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A research team airs the messy truth about AI in medicine(statnews.com)
3 points by Sindisil 3y ago|0 comments
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Nvidia Open-Source Software Helps Developers Add Guardrails to AI Chatbots(blogs.nvidia.com)
1 points by Sindisil 3y ago|0 comments
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How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it(pluralistic.net)
56 points by Sindisil 3y ago|32 comments
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by Sindisil 3y ago
" just " need to "extract the actual information out of it and cross check it against other sources". How do you determine the trustworthiness of those other sources when an ever increasing portion are also LLM generated
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by Sindisil 3y ago
Only partially. Also, even if it were just a Dr front for Bing, it doesn't change that I got perfectly reasonable results for the search string said to return unusable results from Bing, so
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by Sindisil 3y ago
When I try that search string on DuckDuckGo, I see what looks to be pretty decent results, FWIW.
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Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of(theregister.com)
157 points by Sindisil 3y ago|135 comments
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by Sindisil 3y ago
This is similar to all the snake references around Python. That language being named after Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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SVB bailout for everyone except affordable housing projects(pluralistic.net)
2 points by Sindisil 3y ago|0 comments
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Developer creates “self-healing” programs that fix themselves thanks to AI(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Sindisil 4y ago|2 comments
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LLMs and Phishing(schneier.com)
3 points by Sindisil 4y ago|0 comments
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by Sindisil 4y ago
[2021]
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UB Might Be a Wrong Term for Newer Languages(matklad.github.io)
5 points by Sindisil 4y ago|0 comments
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by Sindisil 4y ago
Java and .NET are typically JIT compiled, so you'd need to use something like jitwatch (for JVM) to get the actual generated assembly for any such methods. Analyzing the bytecode can give some insight into how the compiler is likely to
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by Sindisil 4y ago
I do usually take Tamulosin when a stone starts playing road music. It seems to help, especially with middling and larger (say 4mm and up) but not as much as upping my liquid intake even more than usual. I've passed several without it
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by Sindisil 4y ago
That is certainly not "all you need to do". It is good, and helpful, but if a person is prone to stones, it's often not enough on its own.
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by Sindisil 4y ago
Increasing citric acid intake does seem to be helpful, at least for calcium oxalate stones (one of the more command kinds). I've had more than a few stones over the past couple decades, and when I finally got myself in to see a urologi
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How Big Tech rewrote the nation’s first cell phone repair law(grist.org)
1 points by Sindisil 4y ago|0 comments
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Security Report Finds JavaScript Apps Have Fewer Flaws Than Java and .NET(infoq.com)
4 points by Sindisil 4y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft OpenJDK Introduces Experimental Feature for Improving Escape Analysis(infoq.com)
1 points by Sindisil 4y ago|0 comments
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by Sindisil 4y ago
There should be no need to wait for permission to ask pertinent questions. The interview process should be a conversation, not an interrogation. If it isn't, I probably don't want to work there.
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by Sindisil 4y ago
Y'all need to get out more often! ;) Yes, Spring Boot is very popular, but there is a whole world of Java outside Spring, even if you confine yourself to just web apps (which is far from the only domain in which Java is used).
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by Sindisil 4y ago
All the world is not a web application.
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by Sindisil 4y ago
[citation needed] Reference counting is widely considered one strategy of garbage collection ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_s... ). For that matter, some GCs that are primarily tracing also
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by Sindisil 4y ago
Yes, both. Indeed, the fundamental question is whether the costs of automatic memory management (be it tracing GC or refcount GC) are "worth it". But it's not always as simple as a monetary consideration, and even when it is,
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by Sindisil 4y ago
Twitter post from Steve Blackburn (one of the authors) announcing the paper and providing a bit of context: https://twitter.com/stevemblackburn/status/15196411576216576... Haven't quite finished reading the p
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by Sindisil 4y ago
100,000% this. If I could get the navigation and analysis (go to def/decl/parent/etc., show/jump to uses/children/impls/etc.) all on its own, without auto-complete, type hints, or syntax highlighting, I&#x
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Summarizing Garbage Collection(eschew.wordpress.com)
1 points by Sindisil 4y ago|0 comments
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by Sindisil 4y ago
USPS first class "Forever" stamps currently cost $0.58.
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by Sindisil 5y ago
How many candidates wouldn't know that Meta == Facebook, at least within the tech spheres?

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