MrEldritch

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by MrEldritch 7y ago
For future reference, "Luboš Motl" and "puts it so viciously, dismisses without genuine inquiry or curiosity [....], and plays so much faster and looser with his ideas than the author he critiques—you can taste his contrition
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
"Man why would they do that?" Security reasons, obviously. Can't have those poor, gullible "users" copy-pasting malicious code into the developer console, now can we?
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
As someone who's worked at a grocery store - the 4-digit code is also printed on those little produce stickers, and will generally also be on the labels with the prices on the shelves. Use this to avoid searching by name!
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
True, but all the nonlinear optical effects I'm aware of only really start to matter at very high intensities - so wouldn't really be applicable to the kinds of scenarios they envision, like directly feeding it images seen from am
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
The short answer: Nonlinearity isn't just important for deep neural networks - nonlinearity is deep neural networks. Without a nonlinear element in between linear layers, the "deep" is meaningless - a "deep linear ne
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Nostalgebraist is the name of a Tumblr user, whose blog tagline is "Trees are harlequins, words are harlequins" (A quote from a Nabokov novel.) This gets automatically appended to the page title for anything that gets posted on th
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
You are positing a catastrophe of such magnitude that "well, the value of my Libra has gone to shit" is the least of your worries. More appropriate concerns in such a scenario include "How can I acquire enough BDSM gear to we
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
One thing that frequently comes to my mind - rather than trying to convince people to move to a general-purpose programming language (and ignoring all the reasons that people turn to Excel in the first place), is it possible to turn an Exce
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I believe he acquired it through ex culo research, so him providing his source would be rather inadvisable on an SFW website.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I can't get this running at all , which is a shame, because I find the thing you're describing incredibly fascinating. Any advice?
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
The funny thing about all this is that I think - despite all his bluster - that Wolfram is basically right about how uniquely powerful this stuff is in terms of making advanced symbolic programming with complex data accessible and visible
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I doubt this will happen. For one thing, the dominant targets for Linux are servers and embedded systems - both of which are cases where resource overhead is pretty important. Running a Windows to run Linux inside of incurs a pretty substan
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
"Downvote as disagreement" is such a pervasive pattern that I Find myself doing it automatically even when I know that's not what downvote is "supposed" to be for. I suspect it's because I'm more likely
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I have a friend who believes that it is genuinely possible for a life to be net-negative expected utility, making suicide the right answer sometimes, and that he either is or may eventually be in such a scenario. He is too afraid to talk to
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Even sculpting and design apps would strongly benefit from force feedback. In fact, those are some of the specific things I was thinking of where the kind of precise movements that closed-loop control enables are critical! When you'r
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
The fact that we don't have good force-feedback technology yet is basically why we don't have great VR input devices. Being able to make fast, precise, confident movements depends on having resistance and collision to take the b
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Why would you assume there's an explicit blacklist? I'd think it's just that people independently note who gets a lot of bad press. Some people are just potentially a liability to provide service for because of the risk of ma
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
This same behavior is how certs usually work. Stuff with expired certs just does not run after the expiration date; that's because the cert tells you what server to ask for authentication, and if you have an old cert, there's
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
That's what I meant, yes. (I didn't even know that KeePass could be integrated with the browser, I've just been manually copy-pasting)
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
There was also an issue last year where every single Oculus Rift was essentially bricked because they forgot to renew a cert (apparently, what with the chaos of the Rift launch and the Facebook acquisition between the cert issuance and expi
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Bugzilla issue here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973 It's a signing cert failure, not an intentional move. Still... this is going to destroy user trust in Firefox.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
This is a goddamned disaster. I'm just thankful that I use an offline password manager, but even still ... I like FF, don't get me wrong, but this is going to absolutely fucking destroy user trust in Mozilla. This kind of incomp
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
As a temporary fix, go to about:debugging, and click "load temporary addon", then paste in the download link of the missing add-on. Then just try and not restart Firefox until they fix the broken cert.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
By "alleged patent timing", do you mean the patents are only alleged, or that the expiration dates of those patents are only alleged? Because either one of those statements is ... confusing to me.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
While that's a solid point, I think a critical part of why people look down on "clickbait" is the additional ingredient of "withholds key information to force readers to click ... and that key information makes the co
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
It doesn't really matter whether you would or would not take the gamble; it depends on whether the FDA would be willing to let you. (I'm not saying this as some kind of rrrgh-gubmint-bad thing. It's pretty normal for the gove
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
It'll probably end up "solved" in a similar way to email span being "solved" - if global spam starts to become a problem, you'll have big blocklists of spammy instances and general suspicion towards federating
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Honestly, I think this is the wrong way of looking at things. The Fediverse isn't really like a single social network that's shattered amongst many instances ... it's more like a bunch of individual, separate hangouts, in t
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by MrEldritch 8y ago
The thing about 4chan is that it's got a shitton of boards, and those boards are like kind of like, say, subreddits - they're pretty self-contained and have distinct communities. So, say, you have places like /pol/, but
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by MrEldritch 8y ago
It's not particularly baffling if you think that Western nations are taking these stances for approximately the same reasons as Russia and China are.

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