AlotOfReading

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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
I'm forced to have a relationship with a bank that sends out iPad giveaway emails, where your chance of winning is contingent on filling out a survey with personal information. These occasionally go out on the same day as their periodi
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
Do you have any hard numbers from your community on how many cases had flock as crucial to resolving the case? When my community banned them, the police were only able to offer a single vehicle theft case as positive evidence, but the data
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
I'm building an EMR and there is a large portion that is CRUD, but that doesn't mean I don't rely on enormous forms or don't need client-side validation. Another way to interpret the parent is that the site sho
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
How long did it take you to review things for correctness? Like an incremental query engine is a few thousand lines of reasonably difficult code on its own, a reliable WAL is another few thousand, etc, and each of those might take me days o
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
That would explain why mine is increasingly lagging as it ages. Unfortunately, the libra H2O went with eMMC for water resistance, so replacement is slightly more involved.
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
I apologize for such a big program — I didn't have enough tokens to write a small one. - my coworkers
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
Like all advice, A.B.A. some pretty serious flaws if you apply it too universally. Automated solutions tend not to replacing manual work perfectly or completely. They do most of the same things, and the distinction tends to be forgotten.
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
I get what you're saying, but my opinion is that an argument that encompasses everything from local operations up the highest levels of international leadership is an argument about the entire organization.
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
I don't know why you're telling me this. It's not like I agree with the article. I'm offering it as an example of people who think DWB is political.
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
Quads make it feasible to write correctly rounded double functions. You can almost do the same things with double-double, but the result is slower and implementing most of the standard functions remains a bit of an open problem.
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
I'm not sure how you can read the article and think it isn't arguing MSF/DWB is political. A few quotes: Hamas operatives in Gaza hospitals, failure to screen out terrorists, and politicized leadership erode the Nobel
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
Unfortunately, there are actually people who believe that DWB's purpose is political. Here's an example from the Times of Israel [0]. [0] https://www.timesofisrael.com/doctors-without-borders-and-th...
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I'd almost rather Google scholar not offer that, because it might draw attention from the eye of sauron and deliver them to the Google graveyard.
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
Of all the evils normally associated with visual programming languages, enabling cybercrime isn't one I've previously considered. Now that I've seen it, I'm surprised it wasn't more common before LLMs appeared.
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
You missed the point of the example. The parent said any design that has to change with a single requirement shift is a bad design. So I gave a requirement that virtually any design would have to change to accommodate. It doesn't precl
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
It's extreme to demonstrate the point, but it's not contrived. Realtime deadlines are a completely normal requirement for the systems I work on. I have change reqs on my desk right now that specify a full reboot back to network re
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
Then I guess no design is good. Here's an easy example: take any software system you can think of. Let's add a single new requirement: it must produce an output in 1us. I'll bet your system has to change.
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
Taken directly from ssa.gov: https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/central.html I suspect the difference is that "full-time wage and salary workers" is a much smaller group than "all workers". I admit
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
The median salary in the US is $43k for the latest year I see data (2023). Median salary in the Netherlands and Germany was €44-48k or ~$50-55k. We might make half as much (rather less for me actually) because of our specific industry, bu
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
Care to venture some opinions on how "we" could actually prosecute criminals running scam farms in Myanmar? There's always going to be another criminal, and many of them deliberately operate outside the reach of western law.
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
The platform: 1. Takes money from the scammer 2. Tells the scammer how to target people 3. Serves the scam to the consumer, ensuring they see it 4. Takes a cut of the action when the scam is successful 5. Tells the scammer how to optimize t
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
I haven't used sim daltonism, but most of these simulators assume your opsins are fully non-functional. You usually have multiple copies of the relevant genes and most of them need to be non-functional for complete colorblindness. Most
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
Yes, all those non-European ethnic people in the low trust societies of 1990s Spain and Italy. Fukuyama's argument was that any form of factional identity breaks down social trust, including say, identifying a subset of the populatio
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by AlotOfReading 2mo ago
It sounds like you're being overwhelmed by the choices. Some advice that I find useful: 1. Start with anything . You can pick a book at random on the shelf. It doesn't matter if other people think it's "good" unles
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The way you've written your comment implies "high trust societies" and (presumably ethnic) "diversity" are opposites. The terms high- and low- trust society come from Fukuyama, who considered ethnically homogenous c
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The skill I wrote did both. Design would go through an adversarial round, then a signoff by me, then implementation, then critique rounds by agents prompted to specific types of issues. And even then, LLMs were still struggling to put toget
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I used to do adversarial critique, but I found that "agents can't identify issues" was a surprisingly long way from a good implementation. I kept finding silly correctness issues and shortcuts taken whenever I expanded testin
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The founder effect differs between small populations filtered from a large population vs a smaller parent population. I want to point out that the silurian hypothesis is specifically about civilizations removed from us by geologic time. Adv
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You need instructions to check the result type, and a bit somewhere to store whether it's valid. Most exceptions only add extra instructions during throws/unwinding. There may or may not be an overall reduction in code size, depen
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3 is not a problem for defense usecases. Cost is the critical constraint for defense programs. Yes, militaries spend a shit-ton of money, but that's usually in a penny wise and pound foolish way. A dollar spent on your proj

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