andrewla

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by andrewla 3y ago
I think my reply to the sibling comment covers most of this. But I am not suggesting that my family is too stupid -- rather, that the level of expertise required to safely determine whether a given app is safe to sideload is not only beyond
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by andrewla 3y ago
The problem is that if the sideloading avenue exists, what do you do when your bank says "from now on use our sideloaded app instead of the app store version"? Or when whatsapp (or telegram, or whatever) does this. The App Store i
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by andrewla 3y ago
The comparison to knives, whose function and danger is completely obvious by inspection, is not really apt. Compare it to a home furnace or water boiler instead. These are regulated, both from the state and from independent testing labs. Yo
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by andrewla 3y ago
On the one hand, as a developer, I agree with you. On the other hand, as a user, and one who has to do de facto IT support for my family, I strongly disagree. Having an off-store method of installing apps is just dangerous. You could argue
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by andrewla 3y ago
I'm not abreast of all the latest buzz in NeoVim, but I've been hearing and seeing good things about Treesitter in general. Is the plan to at some point deprecate the existing vim-style syntax highlighting (syn match/region e
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by andrewla 3y ago
Just to be clear, is this based on your own experience, or did you just see a video or news article (or other piece of propaganda) making this claim?
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by andrewla 3y ago
In that case I downgrade my assessment of this threat from "minor IT threat" to "nonsensical word salad". The idea that the CCP has a network of Manchurian Candidates waiting to do their bidding is ridiculous.
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by andrewla 3y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by "installing a botnet"? As a term of art, a botnet refers to a collection of computing devices that can be controlled remotely. I am not aware of any such capability in TikTok itself. Presumably t
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by andrewla 3y ago
I have never been less enlightened by a wikipedia page. Some youtube videos cleared up at least the mechanics of the basic versions, but what it means to have the various higher order flexagons is completely mysterious to me even having rea
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by andrewla 3y ago
Agreed -- the problem with binary files is twofold; one is a storage issue and the other is a presentation issue. Both are solvable without having to violate git's fundamental data structures. If a png is stored in a repository and cha
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by andrewla 3y ago
Logically, yes, git is a list of snapshots over time. There are two issues that you touch on here, though. One is data storage. There is nothing stopping git from storing those snapshots as deltas from previous snapshots, so long as it is a
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by andrewla 3y ago
I would argue the reason that git is the answer going forward is that what you describe is a UX issue, not a data structure issue. There's nothing stopping a UI tool from figuring out that a file was moved or split into multiple files
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by andrewla 3y ago
As I understand it this all comes down to the insane framework of the Universal Postal Union, which has been discussed here before [1][2], which seem to limit how much a postal service can charge another member postal service, which results
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by andrewla 3y ago
"Control surfaces" was more specific than I intended; what I meant was that their plane allowed them to control all three axes of rotation, and that was the innovation - that they could control pitch, yaw, and roll independently a
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by andrewla 3y ago
I think many of us were taught in school that airfoil shape was somehow magical -- that the fact that it was bowed more on the top was responsible for the fact that it worked. This is only partially true, though; a totally flat wing can als
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by andrewla 3y ago
That's an excellent point.
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No, he wouldn't always open a door -- sometimes he'd offer a trade; like "you can take $1,000 cash from me now, or have your door". I wonder if anyone has gone through every episode of "Let's Make a Deal"
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by andrewla 3y ago
Did the host have to open 998 doors, or could he have chosen to just let you open your selected door? If he's "out to get you" then you get very little information here, because he could have just let you open your door. The
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by andrewla 3y ago
The reason the scenario is kind of twisted is that in the iterated game of "you pick door, he shows goat, switch or no", vos Savant's answer is clearly correct. But in the iterated game of "you pick door, and host choose
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by andrewla 3y ago
Open a brokerage account, and buy it just like a stock. If you have an IRA you likely already have an account at a brokerage.
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by andrewla 3y ago
I only just learned about this in Matt Levine's newsletter [1], and assuming they don't get regulated out of existence, it seems almost too good to be true. The effective tax-discounted rate of return on a 5.6% interest-bearing ac
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by andrewla 3y ago
Beat Saber is fun, sure. But it doesn't feel like a "killer app"; it's just a must-have game. It's isolating -- playing it around other people is just kinda weird, and you can share the screen but the timing is off
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by andrewla 3y ago
I have long been skeptical of the entire field of VR and AR and "mixed reality" stuff. At some point I can see AR being a useful thing, but only when it reaches a much higher level of unobtrusiveness. I got a Quest 2 for my son, a
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by andrewla 3y ago
The original estimate is "0.6% to 2.3%" -- only reporting the high end of this figure is misleading, even if we accept the premise that the underlying report [1] is correct. [1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy&#x
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by andrewla 3y ago
The amazing thing about emergent behavior in LLMs is that they are able to answer questions like these. I don't think it is completely understood how exactly they do this, but there's little doubt that they do.
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In what sense is this a question involving "logic"?
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> There is also no legal liability for GPT for giving the wrong answer It was my understanding that there is also no legal liability for a lawyer for giving the wrong answer. In extreme cases there might be ethical issues that result in
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by andrewla 3y ago
From the article: > Modular materials also tend to reduce traffic speeds, since [they] create a surface that is not as seamless as fresh asphalt or concrete. In one brick installation project, the average speed dropped from 41 mph to 29
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> Most peoples pictures are not a statement of record - we just want to remember the good times with loved ones But on that note, having a flawed high fidelity record is no worse for remembering the good times. The hallucinations are mos
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by andrewla 3y ago
I think Google is generally going down a self-destructive path with their AI approach, which works with their generally self-destructive approach to user interfaces. I see ads for Google phones where they brag about how rather than taking a

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