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by ajnin 5y ago
Can someone enlighten me how this paves the way to AGI? At the surface this looks like a rather mundane optimization problem.
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by ajnin 5y ago
Sorry but being insulting is not going to make your argument more convincing. Pretending that somehow NK and Pakistan have more nuclear capabilities that FR or UK is a joke.
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by ajnin 5y ago
Not sure why you think North Korea and Pakistan can project and not France and UK which both have nuclear attack submarines. The heart of nuclear detterrence lies in those submarines that can cause second strike MAD.
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by ajnin 5y ago
Steam is very convenient for users, many people won't even consider buying a game if it's not on Steam. I guess they have more potential sales this way.
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by ajnin 5y ago
The main problem with that idea is that rockets are incredibly loud and noisy. You couldn't launch anywhere close to population centers, where the transportation needs are, and if you need to take a boat to get to a launch platform far
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by ajnin 5y ago
I think it's a good approach but I would do it the opposite way : create an UnsafeString and use that whenever your program takes external inputs. Then make it so that this UnsafeString can't be used directly but must always be co
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by ajnin 5y ago
In that example he's not blurring in the usual sense, he's replacing the whole image by a single average value. Blurring is mathematically a convolutions product of an image that can be represented as a function f and a kernel g.
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by ajnin 5y ago
He's missing one key fact in his analysis which makes the conclusion incorrect, imho : early computers were really, really slow ! Early mechanical or relay computers for example had dedicated hardware to compute multiplications or divi
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by ajnin 5y ago
I don't know is that's "correct" bit what I use is KeePass with the KeeAgent plugin, which acts as an SSH agent. The keystore is stored on a nextcloud instance which allows to share the key easily between multiple hosts.
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by ajnin 5y ago
Another related piece of advice is that you should not use blur to hide sensitive information because blur is actually a mathematically reversible operation ! It's quite surprising at first but the information is still there, it has ju
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by ajnin 5y ago
polkit is a freedesktop.org project, convincing Linus to break userspace is an easier deal than getting them to admit fault. (joking)
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IEEE 802.11bf: Toward Ubiquitous Wi-Fi Sensing(arxiv.org)
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by ajnin 5y ago
> As the Fukushima disaster unfolded in Japan in 2011, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a dramatic decision that delighted her country’s anti-nuclear movement: all reactors would be ditched. What couldn’t have been predicted was
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by ajnin 5y ago
Could you share some details about that defect metric and how you implemented it? Sounds interesting.
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by ajnin 5y ago
He lists those in one of the follow-up tweets : > The primary duties and functions of the Board of Auditors include: > > - Acting as a fiscal watchdog for the citizens of the township > - Auditing, settling, and adjusting th
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by ajnin 5y ago
Well, I'm not that confident. If the "offender" happens to be friends with "the state", that is, the party in power, then it's very likely that not much will happen, the executive will be happy to let them be,
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by ajnin 5y ago
Sounds like the hairy ball theorem ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem )
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by ajnin 5y ago
> Potentially capable of resolving exoplanets I was curious about that claim, so I did a bit of research and made a "back of the envelope" calculation. According to Wikipedia [1], the angular resolution of a telescope is propor
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by ajnin 5y ago
Blunt needles are a thing. They are used for example in electronics as a way to dispense tiny amounts of solder paste or flux on components pads on a PCB. Presumably when transferring solutions from container to container, you don't ne
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by ajnin 5y ago
"Safety" is the capability to exert your individual freedoms freely. If, to ensure that safety, you suppressed the freedoms, then you've failed. But we're not talking about fighting crime here, but companies tracking wha
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by ajnin 5y ago
In retrospect my comment was probably too harsh. Thanks for providing an escape hatch, but it's practically impossible to create an anonymous gmail account.
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by ajnin 5y ago
He was replying to a comment about the "Acceptable Ads" policy so he was clearly talking about uBlock, not uBlock Origin. I think the story of how uBlock was transfered and then managed in a way that was not what you wished is pre
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by ajnin 5y ago
This project seems to work under the pretense of fighting the spammers. Maybe it actually does. But it also deprives people of their right to not be tracked constantly, to remain anonymous. A world with no crime is a world without individua
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by ajnin 5y ago
The day I realized that is the day I stopped using MySQL. It was a very long time ago, I was burned by this exact issue. I don't know what's more fundamental to a database than storing the data you ask it to. If it's storing
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by ajnin 5y ago
Here's another example that you might be more familiar with : let's say that year N there is a specific laptop available for sale for $1200. Year N+3 you can still find for sale that laptop which still costs $1200 but which has im
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by ajnin 5y ago
I'm puzzled by this. It seems obvious that Robin committed some kind of fraud against Upwork by using someone else's credit card. Upwork should be asking him to pay his debt, not OP who (says he) didn't breach his contract. I
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by ajnin 5y ago
What's the legality of all this? I assume refusing to install ProctorU will fail your exam, so you don't really have a choice, when the process presents you with all kinds of check boxes and consent forms it's mostly doing th
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by ajnin 5y ago
With this you can't easily search for files that have multiple tags, the whole point of tags is that you can use them to find set intersections.
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by ajnin 5y ago
Only if the SMTP client is following the RFC but being spammers they probably sent anything but the actual domain they sent from.
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by ajnin 5y ago
Natural emissions are balanced by natural sinks, so that the balance is close to zero, while human emissions are not balanced by anything. The actual variation of CO2 levels in the atmosphere is almost exclusively due to human emissions tip

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