Majromax

24 ms·

301.
by Majromax 3y ago
> Then stop toppling governments. Not necessarily. A total prohibition there would give free reign to tyrants to oppress their own people or even invade their insufficiently-allied neighbours without fear of consequence. The second wor
302.
by Majromax 3y ago
> What would be needed is an intervention force that takes over the entire country and stabilizes it An occupation force is not tenable in the modern era. Per a Washington Post article from 2004[1], the post-WW2 occupation of Germany had
303.
by Majromax 3y ago
> "She said goodbye too many times before" I don't think makes sense if you're extremely literal about it, since I can't see what "before" would track to without the embedded past. It would grammaticall
304.
by Majromax 3y ago
> the "winning" strategy is to have high-level scripting languages where you can ignore most of the details, which call into hyper-optimized, high performance libraries. For instance, when you're using Scipy, you call into
305.
by Majromax 3y ago
The text does point out that the branch is somewhat predictable even for a random array. In that case, the odds of having seen the array-maximum increase as you scan through the array. For example, on a random array I would predict the fi
306.
by Majromax 3y ago
The version with the print statement requires the branch because it's conditionally executed; the 'continue' statement in the if-block will skip it if the loop finds a new maximum. Since the function-with-if version require
307.
by Majromax 3y ago
Because if two things happen – one totally expected and one very surprising – then on net you’re still surprised.
308.
by Majromax 3y ago
You're missing the context of Canadian administrative law. As other commenters have noted, "Governor in Council" means the federal Cabinet, but more importantly than that "regulations made by the Governor in Council&quot
309.
by Majromax 3y ago
In particular, for portable soldering irons the whole "plug it in" part is not simple. The small irons that are the target for this software predominantly use batteries, USB-PD, or QC for power. The former needs voltage measurem
310.
by Majromax 3y ago
This section tells me that the data is insufficient to draw conclusions: > The strategy goes as follows: we purchase SPY on a new moon, and re-sell it on the next full moon. And repeat that every lunar month. > Clearly, it fails at be
311.
by Majromax 3y ago
> But even so I can't interpret a requirement to be non-remote as "a hostile work environment", "extraordinary", or "unreasonable". But yes, it does look more like a termination than a voluntary resigna
312.
by Majromax 3y ago
> why did no one come up with this before? And because the effects of the problem are subtle. Supposing the diagnosis is correct, full-precision LLMs still avoid the issue through large attention weights given to meaningless tokens to g
313.
by Majromax 3y ago
> Historically I tend to try something on with employment contracts too - I return an unsigned copy to the company That doesn't necessarily mean that you don't have a contract. Barring specific law regulating the form (such a
314.
by Majromax 3y ago
I'm not sure that the Bitter Lesson is the end of the story. The Bitter Corollary seems to be that scaling computation also requires scaling data. Sometimes that's easy; self-play in Go, for example, can generate essentially infi
315.
by Majromax 3y ago
A Reddit thread on r/grammar ( https://www.reddit.com/r/grammar/comments/fxahta/does_the_wo... ) involves a poster asking a genuine question about the alleged word 'dwelve'. The answering c
316.
by Majromax 3y ago
> Expecting teams to do more than a master's for every desktop app? If that were possible, I don't think it would be unreasonable. A Master's degree is two-ish years, so about two person-years of effort. Once you're
317.
by Majromax 3y ago
> I hope you don't work in marketing. Hell no, but also don't mistake me for thinking that this was a good idea. However, particularly when I don't understand a subject well, I try to take all reasonable-sounding claims se
318.
by Majromax 3y ago
> Blue sales ultimately can't hope to come close to what big brand ads used to give. I don't know, I think the hope is there. With these rate limits and some Fermi estimates, we can guess what Twitter's hoped-for revenue
319.
by Majromax 3y ago
> If news sites want to charge for their content they should put it behind a pay gate. This is the 'trade journalism' model. Here, good journalism still exists, but the price is more than most people would afford. People buy
320.
by Majromax 3y ago
> There's no imbalance here: newspapers produce content, search engines/social networks surface and link to it. The imbalance is that as platforms , newspapers cross-subsidize content. Interesting headlines attract readers to
321.
by Majromax 3y ago
> Every 3 rides, you get asked "Which one of the last 3 rides did you like the best?". Note that this is a variation of stack ranking, which has incentives for the usual sorts of manipulation like avoiding "difficult"
322.
by Majromax 3y ago
> And this is why I always say that "but but but the mods aren't getting paid" argument makes no sense. Clearly the mods are getting _something_ out of modding, and that's their reward. That cuts both ways, however.
323.
by Majromax 3y ago
> Roughly half of the biggest subreddits went dark. And almost all of them are back (r/funny, r/gaming, r/aww, r/todayilearned, /r/pics, etc) As of this writing, per https://blackout.photon-reddit
324.
by Majromax 3y ago
I think the implied premise is that vendors are likely to score with a low bias, downplaying security vulnerabilities. If NVD completely re-scored submitted CVEs from scratch, then they'd replace a biased dataset with a noisier but unb
325.
by Majromax 3y ago
The protest has also ignited because of the "dry tinder" left by Reddit's previous shortcomings. If third-party apps were just a niche product rather than something used by subreddit moderators for moderation , then those s
326.
by Majromax 3y ago
> However, some characters require more than 1 byte in UTF-8; those characters might end up with as much as 4 tokens. This would seem to raise an interesting "prompt golf" challenge: find a reasonable-sounding prompt that caus
327.
by Majromax 3y ago
old.reddit no longer has a mobile version. The mobile interface was redirected to the new-style quite a while ago.
328.
by Majromax 3y ago
Reddit moderators do not directly deal with DMCA takedown requests. If Reddit is presented with one, they will take the offending post down directly. Moderators can be suspended or removed, however, if they encourage rule-breaking behavio
329.
by Majromax 3y ago
> I personally cringe when I see people trying to string together a bunch of drives on a shared USB bus for a NAS application, or trying to hack something around the single lane of PCIe or whatever... When by the time you get to kludgin
330.
by Majromax 3y ago
> What's the problem with Section 10? Per the Money Stuff article, Section 10 has a higher burden of proof. For a shareholder to win a lawsuit under section 10, they need to show that the disclosures were deliberately misleading,

More ›