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by avidiax 2y ago
I don't know what your expectation on the program's size is, but even for a constrained translation case (i.e. legal transcription between two Romance languages), I would expect you are embedding at least the size of WordNet in bo
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by avidiax 2y ago
There's a mentality that isn't uniquely American, but definitely permeates the culture, and it explains why people would support something like this against their own interests. It has facets with some combination of: * Rugged ind
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by avidiax 2y ago
What kinds of problems are you trying to solve that can be solved by short program tapes but aren't obvious to a human?
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by avidiax 2y ago
Yeah. Daddy is cancelling all that unnecessary and expensive insurance so you can have a higher allowance. Why were we paying for that anyway? Also, all those so-called "experts" with their agendas are out on their asses where the
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by avidiax 2y ago
> There must be more to US problems. Yes, there are many people in the US that are highly insecure financially and socially. The E.U. has a much higher floor. Workers have more rights. There is more social support. Medical bankruptcy is
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by avidiax 2y ago
> A listing could look great online and receive a lot of bookings (so high LTV), but ultimately drive users away from the platform. I am precisely this kind of churned customer. I have personally booked maybe 3 AirBNB stays, and stayed w
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by avidiax 2y ago
My feeling is that the F-35 is "too big to fail". They needed to blame the pilot, and certainly didn't need anyone familiar with the defects of the plane in a prominent command or as a general. So they fire the guy, and promo
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by avidiax 2y ago
It's true that these trucks wouldn't be marketable in the U.S. based on safety or emissions, though I imagine it wouldn't require that many modifications if there were a consumer market. The problem is that if safety and emis
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by avidiax 2y ago
I think the author has it quite backwards, at least as it comes to housing. Politicians are beholden to the members of their district, not would-be members. Sure, more affordable housing would benefit many people, but it wouldn't benef
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by avidiax 2y ago
If you were storing a laptop, it would best be at 50% or so. The battery is under less stress at that state of charge (SoC), so the battery will age more slowly. If you have OSX, you can use Al Dente[1] to limit SoC to 70 or 80% while using
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by avidiax 2y ago
> The one that went bad is the pullstring. That works for short runs, but for long runs, the only way to pull the cable without breaking it is to use wire pulling lubricant. And there's no guarantee that the cable you are pulling is
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by avidiax 2y ago
It depends on how the VLAN tagging is applied. If the rule is that everything from a 2nd SSID has the VLAN applied, that's pretty secure. If the rule is that things with a particular MAC address have the VLAN applied, that depends on t
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by avidiax 2y ago
This is what happens with a damaged or underspecced cable. The HDMI standard doesn't have a way of telling you that you really need an HDMI 2.2 cable and you actually have an HDMI 1.x cable. It just tries to send the signal, and if the
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by avidiax 2y ago
> So yea, “digital” cables are not immune to signal integrity issues, and better cables do perform better. Better cables perform better, but not at all in the way that Monster suggests. Gold plating and oxygen-free copper doesn't ma
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by avidiax 2y ago
It's not clear to me how the police will track down who operated what drone, especially if the drone operator is several kilometers away, perhaps not even near the launch site, and even if caught, only has a controller and headset. Thi
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by avidiax 2y ago
I feel the other commenters being dismissive of this are overlooking that there is massive proliferation risk with drone technology. The next time a western country has a civil war, you can expect that one or both sides will be using drones
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by avidiax 2y ago
I'm really wondering what's holding up microLED displays. Part of me wonders if the manufacturers know that microLED is the last TV anyone will buy, so they will try to never release it except at an obscene price.
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by avidiax 2y ago
> it is bad for business It is good for business, just one level more abstracted. You might look at the economy and think that it's an engine that uses capital to produce goods and services for the combined benefit. But one level
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by avidiax 2y ago
> Govt can print money Exactly, why pay taxes at all? We can just print the money. /s
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by avidiax 2y ago
"We should not discuss how much of a monopoly Apple is. It's impossible to convince some people that it's actually not a monopoly."
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https://archive.is/OVW7A
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by avidiax 2y ago
https://archive.is/8toYy It's a rather short article. I think the odd thing about Zuckerberg's actions and obsessions is that most of what Sarah Wynn-Williams has exposed was likely to be exposed in the normal cou
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by avidiax 2y ago
I have previously used graph-easy[1] to turn Graphviz/DOT files into ASCII for code comments. It is great for state machines or explaining the relationship between different systems or classes, and if you check in the DOT file alongsid
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by avidiax 2y ago
It is already a problem that schooling doesn't teach critical thinking. AI will also rob students of analysis, synthesis, deduction, and induction. And AI is not going to work so well when you are at a company that is doing anything ne
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by avidiax 2y ago
I feel there is an unaddressed market for a hybrid gas/electric or diesel/electric powerplant. Size the battery for takeoff/climbing/go-around/diversion use-cases. Size the fossil-fuel engine for cruising power, whi
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by avidiax 2y ago
Yeah, unfortunately "Easter eggs" call into question the security of the software pipeline. Did PMs and other engineers review and OK this? -> Suggests a lack of judgement or just rubber-stamping. Did a lone engineer add this &
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by avidiax 2y ago
This is true in a scientific, not practical sense, in any American city. Engine noise always dominates, because 1% of cars are simply purposefully obnoxiously loud, and you need to be powerful and well connected to get enforcement of existi
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by avidiax 2y ago
> "eliminate certain circumstances under which homicide is justifiable, including, among others, in defense of a habitation or property" I don't feel that we should allow shooting mere thieves. If someone breaks into your
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by avidiax 2y ago
He seems to be emulating McKinley, down to using tarriffs to pressure Canada into being the 51st state, and the Gold Standard Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Standard_Act
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by avidiax 2y ago
Sounds like a wealth transfer to anyone holding Bitcoin. And probably another constitutional crisis if he tries to spend federal money to buy Bitcoin without congressional approval, even if that's not in his order. Perhaps he's tr

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