PeterisP

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by PeterisP 3y ago
The contradiction is not between saying two different things about different time horizons, but saying one thing and doing another. It matters little what you someone says with their words if they say the opposite with their money - if in p
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I mean, electricity is also very important, but that doesn't imply that everybody in tech should be configuring their own wiring. It's fine to do that if you want to, but it is completely reasonable to expect that most people shou
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I'm inclined to think that this is caused by prejudice against nonstandard TLDs which many, many services have; that it would work if the OP had their custom .com or .org domain.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The way the incentives work, if a store is mostly sure you're legit, that's not good enough and they would lose money if they served people indistinguishable from you; if their margins aren't huge, even being 90% sure may not
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Country of residence makes a difference for legal reasons, foreign remote employees are not the same as domestic remote employees. Some companies have an established process to handle the different requirements of a global workforce, and fo
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Well, NotPetya obviously was not ransomware, it was malware that masqueraded to pretend to be ransomware.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Well, no, ransomware is worse than losing all data on the device, since ransomware gangs generally also destroy your backups and also attempt extortion with threats to publish your data. All backups help against accidental destruction and
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by PeterisP 3y ago
> especially with phones that are harder to backup than they should be. That's interesting, my experience with a physically destroyed Android is that I didn't lose any data without any backups other than the default settings, s
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I believe currently most 'kills' of small drones are because of EW ('electronic warfare' i.e. jamming and spoofing, both for the control link and for GPS navigation), which causes them to crash or land in enemy-controlle
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I understand your position, however, I feel there's lots of wishful thinking there. The key issue is whether the industrialized first world countries would be forced to compensate the 'global south' for the damage of the glob
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by PeterisP 3y ago
It depends on the soil pH, where it's needed, crushed olivine is already used to increase crop yields (see e.g. https://modernfarmer.com/2023/09/enhanced-rock-weathering/ ) where it's close enough &
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Perhaps that's how it should be in a perfect world, but in the world we live in that isn't the case and doesn't seem likely to be the case - there are some local markets for CO2 incentives, but on the international level th
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The hope (and IMHO only reason) for geo-engineering approaches is that they can enable achieving a large effect with a much smaller political sacrifice than cutting people's consumption or preventing some countries from increasing thei
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by PeterisP 3y ago
A Belgian bank requiring a Belgian person to transliterate their Belgian name to English characters is somewhat similar to an Israel bank requiring to transliterate your name from Hebrew to Korean (which has as much relevance to Israel as
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The general idea is that you have a particular task & dataset, and you optimize these vectors to maximize that task. So the properties of these vectors - what information is retained and what is left out during the 'compression&#x2
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by PeterisP 3y ago
In legal documents you transliterate from foreign alphabets to the local one according to legal rules on how the transliteration should be performed. In this case, all the "incompatible" letters are a key part of the local languag
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The key point here is that it's not an English-speaking country where being limited to English would be acceptable. There are official state languages, which have official alphabets, which include non-English letters. There are legal n
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by PeterisP 3y ago
My pet peeve is online payment forms which ask to 'enter your name exactly as it is on the card' but require ASCII-only in that field - my name as embossed on the card has non-ASCII accented characters.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
To put some numbers to it, if we look at pre-revolution France then nobles constitute <0.5% (120k out of 28 million as of 1780, source https://www.thoughtco.com/french-revolution-pre-revolutionar... ) of population, the &
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The bombing likely was caused by a popular early-1940s London activity called 'the Blitz' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz ), and while it certainly had political causes, I don't think that it was
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by PeterisP 3y ago
It's definitely not optimized for someone trying to find the most promising trial, and IMHO it shouldn't be; if people are self-selecting into trials (and into different trials), then that adds confounders that can potentially mak
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by PeterisP 3y ago
A relevant quote about the change of affordability of certain things from the late Agatha Christie looking back at her early years - "I couldn’t imagine being too poor to afford servants, nor so rich as to be able to afford a car.&quot
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Those sound much more similar than their spelling looks.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Which most of these students will have entirely forgotten a few years after graduation - use it or lose it.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
If AMD really wished ML researchers to use their hardware, they could have put in the effort to make OpenCL or Vulkan competitive with CUDA with respect to ease of developing ML systems. nVidia did put in that software effort, AMD didn&#x27
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by PeterisP 3y ago
> I don't know how to create a class file, or a template (if that is a LaTeX thing). And since I've never seen anyone else do this, I guess that most academics don't either. Exactly, academics usually don't do that -
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The video evidence of the aftermath, published by HAMAS, is sufficient to dismiss the possibility of air-burst of even smaller weapons such as GBU-39/B, because that would have resulted in much more distant blast-wave damage (e.g. brok
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I think the key difference is whether people mean it literally or metaphorically if they say that something is an "existential threat". Inequality and oppression and war and climate change and surveillance states and slavery and a
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by PeterisP 3y ago
IMHO in this respect we already have built 'what we collectively want', however, the limiting factor is a lack of will to use or prefer privacy-preserving solutions. The society has voted with its attention and wallets, and it doe
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I think part of the reason is a whole generation of people for whom a realistic simulation of how nudging the entire cabinet causes vibrations and wobble would be an anti-feature, because they aren't intuitive to the current majority o

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