Jiro

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by Jiro 3y ago
"Writes drivers to allow 235 webcams to work" is not the same thing as "writes 235 webcam drivers".
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by Jiro 3y ago
Here you go. https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706455 There is a workaround by manually editing a script to call gs in a different way, but the original way doesn't work and they won't fix it, and the s
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by Jiro 3y ago
An "English speaking Cleopatra" is, unless there's a specific in-story reason to speak English, not actually speaking English within the context of the story. The English is just there so the viewer can understand it.
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by Jiro 3y ago
> If somebody wants to experience it as it was originally created, it can still be made available. Not unless it's out of copyright.
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by Jiro 3y ago
>Note that platforms are still allowed to block for any reason regardless of the outcome in this case. What's to prevent the politician from just using social media run by a company who is friendly to him and will block people with
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by Jiro 3y ago
>If a card shows an even number on one side, then its opposite side is blue. As the problem fails to specify that the card has a number on one side and a color on the other, you need to check three cards.
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by Jiro 3y ago
I'm on GGn. Where do I go to look for invites?
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by Jiro 4y ago
>Because they wanted to support a family man that was dedicated to providing a good living for his family, who also worked for him. If you want to give someone money based on whether they deserve it, rather than in a market transaction b
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by Jiro 4y ago
>We cannot not wait until someone is objectively dangerous before using state power to constrain their liberty in the interests of other people’s security, because any other course of action is arbitrary tyranny Not true. There are nonv
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by Jiro 4y ago
The Wikipedia article helpfully links to an article about "mass shootings in the United States" and the first figure is 90 in a 46 year period. The Onion article claims two a month, so in 46 years you would expect 1104, which nee
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by Jiro 4y ago
Unless the bug is actually ten years old and nobody will fix it because it's too old. https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706455
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by Jiro 4y ago
>All the guns also cause a bunch of small kids to kill their siblings every year. No they don't, unless you're going to quibble about what a bunch is. Numbers that seem to show lots of deaths to "kids" pretty much al
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by Jiro 4y ago
>ByteDance isn't under the direct authority at any given moment of CCP, but, they will, at any time, receive arbitrary orders for any particular reason, and they will follow them. If Musk hadn't bought Twitter, we never would h
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by Jiro 4y ago
>According to multiple Supreme Court decisions, corporations are people and have the same rights as people do, No they don't. "Natural persons" have rights which corporations don't. For instance, corporations can&#x
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by Jiro 4y ago
>People like this never pause to ask why they spend so much time thinking about things that they say are ridiculous fictions. Because belief in fictional things can have enormous consequences for society. The things may be fictional, bu
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by Jiro 4y ago
I would imagine that its training data inclucded millions of chess games and not many tic-tac-toe games.
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by Jiro 4y ago
That headline would pass the pedants, but it would have another problem: It's not sensationalized, so nobody would care about it. The whole point of saying that it's "simpler" is for the wow factor of "obviously thi
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by Jiro 4y ago
I am not convinced this means they are fake. I'd expect any image enhancement using good AI to depend on the surrounding areas. This could plausibly cause a blank square to be filled in when the surrounding areas have data, while a b
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by Jiro 4y ago
Outside of weird edge cases (like mushrooms), how does this work when the plants use the sunlight and so do the solar panels?
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by Jiro 4y ago
My first reaction is "we have no idea if the BBC actually did this for the stated reasons at all, or whether they are refusing to show it for some other reason and are blaming outside groups to deflect the blame and/or to make a p
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by Jiro 4y ago
It's like asking "would you believe in homeopathy if doctors all told you that it was correct?" To which the answer is "Doctors believe things for reasons. You can't just flip a switch and change what doctors think
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by Jiro 4y ago
>First, using Harvard as an example, 25-28% or so of the entering class is Asian. Given that Asians-Americans are about 6% of the US, this hardly smacks of systemic racism. Something doesn’t add up with this argument. There's a larg
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by Jiro 4y ago
They're not going to walk out of a jail cell either. When the government bans something, that's not a polite request. It's backed up by men with guns. How they could possibly think they could get away with just not obeying
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by Jiro 4y ago
I think there's a difference between "I don't like the Beatles" and those critics. You're not claiming that you're representative of a whole population or that the things you don't like about the Beatles
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by Jiro 4y ago
Wikipedia problems with political articles are caused by people actively biasing the articles. You cannot just modify the article; it'd get reverted for, at best, going against consensus. Someone gave an example above where a person c
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by Jiro 4y ago
There's actually a very simple argument: The existing system has been used as a workaround by activists to defacto teach things that shouldn't be taught to students. Keeping the books out of the library is the best practical me
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by Jiro 4y ago
If some percentage of panicky people have good coping mechanisms, but averaged over all panicky people, having a good coping mechanism is still less likely than for non-panicky people, then it's still efficient to filter out all the pa
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by Jiro 4y ago
You can ignore something "annoying" done by another party. You can't ignore a lawsuit. Lawsuits are enforced by a government and legal system that you have no choice but to participate in, and if you lose, the government ca
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by Jiro 4y ago
Both sides have grievances. You could equally well say that Madison Square Garden has a grievance against the lawyers. Even Wikipedia blocks people who have made legal threats. You don't even have to actually sue. https:/&#x2F
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by Jiro 4y ago
You mean the efficiency of government legal regulations.

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