alkonaut

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by alkonaut 2y ago
Which cities in which countries and climates have robotaxis (or have had robotaxis) now? It felt like there was a lot of buzz around it a while back but then it only happened in a couple of cities which were just US cities with favorable cl
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by alkonaut 2y ago
"Consume" water I interpret as requiring a constant stream of water. If little to no water is added, I'd agree it doesn't consume any, even though it uses water.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> That is actually not related to performance but the decreasing node size and related gate switching power consumption decrease. Yes. Of course if a chip isn't actually more power efficient at the same times as being more performan
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by alkonaut 2y ago
If I found a really valuable exploit that I wanted to avoid seeing fixed for at least a few months, then why now swamp the project with false positives for a period of time so that my exploit, if it's found, is just one of hundreds bei
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by alkonaut 2y ago
The maintainer vs. AI issue aside: in C when you write a method with a dst pointer and a size_t size argument, is it enough to check the size argument to be sure that the dst pointer will fit the data? It doesn't seem like that would p
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by alkonaut 2y ago
A higher performance chip can do the things I want to do (such as encode video during a video call) while using less battery, than a lower performance chip could. That is: paying for performance, no matter how unusable that performance migh
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I was fine with ads in newspapers, in my TV news and on the sides of buses. While it always created incentives and questionable relations (E.g. do yo report the grocery chains' salmonella disaster in your news when the same chain adver
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> If you code your class such that it's possible to let it reach an invalid state, that's no one's fault but your own. I don't know C++ so I was given the impression in the article that the person writing the class co
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Ads in a paid product might be annoying, but it's not secretly charging the customer and then also selling their information. Paying customers are also identified (logged in). So in theory you could pinpoint me even more with ads after
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by alkonaut 2y ago
What I want is incompatible with a lot of businesses sustaining themselves. That doesn't change anything in how I think regulation or technology should work here. I think we should have both technological change and regulatory change i
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> If you don't like that they have ads even if you pay then don't use the service. The assumption is that you always pay. Either with your information, or with your money. But the key word there is Either .
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by alkonaut 2y ago
The correct amount of tracking ads at least. We always paid for magazines and newspapers and saw ads despite paying. But then the transaction was between the publisher and the advertiser, and MY information wasn't sold. They were dum
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by alkonaut 2y ago
This sounds like an enormous footgun (but as I understand it there are warnings that will tell you). An object isn't "valid" in any reasonable business logic sense just because the fields are initialized to anything at all, s
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by alkonaut 2y ago
That takes months or years if it's possible at all (at least in many places). For any place where you can neither fire bad devs nor find very good ones to replace them with, the trick is to make good processes and products using medioc
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Should be mandatory in the lunch room of any self respecting math department
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Couldn't this be done with a Bloom filter in such a way that (in exchange for a small error rate) you'd not keep any individual hashes?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Were these APIs just free and open? Open to subscribers or to anyone? Because I'd be happy to pay a bit more to have api access to a service I use, perhaps because I'm using some 3rd party software etc. For example, now I'm
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by alkonaut 2y ago
That conclusion probably takes some time. Even if they found some evidence now, we're unlikely to hear about it until the investigations are wrapped up. And there are multiple criminal investigations in at least 3 countries, so it won&
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> being in favor of ending the war It would be good to hear how many that were in favor of ending the war because it's the right thing to do. Because it's unjust. Because it's an invasion of a sovereign nation. Not just &
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by alkonaut 2y ago
The same could be said for the Soviet Union as well. The nuclear doctrine is just Putin trying to point out that he is frustrated. Luckily nuclear deterrence in general is useless in deterring anything except nuclear attack.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Russia has already anticipated this problem and updated their nuclear doctrine to include nuclear first use also against countries that would "isolate" Russian territory (Presumably thinking of Crimea and Kaliningrad). Edit: Not s
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> the first suspicion is a conspiracy throry about Russian involvement. Would you agree that this suspicion is a good base hypothesis for most forms of suspected sabotage?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I never had any success working with recruiters. I have only had success when doing everything from screening CV’s to the end. I think having a ”chain” with HR, Recruiters etc is an antipattern.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Then a good nano question would be if they know what a debugger is or how they use it. Or any of those very generic questions that any half decent programmer will know, but others won’t. These questions are made to filter out the pure fraud
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by alkonaut 2y ago
No, the frustration comes from taking time in my schedule. OTA are a stain on the safety record. Physicall recalls are a chore.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
True, but tiny risk of catastrophic failure will be addressed by owners almost no matter how trivial. And it won't see as a relief by me that I managed to fix it before it spontaneously caught fire, I'll still see it as a frustrat
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by alkonaut 2y ago
What many newer programming platforms (I deliberately don't say "language") got right, is that you can't design a language in a vacuum. If you design a language and leave the implementation open you'll iterate too s
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Surely all the peanut farms are sold before people take official government positions?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> A recall is a public dangerous defect notice. Yes that's a much better term. In peoples minds "recall" means MY vehicle has to be transported somewhere to be fixed. For the individual customer, a recall can be a massive
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I was considering 16/32/64bit versions of windows as being several platforms while arm-only MacOS is a single one. It's good they have cross platform on the roadmap. Perhaps it was just unfortunate that the first thing in t

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