avidiax

31 ms·

541.
by avidiax 2y ago
I didn't notice that this was AI myself. I tend to start skimming when the interesting bits are spread out. There's two variations of this that are very common: * Watering down - the interesting details are spread apart by lots of
542.
by avidiax 2y ago
Not saying that's impossible. Certainly a ghost gun has an advantage to corrupt government agents just as it does to criminals. But it's going to be difficult to make it stick against a patsy. What will be very suspicious is if he
543.
by avidiax 2y ago
If you are really sweating the problem, you are sweating only one problem. But an organization usually has more than one problem that needs to be addressed concurrently, unless it wants to constantly be "fire fighting" problems th
544.
by avidiax 2y ago
I feel Google, Facebook, etc. all need to setup actual phone numbers and chat rooms, and make them rank highly on searches for "Google support phone number", "Google fraud department", "Google account recovery depar
545.
by avidiax 2y ago
I have some sympathy for your argument, but I think you are fundamentally misunderstanding the power dynamic between citizens and criminals. Some of the petty thieves will think twice if they hear about other thieves getting beat up. Many o
546.
by avidiax 2y ago
I don't think that an AI would be interrogated in court. I think that it would be hard to hide all the inputs and outputs of the AI from scrutiny by the court and then have the company or senior leadership be held accountable for them.
547.
by avidiax 2y ago
This is a pretty cynical take, but I would think that having AI management would be highly undesirable for companies, and not because it would be bad at managing. Even in good, reputable companies, there is a certain amount of legally/
548.
by avidiax 2y ago
I think you're suggesting there is some cognitive dissonance there. I think there's some truth to that, but it's also ignoring a true difference. Personal finances can be viewed (somewhat incorrectly) as not being zero-sum. M
549.
by avidiax 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915555
550.
by avidiax 2y ago
The sun is damaging because it contains ionizing radiation (radiation that is powerful enough to directly disassociate a molecule into ions). This is the UV portion of sunlight. UV starts at 800,000 GHz. The 6Ghz being discussed here is com
551.
by avidiax 2y ago
Sous-vide at 110F. It will take hours, but it won't affect the flavor.
552.
by avidiax 2y ago
Another interesting article: https://www.hutong-school.com/martian-script-guide-chinese-l...
553.
Martian Language(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by avidiax 2y ago|1 comments
554.
by avidiax 2y ago
This post is apropos to a recent topic "PR process killing morale and productivity" [1]. The Google code readability program is talked about very little outside of Google, and as far as I know, is replicated nowhere outside. Withi
555.
Readability: Google's Temple to Engineering Excellence (2023)(moderndescartes.com)
3 points by avidiax 2y ago|2 comments
556.
by avidiax 2y ago
I have lots of experience working with software. Linting and style guides are not of "critical importance". No business objective will go unachieved because some checkins use tabs and others use spaces. Whatever problem style issu
557.
by avidiax 2y ago
Hardly big brother to say that you should be required to pay attention when driving, and this all stays on-vehicle until you've been gone so long that it must be a medical emergency.
558.
by avidiax 2y ago
Easy, don't focus on the cell phone, focus on the driver's focus. Mandate driver attention monitoring, and require that prolonged inattention (i.e. N seconds continuous, or N seconds of the past 3 minutes) results in escalating co
559.
by avidiax 2y ago
> Setting the thermostat to 80F WILL bring the room to 72F faster than if you set it to 72F on most ovens/AC devices, unless the thermostat is located far away from the device. The thermostat is meant to be far away. This isn't
560.
by avidiax 2y ago
One trick, if you can get away with it, is to ensure that you are always estimating for a fixed scope exclusive of unknown unknowns. You should not provide an estimate for "feature X implemented", but rather for "feature X en
561.
by avidiax 2y ago
It's not legal to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Why is it legal to yell "Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID" on the crowded internet? Is it the immediacy of the harm? Maybe it's not necessarily legal, just unt
562.
by avidiax 2y ago
I'm in an adjacent space, so I can imagine some of the difficulties. Basically live streaming is a parallel infrastructure that shares very little with pre-recorded streaming, and there are many failure points. * Encoding - low latency
563.
About that JPEG/ZIP/Shakespeare hybrid file(entropymine.wordpress.com)
4 points by avidiax 2y ago|0 comments
564.
by avidiax 2y ago
Very low. Technically the driver drove into those things, since autopilot disengaged .4 seconds before impact. Autopilot was just there to ensure the trip to that last .4 seconds wasn't too draining.
565.
by avidiax 2y ago
This is the basic reason. https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-pedia/why-is-my-gps-elevati...
566.
by avidiax 2y ago
My understanding is that Switzerland doesn't require you to declare cash of any amount when arriving. €1.2million in a briefcase? No problem. 3kg of beef? Serious business. CHF1000 notes would obviously be very convenient for moving la
567.
by avidiax 2y ago
You can use a microwave oven as a very cheap faraday cage. Just don't turn it on.
568.
by avidiax 2y ago
* Don't allow advertising for it, period. * Standardize the UI. No animations. No cartoon characters. No flashing, sounds. It should look more boring than Craigslist. No A/B testing. No hiring psychologists to "optimize"
569.
by avidiax 2y ago
Apple owes him his two laptops. He can chargeback, or he can sue, depending on the arbitration laws in Canada. Lastly, there may be a government agency similar to US states' attorney general that might take a complaint and evidence of
570.
by avidiax 2y ago
This is sometimes used non-maliciously to concatenate zipped eBooks to a JPEG of the cover art. 4Chan's /lit/ board used to do this, but I can't find any reference to it anymore. https://entropymine.wordpress.

More ›