amalcon

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by amalcon 3y ago
Ah, gotcha.
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by amalcon 3y ago
There was also a regular dashboard that one could use in that situation.
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by amalcon 3y ago
I once had a rental that projected a speedometer low on the windshield (and some other gauges I think). Of course, Apple Vision can project anything -- not just information related to vehicle operation.
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by amalcon 3y ago
Not strictly, no, but there are limits. I think most people will agree that it's not a democracy when a single person controls all of the votes (dictatorship), or when a small group with usually-aligned interests controls a majority o
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by amalcon 3y ago
The meme that the market system is democratic is strange to me. It's not a dictatorship, but it's odd to claim that something is democratic when I (as a moderately well off American) have as many votes as ten less well-off people
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by amalcon 3y ago
Communism fails because giving everyone a voice in central planning can't scale up to an economy of millions of people. It requires a degree of central planning that permits too much corruption. The only known vaccine against corrupt
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by amalcon 3y ago
Yes, it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine to use the word "more" while leaving vague the point of comparison. Especially in something like a twitter poll -- twitter isn't exactly renowned as a place where people think clos
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by amalcon 3y ago
When my friends would meet up in the 80's-90's, quite a bit of Nintendo happened. Is it really that different? The proportion of video games should eventually drop (not to zero), in favor of (if you're lucky) talking and wh
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by amalcon 3y ago
A chunk of it is copy protection. Dev devices can necessarily run software not signed by the manufacturer, which means copy protection can be bypassed using PC-like methods and loaded to a dev device. Thus, they want to make sure the dev
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by amalcon 3y ago
That was much more unusual when Prince did it in the early '80s than it is today. The article is a bit fluffy, yes, but I'm not sure that line is the best example.
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by amalcon 3y ago
Inlining is what can mostly mitigate this. You'd write: foo() { // do something return foo0(); } foo0() { // do the rest of the things } If you can convince the compiler to inline foo0 into
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by amalcon 3y ago
The editing and review part is critical. Judges really have not liked it when completely fictitious citations ended up in court filings...
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by amalcon 3y ago
Indeed. Legal documentations are much more shared-source than software, by nature. Most agreements need to be in the possession of multiple parties and their attorneys in a reviewable form, for example, and court filings make the most con
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by amalcon 3y ago
> America, of course, can also refer to two entire continents but I don't know that I've ever met anyone who's primary identity refers to their continent. It can be hard to tell with Australians for obvious reasons, but
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by amalcon 3y ago
It's interesting -- I was actually taught in Spanish class to call my nationality "estatounidense". Which I now understand is more polite in a few places, but will confuse everyone in other places. The most notable of the l
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by amalcon 3y ago
I learned to prounounce it like "Yer-in-us" -- which results in different jokes, at least.
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by amalcon 3y ago
Yes, it absolutely does. That competing interests sometimes prevail does not eliminate this particular interest as an issue. Also worth noting that I was appealing to cultural significance rather than legal significance for a reason.
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by amalcon 3y ago
The problem with this is that it runs into free speech issues. The right to say most things, including advertising legal things, is more culturally significant than the right to make wagers in many societies. Though oddly, this is a place
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by amalcon 3y ago
>- Microsoft strengthened its power despite not appearing involved in the drama Depending on what you mean by "the drama", Microsoft was very clearly involved. They don't appear to have been in the loop prior to Altman&
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by amalcon 3y ago
We're not liable to get the facts in an objective and satisfying way here. That makes speculation even less useful, of course. People are liable to pointlessly disagree about what happened here for some time, until (fortunately) peop
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by amalcon 3y ago
That's more or less my experience with code generation. To be fair, I haven't paid for ChatGPT-4, which I'm told is much better. Still, if I ask 3.5 a leetcode style problem I've done, it comes up with a good solution.
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by amalcon 3y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
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by amalcon 3y ago
Closely scrutinizing something, and noting that the null hypothesis explains those observations, is not absence of evidence. It is evidence of absence. Observation creates evidence, whether the observations were expected or not.
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by amalcon 3y ago
For the most part, when Democrats talk about this sort of thing, they mean legal but undemocratic or counter-majoritarian tools like the electoral college, not having enough polling places, limited voting hours, voter purges, etc. I try to
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by amalcon 3y ago
I think it's more that the reward doesn't need to be valuable to the legal system in order to be valuable to the player. It's relatively easy to convince a minority of people to care about a reward that the legal system does
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by amalcon 3y ago
It's essentially a way of hacking your brain to care about something that you otherwise wouldn't. I wouldn't suggest anyone gamble casino-style, because a relative minority has a real pathology there. Still, I've been
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by amalcon 3y ago
The cashier has three jobs: - Prevent theft - Keep track of what's specifically been sold, to help determine re-ordering schedules - Sometimes, put things in bags. Some stores just ask the customer to do this even if they have a cashi
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by amalcon 3y ago
To some extent, we do. Quincy, Washington is one of the most popular data center locations in the U.S. The general vicinity of Motreal, Quebec (in Canada) is also pretty popular. Neither is Iceland, but both have relatively low temperatur
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by amalcon 3y ago
I had an instance where the hospital had coded my spouse's eye issue as "routine" -- so it was not covered by medical insurance, because your vision insurance is supposed to cover that. Our vision insurance wouldn't cov
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by amalcon 3y ago
LoJack-alike and accident alerting features do make some sense to be offered directly by the car maker. The latter is obviously difficult to retrofit, and the former would likely be easier to defeat if retrofitted. I don't buy the mus

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