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No aircraft manufacturer is misleading the pilots around their automation capabilities.* Pilots have to go through extensive training, including type certification on the plane they will fly. They are acutely aware of limitations. When anyt
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You can look at airport security as an example. Bombs and guns are quite rare in carry-on luggage. It would be far too boring for most operators, which would mean that they tend to tune out of their screening job. So what the x-ray interfac
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That's true, but it doesn't help the customers. In a large system, terminations (both planned and unplanned) happen all the time. For the unplanned ones, it is very difficult to ensure exactly once, at least from the perspective o
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by avidiax 1y ago
There's a corollary: Even if you explicitly deny a guarantee of a certain behavior in your contract, if you usually deliver that behavior, most of your customers will depend on it. Some examples: If you make a queueing sy
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This is basically what services like cleanfeed[1] are designed to do: send and receive high fidelity audio with minimal latency. I'm sure in practice you can't have a jam session more than 50ms or so away from your bandmates befor
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Not very satisfying that he didn't actually design a flatpack bed. There is an interesting optimization problem in this that the author didn't touch on: create a design that maximizes the useful material use. So you might start wi
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> Private intelligence firms claim that illegally obtained information is routinely submitted to courts in the U.K., with the third industry figure telling POLITICO there are “ludicrous cover stories put in front of judges” where people
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by avidiax 1y ago
The one good thing (in principle) about a service like this is that social media is much more centralized, so this kind of system could put seemingly-effective age restrictions on social media. For example, no under-14's, or under-14 r
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Or using a torrent. Or trading a fileshare with your friends. Or finding a box in the woods. Or finding dad's "tax returns" folder. Or getting on TOR. Or finding an open directory. Or asking AI to produce something. Basically
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> it's so clearly a draconian slippery slope for invasive surveillance and choice restriction It's a privacy preserving over 18 check. Is it a "slope"? Sure, you can imagine an extension to the system that is "wo
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Lengthy GitHub issue about this: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android... It really seems like tying this to Google violates some key principles of the EU market.
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For those wondering what the purpose is: https://ageverification.dev/Technical%20Specification/archit... https://ageverification.dev/Technical%20Specification/media/... Essentially, the core
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> you have to constantly ride the gas pedal. Are you not? Do you drive by blipping the gas every few seconds? I've had Uber drivers do this and it is annoying bordering on nauseating as a passenger. It is probably pretty bad for mil
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For something safety critical like a burger, yes. For whole meats, it's usually safe to be rare and you can tell that by feel, though a thermometer is still useful if you aren't a skilled cook or you are cooking to a doneness you
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by avidiax 1y ago
Just because some retailer makes 3-5% profit overall, doesn't mean that the gross margin on each product is 3-5%. It very much isn't. I've heard doubling the import cost is typical. This allows enough margin for holding stock
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Right, but if you double the cleared customs cost with a 100% tariff, many of those additional costs are levied as a constant margin, which tends toward doubling the retail price. You might argue that the retail channel can eat the differen
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That seems easier to do by using OpenStreetMaps and a GPS trace. You would need the businesses to cooperate by putting a QR code out, so they might as well cooperate and keep a maps listing up to date. I could imagine maybe OCRing the resul
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You can get much better than that by taking a well-known LLM model and encoding a series of offsets from the most likely sequence of tokens, especially if you are OK with the message being slightly different. https://arxiv.org&#x
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Having worked at Uber, I can tell you that most people vastly overestimate how many Uber drivers are working at any one time. A medium sized city like Seattle might have a few hundred at peak hours. There is a limited scale to any taxi serv
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The doors had locks (at least if you had a need for one), so I suppose this is simple security. Not that you can't hop the drop ceiling or just go through the drywall with less noise and mess.
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Microsoft campuses were always impossible to navigate. The buildings are numbered in the Japanese style, i.e. chronologically. Why not number buildings on a battleship grid? Building B6 must be adjacent to A6 and B7, as opposed to building
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Not much I miss about working at Microsoft, except that everyone had an office, and if you had even a couple of years of seniority, you had that office to yourself. The window offices required 5 years' seniority when I joined, and when
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I went to the audiologist. Be careful if you do it yourself, since adhering the compound to your eardrum can cause serious and permanent injury. At the same time, I also got custom sleeping earplugs. They've been really great. It block
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I have these custom IEM tips, but for a discontinued pair of Sony headphones. I wouldn't say seal (on the earbud side) is perfect, but the fit on my ears is perfect. They never just fall out of my ears, and are super comfortable. http
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I feel that 2 simple rules would capture all the value of H1-Bs but naturally limit their abuses: 1. H-1Bs applications are ranked by total comp. 2 years of that comp is unconditional (no PIPs, no performance management, no excuses). I can
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You are talking about init7, and they did have to fight tooth and nail and take it to court to get SwissCom to provide reasonable access to the fiber. IIRC, Init7 explained that basically the internet wants to be fast, but ISPs want to spen
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> It sounds like you want to enable people to be criminals. Yes, wherever it is criminal to improve the wellbeing or support progress of society, I support the ability of people to be criminals. Rosa Parks wasn't allowed to sit at t
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If you buy a latte at a coffee chain and you use their app to pay, you've probably agreed to a hundred page agreement that they reserve the right to change at any time, and which subjects you to binding arbitration, perhaps even if you
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I suspect this (and political popularity) is why Swiss health insurance covers non-traditional medicine. Must be cheaper for some people to get acupuncture or herbal medicines, even at a markup, as a first-line treatment. And the placebo ef
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Why was there a limitation on Windows? I can't find any such limit for Linux.

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