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by alwa 2y ago
Why? Using power meaningfully improves people’s lives, and many billions of people are still on the end of the spectrum where “improving lives” involves improvements like “not starving” and “having safe water”. The benefits of making power
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by alwa 2y ago
That may come as news to sanctioned Russians and various motley crypto types… Isn’t the GDPR’s basic theory about jurisdiction that, if I’m sitting in New York City but routinely serving my web content to people in France, that service I’m
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by alwa 2y ago
Nassim Taleb famously argues that position, in his popular work Antifragile and elsewhere. I believe the theory is that time serves as a sieve: only works with lasting value can remain relevant through the years.
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by alwa 2y ago
People like you, the author, and me all share this sentiment. It motivates us to seek out authentic voices and writing that’s associated with specific humans. The commodity end of the writing market may well have been automated, but was tha
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by alwa 2y ago
Well… that’s the crux of the discomfort. These brands’ newsrooms do in fact have those people. That’s the reason their names inspire trust. Now, they’ve decided to cash out that trust by lending their names to sleazy content farming affil
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by alwa 2y ago
I hadn’t thought about that, but that explanation suits me as to why “octopuses” comes off… I don’t know, muddy?… while the 1983 James Bond film named for the vulgar pun rolls off the tongue, even though they use virtually the same phonemes
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by alwa 2y ago
The article specifies that the wreckage in question was 10 feet below the surface. Is that deep enough to matter?
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by alwa 2y ago
I am not the person who originally asked for this, but I’d want to scan my eyes over conditions: * with and without the keyboard focused, * in each of the preference states (e.g. tab bar vs single tab for iOS, which influences whether there
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by alwa 2y ago
The hand-hewn quality of this venture charms me. I can’t tell whether or not it’s a serious business, but it’s clearly borne of a lifetime’s frustration, and it reads with the catharsis of someone having “finally cracked the code.” > Ho
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by alwa 2y ago
I don’t disagree that there’s room for improvement, but I’m hesitant to accept as gospel the misconviction rates we hear about. Japan’s system that you mention, for instance, also boasts a ~99.9% conviction rate [0] and isn’t adversarial in
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by alwa 2y ago
As a sibling comment points out, the American legal and regulatory system in fact did not allow this interpretation. It came down rather heavily on Ford for trying to pull this: https://www.freep.com/story/money/ca
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by alwa 2y ago
I uh… USians don’t do those. When they do, it tends to be a one-sided kind of thing to protect the company’s interests—NDAs, codes of conduct, accept our policies today and whatever we change them to in the future, that sort of thing. Most
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by alwa 2y ago
I know absolutely nothing about this act, but I was put off by the EFF’s tone of righteousness here. As a rule of thumb I worry when I hear something described in absolute or moralistic terms: rarely do complicated things happen just out of
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by alwa 2y ago
Indiscriminate? Aren’t these operations targeting individual pieces of military operational hardware, the sort of thing that only combatants have any reason to have, and that the combatant force keeps confined to its own personnel for secur
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by alwa 2y ago
Who is “we” here? My more excitable Twitter-infected friends have been speaking about these scraps of news items in “we” terms too. Is it just that the theatricality of this whole thing has ginned up a good ol’-fashioned Twitter mob “invest
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by alwa 2y ago
Congratulations on getting back into it! What style of class or course of study did you choose? $100 seems like an accessible price point.
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by alwa 2y ago
Though what a spectacular way to draw such a program to a close. I mean that in the sense of spectacle, of gruesome theatricality, not to glorify maiming people.
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by alwa 2y ago
It does seem like an awful lot of risk to take on personally, without institutional cover. Mess with a cop and you’ll feel the full weight of the justice system, mess with this guy and… I guess he knows a lot of lawyers? I feel like there w
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by alwa 2y ago
For the full thread, https://xcancel.com/SomeUnusualGame/status/18349462126104005... For the repo (as linked in that thread), https://github.com/SomeUnusualGames/Tux-vs-Mutant-Window/
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by alwa 2y ago
Asking genuinely—are there places that use yen other than the Japanese kind? I wasn’t aware of any and a casual search came up empty.
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by alwa 2y ago
> There’s another solution, but it’s on shaky ground. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine preserves historic copies of websites as a public service, but the organization is in a constant battle to stay solvent. Google’s Sullivan float
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by alwa 2y ago
Isn’t the function of the application to compute aesthetic variations on inputs? To be fair the video linked upthread clarified things for me by showing me the app’s full ambition. Like you, I at first thought the whole thing was the keypad
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by alwa 2y ago
Yep. For reasons of propriety, for one thing. But also because the data protection laws get especially opinionated about what you do with kids’ speech, and one line they draw is at age 13. The American variant, COPPA, dates back to 2000, an
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by alwa 2y ago
I interpreted it to suggest that the product might include a user-facing “maximum test time” knob. Generating problem sets for kids? You might only need or want a basic level of introspection, even though you like the flavor of this model’s
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by alwa 2y ago
I hear the term “magic smoke” (or “magic blue smoke”) mainly from people who are messing around with electricity and who put it through an electronic component in volumes or directions that burn the component out. The resultant puff of smok
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by alwa 2y ago
Isn’t the original cooling process you’re describing “annealing,” by which glasses are cooled slowly so as to allow internal tensions to equalize? A task requiring exponentially more time as the size of the slab of glass increases? I seem t
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by alwa 2y ago
I’m surprised that this characteristic of an extremely common dye—being used in its main application, as a dye—hasn’t been described before. Surely there’s some limitation that’s obvious to those skilled in the chemical and biological arts?
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by alwa 2y ago
With 1.3 million samples showing fairly clean/consistent trends, something seems to be reliably happening, sustained over 20 years. And effect sizes on the order of 1/3 of a standard deviation seem not that small: an average s
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by alwa 2y ago
Only 50% of the time, but that’s 50% better of a guess than you’d make without knowing gender. ZIP codes contain maybe 40K residents [0] (many contain fewer) and there have been around 25K days in the last 70 years. Sure births are not even
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by alwa 2y ago
You should certainly have a formal process to respond to those countries’ requests, and you might consider technical architectures that don’t leave you in direct custody and control of that content in the first place.

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