ajnin

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by ajnin 6y ago
I witnessed an interesting phenomenon : invariably when information is presented from some article that hints at either animal intelligence or harmful influence of humans on animals, some armchair commentator will come forward with an alter
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by ajnin 6y ago
I don't get why this maxim is constantly touted as if it were a fundamental truth. Corporations exist in a social and legal framework that we agreed to create, and that we could change so that money would not be the sole measure of val
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by ajnin 6y ago
I wouldn't use an ultrasonic humidifier with non-distilled water in a living area. Those minerals will end up in your lungs and I'm not confident it won't accumulate and cause long term problems. The body can't eliminate
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by ajnin 6y ago
Musk has stated that since humans manage to get all info from the road using only 2 cameras, then Tesla cars can do the same and don't need lidar. Which makes sense, but also humans cause thousands of deadly accidents per year using th
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by ajnin 6y ago
This tendency to close "stale" issues is a symptom of Goodhart's law [0]. Once the number of open issues is used as a proxy for software quality, then lowering that number becomes a goal in itself. And thus it ceases to be a
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by ajnin 6y ago
Without free oxygen, animal life could hardly develop at all, let alone intelligent life, since it would not have access to the large amounts of energy it needs to exist.
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by ajnin 6y ago
Very nice. A few nitpicks : - You need to wait a bit for a drop target to become active, so when you try to move items quickly it's not registered and snaps back to the start location, is it something that is intended ? - The animation
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by ajnin 6y ago
I think the points you make are very important. Not only the "Terminator" scenario but also the "hyper-capitalism" scenario. But the solution is not to stop working on such research, it is political.
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by ajnin 6y ago
Before Maven, there was Ant. Ant is a fancy Makefile written in XML that makes it very very easy to write build scripts that are not reproducible and rely on a particular structure and set of tools on the computer of the person that wrote t
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by ajnin 6y ago
> in the tens of megawatts But for how long? 1 second, 1 hour, 1 month? The energy matters more than the power.
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by ajnin 6y ago
Your comment reminds me of Gödel's proof of his incompleteness theorem. Basically, he said that if you treat a mathematical statement as a sequence of tokens, and then assign a number to each token, then you can transform the statement
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by ajnin 6y ago
How much do you value your online life ? Put all your eggs in one basket and you allow yourself to be locked away from it at the whim of some unknown algorithm, with practically no recourse. A strike on your account (maybe a Play Store uplo
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by ajnin 6y ago
> I've got nearly 30 years of experience and not once has non ECC memory lead to corruption How do you know?
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> 15 km/h The tape stores 580TB for a length of 1255m, does that mean the read speed is 580TB/1255m*15km/h = 1.9TB/s ? Seems too high.
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by ajnin 6y ago
That works because the RGB receptors in the eye have different transient responses, so by precisely timing flashes of light you can create a color illusion. This is called the Fechner color effect : https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by ajnin 6y ago
Why is the polar angle constrained so much?
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by ajnin 6y ago
Something smells fishy, if they don't want the stress why would they want to do all the work alone? And there would still be investors bringing some pressure. They also didn't ask you if you agreed to run the business like a &quot
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by ajnin 6y ago
1. Where would this military police force take its legitimacy from ? The only legitimacy there is is when people get together and agree to institute a force to police them. That means democracy. Since the UN is currently very far removed fr
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by ajnin 6y ago
It fails for my trying to post something to http://localhost:5001/piiq-1/us-central1/create (tried with Firefox and Edge)
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by ajnin 6y ago
I'm using the following User Script to remove specific domains from Google search results. It does the job well enough for me. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...
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by ajnin 6y ago
We've reached a pretty sad point when whether a multi-billion dollar corporation gets to spy on millions (billions?) of people is decided by another multi-billion dollar corporation. It feels like we're moving closer every day to
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I think there is a certain discrepancy between how progressive Musk is in technological terms, and how he behaves like any other billionaire in social terms. Look for example how he pushed for the reopening of the Tesla factories despite co
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by ajnin 6y ago
> MDRS Is it Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station ? Space nerds tend to abuse acronyms almost as much as developers.
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ST Microelectronics, merger of French and Italian nationalized semiconductor industries.
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by ajnin 6y ago
I totally understand. Scroll behavior is uniform in all windows on my desktop but some websites think they are so special that they should change that just for them. I personally hate smooth scrolling and have it disabled, I can't unde
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At what point should we just throw out IP out of the window and figure out something new ? OK maybe not IP since all hardware infrastructure is based on it, but the whole idea of associating services to publicly open ports on the target mac
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Should have been titled "How to escape the Titanic using your seer git to know everything that's going to happen down to the minute (in which case you probably wouldn't have boarded the ship at all)". But interesting any
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I understand that, fundamentally, anti-cheat involves taking some form of control away from the player. But when the solution involves deeply embedded hardware modules that take that control away globally, introducing their own host of prob
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The law mentions that it is forbidden to do so "sous réserve" (not sure how to translate that, "without prejudice" ?) of international treaties. I'd be surprised if there were no such treaty between France and the U
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That "gaseous pollution" is mostly CO2, a gas responsible for global warming and perhaps the biggest environmental threat we are facing right now. You can't limit yourself to comparing the amount released of both pollutants a

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