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by adamsb6 2y ago
They deleted it, was here: https://www.theonion.com/articles/special-olympics-tball-sta...
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by adamsb6 2y ago
That graph of expenditures is nuts. The hold-driven purchasing is more than 50% larger than the other categories of new titles and renewals. Does every library do this? I know when I want something popular from King County Public Library I
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Among news sites that would ever run stories about Facebook, the share that have run critical news stories about Facebook has to be close to 100%.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Mature products don't have enough scope for Google engineers to get good performance reviews. Maybe you could spin up a lower tier of engineers who aren't on the same career track and exist only to maintain mature/deprecated
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by adamsb6 3y ago
People claming to be witnesses to the resurrected Christ spent the rest of their lives executing on the Great Commission, going as far as India, Russia, Spain, and Carthage. Many did so under the threat of torture and death, and many were t
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by adamsb6 3y ago
The leap from "we are in a simulation" to "some pieces of bread have a tag that marks them as belonging to the body of Christ" is rather small. That's not that much data. It's really not that remarkable once yo
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by adamsb6 3y ago
They have two levers, whether or not to extend credit at all and what interest rate to charge.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
There are two kinds of security. Nearly all of corporate America practices security by checklist and certification. This is not real security, it’s just CYA for careerists and legal challenges. Actual security is hard and almost no one does
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Defense contractors like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have large incentives to promote conflict and intervention, but how much business do American gun manufacturers even do with militaries? I can’t find numbers, but my intuition is that in
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Normies, which are the bulk of who they need to appeal to, don’t care about Tay and they don’t care about this, at least the culture war aspect. They do care about the tools being useful, and this kind of prompt mangling does make the tool
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by adamsb6 3y ago
They created a mirror. They didn’t like that the mirror showed reality, so they made it into a one way race-changing funhouse mirror.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
That the plane landed safely is not an indication that every part of the post-incident process went well. There could be steps that weren't followed, there could have been training gaps. There could have been secondary impacts of sudde
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by adamsb6 3y ago
There's an interesting discussion to be had about informed consent in a medical context, and what really counts. I think taking a maximalist view of "this person actually knows what they're signing up for" would lead to
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Walk around any Chinese city and you’ll see hundreds of small businesses, as well as evidence of massive conglomerates. That the state reserves the right to interfere as it sees fit doesn’t make it not capitalist. Unless the current chip wa
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Steve Hsu has had guests on his podcasts saying exactly this. There was already a domestic semiconductor industry but big players almost never used them since the big semiconductor companies were such a safe bet. Well, now they’re forced to
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Thanks for the correction. My own state of Washington mandated boater education only about ten years ago, I assumed it was an early mover given how much navigable water we have.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
One perspective I found illuminating recently: US debt in practical terms is financed by creditors showing up for treasury auctions. The biggest two holders of our treasury bills, Japan and China, are scaling down how much they’re willing t
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by adamsb6 3y ago
In most states no training at all is required to operate a boat, and I don’t think there are any specific requirements around autopilot. The earliest autopilot for boats was built in the 1800s.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Not terribly in depth, but this is about the evidence I referenced: https://apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-technology-wisco... IMHO any upscaling in court should be strictly squaring existing pixels, along with he
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Even photo and video evidence suffers from courtrooms that don’t understand how nearly all cameras will record and encode images. JPEG encoding (and thus MPEG encoding) takes 8x8 blocks of pixels and represents them as a discrete cosine tra
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by adamsb6 3y ago
“corporations will try to raise prices when they think they can get away with it” is just firms being firms and has no additional explanatory power. This has some explanatory power: they can get away with charging more dollars because more
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Its model is government agents knocking on your door to verify you’re not watching without a license.
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PoE switch with a big UPS so that recording does not stop in case of power outages.
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I grew up poor and in an underfunded school system as well. The ever-present reminder of this was buckets collecting drips from leaks in roofs. At one point in high school we exhausted our paper budget. Some teachers were able to locate a b
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I'm very curious what definition of safety they were using. Maybe that's where the disagreement lies. AI safety of the form "it doesn't try to kill us" is a very difficult but very important problem to be solved. AI
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I think LLMs have revealed that we have at least two ways of thinking. One is analogous to how LLMs operate and is essentially next token prediction. Think of your mental state when you’re very engrossed in conversation. It’s not a truly co
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Relevant auto tune the news: https://youtu.be/1dqTrUpmwPg
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This is how the big cloud vendors do, see OCP server and rack designs for an example. IIRC the rack connects to one leg of a three phase and converts to DC inside the rack’s UPS. It’s great for efficiency, but makes a hassle bringing in thi
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If it didn't take years to even get permission to start building something in the Bay Area they could have already built something.
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> I didn’t mention my other reasons for wanting to stay in Minnesota because it wasn’t the reviewers’ business; normally, employers aren’t allowed to ask about spouses or children. My interview training at Big Tech forbade me from even a

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