companies. Thanks Obama!
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by 1024core 2y ago
Now we know why people like Ilya, Brockman, Murati, etc. left the company.
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by 1024core 2y ago
If these last only milliseconds, one must be really lucky to catch them, with the radio telescope pointing at the right direction at the right moment. Does that mean we miss the vast majority of FRBs, because we're not looking everywhe
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by 1024core 2y ago
> I don't think British India can be described as a Golden Age, when it was arguably the biggest transfer of wealth in history. It _was_ the Golden Age ... for the Brits! :-D
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by 1024core 2y ago
> The great mathematician Aryabhata (476-550), in his masterwork composed when he was only 23, covers square and cube roots, the properties of circles and triangles, algebra, quadratic equations and sines, and contains a decent approxima
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by 1024core 2y ago
Just look at the image: https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1167493371973255170/pho... You can see lamp posts and fenceposts. Fenceposts are literally < 2" thick! So the resolution must be on the ord
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by 1024core 2y ago
Is there a mapping from, say, a geo location to a list of Umbra files which cover that location? I'd hate to download 42TB of data and then have to grep through it :-D
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by 1024core 2y ago
These days the competition is so fierce that everyone's clammed up.
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by 1024core 2y ago
I wish he had poked around the Java code and looked for what might be triggering that.
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by 1024core 2y ago
Isn't this the same syntax (or very similar to) Apache Beam?
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by 1024core 2y ago
This is what happens when you refuse to hand over the keys.
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by 1024core 2y ago
There's this old story about an old farmer and his horse. You see, this old farmer had a horse that he loved dearly; took great care of it and pampered it. But he was getting old, and wanted to retire to the City, where he could not ke
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by 1024core 2y ago
> I asked Sundar [about Google losing the initiative]. He didn't really give me a very sharp answer. Correction: this statement was made by the interviewer, Erik Brynjolfsson, and not Schmidt.
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by 1024core 2y ago
I'm hoping these people don't have the $100K. We are talking about city/county-level corruption, shenanigans in the school district, etc.
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by 1024core 2y ago
> If this is a matter of national security, realistically, you probably should not do this Thank you for the concern, I understand where you're coming from; but fortunately, it's nothing that glamorous. It is about low-level co
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by 1024core 2y ago
I know I'm not the smartest person in the room, but I imagine if, for example, I use the local public library's internet to update it (and do it remotely by sitting outside the library, and switch locations at random) then my chan
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by 1024core 2y ago
> Making it so users have to go through that system The problem with that is then the regular people (the voters, mainly) can't find it an educate themselves. Which then defeats the purpose.
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Best way to set up a risky blog?
36 points by 1024core 2y ago|35 comments
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by 1024core 2y ago
It's well known fact among those who have anything to do with retirement homes: really old people with severe dementia and other such ailments have no problem recalling music, their favorite songs, etc.
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by 1024core 2y ago
> The system was allowed unlimited time; for some problems it took up to three days. The students were allotted only 4.5 hours per exam. I know speed is just a matter of engineering, but looks like we still have a ways to go. Hold the go

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