LorenPechtel

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by LorenPechtel 5d ago
Memory allocation?? Why? Real world, you'll bump into limits based on fonts long before you'll get a buffer that's too large for the stack and worth using the memory allocator for. I can't see any reason to support mo
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by LorenPechtel 5d ago
Is there any local version of an AI that can do this sort of thing?
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by LorenPechtel 5d ago
That's Meta's response to advertising rules that they find too onerous. Governments keep trying to regulate businesses to appease the voters, sometimes they go too far and the business decides the sensible thing is to leave the m
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by LorenPechtel 5d ago
This isn't specifically business vs consumer. The problem is ruling against the guy who brings you more business isn't good for getting more business. And you have a related problem with big fish vs big fish (for example, arbitr
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by LorenPechtel 5d ago
The problem here is where he stopped. Since when would you consider letting anyone out at a gore point?! General rule is your skill takes someone into hazard, you are expected to get them back out of hazard. In this case, they're dr
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by LorenPechtel 11d ago
Yeah, that case gets even worse.
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by LorenPechtel 12d ago
Nuke plants are hypersensitive about tripping. The problem is they are required to maintain two entirely separate external sources of power at all times. Something drives it below two, the plant trips even though absolutely nothing is wron
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by LorenPechtel 12d ago
While I don't think this is entirely an answer I do agree with the general idea--utility infrastructure costs are based on peak load, not on average load. Solar cuts fuel use, it doesn't cut infrastructure. I would be more inclin
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by LorenPechtel 12d ago
The problem is the doctors have a big financial incentive to do something. Whether it's useful or not is secondary. Likewise, the patients want to do something, it's a source of hope. Remember the big flap about bone marrow tran
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by LorenPechtel 12d ago
Never saw those, but from the picture that looks too small to be a real gun.
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by LorenPechtel 13d ago
Doesn't make sense to me--too much visibility.
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by LorenPechtel 14d ago
The mere presence, no. The gun in the holster, fine. The gun in your hand, not so fine.
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by LorenPechtel 14d ago
Clearly toy guns. Gun-like, but nobody with the slightest understanding of guns would think they were real. I have no problem with kids having toy guns. I do have a problem with kids in public having realistic replica guns. Bright orang
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by LorenPechtel 14d ago
And Russian Roulette is 100% safe. Just ask anyone who has played it, they weren't hurt. (In other words, just because we haven't blown ourselves up yet doesn't mean it's safe to have nukes in the hands of lunatics.)
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by LorenPechtel 15d ago
Hamas is claiming a total of around 70k. Israel is claiming a total of over 20k combatants. Thus at most Israel killed something under 50k innocents, and probably a lot less.
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by LorenPechtel 15d ago
The problem existed anyway. Pushing it into open conflict doesn't change that.
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by LorenPechtel 15d ago
And you're getting downvoted because the truth is too unpleasant. Everyone else realized that the world wasn't ready for anything but appeasement, our idiot didn't understand and pushed it into open conflict. Didn't cha
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by LorenPechtel 15d ago
And you think Iran will get a bomb and be peaceful? They're already backing multiple genocides. A bomb is immunity from retaliation--until Israel can't tolerate the situation anymore and blows them off the map.
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by LorenPechtel 18d ago
All nuclear things fall off much faster than square of the distance unless you're in vacuum. The atmosphere is nowhere near transparent to any of them. An addition to the inverse square issue the behavior of the various types is comp
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by LorenPechtel 18d ago
I've had a pretty wild ride from being hit at probably less than that speed. I'm sure you've seen video of the police performing a PIT maneuver. That's basically what happened to me--tapped by a car starting from a stop
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by LorenPechtel 21d ago
The basic problem is that making the angle low makes the urinal take up more space. Businesses don't like that.
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by LorenPechtel 22d ago
Phones, 45 in a 25? I was taught that pedestrians are invisible. 99.9% of cars will stop, but not all--don't take the risk. Cross only when you can see that nobody's coming.
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by LorenPechtel 22d ago
Yup, this is the part that bothers me. 5 year old kid who has been properly trained walking alone--I have no problem with that. My mother was blind, I was taught safe street crossing from an early age. I do not recall when I was crossing
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by LorenPechtel 22d ago
She repeatedly saw him do it safely. Why should she think he wouldn't do it safely if not observed?
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by LorenPechtel 22d ago
And there's the problem that they can do this with no recourse and no defense permitted. I'm reminded of the guy who lost his Google access over "child pornography"--a picture sent to his little boy's pediatrician t
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by LorenPechtel 24d ago
Voter ID laws aren't about fraud. The amount of fraudulent voters required to sway an election would be a massive operation that could not be kept secret. But it's a distraction from the real issue: vote fraud by improperly deny
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by LorenPechtel 24d ago
And the government keeps the database truly secure? You're providing a single point of compromise that would be incredibly valuable. If nothing else, it would be cracked the XKCD way.
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by LorenPechtel 24d ago
I don't think there is a "full" state, but watching the changes as the years go by I have thought of collisions. Not really like a hash table, though--most collisions are with things that would be filed together. I think it
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by LorenPechtel 24d ago
There certainly are problems, but the biggest is that reality puts two other factors ahead of publishing the truth: 1) People don't like having their beliefs challenged. This will slant all news organizations towards the biases of th
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
I don't understand. Brokers quite correctly do not count the value of the shares because they never actually see it. But that's not the way insurance works--while dollars flow in and dollars flow out they are not remotely the sam

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