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by KMag 3y ago
My insurance company's app sometimes detects commuter train rides as car trips. As far as I can tell, there's no way to tell it "No, I'm not actually driving now".
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by KMag 3y ago
If I understand you correctly, you're advocating for always supporting a minimalist COM-like object format. The object code needs to be in some file, and formatted in some way. That's fine, but it's different from being obje
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by KMag 3y ago
I'm not sure how much of it is just not allowing my 2-year-old screen time (and not owning a television), but his 3 favorite activities are being read to, playing in the park, and playing with his wooden trains. I wish it were as simpl
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by KMag 3y ago
Our current models are trained on data, not experiences, unless we're using such a broad definition of "experience" to make the term nearly useless.
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by KMag 3y ago
I'm pretty sure betterC1 output still heavily depends on the features of the object format you're outputting.
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by KMag 3y ago
To decouple from the object file format, you want it to dump assembly? Assembly output still marks sections, though I suppose limiting to .text and .data gives you nearly lowest-common-denominator sections. For very simple executable layo
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by KMag 3y ago
If a sufficiently robust integrity check is used, then an update failure is just a no-op, not a bricked (or even reduced capability) device, no? Now, pushing a bad firmware version is another story, and impossible to prevent unless the firm
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by KMag 3y ago
> Pain is a subjective experience of fleshy beings and a "smart" AI model, as described above, would place little weight on pain and suffering in its moral framework because it has no way to experience it directly. Can you elab
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by KMag 3y ago
Honestly, with flash so cheap these days, why isn't the firmware structured as two "partitions", each with a timestamp and checksum, and a small stub that (1) is never overwritten (2) is capable of accepting firmware up
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by KMag 3y ago
Dead code is a very specific term, meaning unreachable code paths that can be safely eliminated. You mean cold code paths, not dead code.
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by KMag 3y ago
During COVID lockdown, working from home, I dramatically reduced my coffee intake while not replacing it with other liquid intake. I was literally drinking about 500 mL per day during lockdown. I also snacked on lots of almonds. When my
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by KMag 3y ago
> long before our current high rates of cancer Be careful there. It's difficult to know historical base cancer rates, given recent advances in cancer detection. It's likely lots of cancer deaths in the elderly were simply cha
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by KMag 3y ago
Right. Last I tried, it's terribly difficult to get Google maps to show you directions for a bus route you just jumped on (and so it thinks you'll miss if you try to board).
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by KMag 3y ago
It would seem that the revenue-optimizing ML has learned that the median user could really go for Chinese take-out right about now (for all values of now), no matter what sort of food they started out looking for, so it's always going
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by KMag 3y ago
My first job out of school was engineering consulting, writing software models of pre-production military radio hardware. The client was a military contractor, and they paid a crazy sum in order to have 3 DAT tapes: one tape always in the
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by KMag 3y ago
Unless it was a recent incident, you should probably see a doctor about getting those stitches removed.
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by KMag 3y ago
Clearly, I meant conservation of rotational momentum, not conservation of linear momentum.
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by KMag 3y ago
I remember upgrading from a 4.3 GB HD to a 20 GB HD around 2001. I had the old hard drive sitting on my desk, and the new hard drive sitting in the case, both attached to the motherboard via IDE ribbon cables. Most of the way through backi
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by KMag 3y ago
The actual base rate of academic dishonesty is unknown. Maybe these students are especially honest about their dishonesty?
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by KMag 3y ago
> much more important than your grades. .. once your grades and test scores are above the level that makes them reasonably confident you can handle the coursework.
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by KMag 3y ago
I believe they're referring to the heritability of IQ. I think they're asserting that genetics have a much larger effect than environment on IQ scores. I haven't read any recent research on the subject, so I can't vouc
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by KMag 3y ago
Otherwise, failure recovery requires robust storage. Upon startup, you just wait until your timestamp ticks over, and then you know you're not re-issuing any UUIDs. With a pure counter-based system, you need robust distributed storage
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by KMag 3y ago
A few years ago, my wife and I figured out she has aphantasia. Suddenly, it made sense why she has trouble with navigating, why I have to draw things for her so often rather than just explaining the shapes of the various parts and how they
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by KMag 3y ago
The include is correct. First, includes either need to be wrapped in angle brackets (for files included from the include path passed to the compiler) or quotes (for paths relative to the current file). Second, the whole standard library wou
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by KMag 3y ago
See also: segmentation in many Asian languages. Back around 2006, there was an internal collection of quotes from senior Google engineers. There was one from a guy working on a particularly thorny issue with Russian search. He had just fi
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by KMag 3y ago
Allowing higher compression levels generally has a minimal impart on the maintenance cost of the compression code, so there's essentially only a cost to the user for allowing arbitrarily high compression level settings. Higher optimiz
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by KMag 3y ago
I suspect slarsOn is the founder of the project (also my old roommate). (Stephen, maybe post a top-level comment/introduction? Also, hi!)
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by KMag 3y ago
> Yes, but you should never ever have to call. That's what the GP was saying with "There's really no excuse for this: Shell had the information that this station was offline, but didn't have any automated action in pl
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by KMag 3y ago
But, the justification is a non-sequitur. The ruling is that the content, not the customer, was the determining factor in refusing the business, and therefore legal.
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by KMag 3y ago
I believe the point is that she would also refuse to create a same-sex wedding site for a hetero customer and would be willing to make a hetero wedding site for a same-sex customer. It's a subtle but important distinction. Of course,

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