Scarblac

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by Scarblac 2y ago
Several of these apps currently have end-to-end encryption, which means that no, they aren't scanned. Even if they were, what a state can do with them (falsely accuse me of heinous crimes) is a lot more dangerous than what a corporatio
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Because California probably has lots of immigrants from other US states too, and they should be counted too to make the numbers comparable.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Is that maybe including immigrants from other EU countries? If so then that's a very misleading number to compare to the US's.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
At its best, Scrum can be a tool to limit manager micromanagement (only at the level of a whole sprint), while also empowering the team to work the way it considers most effective because everything Scrum suggests as defaults (like what mee
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by Scarblac 2y ago
But isn't a beautiful solution to a hard math problem as enjoyable to some people as a game is to others?
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by Scarblac 2y ago
It was better than Raising Steam at least, in my opinion. Some characters in that are unrecognisable. His biography _A Life With Footnotes_ by his assistant describe how the last books were made. Pratchett would still have moments of clarit
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Nice collection of species! I think the Suriname frog (toad?) is my favourite.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
The Shepherd's Crown, it's #41 in the main series.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Monbiot's _Regenesis_, which investigates ways in which it might be possible to make global food production both sustainable and affordable, seemed very well written to me. Finally finished the last _Discworld_ book. The whole series i
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Bit it's useless,its circular. The definition must have something to do with the experience of qualia, that's the hard to explain part.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
It doesn't need to be solipsism - for instance, maybe half of us are conscious. But if we can't even know that, if we don't even have a test to see whether some human or animal is conscious or not, how can we start trying to
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by Scarblac 2y ago
> Consciousness requires a soul What's a soul? How can you possibly know that's what's required? Maybe it requires a blerpqu.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Text is also much more dense. What videos spend 15 minutes on can be read in a few. You can also skim text first and then switch to deeper reading where desired, et cetera.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I love the biodiversity I manage to get in my city garden, and never felt any danger whatsoever. My kids and I do a game where we get points for pointing out insects we haven't seen before. One year we had a hornet nest in a tree, but
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Google and Meta could behave like normal companies and require users to pay them money and not sell PII. If that makes them far less successful that's good news for competitors.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Not necessarily, that's only if it's financed by bank accounts that continue being money themselves. If they're financed by large investors, it's not new money. (it's money if its extremely liquid - the bank account
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Also, originally I think Machine Learning was more related to the field of Statistics than other AI methods that were more traditional CS.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
It uses the FEN, which is the standard notation for chess positions. And it's the right choice, IMO -- if two positions are the same they should have the same URL, regardless of the specific move order used to reach it.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Chess960 also has different castling rules from normal chess though, and the site can't know it should use those just from the FEN?
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I explain it using clouds. Most people know that a clear sky at night means it cools off a lot more than when there are clouds. The effect of CO2 in the atmosphere is less than that, but it's always there . The amount can be measured
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I explain it using clouds. Most people know that a clear sky at night means it cools off a lot more than when there are clouds. The effect of CO2 in the atmosphere is less than that, but it's always there. You just don't see the c
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I have autism myself and so do both my kids, I would love it if there was some way to lessen it. It's a great hindrance for me, all the time I want to do things that I feel I should be able to do, but then run into various walls. My
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by Scarblac 2y ago
No, 10% - 20%. The article says: > For the majority of people with ASD, the condition is a significant disability, with only 10–20% of children diagnosed before 5 years of age able to live independently as adults.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
This is about people diagnosed before the age of 5, they're almost all cases of severe autism. That's very different from the kind of autism you're talking about. People who are permanently unable to live independently have a
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by Scarblac 2y ago
He's already said the fee for you is 0. It seems he's mostly going for the university side wide licenses, I don't think issues such as yours are very important for him. Most people at a university who want to run a computatio
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I feel this is pretty low on the list of things I want from a test. Regressions should be rare; if you get a test failure when you break something's public API then that is already a success - we had the right test case! That you then
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by Scarblac 2y ago
In the US, or in Europe?
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Every day in the last year has been an all time high for that date, by quite a margin.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I experiment, of course. At work. And if you don't let people experiment during work, but only hire people that do, then that's a bad sign.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
The natural solution to big changes is mostly to go extinct. Except sometimes a happy few that somehow manage to make it, and then their offspring is like them. Calling evolution a solution is mostly hindsight.

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