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by Guvante 3y ago
I dunno, I think "solution" implies thought was put into this risk factor. Assuming a security risk in writing to data read by the BIOS would be crazy 20 years ago. If you could update the image you already were inside the airlock
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by Guvante 3y ago
BMP isn't encoded at all. Effectively width + height followed by row ordered pixels. Hard code file length and fail if the width or height are different. Copying pixels to the screen is hard to mess up.
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by Guvante 3y ago
Renting for a discount makes sense. Buying without a discount only to then lose access is different.
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by Guvante 3y ago
As easy as it seems to be to just include an image decoder it feels like "must be a specific size bmp file" is a perfectly acceptable solution here.
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by Guvante 3y ago
I was able to disable the annoying programs pretty easily and don't know of any licensing changes. Or is this hypothetical?
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by Guvante 3y ago
Warranties don't last forever. If you find a manufacturer defect in a five year old item that has a two year warranty they don't have to fix it. It doesn't matter if it was their fault they don't need to maintain it fore
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by Guvante 3y ago
Dropping support for old versions is standard. As long as the window of support is sufficiently long it is a fine decision overall. The question is can Microsoft extend that support for a cost? Note they did provide a decade of updates.
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by Guvante 3y ago
50 ug over 130 years is way too fast > The reason for this drift has eluded physicists who have dedicated their careers to the SI unit of mass. No plausible mechanism has been proposed to explain either a steady decrease in the mass of t
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by Guvante 3y ago
Don't assume Medicare is denying zero claims. That is certainly not the case. 87% of denials aren't fraudulent does not mean they caught all of those and Medicare would have missed them. Also remember that counting claims is weird
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by Guvante 3y ago
If the law says you need to be able to opt out you need to be able to opt out...
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by Guvante 3y ago
Why do you assume tracking is required for ads? You don't actually need tracking for ads.
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by Guvante 3y ago
Certainly but there is no dumb option it is a trade off. They got in their head that users were stupid for choosing Apple when they wanted side loading but that isn't stupid in the context of "should Apple allow sideloading".
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by Guvante 3y ago
Depends on how much renting is. Waiting for a higher down payment while paying more to rent doesn't necessarily work out better. Additionally having an emergency fund afterwards is super important. Finally since prepayment penalties ar
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by Guvante 3y ago
I just make them tell me how to do it. If they are behind an annoying IVR they usually know how to get back to themselves. Of course don't take their word on what number to call, make them point to a part of their website that shows th
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by Guvante 3y ago
Writing your first one can be brutal. While using pre-existing packages can be super easy the syntax to make a package is not.
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by Guvante 3y ago
Poking fun at the bad phrase. There was no dumb in that choice. The reality is the author dismissed Apple supporting side loading as fundamentally impossible in a thread talking about how Apple should offer more choices. Calling users dumb
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by Guvante 3y ago
I like how you call users dumb for choosing Apple and clever for wanting to sideload. Or how else do you claim there is two sides here? Pretending that Apple is protecting consumers is silly, they have repeatedly said internally the lock is
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by Guvante 3y ago
I misread context window as training set and thought you were switching to SLMs. My mistake.
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by Guvante 3y ago
Except that if you narrow to a tiny training set you are back to problems that can be solved almost as quickly with full text search...
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by Guvante 3y ago
I stand by my point that people using synonyms for consciousness being told "LLM knows true better than humans do" is bad for discussion. The core issue is their "knowledge" is too context sensitive. Certainly humans are
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by Guvante 3y ago
You acknowledged above that consciousness isn't what LLM is and you likely understand that the poster was referring to that... The broad strokes you use here are exactly why discussing LLMs are hard. Sure some people dismiss them becau
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by Guvante 3y ago
You understand the concept of true vs false. LLM does not, that isn't how it works. You can say the difference is academic but there is a difference. What is the difference between a real good faker of intelligence and actual intellige
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by Guvante 3y ago
Not surprising, there is a decent value proposition in buying a thin client and leasing online compute. Certainly you can get a used PC for less but most new PCs start at $500 with limited storage. Getting a fully functional PC for $X/
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by Guvante 3y ago
Are we talking about Level 2 or fast chargers? Level 2 is similar in complexity to gas stations (beyond the handshake process being more finiky than trusting the user installed it correctly). High speed chargers are incredibly more complex
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by Guvante 3y ago
Not to mention only supporting your own vehicles which all auto update. Handshake false negatives basically disappear if you control everything.
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by Guvante 3y ago
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/09/25/Increasing-Apple-Versi... Basically what you said. Not so much "this could never work" as much "we can't test it so why claim support". And it is
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by Guvante 3y ago
You are missing a huge caveat of those tools. They tend to have limits in functionality. It isn't uncommon that you prototype with a tool and it is super fast but before you can launch for real you need to rewrite everything. At that p
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by Guvante 3y ago
You don't need anyone to get screwed. That only applies if finding a buyer is free which it objectively is not. Sometimes the effort to offload something for its value is more than that value.
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by Guvante 3y ago
Don't confuse the brew temperature and the serving temperature they aren't the same thing. Coffee grounds are at room temperature (when properly brewing) meaning that the temperature of the actual coffee is significantly less. It
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by Guvante 3y ago
If economists are to be believed that is inevitable. The only way to get true economic gains is by sacrificing something. I will say a lot of bargain hunters have difficulty framing their hobby in a way that properly reflects the time inves

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