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by 13of40 3y ago
Yep, 2014 and 2018. Meanwhile, for the second one, if you scroll down to the "More Stories from NPR" section: - Two dead, 23 wounded in a Russian strike on a Ukrainian medical clinic - Ukraine secured military aid, including adv
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by 13of40 3y ago
OK, here's an example: A couple of months ago they were tossing around the idea of "retaking Crimea". I believe that any effort to do that should be based on a best effort assessment of the will of the people living there,
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by 13of40 3y ago
I wrote up a much longer reply to this, but I can't get myself to submit it. tl;dr is there are some basic things you cannot say in public today without getting cancelled. And I'm not talking about kiddy porn or extreme Trumpism
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by 13of40 3y ago
Also so you don't have to dig, a Tesla's battery density is apparently 200 wh/kg.
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From what I've read, the "us" at the end of octopus isn't Latin, but Greek, so if you want to split hairs, it would be "octopodes".
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It's the trolley problem. Do you let the war go on and kill 1M more people or drop the bomb and kill 100K? I actually wonder if that was the origin of the thought experiment. I think most people in this crowd would say of course you
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by 13of40 3y ago
I think that depends on whether the panel of judges is all humans or they have a couple of octopuses sitting there as well.
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"Our seventy-five Mustangs were assigned an area of fifty miles by fifty miles inside Germany and ordered to strafe anything that moved. The object was to demoralize the German population...We weren't asked how we felt zapping peo
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I took it as a metaphor for other types of engineering. With software engineering we teach people how to walk a tree, schedule threads, do matrix transformations, etc. in school, then throw them into a job where the big problems are more l
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by 13of40 3y ago
And much like a pomegranate or a crab, half the experience is taking it apart.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I've always found reference books a lot easier to get my head around than instructional textbooks. One of my favorite finds as a kid was a book about the Apple II that covered topics like the memory map and hardware registers, and my
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by 13of40 3y ago
I've owned several OnePlus phones, all bought straight from the company except the most recent one, which is T-Mobile branded and bought from the T-Mobile store. Unlike the previous ones, this one has strange behavior around app alert
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by 13of40 3y ago
I always thought the point with memory segments was that you could load a program verbatim without adjusting any pointers and do tricks like Terminate and Stay Resident and executing one program from another. E.g. Command.com and edlin.com
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by 13of40 3y ago
One way to mitigate this is to get into a position where it's illegal for someone to look over your shoulder. Barring one two-year stretch a decade ago I've always had a private office.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Well, that explains why there's a Ninkasi brewery in Eugene, Oregon and another unrelated one in the UK.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Just on the face of it, as someone who has implemented a handful of tokenizers over time and can read Hangul, the Korean example there it four tokens, not twelve. You can break that down more with semantic parsing, but tokenization is not
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by 13of40 3y ago
Regarding gladiators, one of the most crazy statistics I ever read was that about 500K people died in the Colosseum while it was in use. That was probably in the span of a couple of centuries, but that's still a steady stream of dead
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by 13of40 3y ago
Of course. Email, SMS, Twitter, and whatever aren't "papers" in a 4th Amendment sense. Fred Meyer coupon circulars on the other hand...we need to circle the wagons for those.
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by 13of40 3y ago
The part in quotes is the lead's manager talking. By the time you're being performance managed, your boss, their boss, their boss, etc. know about it, and the higher you go in the chain the more you're just a line in a sprea
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by 13of40 3y ago
Depending on the person, it can be true. I know through mutual friends that the first person I ever had to terminate walked off with a hard drive full of our IP and a prototype dev kit of a device the company was working on.
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No, it's all about the company being averse to getting sued. Even though I'm in a state that allows that in theory, it's not uncommon for people to sue for a six figure sum and get a settlement if you don't do everythin
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by 13of40 3y ago
> your job can end at the whim of a boss Maybe it's a big company thing, but every time I've had to end someone's job it took several months of performance management and about 50 to 100 pages of documentation. Imagine ab
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> revenge porn I would assert that just as I have the right to pull out a sheet of paper and write the most vile, libelous thing on it I can imagine, I have the right to use AI to put anyone's face on any body, naked or not. The cr
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by 13of40 3y ago
I'm sure someone has thought of this before, but there's x86 as the full ISA, and there's x86 as gcc (or whatever) actually uses it. What if you had one or two cores that actually run x86 and the rest just run a reasonable s
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by 13of40 3y ago
One issue with that is that people tend to come in pairs. What good is it to the couple if the woman can immigrate but the man can't?
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The thing I always hated about BASIC in the olden days was nobody ever wanted to make it a first class citizen. Even on a 5150 PC running DOS there was no concept of running DONKEY.BAS from the command line, like a normal program. For pla
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by 13of40 3y ago
If he was born there but lived in the US for 50 years, would it be fair to call him a Dutch-American?
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No segment registers, as well. A byte of memory is just where it says it is, and you can access [n] and [n+100000] in one breath.
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Bill Gates claimed that at one of the Microsoft company meetings in the early 2000s.
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I don't know if it's necessarily the activity as much as the adherence to the same route that feels sad. At the same time, it's not that I feel sad for the guy, but I think it would drive me nuts if I did that. Reading abou

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