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by TFortunato 8y ago
Yes, clearly that is what everyone is saying. :-P Maybe: - Don't deploy a system that has this many false alerts (and that is what even the TSA calls them, they are not interested in finding dense hair) - Stop continuing to use this st
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Cool story bro.
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Sure, and personally I'm not saying they literally set a bunch of engineers out to build a machine to explicitly target black people. I am saying that they probably didn't put the same level of testing there in that they did again
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by TFortunato 8y ago
I mean, it is an option. The machine is one part of a hugely flawed system, and I think its totally valid to argue that we shouldn't be substituting a machine for, I dunno, actual human judgement. The machine in this case doesn't
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by TFortunato 8y ago
So can we agree that the system (which I'm taking to mean the combination of tech, people and procedure) is doing a really shit job then, because, beyond not doing what it's supposed to do, it's disproportionately singling ou
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Just because the technology isn't explicitly designed as a 'single out black people' machine, doesn't mean that it isn't disproportionately affecting them due to how it is being used. Just because this imaging techn
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by TFortunato 8y ago
The reason it is an issue is because the TSA is disproportionately singling out people for more invasive searches under the guise of, "we have this shitty technology that can't tell the difference between explosives and black hair
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by TFortunato 8y ago
On reading, this sounds a lot to me like "trial by a jury of one's peers", only the response to the system being (choked for democratic consultations / having massive court backups and shortage of jurors) has unfortunate
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by TFortunato 8y ago
It would be really nice if we started using URIs / URNs more instead of URLs for everything, and did a better job of separating "what" from "where"
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by TFortunato 8y ago
What bothers me about this argument is that there are plenty of other ways to make a news site fast...like just using straight static html content and minimizing JS usage. See http://text.npr.org or http://lite.cnn.i
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Thanks for the correction! Been a while since I looked at wireless stuff, but on checking it was 802.11b that used DSSS, but newer 802.11 standards use different modulation techniques.
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Semi-educated guess: 802.11 is a spread-spectrum signal, where you take your information, and use it to modulate a much faster "noise" signal. (Which is then used to modulate the carrier wave) https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Yep - and there are absolutely some cases where you do want to manually use it which is why the x86_64 ABI on SysV (used by Linux and OS X, still specifies the long double type as 80-bits, and why GCC and Clang will still emit these instruc
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Fair point, I was a little fast and loose with my words there, which is definitely dangerous when it comes to things like C language / ABI standards! :-P
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Yeah I agree that everything typically runs in XMM registers and that's what people want. I'm not sure what about the availability of extended precision makes it s a misfeature? For some cases it IS what you want, and it's ni
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Long doubles are typically 80-bit x87 "extended precision" doubles as far as I've seen. (Except on windows :-P ). It's part of the reason why LLVM has the 80 bit float type. https://en.cppreference.com/w&
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by TFortunato 8y ago
How do you mean? The x86-64 instruction set / abi specifies long doubles as 80-bits, and still supports them ...
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by TFortunato 8y ago
So interestingly, processor makers are on the same page with you re: computations, and lots of processors can internally do computations in "extended precision", e.g. 80-bit floats, only converting to/from 64-bit doubles at t
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by TFortunato 8y ago
(Note: Original title was too long, so I had to crop it) Very cool article about how traditional animation and cartooning techniques were combined with computer animation to create a really uniquely stylized film.
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‘If It’s Not Broke, Break It’ – The Animation of Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse(cartoonbrew.com)
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Unfortunately, this is conflating static linking with bad dependency management. ("Just copy it into your own repo", is a different step, that is unnecessary to do the second step, "and link it statically") There is no r
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Isn't this exactly what datomic / datalog are?
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Sad to see them go. I spent just under a year there ~2 years ago doing embedded systems, right before some big layoffs, and I really had a great time there. It's a great group of people, and I wish them all the best. Judging by the amo
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Hah! Glad to know I'm not the only one who reads "undefined" as "why don't you try it and see ;-)" I have to be a bit more careful though with this one lately, when I'm working on industrial robots vs. the
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by TFortunato 8y ago
I assumed it was a riff off of the millennium prize problems (which do have a bounty of $1M each), as a way of saying "here are some other very interesting unsolved problems" http://www.claymath.org/millennium-prob
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by TFortunato 8y ago
br3aer1t
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Absolutely! And that's pretty interesting about the "fair skin fetish" in the east, I was unaware of it. I'm not trying to say that this is because of European colonization, or anything like that. I just think that peopl
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Gotcha. And to be fair I don't want to just pile on, and criticize your reaction to it. I understand where you are coming from when you say: How about famous people get interpreted by different cultures differently", but I think i
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by TFortunato 8y ago
Maybe I was being a bit snarky, but "Colonising"/"Colonizing" != "Colonializing"/"Colonialising" :-P
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by TFortunato 8y ago
What article did you read? The word "colonializing", doesn't appear in this article at all.

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