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by HillRat 3y ago
Go loops define pointers for scope-defined variables at the loop, rather than iteration, level, so there's a common "gotcha" where you intern a pointer to access it outside of the loop (such as pushing it onto an array), and
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by HillRat 3y ago
The use of the term "currency" in the bills is probably ill-advised for just that reason, but states can, under certain circumstances, issue bank notes that act essentially as currency or bills of credit; Briscoe v. Bank of Commo
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The (Final) Oral History of BuzzFeed News(buzzfeednews.com)
2 points by HillRat 3y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 3y ago
That's ... probably not the best example, given the fact that there are a shedload of open-source databases of various types that have forced major commercial vendors like MSFT and ORCL into a corner. ORCL's moat is that they have
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by HillRat 3y ago
The current tunnel conforms to NFPA 130, which is intended for passenger rail and mass transit (whether a bunch of passenger cars counts as this is an interesting question), and is less-stringent than federal vehicle tunnel requirements. Es
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by HillRat 3y ago
The ZIRP discourse is a bit facile, but there’s a lot of truth to it, and a lot of tech companies have been kept afloat solely by historically-low WACC and a frothy IPO market; due to their inability or unwillingness to impose financial dis
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by HillRat 3y ago
What’s clever about this particular narrative trick is that it obeys a kind of conservation of disbelief: reduce the number of impossible things your audience has to believe in by having them flow naturally from just one or two impossibilit
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by HillRat 3y ago
Yeah, Sinovac was useless; everyone I know in Mexico who got it came down repeatedly with COVID after vaccination, only improving after they were able to get AZ or the mRNA vaccines in the US. Hopefully this signals better vaccines on the h
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by HillRat 3y ago
These micro-republics didn't leave any lasting trace on the land, unlike the successful neo-nationalist movements (e.g., Tiso's Slovak Republic) that landed on one side or another of World War Two. I tend to think of them as the t
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by HillRat 3y ago
Or, if you purchase consulting hours from any of the major firms, get ahold of their sales team and have them run the ladder for you. A GTM partner is generally more than happy to leverage their firm's relationship with the public clou
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by HillRat 3y ago
Not sure that paying for support is even that helpful. I was responsible for a few tens of millions of dollars in client GCP spend (admittedly, a small fraction of client AWS and Azure spend), and I only spoke to any official GCP reps once
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by HillRat 4y ago
In the US, advisory labeling (i.e., "may contain...") isn't codified in law or regulation; it's something that the FDA basically recommends as a good practice when cross-contamination may occur even though good manufact
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by HillRat 4y ago
He's going to be court martialed for a UCMJ Article 106(a) violation. Even if he were hauled up in a civilian court, he's got nothing to bargain with -- he transmitted classified military and IC docs to foreign citizens for the Di
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by HillRat 4y ago
It's not difficult to show a compelling state interest in the regulation of weapons and intoxicants, but regulating media companies is a whole different question that deserves at least intermediate scrutiny. In this case specifically,
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by HillRat 4y ago
The economics on those deals look worse over time -- they're spending over $3 in guaranteed payments per $1 collected on those partner subscriptions, which meant partner subs went from being mildly profitable (gross) in 2020 to a $10mm
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by HillRat 4y ago
Oh, that's easy -- Substack's raising on WeFunder ( https://wefunder.com/substack ). Now, whether you want to put money into a company that hasn't shared a balance sheet or cash flow statement is another ques
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by HillRat 4y ago
That's why professional bodies have rigorous standards regarding liability. Every legal AI product has to have an attorney of record who is responsible for reviewing the output and ensuring it's conformant to requirements. (In oth
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by HillRat 4y ago
There was an old USENIX symposium where one of the talks was, "If computers had blood, they'd call us doctors." My thought at the time was, "If computers had blood, they'd call us serial killers."
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by HillRat 4y ago
No security patches, 2 CPU/2GB RAM/12GB storage limits, and pretty much every advanced feature is missing ( https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2... ). In other words, abou
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by HillRat 4y ago
That’s not just misleading, it’s an outright lie. No fan of the act, but the screenshots he’s posting are the part of the bill that defines the types of technologies that Commerce can scrutinize in order to make a determination as to whethe
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by HillRat 4y ago
You can't be prosecuted under S.686 for accessing TikTok, with or without a VPN; the Act deals specifically with financial and contractual relations between foreign entities and US entities. So, sure, you could face up to twenty years
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by HillRat 4y ago
It’s remarkable how much of Kennan’s “long telegram” can be lifted and applied, with only cosmetic changes, from a Soviet Communist Russia led by Stalin, to a nationalist right-wing Russia led by Putin. It’s not simply “America and Europe h
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by HillRat 4y ago
The plaintiff is arguing that GOOG is guilty of intentional spoliation of evidence, and that execs deliberately moving conversations to ephemeral channels demonstrates mens rea; if the judge agrees, they can instruct the jury (or trier of f
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by HillRat 4y ago
Machines have been able to flip a coin for a while now, but it doesn't seem to have automated away any VCs.
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by HillRat 4y ago
The extreme backlash against this in the fediverse makes that approach a non-starter; you'll get defederated as soon as anyone realizes what's going on. Having said that, AP/Mastodon not only have poor search and discoverabil
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Reconstructing images from human brain activity with latent diffusion(sites.google.com)
10 points by HillRat 4y ago|1 comments
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by HillRat 4y ago
Writers always see the perceived misuse of words in apocalyptic terms, and The Atlantic is itself invested in a kind of elite moral panic over "woke culture," so I tend to look at articles like this with some skepticism. One thi
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by HillRat 4y ago
When I was doing consulting, we did an innovation project with {{HUGE_RETAILER}} and {{MAJOR_RESEARCH_UNIVERSITY}}, researching the retailer's desire to do micro-vertical farming, which the university had put a bunch of research into a
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by HillRat 4y ago
For an example of how most of these cost-sharing plans go, see this article on the implosion of a commercial plan that preyed on the Mennonites of southern Ohio: https://www.propublica.org/article/liberty-healthshare-he
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by HillRat 4y ago
McK also pivoted into trying to execute over the past few years, picking up some design and digital capabilities to compete for Big Five-style work. I ... haven't been impressed with their work, to put it mildly, and I'm curious h

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