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by amalcon 3y ago
It seems pretty straightforward to prevent that anyway, through Play Integrity attestation. This just makes it easier to do with a webview-based app.
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by amalcon 3y ago
I like to think of this same argument in another (slightly tongue-in-cheek) way: doing this would require solving the human alignment problem. Since this is certainly harder than the AI alignment problem, if we could do it, we wouldn&#x27
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by amalcon 3y ago
This is more or less exactly where I land on this. The extinction risk argument is somewhat plausible in the long term[0], but it doesn't seem that we are especially close to developing that class of problem. Meanwhile, there are ver
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by amalcon 3y ago
>except like early versions of Java And also more recent versions of Java, such as the current one: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Exceptio... >Checked exceptions
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by amalcon 3y ago
> The state now subsidizes heat pumps, which in 2022 were used in just three percent of homes, and sales are beginning to take off. That's probably not the only reason for the difference, but it is probably one reason.
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by amalcon 3y ago
I've worked a lot with C++, and a small to moderate amount with Rust. I tend to prefer Rust when given the choice. Comparing the overall complexity levels is something of a category error, though. Most of the complexity of Rust is
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by amalcon 3y ago
Nothing, so far. The alternatives to that would be to legislate penalties for paying, to mandate certain precautions like regular offline backups (which could usually be done through regulation), to forbid the government from doing busines
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by amalcon 3y ago
I get a number of these for some reason. If they don't let me unsubscribe, I just report it as spam. It's not perfect, but it's what little I can do.
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by amalcon 3y ago
> unless it's also in-line with The Constitution. The Supreme Court is itself the sole arbiter of this exception, so in practice they can cite it whenever they want to. The Federalist Papers are cited in a number of supreme court
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by amalcon 3y ago
Depending on what you're trying to do, you likely want either continuations (which aren't supported in Python directly, but which you can emulate by writing your function in continuation-passing style) or a debugger with rewinding
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by amalcon 3y ago
This seems... not the same as Erlang at all? Erlang solves the problem of persistent state by essentially eliminating it: more or less all state exists in message queues, or in an external database or something. Flawless seems to solve t
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by amalcon 3y ago
C. albicans represents a large fraction of infections contracted in hospitals (IIRC second only to various staph infections). You come into contact with it all the time, without too much risk -- until your immune system is weakened, or it
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by amalcon 3y ago
When people say "Japanese cars are high quality", they usually mean "Toyota and Honda". I agree it's weird. Though Nissan isn't really considered worse than GM or something in that range -- they're just
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by amalcon 3y ago
I've got plenty of gripes with Musk -- not the least of which are Tesla's marketing of assistive driving technologies, which the folks there had to know would be misleading. I think this is somewhat unfair, though: that $10k is
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by amalcon 3y ago
That's a particularly weird one, because it's just populated with phrases people search often (as befits an autocomplete box). The point of search is to find things you don't know, though! I search for e.g. "XYZ scam
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by amalcon 3y ago
I've known people who e.g. had justified worries about their children being kidnapped by a noncustodial parent. Someone in that situation doesn't necessarily mind if their neighbor sees their kid playing, but would mind quite a b
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by amalcon 3y ago
I'm not super well versed in this sort of thing, but I did read Wikipedia, and I think I understand. The short version is that it lets an attacker on machine A determine whether machine B has a port open, without needing to actually
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by amalcon 3y ago
Is there a problem with this methodology for interrogating concepts like intelligence or sentience, or are you just dismissing it due to its source? Obviously Star Trek couldn't go very deep with it, but it doesn't seem to be an
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by amalcon 3y ago
It calls to mind a memorable exchange in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Measure of a Man". In that episode, Picard asks another character to prove that he, Picard, is sentient[0]. Likewise, I might ask how to pro
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by amalcon 3y ago
>there is zero obligation, moral logical or any other kind, on people who are worried to prove anything. There's no obligation on anyone to prove anything. However, if you want others to change their behavior, there is a prac
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by amalcon 3y ago
I would think Python would be very problematic, actually. The end of a lexical block can only be detected by looking at the whitespace at the beginning of each line, and asking a screen reader to read whitespace seems like a nightmare.
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by amalcon 3y ago
> Interest of $1,500 or less The only 1099 that most people will get, even with meaningful savings, meets this description.
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by amalcon 3y ago
On the other hand, that's a whole lot of people -- probably almost everyone who is not a homeowner, and quite a few who are.
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by amalcon 3y ago
> Charter schools kicking out problematic students isn't some loophole, it's the main point, and it absolutely can improve the education for those that remain. I'm provisionally accepting this as true, partly because the
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by amalcon 3y ago
I visited a friend not too long ago, who had a smart speaker in the guest room mainly to control the lights. It went through a smart plug. Naturally, their internet connection went down. We had to move the bed (in the dark) in order to r
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by amalcon 3y ago
The mugger in the story is essentially contriving a situation that turns him into a utility monster. He is arranging that he will derive more benefit from the money than any other plausible application -- by imposing a massive harm on hims
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by amalcon 3y ago
> 200 years is a huge amount of time. Indeed, but this is somewhat the point? E.g. China was an empire (before it was a multiparty republic, before it was a Communist republic, before its government became whatever you want to call it
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by amalcon 3y ago
That confused me a bit, thanks. In '98, Macs still used PPC architecture, and the IPhone didn't exist. I don't know what kind of CPU the IPod was using at the time -- I'd guess ARM. Still, that seemed like it could ge
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by amalcon 3y ago
Memcpy is IIRC one of two ways to do type-punning (reinterpretation of bytes as a different type) without undefined behavior in C, and the only one in C++. The other one in C is using a union type (which results in undefined behavior in C+
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by amalcon 3y ago
It's interesting because Thinkpads (back when they were IBM branded, but still manufactured by Lenovo) were probably second only to Apple's build quality at the time. Just anecdotally, but these days, I even trust Dell's bui

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