_petronius

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by _petronius 2y ago
Look, I'm aware that he's a liar and his track record from his first term should have made that pretty apparent to the voters at large. I'm just saying that the idea that "people voted for this" and therefore he has
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by _petronius 2y ago
No electoral mandate can make illegal actions legal, or abrogate the law. The refusal of the congressional majority to enforce their authority under article 1 is what is causing this constitutional crisis. (Also, Trump did not run on these
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by _petronius 2y ago
America as 70s/80s Turkey, just have the military coup the civilian government every time it gets out of line. Not a super stable way to run a country!
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by _petronius 2y ago
> But the people are getting what they voted for, so is it really ethical to intervene in that? No electoral mandate (and the argument for a clear mandate for all of this is thin or nonexistent) makes unconstitutional/illegal action
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by _petronius 2y ago
Impeach! That's the prerogative, and the enforcement mechanism, of the legislative branch.
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by _petronius 2y ago
It did the thing I hate, which is a cliffhanger climax, and instead of picking up the thread where it left off and providing resolution/denouement, it just sort of ... resets? The gold standard, IMO is something like the TNG episodes &
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by _petronius 2y ago
On the flip side, a long history of multiple paths through public education has led to Germany being a country where there is no universal expectation that everyone should/must get at least an undergraduate degree, and so inflation (in
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by _petronius 2y ago
I have found it (difficult, but) effective to actually make PMs sit with engineers and hash out the most important test cases for this reason. Especially under a deadline, it's easy for PMs and designers to sling mockups and stories at
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by _petronius 2y ago
This is a very cool UI, and I love the inclusion of the Wikipedia links. The overaly of a modern map as you zoom in is interesting, and very helpful for orientation. Makes me wonder how hard it would be to show things like historical coastl
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by _petronius 2y ago
There's a good episode of PBS Spacetime about Penrose diagrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4oYvSH6jJ8 It gets a little far into the weeds in a very "the map is not the territory" kind of way, but is fun
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by _petronius 2y ago
Maybe not forever, but we have really short timelines for product longevity in this industry, even at the hardware level. A washing machine or kitchen appliance that had to be replaced every <7 years (taking the timeframe from the post
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by _petronius 2y ago
I think this is a bad-faith argument, if you know anything at all about how machine-learning systems work (in general, and LLMs in particular), and I wish people would stop trotting it out. First, there are repeated documented examples of p
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by _petronius 3y ago
The relevant section is taken from part 12 (User Content) where User Content is specifically and narrowly defined as stuff you upload to the website services. I actually think there is an attempt in the ToS as written to keep the definition
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by _petronius 3y ago
Part of the reason for legal boilerplate, however, is that in case of litigation specifics do matter. A "known good" phrasing, therefore, will always be preferred by a lawyer giving you good advice, rather than an original and unt
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by _petronius 3y ago
The gravitational effect of a lot of spread out mass outside the Oort cloud (or indeed, a lot more mass in the Oort cloud) would have a different effect on the orbits of the planets than a single planet that we had not found yet. So for som
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by _petronius 3y ago
> Can someone explain again how an ML system scanning and training on a copyrighted work is different from a highly skilled artist doing the same? Three things immediately spring to mind: scale (1), accountability (2), and profit (3). 1
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by _petronius 3y ago
Women aren't more "neurotic", that simply isn't true (and jesus dude, 1950s much?). There is extensive literature out there just a google away on the consistent misdiagnosis and under-treatment of women, both as a genera
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by _petronius 3y ago
Since the article doesn't say, my back of the napkin math is that is equal to ~11% of the national daily electricity usage. (40,919 MwH / (128,819 GwH * 1000 / 365) = .11 and change but I may be wrong about how that math actu
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by _petronius 3y ago
The semantic space that "lager" covers in German is around storage/collection: so it covers concepts that in English are distinguished by worlds like "camp" (storage of people; and is therefore applied to prison cam
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by _petronius 3y ago
Pendantic, but: ß is not a ligature of s and z, but of the long s (ſ) and the tailed s (ʒ)[0], hence why when capitalized it is replaced with the double S. (Although there has been a more contemporary innovation of a "capital ß",
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by _petronius 4y ago
I really don't get the BER hate. It's not only a huge improvement over SXF and TXL (minus T1 at TXL, RIP turning up 10 minutes before boarding), but it's a perfectly good airport in its own right. The building of it and the b
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by _petronius 4y ago
I'm less worried about stuff like ChatGPT killing things off, but more about just making everything noticeably a bit worse. To take an analogy: bad voice recognition software abounds everywhere, not because it is better than what it re
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by _petronius 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_and_supply Confidence = voting for the government in confidence motions (or votes which are not explicit confidence votes but considered to be "matters of confidence")
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by _petronius 4y ago
Although "environmentally friendly" is not strictly equal to "minimum possible GHG footprint". The plastic bag may have a lower carbon footprint, but it isn't going to biodegrade as quickly, and may end up turning i
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by _petronius 4y ago
Maybe it is related to dazzle camoflauge used on ships? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage There the goal is less to avoid detection and more to make it hard to determine direction/orientation.
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by _petronius 4y ago
No, but Terraform has a way of importing it (via the `terraform import` command), although it is clunky to use for an account with lots of resources. CloudFormation (the AWS-provided IaC product) may have something, though.
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by _petronius 4y ago
Horizons is also available as a web interface (as another commenter mentioned), and if the orbital elements output (which is what you have there and is basically this data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_elements
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by _petronius 5y ago
> But it's disingenuous to mix those quality of life arguments with an argument about money. Genuinely don't understand why you would see these as disconnected from each other. > Tech workers in the US tech hubs live a finan
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by _petronius 5y ago
Honestly depends on the company -- I have no problem despite the fact that both of my degrees are in the arts, but I also work for a very international company (English is the language we work in, it has a lot of folks in it from nontraditi
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by _petronius 5y ago
As someone who grew up in the US, and works as a software engineer in Europe, I can't understand why anyone would ever choose to work as a developer in America. :) I have a very high quality of life here, strong protections as a perma

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